Global communications networks are changing dramatically. High-speed mobile access and cloud services are driving massive bandwidth demand from users. Virtualization is changing the network, with application servers and many of the network functions themselves hosted in large data centers. Hyperscale data center operators and service providers are … read more
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Reports
Terabit Switch Chips & Software for SDN & the White Box Era
January 2017
The industry is moving to cloud-based services with virtual functions implemented on servers in data centers. These virtualized solutions … read more
Multicore Processors Driving Network Virtualization: A Competitive Analysis
December 2016
Multicore processors are at the heart of the revolution in the world’s communications infrastructure, enabling virtualized network functions … read more
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White Papers
Next-Generation Platforms for Telecom Cloud Services
Wednesday, 18 March 2015Sponsors: Advantech
Telecom services are shifting to a cloud infrastructure, in which new services can be rapidly provisioned by deploying virtual network … read more
Platforms for Accelerating the Virtual Infrastructure
Tuesday, 2 September 2014Sponsors: Advantech
Network infrastructures are shifting from physical systems to virtual functions, and this requires a new class of network appliance that … read more
Webinars
P4 Runtime: Putting the Control Plane in Charge of the Forwarding Plane
3rd October 2017, 12:00 p.m. New York / 5:00 p.m. LondonSponsors: Barefoot Networks
SDN ushered in an era of fast open innovation in networking: Those who own and operate networks now take it for granted that they can code, … read more
Connecting the Data Center: 25G, 100G, 400G+
14th September 2017, 12:00 P.M NEW YORK / 5:00 P.M LONDON
Server performance and data center network traffic are growing dramatically and the total I/O bandwidth per rack is approaching 5 Tbit/s. … read more