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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
MWC19 Was As much About Enterprise and Unlicensed as it was 5G
We attended the Mobile World Congress last week in Barcelona along with an estimated 104,00 others from nearly every country in the world. We met with over 42 companies and nearly 200 people at the show and attended many press announcements. While most of the MWC19 headlines were about 5G,… Read More »Blog
THOUGHTS from Extreme NEtworks analyst day
Today I attended the Extreme Analyst day at the NASDAQ in New York. Extreme’s 4Q18 switch revenue grew over 10% and in our preliminary view of 4Q18, it took share. The company highlighted over 30,000 customers and over 6,000 partners in a one-Extreme approach that has integrated the acquisitions of… Read More »Blog