Network Break 363: Broadcom Buys AppNeta For Experience Monitoring; Cloudflare Offers New Firewall Service

Take a Network Break! This week we examine whether Broadcom’s acquisition of AppNeta, which offers SaaS-based digital experience monitoring, is a good fit. We look at new features in the SONiC network OS including a new way to support dual ToR switches, and dive into a new firewall service available from Cloudflare. Aryaka announces an integrated managed SD-WAN and SASE offering along with a new managed WAN tier, Aruba positions its wireless APs to give home users and small offices a similar security and performance experience as on campus, the SD-WAN market grew 45% in Q3, and the German government rules that a teleworker who tripped and hurt himself walking from his bed to his home office is entitled to workplace insurance. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Juniper Apstra We’re sponsored today by Juniper Networks’ Apstra. Apstra’s Intent-Based solution simplifies the deployment, operations and management of your Data Center network from Day0 through Day2. It delivers automation and continuous validation of your data center network in multi-vendor environments. The result is savings on downstream costs and exponentially more value from your network investments. Get more details at juniper.net/packetpushers/apstra. Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Stick around after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation about how Palo Alto Networks is integrating ChatOps into its SD-WAN platform that lets you get SD-WAN performance and operational information via chat apps such as Microsoft Teams. Show Links: Broadcom Acquires AppNeta to Bolster Network Performance Monitoring Across Internet and Hybrid Cloud-based Applications – Broadcom NetOps Product Brief  – Broadcom Business-Critical Enterprise Software – Broadcom Software SONiC opens more opportunities for network innovation – Microsoft Replace your hardware firewalls with Cloudflare One – Cloudflare Aryaka Announces “All-in-One” SD-WAN and SASE Offerings for the Cloud-First Enterprise and Hybrid Workplace Deployments – Aryaka New Aruba EdgeConnect Microbranch Solution Modernizes the Home/Small Office Experience for Hybrid Workplaces – Aruba Networks SD-WAN Market Surged 45 Percent to a Record Level in 3Q 2021, According to Dell’Oro Group – Dell’Oro Group Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, German court rules – The Guardian