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Cisco’s Spending Spree: An Analysis
December 06, 2012 07:07 AM
This November Cisco bought three companies in the space of about 10 days. I’ll examine whether these purchases are part of a larger strategic move, or simply the result of internal competition among Cisco’s business units.Plexxi Cuts a New Path to SDN
December 05, 2012 04:09 PM
Plexxi, an SDN startup, launches a custom switch and controller to enable software-defined networking for enterprises and cloud providers. Unlike other controller architectures, Plexxi doesn’t rely on OpenFlow. Its secret weapon? An optical interconnect.SDN: 5 Things CIOs Must Know
December 03, 2012 01:24 PM
Software-defined networking promises to pull today’s network into the virtual age, but CIOs have to separate speculation from reality. Here are five observations to help guide IT leaders’ thinking.Alcatel-Lucent’s SDN Strategy Downplays OpenFlow
November 30, 2012 11:31 AM
Alcatel-Lucent has announced its SDN roadmap for the coming year. The company plans to offer a RESTful interface in two of its OmniSwitch product lines before it adds support for OpenFlow.Why We Need Network Abstraction
November 26, 2012 03:16 PM
Highly virtualized data centers are exposing cracks in traditional network constructs such as VLANs. New approaches that abstract the physical network, including network overlays, are key to providing flexibility and scale.SDN Is Business, OpenFlow Is Technology
November 15, 2012 06:14 PM
Software-defined networking (SDN) and OpenFlow aren’t the same thing. We’ll clarify the technical differences and discuss a more important distinction: SDN emphasizes applications that drive network usability and business requirements, while OpenFlow is a technology to link an SDN controller and network devices.Extreme Networks' 40 GbE, 100 GbE Switch Modules Target Data Centers
November 15, 2012 02:05 PM
Extreme also opens up its OS to support OpenFlow 1.0 and OpenStack to enable more flexible network architectures.Packets Are the Past, Flows Are the Future
November 14, 2012 04:25 PM
Networking has focused for years on speeds and feeds: how many packets you can handle and how many ports per device. But hosts and applications work with flows, which will force the network to adapt. Here’s why.Big Switch's OpenFlow Controller Guns for SDN Leadership
November 13, 2012 11:57 AM
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.What WAN Optimization Can Teach SDN About Tunneling
November 06, 2012 06:50 PM
Network tunnels used to have a bad reputation, but the rise of software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization is changing that. WAN optimization, which uses tunnels, may offer insights that IT can apply to SDN.« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Next Page »
