Category: Technology
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Outstanding Sessions at 2013 Hot Interconnects Conference
Introduction: In its 21st year in Silicon Valley, the Hot Interconnects Conference addresses the state of the art and futre technologies used in Data-Center Networking. The high performance communications aspects are also of interest to the Supercomputing community. The 2013 Hot Interconnects Conference Program can be found here. We regret that we missed the first…
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Looking Ahead to the Wireless Future- Paul Jacobs at the CHM- Part II
Recap: Part I of this two-part article on Paul Jacobs’ talk at the Computer History Museum reviewed the history leading up to the CDMA standard and assessed where we are now in mobile communications. This second piece examines our wireless future and some of the research projects underway at Qualcomm. It also addresses the potential impact…
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Ciena and Research Network Partners Work to Make Carrier WAN-SDN Realizable
Introduction: Ciena has teamed up with three research networks to build the industry’s first SDN based carrier-WAN, which will be accessible “on demand” by researchers. The venerable optical network equipment company is working with CANARIE, Internet2 and StarLight on this intriguing research project. Canarie Inc. is Canada’s advanced research network Internet2 is a university consortium…
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Arash Afrakhteh on How to Create a Successful Network Software Company
In 1993, Arash Afrakhteh immigrated to the U.S. from Iran to work at Microsoft. He initially felt like “a kid in a candy store,” as a result of the stimulating intellectual environment, bright people, and excellent software tools at the software giant. Arash later worked at Apple, Broadbase Software and at Vertical Networks where he…
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Infonetics Survey: Network Operators reveal where they plan to first deploy SDN and NFV
Introduction: There’s been a lot of hype and even more uncertainty related to “Carrier SDN” and in particular the use of Open Flow protocol in carrier networks – between a centralized control plane entity and data plane entities residing in “packet forwarding” engines built from commodity silicon with minimal software intelligence. Many carriers are interested…
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A New Open Data Center Network: Disaggregating the Network Operating System from Switch/Router Gear
Introduction: SDN proponents cite the proprietary, closed and tightly integrated hardware/software architectures of switch/routers being an impediment towards achieving network agility, more efficient bandwidth utilization, and lower costs. That’s because those boxes are complex, aren’t generally inter-operable with other vendor gear, and are almost impossible to control using external software. With more intelligence built into…