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Merchant Silicon About to Get Smarter
April 18, 2013 07:51 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
The march to SDN designs has led many to think we're entering an era of dumb switches. Instead, look for the commodity silicon to get a lot smarter.
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Ubiquiti Rolls Out 802.11ac APs on the Cheap
April 12, 2013 05:24 PM
Posted by Lee H. Badman
Ubiquiti offers an 11ac AP for under $300 in a bid to grab early adopters and price-conscious companies--and to entice customers from WLAN vendors such as Ruckus and Aruba Networks.
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Cisco and OpenDaylight: The SDN Application Land Grab
April 11, 2013 09:20 PM
Posted by Andrew Conry Murray
Cisco is using the open source OpenDaylight initiative to spur application development to make its own SDN platform more valuable.
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HP Moonshot: A Big Bet On Innovative Engineering
April 10, 2013 10:34 AM
Posted by Kurt Marko
HP's Moonshot servers are a tour de force of engineering that aim to restore the company's innovation groove. Here are the details.
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New SDN Technology Challenges VMware, Cisco
April 02, 2013 11:50 AM
Posted by Greg Ferro
A new SDN competitor is challenging VMware, Cisco and others. Nuage Networks, an Alcatel-Lucent venture, has announced Virtualized Service Platform (VSP), an SDN technology that employs virtual switches and network overlays.
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Kill the Traditional PCIe Slot: A Modest Proposal
April 02, 2013 09:26 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Let's get rid of traditional PCIe slots and move all the cable connections to the front of the server. We'll get compelling maintenance and operational advantages. Here's how and why.
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VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
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: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
