An Update from the Open Networking Foundation

Click here to view video:  http://youtu.be/uO9zYdNFGXE In this interview, Dan Pitt, Executive Director of the Open Networking Foundation, provides a progress report, including: 1:00 - Technical Objectives for ONF in the coming year 2:33 - Adapting OpenFlow for OA&M 3:07 - A new working group for Optical Transport 3:41 - Addressing OpenFlow security 4:10 - Commercial deployments 5:22 - Strengthening the hardware supply chain 6:18 -...

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Rackspace Plans Largest OpenStack-based Public Cloud

Rackspace announced plans to build and run a linked global cloud network for large service providers. The Rackspace public cloud aims to be the largest OpenStack-based public cloud in the world.  It will served as a networked cloud of clouds through which service providers are linked together. Rackspace's model will be to recruit service providers who build and operate physical data centers. The Rackspace public cloud will be deployed in...

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Dish Bids $25.5 Billion for Sprint, Countering Softbank's Offer

DISH Network announced a $25.5 billion offer to acquire Sprint Nextel -- a deal they say is a superior value to Sprint shareholders, including greater ownership in a combined company that is better positioned for the future with more spectrum, products, subscribers, financial scale and new opportunities. The DISH offer consists of $17.3 billion in cash and $8.2 billion in stock. Sprint shareholders would receive $7.00 per share, based upon DISH’s...

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Dell Delivers SDN-Enabled Fabric Solutions

Dell Networking introduced a new Active Fabric for SDN, new Active Fabric Manager software and a new S5000 modular LAN/SAN switching platform. Dell Active Fabric is a flat, fast, any-to-any multipath network architecture.  The new management component uses design wizards to help users set-up and manage non-blocking, high-performance Active Fabrics for handling predominantly east-west, traffic-intensive workloads in virtualized data centers...

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Netronome and Metaswitch Develop SDN OpenFlow Gateways

Netronome and Metaswitch disclosed the details of a unique architecture for OpenFlow gateways based on Netronome network flow processing technology and Metaswitch’s SDN-enabled control plane software. The companies are hosting a demonstration at this week's Open Networking Summit (ONS) in Santa Clara, California, showing OpenFlow for controling network gateways between an MPLS backbone network and two IP networks. Each gateway uses Netronome’s...

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Genachowski to become Senior Fellow at Aspen Institute

Julius Genachowski has accepted a senior fellowship at the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program upon his resignation from the FCC in the coming weeks. The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program addresses the societal impact of communications and information technologies, and provides a multi-disciplinary venue for considered...

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AppliedMicro Sells TPACK Subsidiary to Altera

Altera agreed to acquire AppliedMicro's TPACK A/S aubsidiary for an undisclosed sum.  TPACK, which is based in Copenhagen Denmark, develops FPGA-based OTN (optical transport network) products targeting packet and optical networking equipment suppliers. AppliedMicro will retain license rights to TPACK technology following the divestiture. Altera and AppliedMicro will also undertake joint development and marketing of optimized solutions for...

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Cyan Appoints CMO

Cyan named Joe Cumello as its chief marketing officer (CMO) to oversee all aspects of the company’s global marketing efforts. Cumello was most recently vice president of marketing at Sidera Networks, a major provider of fiber-­‐based communications services to large enterprises, data centers, and carriers. Prior to Sidera, Cumello was vice president of marketing at SafeNet, a global provider of data protection solutions, and a senior director...

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Pluribus Collaborates with Red Hat on OpenStack-Based Network Virtualization

Pluribus Networks, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, is working with Red Hat to build orchestration and management capabilities in its Pluribus Netvisor Fabric-based network infrastructure using Red Hat OpenStack software. The Pluribus Networks network hypervisor provides network service-level abstractions for large-scale, multi-tenancy by using distributed Fabric intelligence. This offloads the orchestration platform from managing individual...

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NETGEAR Expects Q1 Revenue of $290-295 Million

NETGEAR expects its Q1 revenue to be in the range of $290 million to $295 million, which is an update to the previously estimated range, of $290 million to $305 million provided on February 12, 2013. GAAP operating margin for the first quarter to be in the range of 7.5% to 8%, and GAAP earnings per diluted share are expected to be between $0.35 and $0.39. "During the first quarter, we experienced difficulty in the transitioning of our ReadyNAS line,...

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