Network Break

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Episodes 250

Avg. Duration 43m

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Apple Rating ★ 4.7 (101)

Since Apr 2021

Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Weekly

Format

Episodic

Consistency

98%

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About This Podcast

Network Break keeps you informed with fast, focused analysis of IT news, products, tech trends, and business outcomes. Blending sharp commentary with a touch of humor, hosts Drew Conry-Murray & Johna Till Johnson sift through the weekly landslide of press announcements, product launches, financial reports, and marketing decks to find the stories worth talking about. You come away with the information and context to make smart decisions in your organization and career … all in the span of a (longish) coffee break.

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Recent Episodes

NB578: Cisco Goes All-In on AI Ops with Cloud Control; China Floats Underwater Data Center

Jun 08, 2026 38m

Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers a critical Android vulnerability that could lead to local privilege escalation to root. On the news front, we dig into Cloud Control, Cisco’s ambitious AI…

NB577: Cisco Brings SONiC to N9000 Switches; Broadcom Debuts Wi-Fi 8 SoCs for Consumer Routers

Jun 01, 2026 36m

Take a Network Break! We start with listener followup and a red alert affecting ScadaBR, an open source SCADA controller. On the news front, Forward adds predictive testing to its network digital…

NB576: IBM Gets Big Bucks to Build Quantum Chip Fab; AT&T Sues to Hang Up on Copper Phone Lines

May 26, 2026 36m

Take a Network Break! We sound the alarm about a critical vulnerability in an on-prem Azure stack. On the news side, AI NetOps startup Selector adds public cloud observability to its portfolio, Versa…

NB575: AI Multipath Protocol Goes to Open Compute Project; Cisco Shrinks Workforce as Income Swells

May 18, 2026 29m

Take a Network Break! In this week’s Red Alert we suggest an audit of your Azure environment after Microsoft says it patched four critical vulnerabilities. On the news front, Nvidia has brought the…

NB574: Extreme’s New AI Agent Nudges You; Cloudflare Evaporates 20% of Employees

May 11, 2026 37m

Take a Network Break! There’s a Red Alert for Apache Polaris with four CVEs that could enable unauthorized read/write access. On the news front, Lumen is spending $475 million in cash for Alkira to…

NB573: Cisco Open-Sources OpenClaw Protection; T-Mobile Taps Starlink for Broadband Redundancy

May 04, 2026 37m

Take a Network Break! It’s a busy show this week. We start with follow-up on Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, router bans, and end-of-engineering/end-of-support date changes for Fortinet’s FortiOSv7.4.…

NB572: Quantum Switches and Flying Cars

Apr 27, 2026 35m

Take a Network Break! We start with follow up on Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and Linux 7.0. On the news side, Cisco announces a prototype quantum switch that promises to support multiple quantum…

NB571: Linux Loads 7.0 with Network Upgrades; NetGear Routes Around FCC Ban, But How?

Apr 20, 2026 31m

Take a Network Break! Our Red Alert covers a trio of vulnerabilities in Cisco ISE. On the news front, Cloudflare announces a private network offering for AI agents and a partnership with CNAPP…

NB570: Project Glasswing’s FUD and Thunder; Au Revoir Windows, Bonjour Linux

Apr 13, 2026 50m

Take a Network Break! We commence with a red alert on FastMCP, and then debate whether Anthropic’s Project Glasswing is a marketing stunt or a reasonable response to the growing ability of AI models…

NB569: Adding Drones to Your DR Plan; Collision Avoidance (Orbital, not Wi-Fi)

Apr 06, 2026 25m

Take a Network Break! We start with a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Integrated Management Controller. In the news, Verizon settles patent litigation over IoT antenna technology, Cato Networks…

NB568: Arm Reaches for More AI Revenue with In-House CPU; Debating the FCC Router Ban

Mar 30, 2026 44m

Take a Network Break! Mozilla is our Red Alert topic, with critical vulnerabilities in Firefox and Thunderbird. On the news front, we cover a string of security announcements from Palo Alto Networks,…

NB567: CISA Says Harden Endpoint Managers; NVIDIA Launches GPUs for Orbital Workloads

Mar 23, 2026 22m

Take a Network Break! We sound a red alert about a swarm of critical D-Link vulnerabilities. In this week’s news, CISA warns organizations to harden endpoint management systems in the wake of a…

NB566: Google Spins Out Fiber Business; HPE Networking Revenue Soars in Q1

Mar 16, 2026 29m

Take a Network Break! We begin with listener follow-up on Cisco SD-WAN vulnerabilities and a report that Nvidia is investing billions to develop open-source AI models. In our Red Alert section we…

NB565: New Algorithm Claims Quicker Quantum Decryption; NVIDIA Revenue Rockets Higher

Mar 09, 2026 45m

Take a Network Break! Guest commentator Tom Hollingsworth joins Drew for today’s episode. We start with a double Red Alert from Cisco for its Secure FMC software. On the news front, Cato Networks…

NB564: New Juniper Routers Pump Up AI and Cloud-Scale Traffic; Anthropic Vs. DoD

Mar 02, 2026 52m

Take a Network Break! We start with follow-up on the proper pronunciation of the US state of Nevada, and then sound the alarm about new research that gets around WiFi client isolation and could…

NB563: Palo Alto Networks Nets Koi for AI Security; Quantum Networking Notches Research Wins

Feb 23, 2026 30m

Take a Network Break! We start with follow-ups on secure browsers and data centers in space, and then sound the red alert about an RCE vulnerability in NLTK. On the news front, Palo Alto Networks…

NB562: Cisco Challenges Broadcom With 102.4Tb ASIC; Arista Reaches Record Revenues

Feb 17, 2026 42m

Take a Network Break! We start with listener follow-up on data centers in space, and sound the Red Alert about a sandbox failure in Claude Code and a rash of Microsoft zero-days. On the news front,…

NB561: Kubernetes Retires Ingress NGINX; Are Data Centers Headed for Orbit?

Feb 09, 2026 34m

Take a Network Break! We start with a trio of follow-ups, including a correction regarding Mplify certifications, Cisco proposing new OSI layers, and free-space optics. Our Red Alert sounds off about…

NB560: Microsoft Doubles Down on Custom AI Chip; CrowdStrike Brandishes Big Bucks for Browser Security

Feb 02, 2026 33m

Take a Network Break! We’ve got Red Alerts for HPE Juniper Session Smart Routers and SolarWinds. In this week’s news, Microsoft debuts its second-generation AI inferencing chip, Mplify rolls out a…

NB559: Cisco Builds Nexus Switch for Intel AI Chips; TeraWave Promises 6Tbps from Space

Jan 26, 2026 44m

Take a Network Break! We start with a Red Alert in Oracle’s WebLogic Server Proxy Plugin for Apache or IIS, which has a severity score of 10. In the news, Fortinet warns that attackers have found a…

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Network Break has published 250 episodes since April 2021, covering topics in News, Tech News.

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Network Break is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 43m.