Architectures
11ac's First Wave: What to Expect
February 27, 2013
802.11ac will super-charge Wi-Fi, but pre-standard products will come with limitations. Here's what you can expect as 11ac products debut in 2013.
United Oil Cuts the Wires
January 15, 2013
United Oil Co., which operates 127 gas stations in Southern California, is abandoning DSL service in favor of 4G to connect its retail locations to headquarters.
SDN: From Slideware to Software in 2013?
January 10, 2013
2013 should be the year SDN transitions from an over-hyped R&D project to an actual product category. At same time, the market will split into several distinct architectural approaches.
MDM Helps Bank Manage Apple iPhones, iPads
December 18, 2012
Automated software updates and security features in MobileIron's mobile device management system take pressure off Needham Bank's IT department.
Network Overlays: An Introduction
December 11, 2012
Network overlays dramatically increase the number of virtual subnets that can be created on a physical network, which in turn supports multitenancy and virtualization features such as VM mobility, and can speed configuration of new or existing services. We’ll look at how network overlays work and examine pros and cons.
OpenStack: An Overview
November 27, 2012
OpenStack is a continually evolving initiative to enable the deployment of cloud computing services using open source software. We’ll examine the most recent release of the platform, called Folsom, which adds two new modules for networking and block storage.
Big Switch's OpenFlow Controller Guns for SDN Leadership
November 13, 2012
Big Switch Networks, an ambitious start up in software-defined networking (SDN), has launched a new controller and a pair of networking applications that have the potential to drive OpenFlow-based networks into the mainstream.
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On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
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