This year’s Big Communications Event (BCE) in Austin, Texas, will include a Components Track dedicated to the semiconductor, optical and platform components enabling the 4G/5G virtualized wireless infrastructure and data center interconnects up to 400G. We are seeing major changes to the mobile network infrastructure. The industry has moved from 2G/3G networks to heterogeneous networks […]
Mobile Data Bandwidth Challenges Wireline
The demise of wireline connections has been widely predicted and some consumers no longer have fixed lines. As I sit in my office in the countryside my broadband delivers 5Mbps down stream but only 0.3Mbps upstream; this is better than many nearby who only get 0.5Mbps downstream. My phone connects to 4G and already delivers twice […]
Intel and ARM Go Head-to-Head in the Data Center
The same day that Intel announced the Xeon processor D-1500 family, ARM said it was targeting 25 percent market share in servers by 2020. The Intel Xeon processor D-1500 family are the first Xeon class processors with integrated networking, something customers have been asking for, and was already available in competing ARM based solutions. The 14nm devices build […]
LTE will be the Connectivity of Choice for IoT
The rapid growth in LTE-enabled devices and carrier networks is opening up new opportunities develop solutions that can truly deliver connected things and the Internet of Things (IoT). WiFi, Bluetooth, EnOcean, 2G/3G are all wireless technologies that are used for connecting things to the Internet. The first three rely on local hubs supporting the right […]
High Performance Virtual Switch for SDN/NFV
Virtual switches are an important element in solutions for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and the performance of virtual switches will have a significant impact on the success of these solutions. Open vSwitch (OVS) is an open source virtual switch implementation supported by many industry leaders developing solutions for SDN and […]
Accelerating Security
Security is a vital component of any data center or communications solution. Security functions implemented in software can be slow and in many systems require a disproportionate percentage of processing power. Security accelerators are a cost-effective solution to accelerating security functions in servers and network appliances. The latest Intel® Communications Chipset 89xx Series devices dramatically […]
Scalable SDN Solutions
Software defined networking (SDN) is changing the way networks are organized and managed. Initial implementations have focused on large data centers with high-speed servers. To get the maximum benefits from SDN the technology needs to be scaled down to smaller data centers and systems at the edge of the network. The Intel® AtomTM processor C2000 […]
Scalable Acceleration for Security and Compression
Companies using ATCA platforms are able to take advantage of the latest Intel® Xeon® processors E5-2600 v2 and hardware acceleration for security and compression following recent introductions from Intel and upgrades by several manufacturers to their ATCA blades and hardware acceleration mezzanine modules. These advances will significantly increase performance for applications using DPI, security and […]
Rangeley Boosts ATCA Performance
AdvancedTCA (ATCA) is a standardized high availability platform that is widely used for computing and telecom applications. A typical system supports up to fourteen processor blades with dual power, cooling and shelf management modules. Larger systems have dual switch blades. Smaller systems have direct mesh connections between processor blades. Although ATCA platforms have the same […]
DPI and Policy Enforcement for NFV
The combination of rapidly growing data traffic on both wireless and fixed line networks and relatively slow growth in revenue has forced service providers to optimize network performance using policy enforcement systems in both mobile and fixed line networks. Policy enforcement uses deep packet inspection (DPI) to identify applications and traffic flows. At the same […]