SDN/NFV – 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 ...

Why Multi-Access Edge Computing is the future

James Piedra — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:50:05 +0000

Most modern devices, applications and services make extensive use of cloud computing resources (data centers, CDN’s). Nearly all hardware leveraged in cloud computing is composed primarily of: CPU’s, GPU’s, RAM, Network interfaces and non-volatile storage; all of these are the essential building blocks of modern cloud computing. But there’s much more to computing, especially networks, ...

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 ...

Collaboration in open source networking projects key to achieving NFV goals

James Piedra — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:52:27 +0000

The first half of this year has been marked with significant advances in open networking projects, with two prominent projects from the Linux foundation (OPEN-O and Open ECOMP) merging into the Open network automation platform (ONAP). While not the first collaborative open networking project to merge efforts, it is one of the most significant developments ...

SD-WAN the most disruptive SDN/NFV solution to date

James Piedra — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:48:48 +0000

Software-defined Wide Area Networking is a fast-growing technology which seeks to supplement, or in many cases replace expensive managed lines with software-optimized network fabric running on commodity internet links and general computing hardware. It’s easy to see why many service providers have changed their business tactics, as the next-generation WAN technology offers improvements in efficiency ...

v-RAN a crucial step for SDN/NFV and 5G

James Piedra — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:42:25 +0000

Network functions virtualization (NFV) has forever changed carrier cloud computing and networking, emerging as a truly flexible, scalable, manageable and open network implementation. Efforts to implement this game-changing technology began in the core networks of service providers, eventually reaching the network edge where minimal latencies can create a plethora of new services and application previously ...

Maximizing MEC Cost-effectiveness – a Multi-access Future

James Piedra — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:28:57 +0000

Last year ETSI decided on a change in it’s goals for mobile edge computing, choosing to embrace not only synergistic 5G technologies and architectures, but also the numerous other types of fixed access networks. As Network goals continue to evolve and grow MNO’s (Mobile Network Operators) are edging closer and closer to real 5G ...

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 ...

SDN shows promise within Industry 4.0

James Piedra — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 22:26:27 +0000

The growing demand for technology in industry 4.0 has come with great timing, with the telecom industries big shift towards SDN (Software-defined networks), many innovative players are looking to benefit early-on by utilizing the developing technology to accelerate automation and orchestration to new levels. Communication is a cornerstone in intelligent systems and it’s not uncommon ...