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Extreme Acquiring The Last Pure-Play Enterprise WLAN Company, Aerohive
Extreme Networks announced plans to acquire Aerohive, which has most of its revenues in Enterprise WLAN. The deal was a surprise, as evidenced by the 40% price premium paid on on HIVE. After this deal closes, Extreme’s WLAN business will be the combination of three WLAN businesses – the traditional… Read More »Blog
400 Gbps – Security is Pivotal as Speeds in the Data Center Move Beyond 100 Gbps
MACSec Helps Pave the Way to End-to-End Data Security As consumers and businesses put more data in the Cloud, the importance of securing that data increases. In just the last year, we have seen advanced threats and attacks by various entities to hack into that data and hyperscalers push back… Read More »Blog
New Data center switches spell new possibilities
Mellanox and Arista May Announcements New Switches & Routers Spell New Possibilities The hyperscale, cloud and hyper converged industry — despite a pause in data center equipment growth in Q1, as we reported last week— saw two major Ethernet product announcements so far this month. Both new platforms, announced by Mellanox… Read More »Blog
open19 summit – The Foundation expects 2019 to be the year of deployments
We attended the Open19 Foundation Summit 2019 in San Jose, CA. The key message of the leadership team of the Foundation was that it expects 2019 to be the year where Open19 systems begin shipping. Yuval Bachar, President of the Foundation explained that there are 8-10 companies that are deploying or… Read More »Blog
Keysight World San Francisco Update on 5G and Pervasive Ethernet
We attended media briefings at the Keysight World conference held near San Francisco, California, yesterday. Keysight World San Francisco showed a more integrated Ixia as well as a further push towards 5G, automotive and energy, and data center and telecom. Much of the companies conversations during the event related to synergies… Read More »Blog
Huawei’s revenues are at risk as US puts Chinese Tech giant on its “Entity List”
According to news reports and press and social media announcements by high-ranking members of US government, the US government has put Huawei on its so-called “Entity List” of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Our read on this is it similar to what happened with ZTE during C2Q18 last year, a move that severely curtailed… Read More »Blog