Maciej Kranz, the author of Building the Internet of Things, has a blog in which he espouses his Latest Thinking. In the latest instalment (Seven Trends Changing IoT — and…
OpenContrail becomes Tungsten Fabric
The Linux Foundation has recently obtained the OpenContrail source from Juniper. Having fully transitioned OpenContrail into the Linux Foundation, it is now rebranded as Tungsten Fabric. This move may appear…
Qualcomm ships Centriq 2400 ARM server processor
Qualcomm has announced that its new ARM-based server chip is available for commercial shipment. The Centriq 2400 is an ARMv8 64 bit CPU, with 48 cores running at upto 2.6Ghz.…
SDxCentral: Sandvine brought by Private Equity to be merged with Procera
SDxCentral reports that the venture capital company which owns Procera Networks is purchasing all remaining stock in Sandvine Networks to merge them together. Francisco Partners and PNI, affiliate companies are…
MEF focuses on SD-WAN with LSO and OpenCS
The old Metro Ethernet Forum (now simply MEF) issued a press release to cover a focus on SD-WAN. This covers three areas: Service Implementations using the MEF frameworks Market Education…
Mellanox launches Spectrum2 switch for 400Gb/s future
Mellanox has launched a new ethernet switch chipset family. Spectrum 2 is an open switch platform with capabilities of 200Gb/s and 400Gb/s per port. As well as high-speed, Mellanox are…
Cisco’s intentions now clearer – intent-based networking
A blog entry by Chuck Robbins clarifies Cisco's intentions for the future. They want to deliver intent-based networking to make the lives of network engineers simpler. Intent-based networking has been…
NTT claim largest SD-WAN footprint of 190 countries
NTT Communications are claiming that their SD-WAN service has the largest footprint of any, covering 190 countries. NTT Communications Corporation are the ICT solutions and international communications provider within NTT…