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With Its Big Switch Acquisition, Arista Strengthens Its Flight Plan for the Clouds
Jan. 28, 2020
It’s a multi-cloud future, this we know. ...
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Spotlight on the Busine$$ of SD-WAN
Jan. 28, 2020
Paul Parker-Johnson, Practice Lead Cloud Virtual Systems Infrastructure, ACG Research, gives the opening address (sponsored by Layer123) at the SDN + NFV World Congress in the Hague, which focused on business case considerations in adopting SD-WAN solutions.[embed]https://youtu.be/Nha-io1ZTNk[/embed ...
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Webinar: Secure and Scale the Gi-LAN at 80% Lower TCO
Jan. 28, 2020
Mobile network traffic is expected to increase 45% annually with video representing 60% of all mobile traffic. To meet the demand, networks will need to be intelligently and cost effectively scaled for secure services delivery, especially the Gi-LAN. As volumes grow, the number of concurrent users, ...
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How SDN (Today) Is Like MPLS Was (Then)
Jan. 28, 2020
...and how reflecting on this can help navigate the path ahead in realizing the promise of the new software-defined model ...
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Building Networks as Agile as the Cloud
Jan. 28, 2020
In the past two to three years we have experienced a surge in creative efforts and developments producing the components needed for SPs’ networks to become as agile and efficient as the cloud applications they support. ...
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Carrier SDN: Networks as Agile as the Cloud
Jan. 28, 2020
Operators need more agile ways to deliver network services if they’re to fully realize the benefits of cloud computing. And many see Carrier Software-Defined Networking as the way forward. ...
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Is Tomorrow’s Cloud Operations Manager a Highly Specialized Real Estate Broker?
Jan. 28, 2020
As the world gets driven more and more by cloud-based services, what do tomorrow’s operations jobs look like? ...
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New Entrants into the DCI Small Form Factor Market
Jan. 28, 2020
Two equipment titans Coriant and Alcatel-Lucent entered the Data Center Interconnect (DCI) small form factor market with targeted packet optical networking products. ...
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Infinera Puts Agility into Pacnet's Optical Transport Services with Its Open Transport Switch
Jan. 28, 2020
Infinera’s announcement yesterday that Pacnet has deployed its Open Transport Switch (OTS) embedded intelligence layer into its Pacnet Enabled Network (PEN) for trans-Pacific and intra-Asian optical network services brings an innovative design into production in the fast-moving market for dynamicall ...
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Reshaping System Architectures: Open at Every Turn?
Jan. 28, 2020
Disaggregated, modular, mix and match, open, these are the sound bites of the emerging white box and open software ecosystems. Will they define the architectural thinking used throughout our information-driven world moving forward? ...
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Ericsson: Adding Trust + Governance to Agility in the Cloud
Jan. 28, 2020
Periodically, advances are made that propel the state of the art to a new level and allow us to accomplish things that were just not possible before. It’s a powerful experience and is the nature of real progress. ...
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Delivering Policy Continuity at Scale in Cloud IT and Managed Network Services
Jan. 28, 2020
Markets have been busy recently with announcements of solutions to help service providers benefit from powerful innovations in SDN, NFV and cloud computing systems. ...