Network Break NB595: Arista Racks Up New AI Infrastructure Options; Arelion Expands Existing Fiber Optics Capacity
Oct 13, 2026
Taylor Edema, vice president of product management at Palo Alto Networks, joins a fast-moving discussion on critical Dell and SonicWall vulnerabilities. The conversation explores Cisco’s quantum networking controller, Arista’s open rack-scale AI fabrics, Cloudflare’s push toward certificate authority status, hijacked country domains, expanded Amsterdam–London fiber capacity, and satellite networks reshaping connectivity.
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Upgrade Dell Container Storage Immediately
- Upgrade Dell Container Storage modules to version 1.18 or later to close two missing-authentication vulnerabilities.
- The flaws let unauthenticated attackers escalate privileges or obtain backend credentials for every registered array.
Cisco Turns Entanglement Into A Network Service
- Cisco’s quantum controller abstracts sources, switches, detectors, and timing systems behind a hardware abstraction layer.
- Applications can request entanglement by endpoint, rate, fidelity, and timing without managing physical implementation details.
AI Racks Change Data Center Engineering
- Arista’s open ESUN rack designs support up to 144 GPUs per rack and 1,024 across cross-rack topologies.
- AI data centers also introduce unfamiliar engineering constraints, including liquid cooling, much higher power, condensation, and floors unable to bear the weight.