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Craig Matsumoto
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Posted in November 2012

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Comment: Mechanics of Cariden - Craig Matsumoto November 30, 2012
Comment: CDN and SDN - Craig Matsumoto November 30, 2012

Cisco Pledges SDN Openness With Cariden


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (6)
November 30, 2012 : Laugh if you will, but Cisco insists it's been 'open' about SDN and will stay that way after its latest acquisition
Comment: Open Transport Switch - Craig Matsumoto November 29, 2012

Optical SDN Gets a Test Run


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
November 29, 2012 : The proposed Open Transport Switch gets a trial run from Infinera and ESnet, bringing software-defined networking to the optical layer
Comment: Insieme - Craig Matsumoto November 29, 2012
Comment: Cariden - Craig Matsumoto November 29, 2012

Cisco to Spend $141M for More SDN Help


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
November 29, 2012 : The acquisition of a 12-year-old, profitable software company gives Cisco more IP and optical management tools that could boost its software-defined networking strategy

AT&T's Ex-CTO Takes a Step Back


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (9)
November 28, 2012 : Hossein Eslambolchi's first extended CEO gig will have to wait, but that doesn't mean he's disappearing from the map
Comment: Enterprise SDN - Craig Matsumoto November 27, 2012

Alcatel-Lucent Takes SDN to the Enterprise


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
November 27, 2012 : Alcatel-Lucent wants to take software-defined networking deep into the enterprise, with a plan that would stretch all the way to the user

RESTful API


The Buzz Bin - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
November 27, 2012 : An application programing interface (API) built on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture
Comment: Bell Labs - Craig Matsumoto November 26, 2012
Comment: Re: I have a question - Craig Matsumoto November 26, 2012

Infinera CEO Shows He's a Believer


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (10)
November 26, 2012 : You'd expect a CEO to own his own company's stock, but they don't always buy on the open market like Tom Fallon just did
Comment: Re: Oreo cheesecake.... - Craig Matsumoto November 21, 2012

Optical Transport Gets an SDN Idea


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (10)
November 21, 2012 : An early proposal suggests how to standardize a connection between software-defined networking and the optical layer
Comment: ADCs and the cloud - Craig Matsumoto November 20, 2012

F5 & Riverbed Take to the Cloud


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
November 20, 2012 : The migration of applications to the cloud means application delivery controllers have to keep up
Comment: Re: Ruckus IPO - Craig Matsumoto November 16, 2012

Photos: Ruckus's IPO Party


Slide Shows - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4)
November 16, 2012 : Employees do, indeed, cause a ruckus with a 6:30 a.m. party that woke up all the neighbors

Contrail Wants to Be an SDN 'Compiler'


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (5)
November 16, 2012 : The programmability associated with software-defined networking needs a push, reasons one group of Juniper/Cisco vets
Comment: CDNs and traffic - Craig Matsumoto November 15, 2012

SDN & the Commodity Question


Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (8)
November 14, 2012 : 6:00 PM Software-defined networking won't eradicate Cisco or Juniper. At least not right away
Comment: C-Docsis - Craig Matsumoto November 14, 2012
Comment: Re: Cisco Q1 - Craig Matsumoto November 14, 2012
Comment: Cisco Q1 - Craig Matsumoto November 13, 2012

Cisco Revenue Down 19% in Europe


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
November 13, 2012 : Business is recovering nicely across the board, with one big exception

Cisco Nets $2.1B in a Predictable Q1


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November 13, 2012 : Earnings beat Wall Street by a usual amount, but analysts are bracing for a less sunny Q2

Extreme's 100G Packs a Cloud Trick


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November 13, 2012 : Tired of 100G? Good. The really interesting part about Extreme Networks' new blade might be in the memory chips
Comment: Re: How does this work? - Craig Matsumoto November 13, 2012
Comment: Big Switch partners - Craig Matsumoto November 13, 2012

Big Switch Girds for SDN Battle


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
November 13, 2012 : The OpenFlow startup is taking on VMware and Cisco with what it says is a more open approach to software-defined networking
Comment: Leading Lights - Craig Matsumoto November 12, 2012
Comment: Re: energy star? - Craig Matsumoto November 12, 2012

Infinera Slices & Dices Its 500G


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
November 12, 2012 : Smaller capacity chunks might make the 500G DTN-X a little easier to swallow

Ethernet Expo 2012: XO's 100G Update


LRTV Interviews - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
November 12, 2012 : Donald MacNeil, CMO at XO Communications, discusses Carrier Ethernet 2.0, the timing of the operator's 100Gbit/s service launch and the potential for software-defined networking (SDN)

Why a 400G Standard Might Draw Complaints


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (5)
November 9, 2012 : It's not just a terabit thing. As the IEEE revs up for an apparent 400G Ethernet standard, some think optical speeds need to be set free

Hitachi Cable Brings Carrier Ethernet Stateside


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November 9, 2012 : The makers of the Apresia line of fiber-only, Layer 2-only switches are considering a hop into the US from Japan – again
Comment: Bandwidth-on-demand - Craig Matsumoto November 7, 2012
Comment: AT&T capex - Craig Matsumoto November 7, 2012

Carrier Ethernet Has a Job for SDN


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4)
November 7, 2012 : The possibilities for software-defined networking are myriad, but the Carrier Ethernet crowd has its eye on one application in particular
Comment: Coffee - Craig Matsumoto November 7, 2012

Fabrinet Hits, Oclaro Misses


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November 6, 2012 : It's not a completely fair comparison, but it's interesting that two companies in the optical space had such divergent quarters

Cyan Spins 'Blue Planet' for SDN


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
November 5, 2012 : Carriers won't have to hold their breath to get software-defined networking, Cyan says

RAD Has a Radical Ethernet Module


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
November 4, 2012 : The company comes to Ethernet Expo in New York this week with an SFP module that adds Carrier Ethernet to non-Carrier Ethernet boxes

Suit Targets Avago's Optical Patent


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4)
November 2, 2012 : Avago is accused of unfairly blocking competition in optical modules, in a case that echoes a long battle Rambus fought

Ethernet Expo Is Still On!


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November 2, 2012 : Neither rain nor snow nor ... you get the idea. We're still planning to hold Ethernet Expo and the Leading Lights awards next week
Comment: Re: Juniper? - Craig Matsumoto November 1, 2012

Matt Bross Leaves Huawei


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (10)
November 1, 2012 : From Williams to BT to Huawei to ... ? Where next for the well-traveled CTO?