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2017 Open Networking Summit Best of Show Awards
We covered the 2017 ONS noting that ONAP “stole the show.” Indeed, it was voted “most buzzed about project” as per press release below. 2017 was the first time ONS included Best of Show awards. Finalists for each award were selected by a panel of industry experts and analysts, and conference attendees then voted by… Read more
Open Network Summit: ONAP Steals the Show with Broad Support
During a Tuesday morning “disruptive collaboration” keynote at the Open Network Summit (ONS), John Donovan, Chief Strategy Officer at AT&T, revealed that the company had “software defined” 34% of its network by the end of 2016, which exceeded its goal of 30%. This year’s goal of 55% network virtualization (via an overlay network*) will be a… Read more
AT&T network uses open ROADM technology on 100 Gbps optical wavelength
AT&T says it has implemented a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer to deliver a 100 gigabits-per-second optical wavelength on a production network. The deployment, said to be a first with multi-vendor interoperability, was in the Dallas, TX area. AT&Ts new network provided the connection of two IP multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) routers with transponders and ROADMs from… Read more
IHS: Sales of Branded Bare Metal Switches Hit $23 Million in 1st Half of 2016
By Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., senior research director, data center, cloud and SDN, IHS Markit Highlights: Open networking using branded bare metal switching continues to make steady progress in the enterprise, with revenue growing 125 percent in the first half of 2016 (H1 2016) from the second half of 2015 (H2 2015) Dell launched the branded… Read more
2016 OCP Summit Solidifies Mega Trend to Open Hardware & Software in Mega Data Centers
The highlight of the 2016 Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit, held March 9-10, 2016 at the San Jose Convention Center, was Google’s unexpected announcement that it had joined OCP and was contributing “a new rack specification that includes 48V power distribution and a new form factor to allow OCP racks to fit into our data centers,”… Read more
My perspective on ONS 2015, SDN & Open Networking
The 2015 Open Networking Summit (ONS) was hosted on June 14th to June 18th in Silicon Valley. It featured a rich set of speakers, open networking panels and a wide audience base comprised of network service providers, network hardware and software vendors, web giants and the academia. ONS 2015 was the first of the fifth… Read more
Highlights of 2015 Open Network Summit (ONS) & Key Take-Aways
Executive Summary: There were many significant announcements at this year’s Open Networking Summit (ONS), held June 15-18, 2015 in Santa Clara, CA. Unlike in past year’s conferences, there were no vendor sales pitches or infommercials. That was certainly refreshing! However, ONS continues to focus on “pure SDN” (as per the ONF definition) vs. various other SDN… Read more
Open Networking/SDN Reference Models + Bare Metal Switches increase market share in Data Centers
Introduction: “Open networking, which leverages open source software and open hardware designs and allows anyone to innovate, is set to change networking, just as open source changed the server and OS marketplace,” said Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., research director for data center, cloud and Software Defined Networking (SDN) at IHS. “This move to open networking is… Read more
New ETSI Group on millimetre Wave Transmission (ISG mWT)
ETSI’s recently announced Industry Specification Group on millimetre Wave Transmission (ISG mWT) held its first meeting at ETSI on 14-15 January 2015 and immediately commenced work developing a set of five specifications. At this meeting Mr. Renato Lombardi of Huawei Technologies was elected as the chairman of the Industry Specification Group while Mr. Nader Zei… Read more
Infonetics: 25GE & 50GE to transform Data Center network architectures; 2 SDN models to converge
Infonetics Research, now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), today released excerpts from its 3Q14 Data Center Network Equipment report, which tracks data center Ethernet switches, Ethernet switches sold in bundles, application delivery controllers (ADCs) and WAN optimization products. 3Q14 DATA CENTER MARKET HIGHLIGHTS:. The global data center Ethernet switch market put in a good showing… Read more