Cloud-Native Router Startup DriveNets Banks $110M, Takes On Cisco et al.
Vendor already has Tier 1 traction, a founder with track record of disruption, the backing of Bessemer and has Cisco, Juniper, Huawei and Nokia in its sights.
View ArticleWhite Box Doubts Keep Huawei on Outside of O-RAN Alliance
Huawei rules out any immediate involvement in the O-RAN Alliance as it doubts the viability of white box radios.
View ArticleAT&T: White Boxes Online in Toronto & London - 76 Countries & 400G Planned
AT&T already has white box networking deployed in Toronto and London, with a lot more to come, says CTO Andre Fuetsch.
View ArticleOrange Taps Dell for 5G Transformation
Orange and Dell will collaborate on a distributed cloud architecture for 5G cloud networking.
View ArticleVolta Bigs Up Its Cloud Router, Claims 90% Savings vs Legacy
Volta claims that moving routing intelligence to the cloud and running white boxes can slash costs compared with legacy equipment.
View ArticleDell Rings Up $22B Q1 Revenue, Up 3%
Revenue for the Infrastructure Solutions Group, which includes storage, servers and networking, was $8.2 billion, a 5% decrease; client solutions was $10.9 billion, up 6%; and VMware revenue was $2.3...
View ArticlePluribus Debuts Data Center Router
New white box router said to be one fifth the cost of a traditional data center gateway router.
View ArticleDell Technologies Has a New CTO
Ihab Tarazi has left Packet to become CTO of Networking and Solutions at Dell Technologies.
View ArticleWill Standards Lessen SD-WAN's Growing Pains?
Ovum and Heavy Reading explain how MEF has stepped in to create SD-WAN specifications to provide clarity in the market, and how this service definition could impact the industry.
View ArticleArrcus Scores $30M & Takes Network 'Democratization' to the Edge
Arrcus is extending its architecture from the data center to the edge, using high-density 100G/400G white box networking hardware based on Broadcom Jericho2 processors.
View ArticleAmazon, Facebook & Google Comprise Most of the Whitebox Switch Market
Whitebox data center Ethernet switch shipments grew to exceed 20% of total annual volumes, but those three companies comprise the lion's share of that growth, according to Crehand Research.
View ArticlePodcast: The Fast-Moving World of SD-WAN
Light Reading's Kelsey Ziser discusses the world of SD-WAN, why there are so many vendors and whether enterprise 'white glove' services are handled by butlers.
View ArticleAT&T's Chokshi: Why Carriers Need Disaggregation at the Edge
AT&T's Rupesh Chokshi says the case for disaggregated routers at the edge goes beyond the usual examples of increased business agility, network visibility and performance.
View ArticlePodcast: What's Changing in the Competitive World of SD-WAN
Our series on the state of the SD-WAN market continues with a discussion on what's holding back some companies in the space and how standards and new technologies are advancing the cause of SD-WAN.
View ArticleSmokey & the NFV Bandit
NFV has many naysayers, but it's alive, kicking and thriving, with SD-WAN as a significant catalyst.
View ArticleONF Debuts Open Source 'Stratum' Switch OS
Stratum is the foundation for the ONF's next-generation SDN initiative.
View ArticleONF Announces 'Stratum' Switch OS Project Now Available as Open Source
Stratum is the foundation for ONF's next-generation SDN initiative.
View ArticleAT&T Submits DDC White Box Using Broadcom Chips to Open Compute Project
AT&T said it took a further step toward white box network architecture by sumitting its specifications for a Distributed Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) white box architecture to the Open Compute Project.
View ArticleArrcus Raises $30M, Expands to Network Edge
Two-year-old startup Arrcus adds $30M to its warchest and expands products and services from cloud to edge and 5G networks.
View ArticleWhy AT&T's latest open source contribution matters
AT&T has shared its distributed router specifications with the Open Compute Project and a leading disruptive data networking startup is flagging its support for the model.
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