Press Release: Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, UK. 1st June 2018 The writer of the CoherentLight blog, John S. Dixon, has founded a company to provide access to high-quality relevant knowledge…
Telefonica expands Nuage solution with SDN for data centers
Spain's Telefonica Espana has selected Nokia's Nuage Networks to provide the SDN infrastructure for datacenter modernisation programme. This adds to the current SD-WAN deployment they made in 2017. (Nokia's Nuage…
Dropbox deploys IPv6 at the edge
Dropbox's blog has a post from Haowei Yuan and colleagues, about engineering the Dropbox network to support IPv6 at the edge. Dropbox is serving about 15% of their requests via…
BT enhances Dynamic Network Services with Cisco ENCS
A short while ago, we posted about BT's Dynamic Network Services plans. BT has now taken the next step, launching the Cisco ENCS platform as the delivery point for its Connect Services…
Juniper captures leadership of USA network core routing market
An article on the Juniper forums talks about how they have now captured the leadership position in the network core routing market in the USA. (Juniper Networks Captures Leadership Position…
Product Announcement: Cisco ISR 1000 router
Cisco have launched a new entry point ISR router. This is the Cisco ISR 1000 series, intended as the new entry point for SME connection into the corporate network. It…
6Wind announces support for ARM to add to MIPS and x86
6Wind support for ARM devices as well as traditional x86 and MIPS processors with their press-release (6WIND Announces Arm® Processor Support for High Performance Networking). This expands the reach of…
There’s a problem with IPv6 route lookup speed in Linux
The challenge The great thing about IPv6 is its larger IP address space, but this is also its weakness. That larger IP address space needs routing, potentially creating larger routing…