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  • 2016 Open Networking Summit: Open Source Rules, But Are There Too Many Choices?

    2016 Open Networking Summit: Open Source Rules, But Are There Too Many Choices?

    Introduction: For its first few years, the Open Networking Summit (ONS) focused on pure SDN – strict separation of control and data planes, centralized SDN controller computing routes for hundreds of “packet forwarding engines” in its domain and OpenFlow as the southbound API/protocol used between control and data planes.  Overlay networks (a logical network mapped…

  • 2015 Hot Interconnects Summary Part II – Huawei, Brocade/Deep Machine Learning, SD-WAN

    2015 Hot Interconnects Summary Part II – Huawei, Brocade/Deep Machine Learning, SD-WAN

    Introduction: In this second of a multi-part series on the Hot Interconnects 2015 conference, held in Santa Clara, CA August 26-28, 2015, we cover: Huawei’s open source activities, Deep Machine Learning and its application to networking (from Brocade’s Research Dept), and Software Defined WANs (which is a much broader topic than SDN for WANs). The…

  • Dan Pitt:  How ONF is Accelerating the Open Software Defined Networking (SDN) Movement

    Dan Pitt: How ONF is Accelerating the Open Software Defined Networking (SDN) Movement

    Introduction: With so many “SDN” announcements that use proprietary specifications or functionality (e.g. AT&T Netbond and Network on Demand; Cisco,Arista Networks, etc.) many panelists/observers at last week’s Open Networking Summit (ONS) said that “Open is the new Closed” or Open is the new word for Proprietary.” To get to the straight skinny of whether open networking…

  • Value Added Business Services Drive New Revenue

    Value Added Business Services Drive New Revenue

    Perhaps data center was the wrong term to use in describing the event Viodi is producing in conjunction with ITS Fiber this week in Florida. It is almost impossible for an independent operator to compete with large, data centers that are essentially real estate plays backed by entities with deep pockets. The point of our…

  • Viodi View – 1/30/15

    Viodi View – 1/30/15

    FCC AWS-3 Auction Ends; Raises Record $44.9 Billion! by Alan Weissberger The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has just closed its auction of AWS-3 wireless spectrum licenses, raising a record $44.9 billion in the process. The Wall Street Journal reports that this is the largest amount of money the FCC has ever collected from a spectrum auction, and is more…

  • Defining a New Global Network

    Defining a New Global Network

    [Editor’s Note: The following blog post, originally published on the Metaswitch Networks Blog, provides a glimpse of what Mr. Gleave will be discussing at the event Viodi is producing with ITS Fiber. ITS Fiber is an independent operator that made the transition from copper-based rural telco to one that provides business services via an all-underground fiber network that connects to…