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Aruba Atmosphere Was About SD-Branch, 802.11ax and 802.11ad
We attended the Aruba Atmosphere 2019 user conference in Las Vegas. What we learned was that Aruba had made solid progress since last year’s Atmosphere conference. It has delivered on 802.11ax, SD-Branch (and SD-WAN), AI/ML, and Zigbee/Bluetooth 5.0, and elements of the IoT market. The company also introduced a new… Read More »Blog
THOUGHTS ON Intel – Data Center Product Launch
Today Intel had a major Data Center event in San Francisco. It was a multi-hour announcement showcasing all the different products Intel is/will be launching. Some interesting background that Intel talked about was that only 2% of worlds data has been analyzed and a 5G will be a major driver… Read More »Blog
Cisco’s 802.11ax products
Cisco is in the 802.11ax market now, with two sets product products under each of its main brands. These are: Cisco Meraki MR45/55 and Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points. You cannot find these kinds of products on Amazon, but some are listed on CDW for instance. The Meraki products don’t… Read More »Blog
Microsoft open sources compression chip design at ocp
We witnessed two significant OCP Summit announcements: a) open sourcing of semiconductor design b) improved server system security. First, Microsoft announced a new compression standard called Project Zipline. The intellectual property for this compression is being made available as open source Verilog (RTL), which will allow others to program semiconductors… Read More »Blog
Juniper’s OFC Photonics announcement is a big deal
Juniper made a significant announcement at OFC on the photonics front. It announced the launch of silicon photonics optics designed and built by Juniper. This is a big deal for the industry and for data center networking. To give some market background, as the market moves from 100 Gbps to… Read More »Blog
Juniper announces plan to Acquire WLAN Vendor, Mist Systems
Juniper Networks announced plans to acquire Mist Systems for approximately $405M in cash. We think this deal makes sense for Juniper, who can now sell a key technology – WLAN – into its customer base of large and medium enterprises. Valuation of the deal probably fell a bit short of… Read More »Blog