Press Release: Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, UK. 1st June 2018 The writer of the CoherentLight blog, John S. Dixon, has founded a company to provide access to high-quality relevant knowledge…
Telefonica expands Nuage solution with SDN for data centers
Spain's Telefonica Espana has selected Nokia's Nuage Networks to provide the SDN infrastructure for datacenter modernisation programme. This adds to the current SD-WAN deployment they made in 2017. (Nokia's Nuage…
RFC8367: Wrongful Termination of IP Packets
In a continuation of the serious consideration our standards bodies place on keeping the Internet relevant to society, today the IETF has issued RFC8267. IP packets are often terminated by…
Data Responsibility: Treat your data like your daughter..
IBM has published in their policy blog, a piece about Data Responsibility. In this, they seek to address the questions about data in the cloud age. First, a personal note. We…
Brocade and Broadcom delay merger until November 30
A year to the date of the original merger announcement Broadcom to buy Brocade for $5.9bn, both Brocade and Broadcom have announced a delay in their merger. The Committee on Foreign…
ArsTechnica: AT&T absurdly claims legitimate net neutrality comments favour repeal
Unlike Europe, where Net Neutrality is defined and enshrined, America is different. ArsTechnica have an article on their web-site that covers the mess that the FCC have gotten into with…
Cisco’s intentions now clearer – intent-based networking
A blog entry by Chuck Robbins clarifies Cisco's intentions for the future. They want to deliver intent-based networking to make the lives of network engineers simpler. Intent-based networking has been…
SD-WAN: What are the business benefits?
What are the business benefits of SD-WAN deployment? SD-WAN stands for a Software-Defined Wide Area Network. It simplifies network management. It reduces the cost of the network infrastructure. It provides…