In the second post of this series we divided the broad scope of Open Networking into three convenient “domains”: Infrastructure, Software and Integration. We have now…
What is OpenKilda? Telstra's VP of Product Architecture, Jon Vestal, discussed this in the Automation Forum at Layer123's SDN NFV World Congress 2018 in Den…
Critical Differences Between Deploying SD-LAN and SD-WAN in the SDN World As we saw in part 1 of this series, there are challenges with country-scale SD-WANs in addition to those faced…
OpenKilda: An Open-Source OpenFlow Controller In a world where most scalable technologies have learned through hard experience that distributing functionality and data processing is the…
In the previous three articles of this series called The Network is the Computer – Parts 1, 2 and 3 we’ve been examining the evolution of the components of Open Networking, in what I…
We saw at the end of the last post that the concept of cloud computing emerged in the late 90’s. However, to bring the Cloud into viable existence still…
We saw in our last post a massive explosion of computing capabilities during the 1980’s that was not matched by networking capabilities, leading to sub-optimal, fragmented, and support intensive solutions. The grand vision of highly integrated…
As we saw in parts 1 & 2 of this series, Open Networking has a large footprint covering different components of technologies, skills and practices. To help you understand that footprint we’re starting a series…
In our first post in this series on Open Networking “What is Open Networking?”, we outlined a set of nine (9) key areas that Aptira views are essential paradigms, technologies, or practices that we must employ for the realisation…