SDN Whitebox – Lanner

Lanner Ready to Offer LTE Certified, FirstNet-Ready Wireless Gateways

James Piedra — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 01:52:50 +0000

The evolution of emergency services is now spearheaded by this year’s deployment of a nation-wide public-safety dedicated network known as FirstNet. This critical network reserves 20Mhz out of the valuable 700 Mhz frequency range due to the obstacle penetrating power this frequency affords. FirstNet was developed to provide mission critical communications and emergency services the ...

What is SD-WAN and Why you need it

James Piedra — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 01:28:01 +0000

Software-defined Wide Area Networks are the next evolution to VPN’s (Virtual Private Networks) now providing highly flexible, automated and resilient data transport for businesses. A useful analogy to understand SD-WAN is where VPN’s are like manual gearboxes in a car; SD-WAN is an automatic radar-guided cruise-control solution. Both can achieve the same result: connectivity between ...

How to find a Secure, Reliable & Trusted Hardware Vendor, OEM/ODM.

James Piedra — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:38:33 +0000

News reports and the several ongoing investigations of alleged hardware backdoors/vulnerabilities found in several mass-produced computer hardware suppliers leave many security professionals increasingly concerned about their hardware. According to US intelligence, it has become incredibly difficult, if not impossible in practice, to effectively audit modern computer hardware that may have been tampered with – even ...

uCPE/vCPE: Death of the magical black box

James Piedra — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 18:56:57 +0000

People today are accustomed to getting their internet from a proprietary, provisioned black box at their homes, but now MSP’s are looking to expand the capabilities of these customer-side appliances with the advent of uCPE and vCPE. Managed Service providers continue to leverage virtualization and edge computing capabilities to decrease OPEX, TTS (time-to-Service) and create ...

Xeon D ready for growing demands at the network edge

James Piedra — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:41:52 +0000

Network computing infrastructure has been expanding for decades, and the network edge is no exception. When it comes to the expanding network edge, density is key; that’s why Intel’s Xeon D SoC processors have been steadily gaining favor. Servers, hot storage(instant access data- ie profile images) and network appliances(firewalls, access points) are being given more ...

Evolve and Adapt: The Network Equipment Industry In The SDN Era

James Piedra — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 23:12:18 +0000

It’s becoming harder for traditional network equipment vendors to compete with the freedom, low CAPEX and sheer flexibility that software-defined networks bring to the table. Proprietary hardware-based solutions from vendors are continuously losing out to open source software solutions deployed on top of much cheaper, open hardware like x86 network rackmount appliances. Linux, the largest ...