SDN doesn’t make cloud applications, it makes them work better
SDN has progressed so far over the last couple of years that customers are no longer asking ‘what?’ but ‘how?’, says Sunil Khandekar, CEO and founder of Nuage Networks. He tells Martyn Warwick that...
View ArticleSDN/NFV: more a business shift than a technology change-out
Moving to a software environment is the biggy, Andrew Coward, VP Service Provider Strategy at Brocade tells Martyn Warwick. People used to buy compute and storage and then confugure them. Now they buy...
View ArticleSDN on Steriods
That’s the thing that Spark Integration Technologies brings to the table according to its CEO, Jay Friedman. He tells Martyn Warwick that it aims to provide a simplified model of SDN - which is...
View ArticleOpenDaylight: creating a common substrate for networking
The big challenge to automation (which is the goal of SDN) is that the cost of fragmentation goes up exponentially as control is centralised, explains Neela Jacques, executive director of...
View ArticlePertino: building networks in the cloud
John Dilliinger famously robbed banks “because that’s where the money is,” and in slightly less dramatic fashion, Craig Elliot, CEO and co-founder of Pertino, tells Martyn Warwick the logical place to...
View ArticleSlight problem: the hardware doesn’t work!
Not at the level SPs would like it to work, says Bruce Gregory, CEO of CORSA, which produces disruptive enabling hardware (and software) for the data plane. According to Bruce, service providers are...
View ArticleNo more holding back telecoms
Mitch Auster, senior director, market development at Ciena, can see SDN opening up the network for innovation and creativity - the more, the better. He tells Martyn Warwick that the industry has seen...
View ArticleSDN is beautiful, but try setting it to work in a big, dirty, living network
Carl Moberg, VP of technology at Tail-F says there’s been a power re-balance between vendors and carriers, rather than a binary change and the technology change difficult as well. “It’s one thing to...
View ArticleCyan: sitting between SDN and NFV
Recep Ozdag, Director, SDN/NFV Solutions Marketing at Cyan says his company sits where SDN and NFV come together. Cyan provisions services with NFV and operationalises them with SDN. As regards open...
View ArticleThe difference? Actual code is being developed
Inder Gopal, VP, Systems Networking Development at IBM tells Martyn Warwick that SDN is a fundamentally new new way of looking at networking. Control and data plane separation is not new - the idea...
View ArticleThe open movement reworks the networking industry
Sarwar Raza, director of Cloud Networking and SDN, Advanced Technology Group, HP Networking, tells Martyn Warwick how HP has been at the forefront of SDN and OpenFlow developments. Sarwar says it’s...
View ArticleThe genesis of SDN
Martin Casado, CTO of Networking at VMware and one of the fathers of SDN, tells Martyn Warwick about the culture shock he experienced with networking and the subsequent development of SDN. “In...
View ArticleCollaboration is key
Rajeev Nagar, principal group manager, operating systems group, Microsoft, is an enthusiastic advocate for industry collaboration and the culture of experimentation that tends to go with it. He...
View ArticleBetting the farm on a ‘white box’ operating system
Steve Garrison, VP of marketing at Pica8, a network operating system company, tells Martyn Warwick that his company is betting the farm that the market will want to buy its hardware and software...
View ArticleSimulation platform for OpenFlow switches
Mingshou Liu, president and CEO of four-year-old Taiwanese SDN specialist, EstiNet, talks to Martyn Warwick about the necessity of simulating and emulating OpenFlow networks under SDN. Like any new...
View ArticleConteXtream already doing massive SDN production deployments
Sharon Barkai, co-founder of ConteXtream, tells Martyn Warwick that his company is already mapping millions of subscriber flows to functions based on conditions. The goal, he says, is to inject...
View ArticleOpen to ideas: TelecomTV airs some 'alternative' approaches at ONS
The Open Networking Summit (ONS) held in Silicon Valley, is a great venue for big vendor and start-up alike. SDN and NFV may be about moving the industry to a new common architecture but at this stage...
View ArticleThe genesis of SDN
Martin Casado, CTO of Networking at VMware and one of the fathers of SDN, tells Martyn Warwick about the culture shock he experienced with networking and the subsequent development of SDN. “In compute,...
View ArticleCollaboration is key
Rajeev Nagar, principal group manager, operating systems group, Microsoft, is an enthusiastic advocate for industry collaboration and the culture of experimentation that tends to go with it. He...
View ArticleBetting the farm on a ‘white box’ operating system
Steve Garrison, VP of marketing at Pica8, a network operating system company, tells Martyn Warwick that his company is betting the farm that the market will want to buy its hardware and software...
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