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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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