Technology Analyst and co-founder of 650 Group
Extreme Networks announced its intention to acquire the Ipanema SD-WAN operations of Infovista. The company expects the deal to close in October 2021 and that in Extreme’s Fiscal 2022, the revenue contribution will be “material.” We think Extreme’s entry to the SD-WAN market gives the company exposure to a critical… Read More »Extreme Networks Entering The Sd-wan Market
Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) have a big opportunity coming up as wireless quickly evolves with LTE and 5G technologies. 650 Group analysts have observed the mobile market from a telecom and enterprise edge perspective for the past two decades. Today, there is more action… Read More »What Is Behind The 5g Cpe And Enterprise Surge?
Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) have a big opportunity coming up as wireless quickly evolves with LTE and 5G technologies. 650 Group analysts have observed the mobile market from a telecom and enterprise edge perspective for the past two decades. Today, there is more action… Read More »What is behind the 5g CPE and ENTERPRISE SURGE?
Extreme Networks announced its intention to acquire the Ipanema SD-WAN operations of Infovista. The company expects the deal to close in October 2021 and that in Extreme’s Fiscal 2022, the revenue contribution will be “material.” We think Extreme’s entry to the SD-WAN market gives the company exposure to a critical… Read More »Extreme Networks Entering the SD-WAN market
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
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
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
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?
This week’s MWC Barcelona 2021 had several themes; the most important was that several outsiders to the telecom industry were ever-present. The new entrants – the party-crashers – included Starlink, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Compute, and NVidia. These new players are forcing change either through economics, new technology,… Read More »The Party-Crashers of MWC21
Witesand just came out of stealth today, and made a video presentation based primarily at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. Praveen Jain, a co-founder of Witesand and various other networking companies, was the main presenter and conducted various interviews with interested third parties. The company’s cloud services asset discovery, NAC,… Read More »New Network And Security Player On The Scene: Witesand
