Open Networking: Midlife Crisis or Middleware Curse?
Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2019: reflections of an industry in transition.
Analysis - Roy Chua
In-depth analysis of networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure trends
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No Escape From SD-WAN: RSA 2019 Perspectives
Just when you thought the waters were safe ... -
MWC 2019 - 5G Fatigue? No Problem, Let’s Talk Edge
Edge, the new overhyped term for MWC 2020. -
The Disaggregated Agile Telco – Faster, Better, Cheaper?
Can applying NFV and SDN principles to a telco organization yield better results? -
Containers in Telcos – Are We There Yet?
Will the NFV legacy trip up telcos’ leapfrog into containers? -
Beyond SD-WAN: Cisco ACI Anywhere, VMware NSX Everywhere, Is All This Going Somewhere?
The never-ending and quixotic quest for the universal networking fabric. -
Open Source: The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and Whole Foods Market
Is curated open-source still open source? -
Battle of the Multi-Clouds: SD-WANs, VPNs, and More
Expect network connectivity between clouds to get more complicated. -
What to – and Not to – Expect at MWC 2019
Try as you might, there’s no avoiding 5G (real and fake), IoT, SD-WAN, or AI. -
Forget the uCPE, 2019 Will Usher in the uSD-WAN
In 2019 SD-WAN solutions will converge toward a universal archetype. -
2019 Resolutions for a Healthier NFV and SD-WAN Ecosystem
A collaborative approach from service providers might yield better results than one that seeks to disempower the vendors. -
Watch Out Networking, the Service Mesh Will Rock Your World
Service meshes could displace many L4-7 networking functions. But will they? -
DPDK — One API to Rule Them All?
DPDK has extended its reach beyond packet processing and could be a universal API for other acceleration functions needed for effective NFV. -
There’s Nothing Universal About the Universal CPE
Achieving standard, commodity uCPEs will be a longer journey than anticipated. -
SD-WAN in 2019: The Conundrum for Service Providers
To succeed in SD-WAN, service providers will need to transform their organization and improve their selling skills. Can they do it? -
From SDN-Washing to SDN-Hiding
Companies are rebranding their SDN products as SD-WAN, dynamic networking, agile networking, or cloud-native network to avoid being part of the SDN hype. -
Mae West and Equinix: What Do They Have to Do With SD-WAN?
Express lanes to clouds and internet exchange points will drive the next stage of SD-WAN competition. -
Is SD-WAN a Managed Services Game?
Gartner's recent 2018 Magic Quadrant report for WAN Edge Infrastructure provides a good overview of the SD-WAN market but its viewpoints may be a bit old-fashioned. -
Does NFV Stand For Not Financially Viable?
It's been more than six years since NFV became a reality but for service providers the transformation is far from over. -
Huawei Shakes Up the AI Status Quo
Google, nVidia, IBM face a new formidable AI challenger in Huawei.
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SD-WAN Adolescence Is About Interoperability and Scalability
European test lab EANTC tested several SD-WAN vendors solutions and compared their scalability and performance. -
SD-WAN vs. Next-Gen Firewalls: Chicken or the Egg?
At the SD-WAN Summit 2018 in Paris, one of the more contentious debates was which will come first: next-generation firewall or new SD-WAN capabilities? -
Open Source: Not Just About AI, Blockchains, and Kubernetes
OSCON 2018 did a great job of highlighting women and people of color in their programming. -
Kubernetes a Slam Dunk in Container Orchestration Game
The scale and impact of Kubernetes was obvious at the recent OSCON 2018 conference in Portland, Oregon. -
Containers-as-a-Service is a Fresh Battleground for Cloud Giants
Half of container users started less than 12 months ago, providing new blood for AWS, Azure, Google, Docker, VMware, Red Hat to fight over.