Take a Network Break! This week we spend some time on the demise of Net Neutrality regulation. We also analyze Juniper’s shifting of OpenContrail to the Linux Foundation, and examine Arista’s latest efforts to chase the router market.
Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks patch significant vulnerabilities, Let’s Encrypt plans new features for 2018, and researchers find a way to transmit ADSL over wet string. Seriously.
We’ve got links to all the stories we discuss just after our sponsor messages.
Also, this is our final Network Break episode for 2017. Thanks for spending your time with us, and we’ll see you in 2018!
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Show Notes:
ISP Column – November 2017 – Potaroo.net
Pro-Neutrality, Anti-Title II – Stratechery
Net Neutrality Is Dead Long Live Common Sense – Forrester
Net neutrality: The FCC wants to kill the open internet; don t count on the FTC to save it – Quartz
Juniper Networks Reinforces Longstanding Commitment to Open Source by Moving OpenContrail’s Codebase to the Linux Foundation – Juniper Networks
Arista EOS Advances Cloud-Grade Routing – Arista Networks
Arista s Got its Eye on the Router Market With Its EOS 4.20 – SDX Central
Fortinet VPN Client Exposes VPN Creds, Palo Alto Firewalls Allow Remote Attacks – Bleeping Computer
Looking Forward to 2018 – Let’s Encrypt
RevK’s rants: It’s official, ADSL works over wet string – RevK