SDxCentral report that AT&T are moving away from Juniper's Contrail orchestration platform to OpenDaylight, citing that the lack community engagement in the platform. Can Contrail work as open-source without community? According to SDxCentral's…
SDxCentral: Dutch Provider Selects Juniper’s Virtual MX Edge Router
Yesterday, SDxCentral reported that Dutch ISP A2B Internet have selected Juniper's vMX router as their first VNF. A2B's press release is available
VMware closing the virtual switch infrastructure to third parties
VMware is closing down the APIs that third parties use to access the virtual network within the VMware ecosystem. This means that if you are using one of the third…
Vodafone Selects Juniper Contrail for SDN automation and agility
Vodafone have selected Juniper's Contrail for their SDN orchestration. Vodafone's Ocean transformation started in 2015 and uses network virtualisation to drive operational change. They are looking for an optimised end-to-end…
Juniper to buy cloud monitoring Appformix
Juniper issued a press release stating Juniper's intent to buy cloud operations tool Appformix. Appformix uses machine-learning and big data to give an deeper understanding of the software-defined infrastructure. "The…
NTT buys Virtela, orchestrating network growth
Virtela are being acquired by NTT Communications, the ICT portion of NTT . This acquisition will help NTT Com grow their network infrastructure, currently based around Juniper T-series routers. The…
Riverbed Stingray
The recent acquisitions by Riverbed of Aptimize and Zeus (to provide A to Z coverage?) have now been integrated into the Riverbed family. See Riverbed goes shopping for godly web…
Dell intends to acquire Force10 networks
So another acquisition by a computer systems supplier of a networking infrastructure company. This trend started when Compaq acquired Thomas Conrad back in 1995, and is continuing today with the…