Blueprints

by Derek Manky, Global Security Strategist, Fortinet From the “just when you thought things couldn’t get worse” department… 2015 was not an easy year for cybersecurity, whether you worked for...

by Greg Collins, Founder, Exact Ventures Spurred by increasing competition from over-the-top (OTT) service providers like Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, many network operators have an urgent need to transition...

by Tony Bishop, VP Global Enterprise Strategy and Marketing, Equinix From the Internet of Things to renewable energy principles, we’ll see our digital economy transforming before our eyes in 2016....

by Jay Botelho, Director of Product Management for Savvius, Inc. Wi-Fi technology has improved our daily lives in ways unimaginable just a few years ago. We routinely connect to our...

by Nicholas Ilyadis Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Infrastructure & Networking Group (ING), Broadcom Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a trend that continues to garner widespread industry attention these...

by Ashish Jain, Director of Solutions Marketing, GENBAND The move to Network Functions Virtualization is certainly gaining steam. Increasingly, communications service providers are evolving their hardware-based infrastructure to new, next-generation...

by Dan Joe Barry, VP Positioning and Chief Evangelist, Napatech A recent survey on the future of network appliances indicates that 100G will be the dominant speed rate in core,...

by Calvin Chai There’s a lot of talk about OpenFlow as an evolving architecture for driving software-defined networking (SDN), but so far much of the action has been around development...

by James A. Stark, P.E., Senior Director of Engineering, Electronic Environments Co. As Patrick Gammons, Senior Manager of Data Center Energy and Location Strategy at Google, observed in a recent...

by Douglas Tait, Director, Product Marketing, Oracle Communications Network function virtualization (NFV) is in motiion Software functions are separating from hardware infrastructure and virtualizing, then becoming capable of running on...

by Dr. Danish Rafique and Dr. Maxim Kuschnerov, Coriant What does the term flexibility signify for the optical transport business? In today’s market space, this is a challenging question, as...

Remarkable improvements for optical networks on the horizon with CDC-F technology by Scott Larrigan Optical networks support everything we do online — from email and video conferencing at work to...

by Leon Adato, Head Geek, SolarWinds If you’re not prepared for the future of networking, you’re already behind. That may sound harsh, but it’s true. Given the speed at which...