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…
OpenContrail becomes Tungsten Fabric
The Linux Foundation has recently obtained the OpenContrail source from Juniper. Having fully transitioned OpenContrail into the Linux Foundation, it is now rebranded as Tungsten Fabric. This move may appear…
Dropbox deploys IPv6 at the edge
Dropbox's blog has a post from Haowei Yuan and colleagues, about engineering the Dropbox network to support IPv6 at the edge. Dropbox is serving about 15% of their requests via…
BT enhances Dynamic Network Services with Cisco ENCS
A short while ago, we posted about BT's Dynamic Network Services plans. BT has now taken the next step, launching the Cisco ENCS platform as the delivery point for its Connect Services…
Extreme buys Brocade data centre switching assets direct
Extreme has announced that they have closed a deal direct with Brocade , rather than wait for the Broadcom acquisition. (Extreme Networks Completes Acquisition of Brocade's Data Center Networking Business). This…
Product Announcement: Cisco ISR 1000 router
Cisco have launched a new entry point ISR router. This is the Cisco ISR 1000 series, intended as the new entry point for SME connection into the corporate network. It…
There’s a problem with IPv6 route lookup speed in Linux
The challenge The great thing about IPv6 is its larger IP address space, but this is also its weakness. That larger IP address space needs routing, potentially creating larger routing…
SDxCentral: Physical SD-WAN appliances aren’t going anywhere
SDxCentral has a piece on the current state of SD-WAN appliances. It distinguishes the three different forms SD-WAN can take (or at least for the purposes of their article). They…