SDN – Lanner

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 ...

Lanner To Showcase Award-Winning SDN/NFV Platforms at MWC 2018 Taiwan Excellence Pavilion

Jorge Peregrina — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 23:30:22 +0000

Lanner, the global leading manufacturer in networking hardware, is pleased to showcase its award-winning networking platforms at MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2018, in Barcelona, Spain, from 26 February to 1st March. Lanner will feature NCA-1611 and FW-8896, the two awarded networking hardware solutions which were honored 2018/2017 Taiwan Excellence Award, an annual award announced by ...

3 SD-WAN Deployment Options for Companies Looking to Invest In SDN

Rick Spencer — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:47:12 +0000

As we know software defined networking (SDN) is already becoming a more and more popular investment among multi-branch enterprises with help from drivers such as software-defined wide area networks (SD WAN) being deployed in various ways across nearly every industry. However, this doesn’t mean that everyone is onboard with SDN quite yet. There are various ...

SDN Vs. Intent Based Networking

Rick Spencer — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:05:30 +0000

Given that technology is progressing faster than at any point previously in our history, it comes as no surprise that the age of machine learning, artificial intelligence, automation, the Internet of Things, and virtualization has finally arrived. One of the biggest technological innovations of the last five years or so has been the advent of ...

Flashback 2017: A Promising Year of SD-WAN, vCPE, and Edge Computing

Jorge Peregrina — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:23:55 +0000

Upon the joyful holiday seasons, we would like to take this opportunity to express our gratefulness for your continued business. As your trusted partners for the past 31 years, Lanner has always been dedicated to offering quality, wide-selection of hardware platforms to accelerate your time-to-market solutions. The year of 2017 had been a remarkable period ...

Key Role of Network Slicing in 5G Network Enablement

Rick Spencer — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:17:27 +0000

5G is the next step in wireless telecommunications standards. Through the evolution of communications technologies and the advancement of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, communications networks need to be both ultra-reliable and flexible so as to adequately meet the needs of applications and data transfer requirements. It is estimated that, by the year ...

The top 3 NFV solutions for improving business agility

James Piedra — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:02:39 +0000

Network functions virtualization (NFV) and its subsequent virtual network functions (VNF’s) can’t be developed fast enough for many service providers and business IT organizations. After all, the high level of network automation, commoditized network equipment hardware, and reduced service deployment time/complexity leading to improved network agility are all factors which serve to allow new revenue ...

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 ...

Containers vs virtualization: which is superior?

James Piedra — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:00:16 +0000

Virtualization has been the foundation for many modern technologies, and that CAN’T go without saying for the next- generation network implementation: Network functions virtualization and software-defined networking (NFV/SDN). Virtualization has consistently been used to simplify deployment, management, orchestration and elasticity for communication service providers (CSP) and today leading CSPs have virtualized over half of their ...

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 ...