We had the pleasure of interviewing Brian at the OCP Summit in San Jose, this March. Hot off the press - Brian comments on Cumulus's joint announcement with Facebook & Edgecore about the release of Facebook open modular switch for data centers, describing its features and benefits in depth. Brian also tackles the question of how to solve the challenges of deploying on commodity hardware. Read article

I can clearly remember the day I lost complete perspective concerning my love of all things Wi-Fi. I was in the sitting room with my wife (who is a nurse) and I was explaining to her about a technique to increase data rates called Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM). To begin with she looked at me wide eyed in expectation at being wowed, very briefly, by yet another awesome technological advance.  15 minutes later she was literally snoring. The sad part was I kept on going.  Read article

Edgecore Networks announced the general availability of Cassini Open Packet Transponder at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month. So what is Cassini's application and what benefits does it offer?

Gone are the halcyon days when explaining a concept like the edge of a network could be accomplished in a sentence or two. It could be described as a controlled boundary between two networks, or the point at which traffic exits the core, or even simply the entry and exit points to the network. These explanations, while somewhat correct in their summary, are about as useful in describing the carrier’s edge or edge computing as an ashtray on a motorbike.  Read article

SDN’s rise to prominence has shown all the similarities of a butterfly’s metamorphosis in its fledgling years. The first stage being the egg. The seed of the idea of what might be. The second stage is the caterpillar, or the feeding stage, when early adopters like Facebook beavered away tirelessly to turn the idea into something tangible. The third stage, the pupa, or the transition stage has just ended with SDN moving into every facet of networks. Finally, the adult stage is upon us. SDN is now ready to spread its wings, take flight outside the Data Center and show the world its true colours.

The grim reaper is on the horizon for proprietary solutions with open networking the scythe that breaks the chains… Read article