Tag: cisco systems

March 4, 2021

Spending on optical transport equipment dwindled during the fourth quarter of 2020, while the SD-WAN market boomed, according to figures just released by Dell’Oro Group. The findings may provide more evidence of the diversity of effects the Covid-19 pandemic has […]

May 13, 2020

Self-proclaimed announcements of being a disruptor in the telecommunications industry have almost become table stakes for new entrants, but Dispersive Networks could live up to that billing. While Dispersive’s distributed networking technology has various use cases, it has drawn a […]

April 7, 2020

Cato Networks has added $77 million to its war chest as it takes on the large telcos and other service providers in the SD-WAN sector. With the latest round of funding, Tel Aviv, Israel-based Cato Networks has raised a total […]

February 19, 2020

Nokia announced on Wednesday that it’s buying privately held optical networking company Elenion Technologies, but didn’t say how much it was paying. Elenion designs and develops integrated system-on-chip optical engines for telecom, data center and networking applications. Nokia is buying […]

December 3, 2019

Orange Business Services was picked by Mars to build a network that will connect more than 12,500 Mars Associates across more than 80 countries. Orange Business Services is building an intelligent automated network (IAN) for Mars, which makes M&Ms, Snickers, […]

November 6, 2019

Verizon had added a new capability into its SD-WAN managed services portfolio that lets customers change their policies on the fly. Verizon said its “Co Management” service gives enterprise customers the ability to change SD-WAN policies, such as application-aware routing, […]

November 1, 2019

Uplevel Systems is serving up an SD-WAN service that’s designed for small and medium-sized business. While SD-WAN has traditionally been targeted at large to medium-sized enterprises, it’s starting to trickle down to smaller business with remote offices. “Any business with […]

October 10, 2019

SD-WAN revenues received a tailwind push in the second quarter as corporations started to swap out their base of installed routers with SD-WAN-enabled gear. According to a report by to IHS Markit, second quarter revenues were up 23% sequentially. Replacing […]

July 9, 2019

After more than a year of development, Verizon Business Group announced on Tuesday the availability of a new WAN optimization solution for enterprises. Verizon Business Group worked with Hitachi High Technologies America to launch its ONEx WAN optimization solution. While […]

June 20, 2019

Building on the work they’ve done across SD-WAN, Orange Business Services is teaming up with Cisco on software-defined LAN for enterprises. Cisco and Orange Business Services will tailor software-defined local area network (SD-LAN) in Orange’s Open Labs program. Using a […]

June 5, 2019

The software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) market is in an accelerating state of expansion, and could represent the most strategic enterprise and service provider networking platform in another decade, say enterprise end users and service providers alike. That’s what I’ve found […]

June 5, 2019

Silver Peak has reeled in a partnership with NSC that puts its managed software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) services in front of NSC’s service provider and enterprise customers. While Silver Peak and NSC have worked with each other in the […]

May 30, 2019

Cisco’s Catalyst 9000 switches helped fuel campus switching market growth in the first quarter of this year, according to a report by Dell’Oro Group. In the quarter, Cisco gained five points of revenue share in the market, but that growth […]

April 26, 2019

While Juniper Networks struggled across the board in its first-quarter results, its software revenue was a bright spot. During Thursday’s earnings call, CEO Rami Rahim said Juniper’s software business grew 8% year over year and accounted for more than 10% […]

November 16, 2018

Oracle announced yesterday that it’s acquiring SD-WAN technology provider Talari Networks for an undisclosed sum. The transaction is expected to close before the end of this year. The addition of Talari’s technology is expected to complement Oracle Communications’ Session Border […]

November 15, 2018

Nokia announced today that it has added a range of updates and tweaks to its CloudBand Infrastructure Software (CBIS) platform. Specifically, the updated CBIS makes it easier and faster for service providers to manage and deploy new versions of OpenStack […]

September 21, 2018

Telefónica is retooling its startup accelerator program with more of a focus on companies that have mature business models that dovetail with the telco’s own roadmap. Telefónica launched its Wayra startup accelerator program back in 2011, but in today’s announcement […]

September 19, 2018

In an effort to separate itself from the SD-WAN pack, which includes more than 50 vendors, Nuage Networks has proclaimed its offering as “SD-WAN 2.0.” Nuage is billing SD-WAN 2.0 as the industry’s only automated and secure infrastructure for enterprises […]

September 6, 2018

Huawei and Ericsson are the dominant forces in the evolved packet core (EPC) market, according to a recent report by Dell’Oro Group. The two vendors’ combined market share increased to more than 60% in the second quarter of this year. […]

September 5, 2018

Ericsson is partnering with Juniper Networks and ECI Telecom to create an end-to-end optical transport solution for 4G and 5G traffic from cell sites all the way to network cores. The news is notable because Ericsson formed a wide-ranging partnership […]