Networking over the past two decades has mostly been about raw connectivity. Rarely have applications been tuned and optimized to truly take advantage of the network. People have been talking about this vision for years but few have gone much beyond just talking. The reason is...
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Application Based Cloud Networking – The Next Frontier
March 27th, 2012The Fabric Hype Versus Cloud Networking Simplicity
January 31st, 2012
As we enter 2012, the networking industry faces much need for a return to focusing on simplicity and standards amidst the confusion created by proprietary vendor-specific architectures. Cisco waxes eloquent about scaling large data center networks with “FabricPath”. Junip...
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Cloud Networking Reflections
December 14th, 2011
Every year I like to reflect on my previous years predictions and look at how well they mapped to what actually happened. Once again, that time has come – so let’s take a walk down the 2011 memory lane to judge how I fared!
Prediction #1:
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The Role of 10GBASE-T and 40GbE in Cloud Networking
November 15th, 2011
10GbE continues to make strides into data centers. The massive data explosion triggered by bandwidth-heavy content such as video, high-resolution images and multimedia has placed pressure on the data transfer rate capability of cloud networks. Faster networks, denser storage ...
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