Blueprint: 5G and the Need For SDN Flow Optimization

by Scott Sumner, VP Solutions Development and Marketing, Accedian Networks As more subscribers run bandwidth-intensive applications from a variety of devices, mobile access networks are increasingly strained to maintain quality. According to Ericsson, annual mobile traffic throughput is predicted to increase from 58 exabytes in 2013 to roughly 335 exabytes by 2020. It’s clear that brute-force bandwidth over-provisioning is no longer an economically...

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By open, we mean not controlled by a single party, says Dan Pitt

Customers love open... but "open" has many different flavors and varieties, says Dan Pitt, Executive Director of the Open Networking Foundation. "We've been strong advocates of open SDN for a long time. " "By open, we mean not just published, but not controlled by a single party. It is good that people are opening up and publishing. There are open standards, open specifications, and open interfaces.  It is important that they be community...

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Everything that can be virtualized will be virtualized, says @Infinera's Stuart Elby

Open networking brings experts from across the industry together to focus on common problems, says Stuart Elby, SVP, Data Center  Business Group at Infinera.  This leads to faster time-to-market, more use cases, and more security, as more eyes can look out for vulnerabilities. Disruptive innovations first occur through proprietary solutions but are later subsumed by the open source community.  We are on the verge of seeing that for...

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In Memorium: Ralph Roberts, founder of Comcast, 1920-2015

Comcast mourned the passing of its Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Ralph J. Roberts, who died of natural causes at age 95. Ralph Roberts founded Comcast in 1963 with the purchase of a 1,200-subscriber cable system in Tupelo, Mississippi.  Over the following decades, he grew the company from its humble roots as a small, regional cable company into the global Fortune 50 media and technology leader. The company went public in 1972. In addition...

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