Network Break 309: Arista Rolls Out New Campus Switches; Financial Reporting Roundup - a podcast by Packet Pushers Interactive, LLC

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Take a Network Break! Guest commentator Johna Till Johnson, CEO of Nemertes Research, brings her analytical eye to this week’s tech news, which includes new Arista campus switches, a Dutch telco shutting down legacy TDM systems, and Google Chrome getting its own certificate store.
Speaking of Google, some longtime users are suddenly being locked out of their Gmail accounts, Vodafone extends its commitment to OpenRAN, and a remote test proctoring company goes after a security researcher regarding critiques of the proctoring company’s browser plug-in.
F5 Networks, Arista, and Gartner report their latest financial results, and the U.S. Justice Department moves seizes a bunch of Bitcoin.
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Show Links:
Johna Till Johnson on LinkedIn
KPN scrapping TDM interconnection Oct-21; extending other legacy shutdown dates; speeding up DSL-to-fibre process – Telegeography
Arista Expands Cognitive Campus Portfolio for Enterprises – Arista
The Arista 750 Series – Arista
Chrome will soon have its own dedicated certificate root store – ZDNet
Google users locked out after 15 years’ use – Business Insider
Vodafone says Open RAN ready for prime time as Huawei is phased out in the UK – Technology Blog
Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets – TechCrunch

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