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January 07, 2013

Carl Moberg

Manageability Imperatives (3 of 3): Solution Must Provide Ability to Add New Interfaces Along the Way

This the third in a series of three blog posts on important imperatives for network equipment provider development teams to consider when planning for, and designing on-device configuration management systems. Each post states a claim and ex …
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December 03, 2012

Carl Moberg

Reflections from Analyst Conversations – Cost of Adapters is Eventually Going Away

Just a quick note from some of the conversations we've had with analysts over the last few days. As many if them are now finally revisiting the economics of service provisioning and activation they're truly trying to understand, no really un …
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November 20, 2012

Carl Moberg

Roland Svensson Joins Tail-f’s Board of Directors

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – November 20, 2012 – Tail-f Systems, the leading provider of multi-vendor configuration management and network automation software, today announced the appointment of Roland Svensson, CEO of Clavister, …

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October 31, 2012

Carl Moberg

Tail-f Systems Joins Open Networking Foundation to Drive Multi-vendor Configuration Management for Software-Defined Networking

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – October 31, 2012 – Tail-f Systems, the leading provider of multi-vendor configuration management and network automation software, today announced that it has joined the Open Networking Foundation …

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October 24, 2012

Carl Moberg

Manageability Imperatives (2 of 3): Solution Must Provide a Complete Set of Related Features

This the second in a series of three blog posts on important imperatives for network equipment provider development teams to consider when planning for, and designing on-device configuration management systems. Each post states a claim and e …
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October 24, 2012

Carl Moberg

Manageability Imperatives (1 of 3): Solution Must Be Quick to Prototype

This the first in a series of three blog posts on important imperatives for network equipment provider development teams to consider when planning for, and designing on-device configuration management systems. Each post states a claim and ex …
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October 24, 2012

Carl Moberg

YANG – A binding Contract Between the Managed device and the NMS

So, time for another blog post from Klacke (previous post available here). In Network Equipment Provider (NEP) companies there is often a big disconnect between the groups that build the devices and the group that build the EMS, or if the …
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October 16, 2012

Carl Moberg

Nokia Siemens Networks Selects Tail-f Systems to Enhance NetAct’s Multi-vendor Configuration Management

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – October 16, 2012 – Tail-f Systems, the leading provider of multi-vendor configuration management and network automation software, today announced that its NCS software will be used in …

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October 15, 2012

Carl Moberg

Nokia Siemens Networks Adopts NCS for Multi-vendor Management (and gains NETCONF and YANG)

Today we are very happy and proud to announce that Nokia Siemens Networks have selected our NCS product for inclusion in NetAct, their industry-leading OSS. NCS will provide configuration management features to significantly improve NetAct's …
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October 12, 2012

Carl Moberg

Reflections on Developer Days 2012 in Silicon Valley

Developer Days 2012 in Silicon Valley is over and I've had the time to both travel back home and also let the experience and conversations sink in. And as I hoped in my post before the event, the conversations did span the whole spectrum fro …
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September 21, 2012

Carl Moberg

Publish Your Data Models!

This post is written by Claes Wikström. Apart from being one of our founders, and currently one of the driving forces in our NCS development, "Klacke" (which is the name he actually responds to) is also an Erlang hacker at large. Consider …
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September 10, 2012

Carl Moberg

The Importance of Prototyping

This exchange recently took place in a meeting where we had been called in to help a customer with lab-to-production problems. They had implemented a homegrown CLI for their lab trials and had an engineer on site throughout the process so th …
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August 27, 2012

Carl Moberg

Tail-f Developer Days Coming Up

Developer Days 2012 is almost upon us. This is the yearly event where we take parts of our core engineering team to meet with developers in the Bay Area (September 11-12) and then on to Tel Aviv (October 22-23). Building on the energy from l …
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