US To Relinquish ICANN Oversight
The loss of US supervision could open the door to authoritarian governments censoring parts of the Internet.
The loss of US supervision could open the door to authoritarian governments censoring parts of the Internet.
Five years after the SDN hype exploded, it remains as meaningless as Cloud, and it seems that all we’re left with is a plethora of vendors engaged in SDN-washing their products.
Even when a group of highly intelligent engineers considering these topics on a daily basis gets together they don’t get very far apart from a great question: “what business problem is it supposed to solve?” (or maybe they got distracted by irrelevant hot-air opinions).
Is it still worth trying to find a useful definition of SDN? It seems it’s easier to list what SDN is not like I’ll be doing in the free Introduction to SDN webinar on February 10th. Let’s see:
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And one of them involves Arista's prized SysDB.
Riverbed is buying the German startup Ocedo, which makes hybrid WAN gateways, to get an SD-WAN product to market this March. Riverbed will also release internally developed SD-WAN appliances later this year.
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Riverbed is buying the German startup Ocedo, which makes hybrid WAN gateways, to get an SD-WAN product to market this March. Riverbed will also release internally developed SD-WAN appliances later this year.
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Someone has to watch those network overlays.
It's tough times on Tasman Drive. Struggling to apply old technology to the new world of cloud computing, Cisco is potentially facing the largest loss of data center market share in its history. We can understand why Cisco would take the battle from the marketplace to the courtroom. What surprises us is the length that Cisco has gone to misrepresent our actions and the nature of the litigation in order to justify their assault.
Google (Alphabet) saw a strong Q4.
On today's Network Break we dig into Arista's antitrust lawsuit against Cisco, debate about chat use and abuse, evaluate security advice from the NSA, diagnose Wall Street's Apple freakout, and more!
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On today's Network Break we dig into Arista's antitrust lawsuit against Cisco, debate about chat use and abuse, evaluate security advice from the NSA, diagnose Wall Street's Apple freakout, and more!
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In this featured NetCracker article, a light is shone on the standards and protocols network operators must undertake to deliver new virtualized services.