Making sense of SDN in the WAN: A multitude of vendors and approaches vying for a piece of the action

As communications service providers (CSPs) refashion their networks and operations processes for the cloud era, software defined networking (SDN) has been somewhat overshadowed by its complementary technology, network functions virtualisation

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Is it time for the second coming of systems integrators?

I recently sat through seven hours of discussion on the state of play with SDN and NFV and I came away with a dramatically different attitude. Software defined and managed

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From networked VR and AR to mature SDN, Brocade has some bold expectations of the year ahead

As the saying goes, “it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.”And yet, around this time of year, says Benson Schliesser of Brocade, it has become a ritual

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IBM joins Zero Outage Industry Standard association on ‘long journey towards stable telecoms, IT and IoT’

The Zero Outage Industry Standard association announced that IBM has joined the association as a founding member to provide a common framework for IT-Quality with a focus on platforms, people,

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ZTE Microware solution passes Open Networking Foundation’s wireless backhaul SDN test

ZTE Corporation, an international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, reported that its NR8000 Microware solution has passed a proof of concept (PoC) test

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DPI – Evolve or Die

Deep flow inspection should be a driver for monetisation…not a dead investment. So says Fergus Wills, director of Product Management at Openwave Mobility.

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Pushing through Glass Ceilings at the SDN World Congress 2016

In Gartner’s hype cycle, there is an inevitable time of disillusionment that follows the initial excitement of a new technology. At the SDN World Congress this feels different: although we

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