March 2018

HPE Aruba Atmosphere Keynote Summary

There were 3,100 attendees at the Atmosphere show in Las Vegas, most of which appeared in attendance at the keynote.  Artificial Intelligence and Cloud were the main topics.  Specifically new for the show:  cloud-managed SD-WAN, NetInsight, ArubaEdge Partner program, Cape Networks acquisition.  Cloud-managed SD-WAN – June/July ’18 availability (dynamic path… Read More »HPE Aruba Atmosphere Keynote Summary

OCP Summit 2018 – Disaggregation Theme Dominates

The OCP Summit 2018 hit record attendance and we can can summarize the theme as that of continued disaggregation of network/server functions.  Examples of demonstrations, presentations and proposals associated with disaggregation are as follows: Flash/SSD.  Project Denali was presented by Microsoft.  The idea is it separates SSD controller functions from… Read More »OCP Summit 2018 – Disaggregation Theme Dominates

OFC 2018 Theme: 400 Gbps

We attended the #OFC18 show and found the major theme to be the emergence of 400 Gbps modules.  The next most noteworthy theme, we though, was that made by a single company, Nokia, which made its PSE-3 engine announcement.  Juniper also caused a buzz with the introduction of its ACX6360… Read More »OFC 2018 Theme: 400 Gbps