Network Break 433: NVIDIA Melds Switches, DPUs For AI Networking Fabric; FTC Says Amazon Ring Employee Spied On Female Customers

Take a Network Break. This week we discuss a new Google offering to interconnect public clouds, NVIDIA’s Spectrum-X platform for building AI networking fabrics using Ethernet switches and DPUs, and Cisco’s latest acquisition in the security space. Juniper announces that you’d better upgrade from very old JunOS versions, ccTLD phishing domains drop significantly after Meta sues a registrar, Riverbed gets a new private equity owner, and Amazon pays a pittance to the FTC to settle allegations of customer privacy violations in its Ring and Alexa businesses. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Your branch has changed. Your SD-WAN should, too. Join Palo Alto Networks to see how AI/ML is powering next-gen SD-WAN and SASE for the branch. SDxCentral and Palo Alto Networks are hosting an exclusive online event on May 24th so you can see how next-gen SD-WAN and SASE can help you modernize and secure your branches. Go to SDXcentral.com to get the link to this free event. Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Stick around for a Tech Bytes podcast also with Palo Alto Networks about the branch of the future, and how SD-WAN and SASE come together with digital experience management to meet the challenges of security, cloud, and hybrid work at the branch. Show Links: Announcing Google Cloud Cross-Cloud Interconnect – Google Cloud Blog Cross-Cloud Interconnect overview – Google NVIDIA Launches Accelerated Ethernet Platform for Hyperscale Generative AI – NVIDIA NVIDIA Spectrum-X Platform – World’s first Ethernet fabric built for AI – YouTube NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand Architecture – NVIDIA Building AI/ML Networks with Cisco Silicon One – Cisco Blogs DriveNets Introduces Highest-Performance Ethernet Solution for AI Networking – DriveNets Turbocharging Generative AI Workloads with NVIDIA Spectrum-X Networking Platform – NVIDIA Technical Blog Furthering the AI-First Security Cloud: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Armorblox – Cisco Systems