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Extreme Networks Entering the SD-WAN market
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 »Blog
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 »Blog
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 »Blog
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 »Blog
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 »Blog
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… Read More »Blog