<br> # My Thoughts - pass-the-parcel - 영국식 어린이 파티 게임에서 나온 표현 - 경영·정치 등에서 쓰일 때는 어떤 책임·소유권·문제 등을 사람이나 조직 사이에 계속 떠넘기거나 잦은 손바뀜이 일어나는 상황 가르킴. #### Why? (목적 - 왜 기록하는가?) - 영어 스터디 진행 상황을 트래킹 #### How? (방법 - 어떻게 활용할까?) - 학습 인증을 통해 지속적인 추진력을 얻는다. #### What? (결과 - 무엇을 창조할까?) - 눈에 띄는 표현을 외우고 활용한다. <br> # Summary - Speak aloud - 08:32 ## Highlights - After sitting uneasily within Broadcom’s VMware portfolio for nearly two years, the VeloCloud SD-WAN platform has a new home: it has been acquired by Arista Networks for an undisclosed sum. - VMware, including VeloCloud, was then spun out in 2021 and subsequently bought by Broadcom in 2023. With Broadcom now divesting VeloCloud to one of its partners for a sum rumored to be around the $1 billion mark, the company’s ownership ==pass-the-parcel== appears to have stabilized. - Its new home inside Arista Networks looks positive for the VeloCloud user base. Broadcom bought VMware for its high-margin virtualization, cloud infrastructure, and software technology. Arista, by contrast, is much more of a datacenter and campus networking company known for its leaf-spine 7000 Series datacenter and cloud switches, and enterprise Wi-Fi, unified under the Extensible Operating System (EOS). - Arista Networks’ acquisition press release [described](https://www.arista.com/en/company/news/press-release/21646-pr-07012025) the synergy with VeloCloud: “This portfolio of solutions provides expanded choice and performance for Arista customers, enabling global WAN services to interconnect data centers and distributed campus offices, while complementing Arista’s existing CloudEOS routing stack and high-end 7000-series WAN routers.” - Sanjay Uppal, now VP and general manager of the new VeloCloud Division at Arista Networks, elaborated. “The next step in SD-WAN is to identify, secure and optimize agentic AI traffic across that distributed enterprise, this time from all end points across to branches, campus sites, and the different data center locations, both public and private,” [he wrote](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/velocloud-arista-new-chapter-begins-sanjay-uppal-cw2cc/). “The best way to grab this opportunity was in partnership with a networking systems leader, as customers were increasingly looking for a comprehensive solution from LAN/Campus across the WAN to the data center.” - Interestingly, Arista Networks [recently added](https://www.networkworld.com/article/3844364/arista-delivers-intelligent-load-balancing-ai-job-centric-observability.html) similar AI cluster performance and load balancing to its EOS platform, so presumably VeloCloud’s technology will be integrated within this feature set over time. <br> ## Words and Idioms - pass-the-parcel pass-the-parcel은 영국식 어린이 파티 게임에서 나온 표현입니다. 아이들이 원 모양으로 둘러앉아 포장을 여러 겹 둘러싼 선물 꾸러미(parcel)를 음악이 나오는 동안 서로 돌려가며(pass) 넘기고, 음악이 멈출 때 손에 든 사람이 겉포장을 한 겹씩 벗기다가 마지막 속포장을 벗긴 사람이 선물을 차지하는 게임이죠. 이 비유가 ==경영·정치 등에서 쓰일 때는 어떤 책임·소유권·문제 등을 사람이나 조직 사이에 계속 떠넘기거나 잦은 손바뀜이 일어나는 상황==을 가리킵니다. 질문에 제시된 문장에서는 Broadcom이 VeloCloud를 다시 파트너사에 매각하면서 더는 손바뀜이 없을 것 같다는 뉘앙스로, 그동안 이어졌던 ‘기업 소유권 돌려주기 놀이’(ownership pass-the-parcel)가 이제 안정된 것 같다고 말하는 것입니다. <br> # References [Arista Buys VeloCloud to reboot SD-WANs amid AI infrastructure shift \| Network World](https://www.networkworld.com/article/4016270/arista-buys-velocloud-to-reboot-sd-wans-amid-ai-infrastructure-shift.html) <br> # Links [[_MOC_2_English]] <br> # Tags #english #study #arista #sdwan #mna #velocloud <br> # Aliases #영어 #공부 #아리스타 #인수합병 #벨로클라우드 <br>