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I wrote about Forward Networks when they came out of stealth late last year. They’re on the forefront of the intent-based networking wave, using formal verification of a network in real time to model every possible location a packet can go on the network.
At launch, they had built search, verification, and predication tools. They just announced a new offering called Essentials to basically offer their search functionality in a freemium model.
Cumulus Networks is switching up their software only model with Cumulus Express. This is the first time the company is selling hardware pre-loaded with their software. It’s an interesting approach. The company has taken pains to show that they are not trying to compete with their own customers. Drew Conry-Murray spoke with their CEO, Josh Leslie, said that they are not trying to get into the hardware business, and that their existing relationships with equipment makers are strong.
Sometimes when looking at new enterprise IT products, it’s important to remember how we derive meaning from words. If we look back to the work of Ferdinand de Saussure, we of course know that the spoken or written word, the actual word itself, is a signifier. That is to say, it points toward something. What […]
Tom and I were briefed by Aporeto about Trireme as well. It’s a great approach to transient networking, which is exactly what happens in active container environments. Here’s Drew’s take on the announcement… A new open source project called Trireme aims to simplify security for containers and Kubernetes. The software, developed by the startup Aporeto, […]
Drew Conry-Murray of Packet Pushers comments: The torrid growth projected for the SD-WAN market means that a ridiculous number of competitors will be able to sustain themselves for a long time. There’s a lot of money pouring into SD-WAN right now. That means lots of long runways and starry-eyed exit strategies. It will be interesting to […]
Drew Conry-Murray of Packet Pushers comments: Verizon has announced the production deployment of an OpenStack-based infrastructure platform for network functions virtualization (NFV) offerings. The provider took pains to clarify that the announcement is just about the infrastructure that will run virtualized network functions; it’s not about the functions themselves. The NFV part of that story has yet […]
Drew Conry-Murray of Packet Pushers writes: If you’ve read up on any of the vendors in the SD-WAN market, you already know the value proposition: speed the provisioning of branch office connectivity; send traffic across multiple links, including MPLS and broadband; and use application ID and traffic manipulation to enable path selection based on criteria […]
This is post 8 of 8 in the series “ONUG Fall 2015 Tech Talks” The SD-WAN market reminds me of the current Republican primary. Not because SD-WANs have an ideology, but because unique forces are sustaining the political and technological battles for mind share and market share. An extraordinary number of Republican contenders are contesting […]
This is post 1 of 8 in the series “ONUG Fall 2015 Tech Talks” Open networking gets a lot of attention in the tech press because it follows a compelling narrative: a scrappy band of innovators joins together to break the unrelenting grip that a Death Star-sized incumbent has on the market. Never mind that […]
Drew Conry-Murray of Packet Pushers writes: Software has taken a front seat in discussions about networking. While hardware still matters, it’s software that provides operational flexibility and automation, and enables the network to better serve (or at least not get in the way of) applications and developers. At Network Field Day 10 I had the opportunity […]
