Cisco have announced that they have completed Viptela's acquisition, with a press-release that indicates this fits within their intent-based networking strategy announced last week. As predicted, the value of the…
RFC8200: IPv6 reaches official Standard milestone
The Deploy360 group within the Internet Society report that at IETF99 in Prague, Czech Republic, the IPv6 protocol has reached Standard status after RFC8200 was published on 17 July 2017.…
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…
AT&T buys Vyatta assets from Brocade
AT&T are buying from Brocade their Vyatta assets. Brocade's IP network assets are being split out and sold off as part of their impending sale to Broadcom . The Vyatta…
IOX cable links India and South Africa
IOX has started surveying a new route with Alcatel to link India and South Africa. IOX (Indian Ocean eXchange) will also connect the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues as waypoints on…
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…
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…
Uber Adopts IPv6, the Next-Gen Internet Protocol
Uber, the taxi company with no vehicles, has provided an interesting insight into their network infrastructure. Being a global company, they need to be accessible by those locations that are…