Displaying items by tag: software defined networking

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.

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.).

Open networks will enable businesses to deploy switching hardware up to 90% cheaper and four to 10 times faster, it is claimed.

A survey of corporations and open source professionals shows that companies are experiencing an increased demand for employees with skills in open source software.

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.

Telstra has launched its first software-defined networking products for Australian customers, developed with Cisco, that lets businesses instantly deploy and configure services over Telstra’s networks.

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.

Large data centres operated by telcos and service providers can now take advantage of NEC’s latest SDN-compatible switches.

There’s new optics around Telstra’s PEN SDN platform: it’s going optical layer to enable high-bandwidth provisioning up to 100G with automated global POP fault restoration.

F5 Networks is one of many companies attending the 2014 Gartner Symposium and ITxpo at the Gold Coast, and we had a chat with Matt Miller, F5’s Director of Field Systems Engineering Australia/NZ about his presentation, the BFSI industry and more!

Systems vendor HP has announced ‘a new wave of open, software defined networking’ including what it says is the industry’s first SDN app store.

Retail giant Woolworths provides a glimpse of its IT transformation and its technology roadmap for the coming years.

HP has announced a raft of products and services aimed at helping its customers move to what the company calls the 'New Style of IT' driven by big data, cloud, mobility, and security. That contrasts with the position of most vendors and analysts who think the 'S Factor' is social rather than security.

Oracle has joined the OpenDaylight software defined networking project and plans to integrate OpenDaylight SDN with Solaris 11.2.

Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled new software defined networking (SDN) technology that, it says, will overcome the limitations of today's networking technologies in highly virtualised data centre environments.

Software defined networking (SDN) all the rage, but most of the buzz has been around its application in data centres. Ericsson is promoting the concept to increase the efficiency of service providers' networks and is promising to release its first telco SDN application - developed with Telstra - later this year.

iTWire spoke to Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation - an 18 month old organisation founded by by, amongst others, Google, Facebook and Microsoft that is leading the charge towards software defined networks.