For some time, Facebook has had its sights set on the legacy telecom hardware industry and has been investing in a raft of projects worldwide to blow it open and double down on expensive and second-rate connectivity. Last week, we
Back in 2011, a controversial idea was brought to the table inside Facebook. Over the next seven years, it has turned the $178 billion data center computer hardware industry upside down. By open-sourcing its hardware via its Open Compute Project
Mode, a networking startup based in San Francisco, has exited from stealth and announced Mode Core, the first software-defined core network (SD-CORE) optimized for any SD-WAN deployment. Mode Core is designed to be used in combination with SD-WAN and last-mile
Facebook is open sourcing Katran, the innovative load balancer that powers its platform and prevents it from crashing and burning. Katran offers a software-based approach to load balancing in combination with a reengineered forwarding plane that leverages two recent innovations
Cato Networks just announced a new set of capabilities to further bolster its advanced security services. Cato Research Labs has developed the Cato Threat Hunting System (CTHS) in order to reduce the time needed to detect threats across enterprise networks.
Oracles is ramping up its cloud infrastructure backbone. The Oracle backbone network is a secure, dedicated network for connecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regions in a range of geographic locations. It offers privately routed inter-region connectivity and aims to provide consistent inter-regional
PerfOps, a startup that has recently launched an analytics platform, has benchmarked the network performance of some of the biggest names in content delivery. PerfOps, which has been in development for the last two and a half years, officially launched
Avi Networks, the Santa Clara, CA-headquartered software-only application delivery platform, recently launched new features that turn its next-generation technology into a fully-fledged application delivery platform. Its latest features employ machine learning and augment Avi’s integration with the Ansible and Terraform
Microsoft just launched Azure Sphere with the goal of protecting IoT devices. Its new custom silicon is a Linux-based embedded OS and cloud service, aimed at securing edge devices for microcontrollers (MCU). The MCU is “the brain of the device”,
Arista Networks just introduced 7050X3 and 7260X3 platforms, which function on lower power, yet deliver a tenfold increase in performance of switching and routing. Both new platforms have double the capacity of the previous iterations, 7050X and 72600, developed only
Facebook’s computing demands are on the increase and in order to meet them, it has introduced a new solution: the Fabric Aggregator. Developments in immersive entertainment, such as live video, virtual reality and 360 all require additional capacity. This, along
Global SD-WAN provider Aryaka and cybersecurity and application delivery firm Radware are partnering to offer multi-layer application security and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack detection and mitigation capabilities for its global enterprise services. DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly frequent, more sophisticated and
Cisco, the U.S. IT and networking giant, is partnering with Reliance Jio, the largest network provider in India, to build a mobile CDN in Brazil. Cisco recently announced the partnership in a joint press statement. The two companies are developing
Last week, Facebook and Nokia announced their partnership to accelerate the adoption of 60 GHz fixed wireless access technologies to deliver high-speed broadband connectivity in urban or suburban areas, complementing current fiber. Nokia’s will bring its wireless passive optical network
Facebook relies on its network as an integral part of its overall infrastructure, and is continually innovating in order to provide high performance standards amidst continual growth. As of the third quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.07 billion monthly active
