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Cisco Catalyst 9000 – Major Step forward in Campus switching
Today, Cisco announced the Catalyst 9000 family. The first new Catalyst line in many years focused on campus networking as a unified network involving security, WLAN, and switching. This is a very big announcement for Cisco as it’s a real step towards Unified Access and not thinking of WLAN as… Read More »Blog
Nokia – 7750 SR – The race to 400 Gbps and Cloud Scale
Today Nokia announced its new FP4 ASIC and 7750 SR Router. Playing the leapfrogging game on speeds, we saw 36 400 Gbs ports in a 2RU box that looks awfully similar to a spine switch and the further blurring of what a next gen router and switch really look like,… Read More »Blog
Broadcom’s Trident 3 – A big deal well beyond the data center
Today Broadcom announced Trident 3. The companies third major release of a chip that drove the merchant silicon revolution in the data center and started the white box movie in the Cloud. With Trident 3, all of Broadcom’s data center switching ASICs now support speeds of at least 3.2 Tbps… Read More »Blog
Huawei says 5G goes commercial in 2020
Today, we attended a presentation made by Huawei to discuss 5G. The company emphasized several interesting points: 2020 is the year for commercial launch of 5G. The company confirmed its understanding that Chinese operators will commercialize 5G in 2020. It explained that in Korea, while there are trials planned in… Read More »Blog
Aerohive price aggression accelerating
Yesterday, Aerohive announced an expansion to its Connect Strategy that results in price cuts across its entire product line by virtue of its extension of its Connect cloud-services offering to all products. Given that Connect is a free version of cloud-managed services, it would accurate to say Aerohive is now… Read More »Blog