NB595: Arista Racks Up New AI Infrastructure Options; Arelion Expands Existing Fiber Optics Capacity

Drew Conry-Murray (0:00)

Take a network break, I'm Drew Connery-Mauri.

Jonna Johnson (0:02)

I'm Jonna Johnson. Let's crunch through the autumn leaves together as we review this week's news, including a security scare from SonicWall, a Cisco Quantum Control Plane, AI infrastructure news from Arista, Cloudflare's plans to become a Certificate Authority, some Google hacks, optical news from Nokia and Arelion, space networking and more.

Drew Conry-Murray (0:23)

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John, before we get to the red alert, we've got a couple of follow-ups and there's kind of a theme here. We'll dive in. A listener from Sweden wrote in to say the show, quote, is quite focused on the USA. Not strange regarding most of the big vendors are from the USA. But for me, it would be nice with a pod that also reports from Europe. The listener also writes, and we don't just regulate, we also have some interesting initiatives over here too. I appreciate that.

Yes, it's true. We are US centric. John, I think we do make an effort to cast a broader eye for stories from beyond the US, but appreciate the comment and we will continue to look outside the US for stories. Listeners are also welcome to send us items or links or sources that might be of interest. You can hit us up at packapushers.net/fu or find us on LinkedIn or pop into our Slack community and let us know if there's something you think we should be covering. Stay tuned because we do have a story from Sweden, so nice timing.

Jonna Johnson (2:15)

Yeah. Thank you for writing in. By the way, if you are in Europe or Asia or any place outside the US and you just want to pile on, please do because in response to this, we will be doing even more. As it so happens, the very last news item in this particular show is actually from Spain, so we are working on it, guys.

But keep letting us know that you're paying attention and that will keep us doing it.

Drew Conry-Murray (2:41)

Absolutely. Also, we welcome stuff from everywhere, South America, Africa, Asia, not just Europe. Sorry. I didn't. No, it's fine.

Jonna Johnson (2:47)

Again, being a little colonialist, sorry, guys.

Drew Conry-Murray (2:53)

All right. In a similar vein, we talked last week about a partnership between Nokia and a startup whose name, Johnny, you and I weren't quite sure how to pronounce. Martin from the Netherlands suggested we just go to YouTube to look up foreign pronunciations, and the company last week is pronounced Ice Eye.

Jonna Johnson (3:07)

Ice Eye. Yes. Just for the record, it was funny to get a Google is your friend post.

But he's dead correct. The real problem is that sometimes when we jump into these things, I think we know how to say it until 10 seconds before we have to say it and realize, oh crap, I didn't look it up. I also think-

Drew Conry-Murray (3:25)

Yeah, thanks for the tip. For me, I think it was less that it was a foreign company and more it was just one of those tech company names that you're like, what is that? Right.

Jonna Johnson (3:37)

Yeah. Also, they spell it with just one E, so it's a little weird like Ice Eye. That's what I meant.

Drew Conry-Murray (3:44)

Please use all the letters. You want us to pronounce it, use all the letters.

Jonna Johnson (3:48)

But if you're a podcast host, I think it is incumbent upon us to go look up how names are pronounced. So yes, Martin, you are 100 percent correct. Google is our friend, YouTube is our friend. Yes.