Delivering a Carrier-Grade Platform with OpenStack: From Sprints to Marathons

Telco Network Equipment Vendors (NEPs) and Communication Services Providers (CSPs) are fast moving from Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solutions in their respective labs to real world deployments with OpenStack as the overwhelming Cloud Operating System. NFV deployments pose a number of additional unique challenges over any traditional enterprise cloud deployment and vendors are looking up… Continue reading Delivering a Carrier-Grade Platform with OpenStack: From Sprints to Marathons

Providing OpenStack Service High-Availability Through Anycast Routing

Service high-availability is a core concern for any operator running, or intending to run, a production OpenStack cluster. Current “best practices” call for the deployment of a full cluster stack (generally Corosync + Pacemaker) and / or load-balancers (generally HAProxy) to manage service state and failover. While this is appropriate for a subset of OpenStack… Continue reading Providing OpenStack Service High-Availability Through Anycast Routing

Networking 101: Payment Card Industry Evolution

This next wave of Payment Card Industry (PCI) evolution is more like a network than a system bus. Learn about the problems with earlier versions, and why changes to the architecture are needed to scale up to higher data capacities. Find out when serial communication is better than parallel. Jimmy Ray Purser is ready to… Continue reading Networking 101: Payment Card Industry Evolution

Software Defined Network (SDN) Powered IP Optical Convergence with Cisco nLight

Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN), the foundation of the Cisco Open Network Architecture for service provider networks, integrates today’s independent IP and optical layers with Cisco nLight for more agile cloud topologies. Learn more about the benefits of IP and optical convergence and the new technology: www.cisco.com/go/epn Tweet us @CiscoSP360 if you have any questions… Continue reading Software Defined Network (SDN) Powered IP Optical Convergence with Cisco nLight

NETGEAR Pushes Performance Boundaries With Powerful New Products

The NETGEAR ProSAFE M6100 Chassis Series

NETGEAR, a global networking company that delivers innovative products to businesses, consumers, and service providers, today announced three new products providing higher throughput and new capabilities for improved network performance in businesses and education facilities. With these new, scalable offerings for wireless access management, switching, and storage in higher-density environments, the NETGEAR commercial product portfolio… Continue reading NETGEAR Pushes Performance Boundaries With Powerful New Products

vNEST: Home Lab Upgrade, enter the vSAN!

Dell C6105 Cloud Server

Ever since VMware introduced VSAN, I’ve been anxious to test it out, deploy it in my lab and see what it does and how it functions. Few months ago one of my Dell Poweredge 1950 GenIII server died so I was considering upgrading my home virtualization lab anyway… if you are like me, we just need… Continue reading vNEST: Home Lab Upgrade, enter the vSAN!