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April 24, 2014

John Lawitzke

Gartner Names Tail-f Systems as a 2014 ‘Cool Vendor’ in CSP Infrastructure

Stockholm – April 22, 2014 – Tail-f Systems, a leading provider of multi-vendor service orchestration and network automation solutions, today announced it has been named by Gartner as a 2014 …

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April 11, 2014

Renee Strömberg

When to use ConfD framework based on your development cycle

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) demand more from network equipment providers (NEPs) today because end users demand more. Large established NEPs and startups are both vying for the CSPs business and …

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March 27, 2014

Carl Moberg

SF Network Automation and Other Meetups a Great Resource

As much as I actually do enjoy the enormous events that our industry has been fond of doing over the last 10-15 years, I still feel more at home in …

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February 28, 2014

Carl Moberg

Notes from NETCONF and YANG Town Hall at MWC 2014

What would happen if you put a couple of equipment providers and service providers in the hands of a seasoned panel moderator to talk about the transformative effect of the …

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February 27, 2014

Carl Moberg

Service Orchestration Update: AT&T Selects Tail-f as a New Domain 2.0 Vendor

The cat is finally out of the bag as AT&T has announced Tail-f as one of their new domain 2.0 vendors. John Donovan, Senior Executive Vice President — AT&T Technology …

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February 24, 2014

Carl Moberg

Networking Field Day 7, San Jose, CA

I often make the mistake of assuming that people in the networking industry will catch my references to Packet Pushers, IOS Hints and Networking Field Day. And I must admit …

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February 19, 2014

Renee Strömberg

Don’t Miss Tail-f’s Free Tutorial on SDN, NETCONF and YANG with IEEE

Service provider and enterprise network teams that are moving toward a service oriented approach to network management are turning to the IETF standards for network configuration: NETCONF (RFC 6241) and …

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February 06, 2014

Renee Strömberg

The Missing Link in the NFV Evolution

Service providers are actively seeking the means to virtualize their networks. Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) are two promising technologies with which service providers can attain greater …

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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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