Ericsson Throws 5G Investment Fuel on U.S. Market That’s ‘On Fire’
The investment plans include producing equipment stateside to be closer to its customers, opening a new software development center, and hiring several hundred employees.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — August 10, 2018
Oracle debuts another autonomous database cloud service; Facebook open sources its transport layer security library; and AWS rolls out serverless option for Amazon Aurora.
Alphabet’s Chronicle Exec Talks IoT Security
The security company that spun out of Alphabet’s secretive X research lab in January still hasn’t set a release date for its analytics platform.
Short Take – Give The Monkey A Smaller Club
In this Network Collective Short Take, Russ White takes a look at the impact of abstraction, complexity, and scale as they relate to the size and scope of attack surfaces presented to attackers.
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Community Networks Workshop at CANTO Annual Conference
Globally, significant progress has been made in recent years with respect to Internet access, however, much more needs to be done. Presently, 54% of the global community is not connected to the Internet. In the Caribbean region, big disparities can be noted. As measured by Internet penetration rates, while countries such as Barbados (80%), Trinidad & Tobago (70%) are well connected, this is not the case in others such as Haiti (12%) and Guyana (40%).
The challenge in less-connected countries is mainly in their large rural communities. This is where the Internet Society’s ongoing work related to Community Networks (CNs) hopes to have some impact.
Smart strategies, utilizing the skills, knowledge, and authority of all stakeholders such as government, policy makers, the business community, operators, academia, and civil society entities need to be explored. While governments can play a key role, especially with respect to policies that foster network deployment in rural and underserved areas, telecoms operators are also very important. These operators have well-developed transport networks that can be used as backhaul for community networks developers, to get Internet access to rural communities. Conversations with members of the Internet ecosystem often do not include the operators that are Continue reading
Are We Seeing SD-WAN Washing?
You may have seen a tweet from me last week referencing a news story that Fortinet was now in the SD-WAN market:
It came as a shock to me because Fortinet wasn’t even on my radar as an SD-WAN vendor. I knew they were doing brisk business in the firewall and security space, but SD-WAN? What does it really mean?
SD Boxes
Fortinet’s claim to be a player in the SD-WAN space brings the number of vendors doing SD-WAN to well over 50. That’s a lot of players. But how did the come out of left field to land a deal rumored to be over a million dollars for a space that they weren’t even really playing in six months ago?
Fortinet makes edge firewalls. They make decent edge firewalls. When I used to work for a VAR we used them quite a bit. We even used their smaller units as remote appliances to allow us to connect to remote networks and do managed maintenance services. At no time during that whole engagement Continue reading
Migration was Rough Buts It Complete – Blameless Blamestorming
The problems are behind us. Here is some self-abuse with a postmortem. As usual, RSS feeds fail to migrate cleanly.
IoT: The Operational View
The internet of things offers many potential benefits for a business, but companies need to consider deployment and management issues before taking the plunge.
Extreme Networks Stock Drops After Its Brocade, Avaya Acquisitions Disappoint in Revenues
Extreme had predicted the Brocade assets would generate over $230 million in annual revenue and that the Avaya assets would generate a minimum of $200 million in revenue in fiscal 2018.
Quality of Experience Is What Distinguishes SD-WAN Products, Says NSS Labs
Fortinet bragged today that it was the only vendor with security capabilities to receive an SD-WAN recommended rating in the first NSS Labs software-defined wide area networking test report.
VMware Acquires Dell EMC’s Service Assurance Suite to Boost 5G Support
The platform will be integrated into VMware's Telco NFV portfolio. This will add automated service assurance capabilities to support virtual network function deployments.
Mist, VMware VeloCloud Partner On WLAN And WAN Visibility
WLAN vendor Mist has announced a partnership with VMware’s VeloCloud SD-WAN solution, in which Mist can interoperate with VeloCloud to improve visibility into, and troubleshooting of, wireless and WAN performance. Mist provides a cloud-based wireless controller and administrative interface for its APs. This cloud controller can make API calls to VeloCloud’s controller to ingest WAN […]Microsoft- and Facebook-Led Cybersecurity Tech Accord Tackles Router Security
On the sidelines at Black Hat, a Microsoft exec said the Tech Accord is an example of how the company works with other technology vendors to advance security.