Network Break 358: Unpacking Juniper’s Strategic Objectives; Intel Details New Infrastructure Chip

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss Juniper’s Analyst & Influencer day plus a new Wi-Fi 6E announcement. Intel is teaming up with Google to develop a chip for offloading network, security, and storage jobs from the CPU (but Intel won’t call it a DPU). And the FCC revokes authorization for China Telecom to operate in the United States. We finish up with a trance of financial news, including Riverbed restructuring its organization, and quarterly results from Fortinet, Qualys, Arista, Extreme, SolarWinds, Ubiquiti, and Gartner. Sponsor: Nokia We’re sponsored today by Nokia and its SR Linux network OS. SR Linux was built with NetOps in mind, to let you develop your own apps to help automate network design, provisioning, and deployment. Find out more at  https://nokia.ly/srlinux Tech Bytes: AppNeta Stay tuned for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with AppNeta about enabling distributed work, and a new monitoring point from AppNeta that runs on Catalyst switches to help you get widespread visibility into application performance. Learn more at appneta.com/packetpushers. Show Links: Delivering Better User and Network Operator Experiences with New Wi-Fi 6E APs and IoT Assurance Driven by Mist AI –  Juniper Networks Blogs Juniper Networks Adds AI-driven Wi-Fi 6E Access Points and IoT Assurance to Simplify, Scale and Secure Wireless Devices – Juniper Networks Intel teams with Google Cloud to develop new class of data center chip – Reuters Intel® Infrastructure Processing Unit (Intel® IPU) SoC (Codename: Mount Evans) – Intel Intel partners with Google to deploy ‘Mount Evans’ ASIC-based IPU – VentureBeat FCC revokes authorization of China Telecom’s U.S. unit – Reuters FCC REVOKES AND TERMINATES CHINA TELECOM AMERICA’S AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE TELECOM SERVICES IN AMERICA – FCC (PDF) Riverbed Announces Restructuring Support Agreement with Its Lenders and Equity Sponsors, Strengthens Financial Position Through New Capital and Reduces Debt by Over $1 Billion – Riverbed Fortinet Reports Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results – Fortinet