Take a Network Break! Juniper Networks announces a new campus switch that supports EVPN and VXLAN for a campus fabric, Extreme Networks announces new products for the network edge, and the IEEE gives its blessing to a fog computing reference architecture.

Dell and VMware posted big HCI gains in revenue and market share, new laptops will be delayed as Intel works out CPU issues, and Silver Peak pulls in $90 million in new investment.

AT&T confirms its acquisition of digital ad exchange AppNexus, and the uptick in rocket launches is affecting commercial airline traffic.

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The Packet Pushers have launched a brand new membership site called Ignition. Ignition offers free and premium memberships and hosts exclusive content for subscribers, including videos, reports, blogs, and more. Check it out at ignition.packetpushers.net.

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Juniper Networks Delivers EVPN-VXLAN Fabric to Connect Enterprise Data Center and Campus Networks – Juniper Networks

Juniper To The Enterprise: We re Serious About Campus Networking – Packet Pushers

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Today on the Weekly Show, the Packet Pushers officially launch Ignition, our new membership site.

Ignition offers exclusive content to help you develop as a networking and IT professional, including blogs, white papers, videos, and e-books. Over time we’ll add in-depth technical courses and other materials to help you advance your career.

You can join for free and get limited access to the site (plus Link Propagation and the Human Infrastructure Magazine), or get a premium membership for $99 a year for full access.

We also spend some time reviewing the state of the networking industry, including a look at the true drivers of automation, whether Intent-Based Networking is a real thing, why legacy networking vendors are flocking to multicloud as a strategy, the trend of AI-washing, and whether SD-WAN is going to kill private circuits.

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There s a lot to be said about consuming technology remotely. Heck, the cloud is just that – someone else stands up infrastructure and services, and you consume them.

But what about for the desktop environment, which for many is their main working environment and something of a tug-of-war when it comes to ownership, management, and administration?

In today s episode of the Datanauts, join us as we de-mystify the exotic world of End User Compute, or EUC.

Our guest is Sean Massey, Senior Technical Architect at AHEAD. You can follow him on Twitter at seanpmassey and check out his blog at TheVirtualHorizon.com.

We discuss what EUC encompasses, including technologies such as VDI as well as mobile devices, laptops, and desktops. We also look at how SaaS and cloud apps affect end users and application delivery, and explore the impact of EUC/VDI on the data center.

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Carl Stalhood – Filling gaps in EUC vendor documentation

The Virtual Horizon – Sean Massey’s blog

Sean Massey on Twitter

Take a Network Break! Aruba Networks rolls out a new SD-WAN platform plus a grand strategy for branch management, Cisco acquires July Systems for its wireless location services technology, and AT&T sells dozens of data centers for $1.1 billion.

But AT&T may take that cash and pour it into the acquisition of a digital ad exchange company, Deutsche Telecom announces big layoffs in its T-Systems unit, and Australian telco Telstra splits off its legacy infrastructure unit into a standalone business.

A Web Application Firewall (WAF) vendor lifts the curtain on why WAFs get bought but rarely used, HPE pledges $4 billion for edge computing, and Intel bids a terse goodbye to its CEO.

Coffee Talk: Mellanox

Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored conversation with Mellanox, where Greg and guests dive into data center fabrics using VXLAN and EVPN. For more information, head over to Mellanox.com/packetpushers. And check out these links:

Performance Report by The Tolly Group – Mellanox

Controllerless VXLAN With BGP EVPN – Mellanox (PDF)

Is it Time to Upgrade to VXLAN – Mellanox blog

VXLAN Eye on Mellanox – Mellanox via YouTube

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In this episode, the Packet Pushers dive into optical networking. Optical networking tends to be a specialized area of networking. It’s much less about packets and paths and more about physical properties of fiber optic cables, signal propagation, and remote operations.

In recent times, optical companies have been moving into Data Center Interconnect (DCI) and selling direct to enterprises using dark fiber as well as offering DCI services via infrastructure suppliers.

Joining us today to offer their expertise on optical are Scott Wilkinson, Senior Director, Portfolio Marketing at ECI Telecom; and Andrew Schmitt, founder of Cignal AI.

We discuss the basics of silicon photonics and how it impacts optical networking, particularly for DCI. We also examine the open optical movement being driven by the Facebook-backed Telecom Infrastructure Project.

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Cignal AI Newsletter sign-up – Cignal AI

IP and Optical integration white paper – ECI Telecom (PDF)

ONF s ODTN Project Brings Disaggregation and Open Source to Optical Networking – Open Networking.org

Infinera – Following the Open Road(map) – YouTube

Download an overview of latest news from last big optical conference – OFC2018

Pulse-amplitude modulation – Wikipedia

Quadrature amplitude modulation – Wikipedia

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