#ONS2015 - A Look Inside Google's Data Center Network

Networking is at an inflection point in driving next-gen computing architecture, said Amin Vahdat, Senior Fellow and Technical Lead for Networking at Google, in a keynote address at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, California. Creating great computers will largely be determined by the network. In constructing its "Jupiter" fifth-generation data centers, Google is essentially the bandwidth equivalent of the Internet under one roof. Some...

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#ONS2015 - Microsoft Azure Puts SDN at Center of its Hyperscale Cloud

To handle its hyperscale growth, Microsoft Azure must integrate the latest compute and storage technologies into a truly software-defined infrastructure, said Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure in a keynote presentation at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, California. The talk covered how Microsoft is building its hyperscale SDN, including its own scalable controllers and hardware-accelerated hosts.  Microsoft...

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#ONS2015: AT&T Envisions its Future as a Software Company

Over the new few years, AT&T plans to virtualize and control more than 75% of its network functions via its new Domain 2.0 infrastructure.  The first 5% will be complete by the end of this year, laying the foundation for an accelerated rollout in 2016. In a keynote at the Open Networking Summit 2015 in Santa Clara entitled "AT&T's Case for a Software-Centric Network", John Donovan provided an update on the company's Domain 2.0 campaign,...

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Blueprint: Open Standards Do Not Have to Be Open Source

by Frank Yue, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, F5 Networks Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is driving much of the innovation and work within the service provider community. The concept of bringing the benefits of cloud-like technologies is driving service providers to radically alter how they architect and manage the services they deliver through their networks. Different components from different vendors based on different technologies...

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Cisco's David Ward on Open Source Development

Open networking can only evolve with the support of a community of developers, says David Ward, CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect of Cisco. But you can't just launch a developer community, you have to build it. Open Source communities have now emerged. Cisco is working on many open networking fronts, including OpenDaylight, OPNFV, ONOS and OpenStack.  In this video, Ward also highlights NETCONf and YANG, two standards seen as keys for...

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Nuage's Houman Modarres on the Value of Open

The move toward open networks in unstoppable, says Houman Modarres, VP of Marketing at Nuage Networks. The attraction of open networks is undeniable. Who would want a stiff, inflexible, vertically-integrated solution, when the Internet has already shown that creativity coming from different parts of the user community and application ecosystem is the right answer. The crux is this:  with freedom of choice comes complexity.  Nuage, a business...

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Intel's John Healy on the End Goal of Open

The end goal of open networking is to have a scalable infrastructure that is also lower cost to manage, says John Healy, General Manager of the SDN Division at Intel. Open means more open in terms of standards and vendors. It also means being capable of working with the open source community. http://open.convergedigest.com/2015/04/intels-john-healy-on-evolution-of-open.h...

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Novatel Wireless to Acquire DigiCore for M2M and Telematics

Novatel Wireless agreed to acquire DigiCore, a provider of advanced machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and telematics solutions based in South Africa, for approximately US$87 million. The companies have been working together to commercialize a comprehensive end-to-end global service Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. This combines Novatel Wireless' hardware with DigiCore's Ctrack, a global telematics SaaS offering for the fleet management,...

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Dell to Resell NEC's SDN ProgrammableFlow Controller

NEC and Dell announced a new distribution agreement that will allow Dell to resell the NEC ProgrammableFlow Controller Software as one of the software options sold with Dell’s networking hardware. Dell’s S4810, S4820, S5000 and S6000 series of switches running Dell OS9 have been verified compatible with the NEC ProgrammableFlow Controller version 6, with additional validation of Dell switches planned. “Unlocking the network from the tight coupling...

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Wind River Opens App Store for VxWorks RTOS

Wind River is opening an app store for its VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS). Wind River Marketplace helps customers find and evaluate best-of-breed add-on solutions from the Wind River partner ecosystem in order to enhance their VxWorks deployment. The apps in the store are tested and validated by Wind River for seamless interoperability with VxWorks.  Target categories range from safety, security, and storage to connectivity, graphics,...

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