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What’s More Beneficial to CIOs: Containers or the Container Management System?
Perhaps the biggest benefit of containers is that they can be managed by Kubernetes, which is a pre-defined operational model.
6WIND Snags vRouter Contract With Publishing Platform Sovrn
6WIND has been gaining customers by offering a replacement to Brocade’s vRouter, which was purchased by AT&T and taken off the market.
CenturyLink Provides On-Demand Ethernet Connections to AWS
The Layer 2 service is provisioned over CenturyLink’s owned and operated global fiber as opposed to a leased backbone.
Netcracker Provides a Full-Stack NFV Service for Operators
The turnkey model is designed to help service providers get into NFV without spending years to build their own telco clouds.
Innovium Downplays Chip Programmability, Stresses PAM4
Innovium considers switch chip programmability to be relevant for niche applications and as an insurance policy for future needs.
Smaller Telcos Can Connect to Public Clouds Via Tata Communications Transformation Services
Tier 1 service providers have connected to public clouds with relative ease. But Tier 2 and Tier 3 providers are struggling to create this connectivity, according to Tata.
European Companies Launch OCP Experience Center to Test Hardware
Three companies opened the OCP Experience Center for testing new and proposed OCP technologies and for conducting demonstrations of open OCP hardware designs.
Inspur Donates New Server Configurations to the Open Compute Project
The Chinese server vendor Inspur participates in all of the open hardware platforms, including OCP, the Open Data Center Community, and Open19.
AT&T Contributes Its Cell Site White Box Router Spec to the Open Compute Project
This white box reference design is available to any hardware maker to use as a guide to build cell site gateway routers. And they can be paired with disaggregated software.
SDxCentral Drills Into the Silicon Foundation of Network Virtualization
Network virtualization has primarily focused on software. But now there’s interest in the lower layers of the network: commodity hardware and the silicon that drives the hardware.
Perhaps MANO Is Irrelevant for Virtualized Carrier Networks
Good integrated CI/CD and an orchestrator like Kubernetes could negate the need for MANO.
Riverbed Strikes SD-WAN and IT Edge Partnerships With Microsoft
Previously, SteelFusion has been available out-of-box for VMware environments only. But now, Riverbed is providing SteelFusion for native Microsoft Windows Server environments for Hyper-V.
NFV’s Return on Investment Disappoints Some NFV Players
“We had inflated expectations” because the promise was vendors could easily obtain commodity hardware and “throw some VNFs on it and it would make money," said a Masergy executive.
Mode and Versa Use Ericsson’s Global Network for SD-WAN
The two vendors are offering connectivity and SD-WAN over Ericsson’s private network. The offering looks similar to Aryaka’s.
IDC Predicts Telecom VNF Market to Grow at a Compound Annual Rate of 45.4%
Worldwide revenue for the telco VNF market in 2017 stood at only $2.5 billion.
There’s a Group Working on an Open Source Silicon Instruction Set
The RISC-V initiative is creating a free and open instruction set architecture for the next generation of chipsets.
Marvell’s Purchase of Cavium Greatly Expands Its Infrastructure Products
Both companies were focused on infrastructure, and yet there was very little overlap in their product lines.
Verizon Provides SAP With Software-Defined Networking
Historically, SAP’s in-house team looked after its IT real estate, supported by a variety of different technology companies, including Verizon. But now, it’s sending more work Verizon’s way.
ARM Supports Chip Makers in Servers, IoT, and 5G
Instead of manufacturing chips, ARM provides its instruction set architecture to its customers — such as Qualcomm, Broadcom, NXP, and Marvell — and those companies manufacture the chips.
Cisco Enterprise Networking GM Talks About Arista’s Entrance in Campus and Branch
“I think we have an extremely strong hand when we look at competing against somebody like Arista in the campus and branch,” said Scott Harrell.