History of Ethernet – New “Rules” and The Ongoing Evolution
When Bob Metcalfe pitched his “Ethernet” vision back in 1972 during his employment at PARC Xerox, I am sure that he, despite his visionary mind set, had no idea of what he had...
The IoT is Hitting Us
The IoT phenomenon is happening as we speak. What is IoT? It’s simple, all the new things we buy can be “connected”. Your smartphone, tablet, computer, etc., can all be connected...
Go Open Source Or Be Left Behind
I was recently at the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco. This is the event that today has become synonym with open source solutions, one of the biggest trends to have driven the technology...
PCI Express Bifurcation in the 100G Era
Over the last few years, the increase in internet bandwidth has caused carriers to invest in equipment that can meet the requirements of the increasing network traffic. The rapid growth in 100G...
Security Prevention Alone Is Not Enough
Security prevention has been the predominant philosophy guiding security solutions to date. The premise is that it is possible through defense in depth and multiple layers of security to foil attacks...
How To Make Server-based Networking Solutions Reliable
With the internet being the backbone of modern society, we are extremely dependent on the availability and quality of the internet services provided. The need for availability and quality are addressed...
Artificial Or Not, the Intelligence Is Here
In an age when we are thinking of self-driving cars, computers with senses, virtual reality in gaming and robots gaining ground in industries like health care, it is clear that we are heading...
The Challenges of 100g Network Analysis
With the current data growth and explosion, we are experiencing a growing demand for a transition into higher capacity networks in order to be able to meet with the growing network...
Key Topics at NFV World Congress 2016
I visited the NFV World Congress for the first time last year. It was the year when the ideology of having ‘everything’ in software (SW) was the main topic and if one dared to ask if hardware...
Using FPGA or NPU Technology for NFV
When the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) work started back in 2012 one of the fundamental motivating factors behind the NFV technology was the strong desire to move away...