Network Break 351: Juniper’s Wired Campus Fabric Challenges Cisco; More Azure Holes Revealed

Take a Network Break! Juniper announces a new EVPN VXLAN-based campus fabric that ties in with its Mist Cloud, the SD-WAN market posts impressive growth for the first half of 2021, and a Google Project X company touts free space optics for hard-to-wire regions. Security researchers uncover serious vulnerabilities in Linux VMs running in Azure, three former NSA agents get fined for developing hacking tools for a foreign government, Extreme completes its Ipanema SD-WAN acquisition, and T-Mobile goes back and forth on dates for shutting down older parts of its mobile network. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Palo Alto Networks is establishing the industry’s first conference dedicated to SASE; SASE Converge 2021. Taking place September 28th and 29th, this first-of-its-kind event brings together thought leaders and industry veterans to discuss the trends shaping networking and security. Speakers include Palo Alto Networks founder and CTO Nir Zuk and SDN pioneer Martin Casado. Register today to save your spot! Tech Bytes: Nokia On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Nokia, we dive into data center networking and EVPN. Nokia’s SR-Linux operating system can help you build a data center fabric with EVPN, and in this episode we’re going to discuss how Nokia operationalizes that protocol. Show Links: Delivering the Next Chapter in Experience-First Networking – Juniper Networks New Enhancements to Juniper Networks’ AI-Driven Enterprise Portfolio Make Campus Fabric Management and Wired/Wireless Remediation Easier than Ever – Juniper Networks Campus Fabric Design with Juniper Mist Cloud – Network Field Day SD-WAN Market Recorded 39 Percent Growth for 1H 2021, According to Dell’Oro Group – PR Newswire Beaming broadband across the Congo River – The X Blog Design: When to choose Free Space Optics (Ethernet Lasers) ? – EtherealMind “Secret” Agent Exposes Azure Customers To Unauthorized Code Execution – Wiz