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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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April 30, 2013

Carl Moberg

Tail-f Systems Presents Multi-Vendor SDN at Interop 2013

Tail-f’s Network Control System (NCS) selected as SDN controller for InteropNet.  Tail-f Systems, a leading provider of network service programmability solutions for traditional and software-defined networks (SDN), today announced its bro …
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April 29, 2013

Håkan Millroth

The Anatomy of an SDN Control System (part 2)

As I mentioned in the previous post, Tail-f’s SDN technology makes use of six basic design principles to make the development and maintenance of network applications and services easier.  In this post I will discuss three of these design …
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April 29, 2013

Carl Moberg

ONS, ONF, NFV – Oh My!

It's been a couple of busy days in the Bay Area. First I attended the annual hypefest known as the Open Networking Summit, or ONS. That was followed by a hectic two days of Open Network Foundation members’ working days. And as if that wasn't …
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April 20, 2013

Håkan Millroth

The Anatomy of an SDN Control System (part 1)

One of the promises of software-defined networking is that it can speed up the introduction of new network applications and services. Instead of re-architecting the network and the network management system for every new service, these servi …
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