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The future is not the cloud or the fog: it is actually the SEA!

Device virtualization may be one of the last frontiers of a trend line that has been running for over thirty years but it will probably need 5G to make it possible.

By Alan Carlton

22 Jun 20175 mins

SDNSmall and Medium BusinessVirtualization

Articles

AT&T likes 'white-box' networks and hopes you will, too

AT&T's Network Functions on Demand offers a standard x86 server for routing, security and other functions

By Stephen Lawson

18 Jul 2016 3 mins

InternetNetworkingSDN

Monitoring high-velocity trading networks with cPacket

The financial services industry is a high-demand, and high-value technology customer. cPacket seeks to leverage that fact.

By Ben Kepes

12 Jul 2016 3 mins

Network Management SoftwareSDNTechnology Industry

Cajun redux? Avaya’s focus on data networking misses the mark

Avaya needs to focus on what most of its customers care about: team and customer engagement solutions

By Guy Clinch

8 Jul 2016 5 mins

Cisco SystemsSDNUnified Communications

Is Apstra SDN? Same idea, different angle

The network automation startup starts with an enterprise's intentions and makes the network carry them out

By Stephen Lawson

22 Jun 2016 3 mins

Cloud ComputingData CenterSDN

Information-centric networking could fix these internet problems

The internet of the future will have to support pervasive mobile connectivity and multicast video technology while keeping latency down. ICN makes those possible.

By Alan Carlton

19 May 2016 6 mins

InternetSDNSmall and Medium Business

Demystifying the information-centric network

Evolving to an ICN will deliver much-needed efficiencies and performance improvements

By Alan Carlton

26 Apr 2016 5 mins

Cellular NetworksManaged Service ProvidersSmall and Medium Business

Verizon taps Red Hat and OpenStack for its NFV deployment

A good customer win for Red Hat going into the OpenStack Summit in Austin.

By Ben Kepes

25 Apr 2016 3 mins

Cloud ComputingPrivate CloudSDN

Back to the Future: Time to really leverage new networking technology

Obviously, the network area is a popular topic with the advent of Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking. But are these technologies really that new?

By Alan Carlton

31 Mar 2016 5 mins

SDNSmall and Medium BusinessVirtualization