At CiscoLive 2017 in Las Vegas, the ENCS platform gained a new four core box. The ENCS5104 is now appearing on the Cisco website in the form of an updated…
MEF focuses on SD-WAN with LSO and OpenCS
The old Metro Ethernet Forum (now simply MEF) issued a press release to cover a focus on SD-WAN. This covers three areas: Service Implementations using the MEF frameworks Market Education…
Seabras-1 cable final splice milestone
A new cable between New York, New York, USA and Sao Paulo, Brazil, is almost ready. The SeaBras-1 cable has completed its final splice milestone, with the sub-sea elements completed…
Mellanox launches Spectrum2 switch for 400Gb/s future
Mellanox has launched a new ethernet switch chipset family. Spectrum 2 is an open switch platform with capabilities of 200Gb/s and 400Gb/s per port. As well as high-speed, Mellanox are…
Arista suspends US imports in Cisco patent dispute
Arista have filed with the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) in the US that they are suspending imports into the US. This is to comply with a ruling made earlier…
PicoCluster create ARM NFV platform in a box
PicoCluster is known for making ARM clusters, with a selection of Raspberry Pi, oDroid or Pine64 platforms, switches and connections to the outside world in an acrylic cube. They recently…
Aquantia deliver workstation mGig (Multi-Gigabit Ethernet)
As part of the roll-out of mGig (IEEE 802.11bz), Aquantia have launched network interface cards for the workstation market. These offer 2.5Gb/s and 5Gb/s connections using existing cables. (See Multi-Gigabit…
Aryaka State of the WAN Report 2017
Aryaka released their State of the WAN report for 2017 today. This is a report that uses data gathered from over 5000 locations in 63 countries, and reports on the…