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Networking A Way Into The Datacenter From The Outside In
Every startup has to be both flexible and focused, and it is tough to balance the two. …
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The Arc That Networks On-Prem, Multi-Cloud, And The Edge
We are in the midst of numerous foundational technological shifts in communications infrastructure that represents a generational opportunity for consumers, businesses, and providers alike. …
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Why There’s Hard, Cold Cash For Soft, Disaggregated Routing
No matter if you are talking about compute or networking, there are two opposing forces that are constantly at interplay on a field of green money. …
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The Tectonic Shift To Virtual Distributed Routing
In the IT sector, there is a constant flow of little changes to hardware and software that culminate in progress. …
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One Network Operating System To Rule Them All
Networks may not be the most expensive thing in the datacenter – they typically comprise about 10 percent to 15 percent of the cost of a distributed system, including cables, transceivers, switches, and routers – but they are without a doubt the most complex part of distributed systems. …
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The Substrate To Bind Datacenter Switching And Routing
The appliance model, where the hardware and software were tightly controlled by a single vendor, held sway in the datacenter for decades. …
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When Diverse Network ASICs Meet A Unifying Operating System
It has been two decades since Juniper Networks, then the big upstart rival to Cisco Systems and others as the dot-com boom was rising towards its crescendo several years hence, took FreeBSD Unix and turned it into a network operating system that spanned both routers and switches. …
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The Switch-Router War Is Over, And Hyperscalers Won
It is hard to say what will happen first: Switching and routing will merge, or an independent networking operating system that can do both will emerge. …
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Aspiring To Be The Windows, Not The Linux, Of Networks
Anyone operating at network at scale almost has to, by definition, hack together their own network operating system. …
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Why The World Needs Another Network Operating System
If the world doesn’t need another thing, one of those things that it doesn’t need is probably another switch operating system. …