Take a Network Break! Join the Packet Pushers for our weekly analysis of tech news and events.
This week we cover Cisco’s new service announcement and its implications for resellers, look at why HPE is walking away from selling commodity servers to cloud giants, and dive into the KRACK vulnerabilities affecting wireless networking.
In other news, Huawei and China Telecom test 400GbE links, Congress proposes a hack-back bill, and Docker embraces Kubernetes.
The fallout for Kaspersky gets worse, Fujitsu launches an SD-WAN offering for service providers, and real giant robots duel for domination.
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Show Links:
Cisco Unveils Industry’s First Predictive Services Powered by AI – The Network
New Cisco Predictive Services Will Help Customers Fill the Technical Skills Gap and Grow Their Businesses – Cisco
Cisco Starts The End Of Resellers And Middlemen – Packet Pushers
HPE Is Exiting Cloud Server Business – Fortune
WPA2 KRACK Vulnerability, Getting Information – Revolution Wi-Fi
KRACK Attacks: Breaking WPA2 – KRACK Attacks
Falling through the KRACKs A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
Aruba KRACK FAQ – Aruba (PDF)
Cisco Warns 69 Products Impacted by KRACK – Threatpost
China Telecom Guangzhou and Huawei Complete World’s First 400GE Test – Huawei
AT&T Trials 400GbE for Ultra-Fast Video Streaming – Light Reading
New bill could let companies retaliate against hackers – CNN
Docker Platform and Moby Project add Kubernetes – Docker
Some Thoughts on the Docker-Kubernetes Announcement – Scott’s Weblog
Dodging Russian Spies, Customers Are Ripping Out Kaspersky – The Daily Beast
Fujitsu Network Communications Launches SD-WAN Service Using Silver Peak – Packet Pushers
The Giant Robot Duel – YouTube