Author Archives: Roy Chua
Author Archives: Roy Chua
Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2019: reflections of an industry in transition.
Who's the wicked queen in the data center switch merchant silicon business?
Long time passing. Where have all the SDN Controllers gone? Long time ago.
Schrödinger’s cat or stone soup, pick your favorite ONAP analogy.
Just when you thought the waters were safe ...
Edge, the new overhyped term for MWC 2020.
Can applying NFV and SDN principles to a telco organization yield better results?
Will the NFV legacy trip up telcos’ leapfrog into containers?
The never-ending and quixotic quest for the universal networking fabric.
AvidThink (formerly SDxCentral Research) has put together a research brief that explains the infrastructure changes required, and the role that software-defined and cloud-native technologies will play in the 5G world, including supporting network slicing.
Is curated open-source still open source?
Expect network connectivity between clouds to get more complicated.
Try as you might, there’s no avoiding 5G (real and fake), IoT, SD-WAN, or AI.
Download a copy of this research brief aimed at providing NEPs and SIs with a practical guide on how to add value to customers with innovative hardware strategies in a software-centric world, and how differentiation can be achieved in the face of commoditization.
In 2019 SD-WAN solutions will converge toward a universal archetype.
A collaborative approach from service providers might yield better results than one that seeks to disempower the vendors.
Service meshes could displace many L4-7 networking functions. But will they?
DPDK has extended its reach beyond packet processing and could be a universal API for other acceleration functions needed for effective NFV.
Achieving standard, commodity uCPEs will be a longer journey than anticipated.
To succeed in SD-WAN, service providers will need to transform their organization and improve their selling skills. Can they do it?