Blueprint: NFV Needs to Get Back to (Virtual) Reality

by Pravin Mirchandani, CMO, OneAccess Calls for ‘plausible NFV’ amid a world of short-sighted proof-of-concepts NFV has been voraciously hyped and with good reason; there is much to get excited about. The potential benefits to operators and communication service providers (CSPs) of enabling a virtualized and service oriented network environment are vast: increased network flexibility, additional security, reductions in network OPEX/CAPEX, dynamic...

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Docker Releases Three Orchestration Services for Multi-Container Distributed Apps

Docker released alpha implementations of three orchestration services for multi-container distributed applications. The goal is to help developers and sysadmins to create and manage a new generation of portable distributed applications that are rapidly composed of discrete interoperable Docker containers that can scale to run in concert anywhere from the developer’s laptop to hundreds of hosts in the cloud. The three new orchestration services are: Docker...

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Cisco Hits Arista with Multiple Patent Lawsuit

Cisco filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Arista Networks, claiming that a dozen key switching features covered by 14 different U.S. patents held by Cisco were copied. In a blog post, Mark Chandler, General Counsel at Cisco, writes that none of these features are incorporated in industry standards andy were patented by individuals who worked for Cisco and are now at Arista, or who at Cisco worked with executives who are now at Arista....

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