2025: Year in Review

2025: Year in Review

From Cables2Clouds by Cables2Clouds

December 31, 2025 · 38 min · Episode 46

About this episode

The episode reviews the significant changes in the networking world throughout 2025, including vendor acquisitions and the impact of AI on security and reliability.

Send us Fan Mail The year felt like it stretched on forever, and in that extra space the networking world reshaped itself. We traded weekly cadence for deeper focus, shipped an AWS Advanced Networking book that the community embraced, and then watched the landscape pivot as vendors consolidated, clouds connected to each other, and AI hype met the hard edges of security and reliability. We dig into the acquisition wave with clear eyes: Arista picking up VeloCloud from Broadcom and what that m...

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Host: Cables2Clouds

Topics covered

  • networking
  • cloud computing
  • AI
  • security
  • vendor consolidation
  • technology trends

Keywords

  • networking
  • clouds
  • AI
  • security
  • vendor acquisition
  • technology

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Organizations: AWS, Arista, VeloCloud, Broadcom

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