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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 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 →

Executive Summary: ETSI’s Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Industry Specification Group (ISG) has successfully completed Phase 1 of its work with the publication of 11 ETSI Group Specifications. These specifications build on the first release of ISG documents published in October 2013 and include an infrastructure overview, an updated architectural framework, and descriptions of the compute,… Read more →

Huawei today showcased its software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Dusseldorf, Germany. At the event, Huawei discussed how industry partners can best utilize these technologies to further the development of the telecom industry, with specific focus on how its SoftCOM strategy will continue to… Read more →

There are so many flavors of “SDN” you can’t keep track of them.  The term “SDN” has come to ONLY mean “software control of a network.”   That could be anything and is a far cry from the original definition which included strict separation of the Control and Data planes, a “centralized controller” that computes paths… Read more →

Intel, Samsung and Dell have established the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC). The new consortium has pledged to develop and distribute specifications for the emerging Internet of Things.  It is competing with the AllSeen Alliance, which was founded by Qualcomm. The group, which also includes Atmel, Broadcom, and Wind River (owned by Intel), will focus on… Read more →