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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
Us FCC finally looks to fix the broken e-rate program
Since 2014, the E-Rate program has slowed down spending in the once-largest vertical market for WLAN gear – the K-12 education market. Since the information about bidding and spending patterns for E-Rate is public, it is has been clear that the funding process – which adds almost a year more… Read More »Blog