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February 03, 2014

John Lawitzke

SDN London Insights: What is SDN? – What is NFV? – What is OpenFlow?

Last month, I attended the Whitehall Media SDN conference in London. Not surprisingly SDN, NFV and OpenFlow were the center of discussion. But, there was an apparent disconnect between these …

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December 03, 2013

Renee Strömberg

Network Equipment Providers differentiate using data models in YANG and NETCONF

We recently sponsored a white paper with Heavy Reading looking at creating the programmable network. The major premise of the paper is that it’s time for network equipment providers to …

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November 19, 2013

Carl Moberg

Tail-f and OF-CONFIG at ONF PlugFest 2013

I had the opportunity to spend some time at the 2013 Fall ONF Plugfest hosted by Spirent. The Plugfest is an opportunity for vendors to come together for a couple …

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October 24, 2013

John Lawitzke

Tail-f Delivers OpenStack Functionality for Multi-Vendor Networks

Stockholm, October 24, 2013 – Tail-f Systems, a leading provider of network service programmability solutions for traditional and Software-Defined Networks (SDN), today announced its NCS plugin for OpenStack that allows …

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October 24, 2013

John Lawitzke

Multi-Vendor Network Provisioning and OpenStack

Doing multi-vendor network provisioning is intrinsically hard. The wide variety of technologies and protocols, and data models exposed across network equipment vendors, their product lines and product versions can be …

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October 23, 2013

Jan Lindblad

SDN and OpenFlow World Congress – SDN-OF-NFV

Three days at the SDN and OpenFlow World Congress outside Frankfurt, and my throat is getting sore. SDN is definitely on the rise, this event is about twice as big …

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October 22, 2013

Carl Moberg

Consideration 3 of 3: Reducing risk – Should you build or buy software to manage configuration on your network device?

This is the final post in a series for product managers at network equipment providers. Each post discusses the PM’s role and considerations in planning for management interfaces in new …

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October 09, 2013

Carl Moberg

Consideration 2 of 3: The value of first impressions – Can you get past the dreaded Operations Manager?

In part one of this series for product managers at network equipment providers we discussed the importance of management interfaces for new networking products. Now let’s look at the PM’s …

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September 25, 2013

Carl Moberg

Consideration 1 of 3: Do management interfaces for your new network device really matter?

This is the first in a series of blog posts for product managers at network equipment providers. Each post will discuss the PM’s role and considerations in planning for management …

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June 27, 2013

Renee Strömberg

ND SatCom Selects Joint Tail-f/Metaswitch Solution to Deliver Streamlined Routing and Network Management

Stockholm and London, June 25, 2013 – Tail-f Systems, a leading provider of on-device management and programmability solutions, and Metaswitch Networks, today announced that Astrium Services’ subsidiary ND SatCom has …

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June 17, 2013

Carl Moberg

Notes on the Organizational Impact of Network Controllers

I've been doing some travelling with our Network Control System (NCS) to meet both existing customers and teams that are interested in using it to improve their day-to-day operations. I have had several conversations with network engineer …
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May 17, 2013

Carl Moberg

Controlling the InteropNet

I remember literally hanging out outside the InteropNet NOC when I last visited the venerable event. It must have been in the late 90's when I was still young and angry about most things network (one example; ATM cell size). And, yes, I had …
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May 08, 2013

Håkan Millroth

The Anatomy of an SDN Control System (part 3)

In previous posts in this series I discussed the following design principles used in Tail-f’s SDN technology: logically centralized implementation of network services, data structure representations of service and network states, and data mo …
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