Take a Network Break! On this week’s episode we examine Broadcom’s acquisition bid for Qualcomm, the outage at Level 3, and a new Mellanox switch for hyperconverged infrastructure.
Cumulus Linux will be available on the Facebook-designed Voyager optical hardware, AWS rolls out a new hypervisor based on KVM, and Juniper updates Contrail Cloud.
Ericsson and Cisco’s sales partnership will miss its financial target, T-Mobile and Sprint call off all acquisition talks, and cockatoos are causing broadband problems in Australia.
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Show Links:
Broadcom offers to acquire Qualcomm for $70 per share – TechCrunch
Here are the reasons behind today s crazy chip deals – Stacey on IoT
L3/CL route leak for 90min, Mon/6 – Outages-discussion
Why aren t we fixing route leaks? – Internet Governance
Widespread Impact Caused by Level 3 BGP Route Leak – Oracle Blog
Mellanox Announces Availability of World-Leading Spectrum-Based SN2010 Data Center Ethernet Switch System for Storage and Hyperconverged Infrastructures – Mellanox
Cumulus Linux + Voyager Bringing cost-effective scalability to internet infrastructure – Cumulus Networks
An Update from TIP Summit 2017 Telecom Infra Project
An open approach for switching, routing, and transport – Engineering Blog – Facebook
AWS adopts home-brewed KVM as new hypervisor – The Register
KVM? Us? Amazon erases new hypervisor from AWS EC2 FAQ – The Register
Juniper Updates Contrail Cloud To Entice Service Providers, Telcos – Packet Pushers
Juniper Networks Democratizes the Telco Cloud with Contrail Cloud Enhancements – Juniper Networks
Cisco Ericsson Partnership Will Miss $1B Revenue Target for 2018 – SDX Central
T-Mobile and Sprint finally, officially, say they definitely won t merge – Ars Technica
Australia cockatoos chew billion-dollar broadband – BBC News
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