Today, cloud and virtualization are increasingly pushing the need to abolish hierarchical construct of network to a simpler and dynamic flat service-oriented infrastructure. And, it is for good reason: create non-blocking architecture, reduce cost and complexity and improve latency and… Continue Reading
There is an ominous rumbling in the internet about 768K day, some even termed it internet doomsday others called it “Y2K” of internet. The fear is justified given the experience of wide spread internet outage during 512K day when internet… Continue Reading
Today, most businesses don’t need any convincing argument about how digital transformation can enhance their agility. The pressing question is how to onboard more and more consumers and how to provide improve service through differentiated offerings. Given the pivotal role… Continue Reading
It is insanely fast, even a maverick will agree! And, it is equally fattish than the all known preceding transports technologies given that a 1 RU switch can now pack a whopping 12.8 Tbps bandwidth: get the picture? Welcome to… Continue Reading
I begin with an assumption that you are somewhat familiar with “whitebox” term as it relates to networking gears and cognizant of its trend. For those needing a brush up, please read my earlier article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bare-metalwhite-box-solutions-open-hyperscale-data-center-chowdhury/ . The term “whitebox” and “open… Continue Reading