Chris DePuy

Technology Analyst and co-founder of 650 Group

Rakuten Acquires Altiostar; And Announces European Customer, 1&1

​Today, Rakuten announced that has acquired the rest of Open RAN startup, Altiostar.  It already owned 67% of the pioneering vendor, and paid another $370 million to acquire the rest, at a valuation just over $1 billion.  The company is adding Altiostar to its Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) capabilities now known… Read More »Rakuten Acquires Altiostar; And Announces European Customer, 1&1

Rakuten Acquires Altiostar; and Announces European Customer, 1&1

​Today, Rakuten announced that has acquired the rest of Open RAN startup, Altiostar.  It already owned 67% of the pioneering vendor, and paid another $370 million to acquire the rest, at a valuation just over $1 billion.  The company is adding Altiostar to its Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) capabilities now… Read More »Rakuten Acquires Altiostar; and Announces European Customer, 1&1

Higher Speeds In Ethernet Changing The Top-of-rack To Server Topologies

Migrating Features to Active Cables to Support Performance and Reliability Traditional enterprise data centers have an Achilles heel – the single TOR per rack architecture.  If that TOR fails, it takes the entire rack offline, and as Microsft recently published, this happens at least 2% of the time in the first… Read More »Higher Speeds In Ethernet Changing The Top-of-rack To Server Topologies

NaaS: Can someone else run the enterprise network?

We have published our first story at Forbes Business Council. Read it herehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2021/07/07/naas-businesses-may-not-have-to-run-their-own-networks-anymore/?sh=525d20d83872 A preview of the concepts: Today, mobile networks and enterprises networks use wholly different network technology and operate using different business models. There’s a push by the same companies that make enterprise networking gear to change their… Read More »NaaS: Can someone else run the enterprise network?