Network Break 258: Aruba Stacks Up New Switches; SpaceX Promises Satellite Broadband In 2020

Take a Network Break! Guest Ed Horley stops by to pitch in on this week’s commentary. We address a couple of FUs on Cisco NAE and Microsoft Teams, and then dive into new Aruba switches and an upgrade to Aruba’s network OS, and a new SD-WAN appliance from Riverbed. Teridion debuts new PoPs in China to enable SD-WAN services on the mainland, SpaceX pledges to make satellite-delivered broadband available next year, and a US appeals court slaps down Ajit Pai’s order forbidding states and local municipalities from regulating broadband. Mozilla’s latest version of Firefox reduces the power draw on Macs, Juniper posts a weak quarter in its latest financial results, and AWS gets punished by the stock market for only growing by 35%. US mobile carriers band together to ditch SMS, AT&T promises to send its DANOS project to the Linux Foundation by November 15th, and a Defense Department leader steps aside from the JEDI contract to avoid the appearance of impropiety. Microsoft acquires yet another cloud migration company, Google hires an ex-Microsoft exec to head up its GSuite business, and SoftBank and WeWork shower founder Adam Neumann with a golden parachute to get him to fly away. We’ve got links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Ixia Join Ixia for The Network Makeover, a unique event featuring more than 50 giveaways, plus tips and tricks designed to help you turn network data into dynamic network intelligence. Register now and then tune in December 2-13 for daily chances to win. Go to  www.ixiacom.com/packetpushers to sign up. Sponsor: CDN77 CDN77 is trusted by the European Space Agency. It supports the latest tech innovations and provides fast, secure and reliable content delivery all around the world. Learn more at cdn77.com/packetpushers. Sponsor: ThousandEyes ThousandEyes gives you performance visibility from every user to every app over any network, both internal and external, so you can migrate to the cloud, troubleshoot faster and deliver exceptional user experiences. Sign up for a free account at thousandeyes.com/packetpushers and choose a free ThousandEyes t-shirt. Show Links: FU: Cisco NAE: Cisco ACI for Data Center Networking Subscription Offers – Cisco Systems (PDF) News Links: Aruba CX 6300, CX 6400 And ArubaOS CX Briefing Deck – October 2019 – Packet Pushers Ignition Aruba Debuts New Campus And Data Center Switches, Upgrades Its Network OS – Packet Pushers Riverbed Sets New Standard for SD-WAN, Delivering to Organizations High Scalability and Performance for the World’s Most Complex and Secure Networks – Riverbed SteelConnect EX – Riverbed