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GUEST OPINION: While the rapid advance of 5G communications delivers comprehensive benefits for communication service providers (CSPs), the new technology also presents challenges in security and cost.

Hobart-based Internet service provider TasmaNet has launched its eastern seaboard cloud node, based in Sydney, delivering “enhanced access” to its core private cloud platform.

ISG Provider Lens report says companies accelerated SDN deployments to increase network capacity and cloud-based resources for remote work, supply chain and logistics challenges

Data and analytics company GlobalData has issued a warning to Australian telcos that "software-defined networking, intense competition and price erosion" means data and IP market revenue is forecast to "decline at a CAGR of 1.3% from 2017 to 2022".

The successful demonstration of "the disaggregation of time-critical PON functions" means that "operators looking to quickly and cost-effectively deliver new 5G services are today a step closer to being able to do so", according to the Broadband Forum and NTT.

Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Nutanix has released three new products in areas as diverse as SDN, database management, and multi-cloud management.

You might be surprised to learn the part FPGAs are playing in Azure's hardware.

Big Switch Networks aims to bring velocity to data centres, explained vice-president of product management and chief product officer Prashant Gandhi, especially when it comes to security, provisioning and other traditionally highly manual tasks.

Software-defined networking has come into vogue because of the growth of the cloud and is one of the waves of the future, according to Olaf Kirch, vice-president of R&D at SUSE Linux.

Big Switch leads the way in software-defined networking (SDN), a disruptor to traditional networking as it has “abstracted” software (it decouples what the hardware has to do) from the hardware (switches, etc.).

Megaport, the company founded by high-profile serial entrepreneur Bevan Slattery, is to use its SDN-based elastic fabric interconnection solution to power Digital Realty’s Service Exchange, a solution designed to simplify global data centre and cloud interconnection.

Although the still unfinished 5G standard is all telcos want to talk about, AT&T says its LTE-A network will eventually hit speeds of 1Gbps.

Juniper Networks has celebrated 20 years in the network industry. It has come a long way since its original intention to was to build the fastest router.

Optus has released a new software-defined networking (SDN) solution it has dubbed Cloud-N.

It has been three decades since the global storage market’s last major transition from tape-based storage to disk-based storage. Now a similar shift is taking place from disk-based storage to flash-based storage and an interesting juncture is expected to play out over the next couple of years as disruptive technologies emerge and become established.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NEC have extended their their strategic alliance and will work together on SDN (software defined networking) development.

The agreement expands on a multi-year joint development in SDN, and extends the partnership ‘to deliver improved networking options to enterprise customers across key regions’

IoT is passe. The big thing today is SDN - or software defined networking - and Microsoft turned to Linux to enable it.

Brocade ‘Solutioneer’ Peter Moyer has more than 15 years’ experience with IP and MPLS networking. He has Cisco CCIE#3286 and Juniper JNCIE #2 certifications and can speak geek – most of the time.

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