Network Break 324: Cisco ASIC Hits 25.6Tbps; AWS Extends VPC Flow Logs For Better Visibility

Take a Network Break! This week we discuss a new slate of ASICs from Cisco, including the 25.6Tbps G100. AWS has added new metadata fields in VPC flow logs to provide a better view of application dependencies and data transfer charges. Packet broker specialist Gigamon has announced Hawk, a visibility and analytics fabric for public and hybrid clouds. French cloud provider OVH suffered a massive fire at a facility that took multiple data centers offline, and Apple announces a bigger presence in Europe for silicon design. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: PathSolutions PathSolutions’ TotalView automatically monitors all devices and interfaces in your entire infrastructure. The core offering includes all of the features needed to run a healthy network: Netflow, path mapping, diagramming, IPAM, network configuration automation, server monitoring and more. Visit www.PathSolutions.com to learn more about how to get Total Network Visibility on your network today. Tech Bytes: Palo Alto Networks Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with Palo Alto Networks about key differentiators of Palo Alto’s Prisma SD-WAN, including ML for day two operations, Cloudblades, and more. Show Links: Cisco Silicon One Easily Shatters the 25.6T Barrier – Cisco Cisco Silicon One Product Family – get to know this single silicon architecture – Cisco Cisco Silicon One Product Family (PDF) – Cisco Amazon VPC Flow Logs now reflects AWS Service name, Traffic Path and Flow Direction – AWS Gigamon Launches Hawk and Partners With AWS to Simplify and Secure Cloud Adoption – Gigamon OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction – The Register Fire at our Strasbourg Site – OVH Apple will invest over 1 billion euros in Germany and plans European Silicon Design Center in Munich – Apple