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Posted in April 2012

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Broadcom Switch Talks Terabits


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
April 30, 2012 : A 200G chip is the company's answer to the big, flat data-center fabric that vendors like to talk about

Falcone Could Step Down From LightSquared


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April 30, 2012 : The latest reports around the company say hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone has struck a deal with creditors
Comment: Cisco and SDN - Craig Matsumoto April 27, 2012

Cisco Links SDN & Policy


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (3)
April 27, 2012 : Cisco doesn't see software-defined networking (SDN) as a threat but as a key to improve policy by revealing what the network is really doing
Comment: Infinera - Craig Matsumoto April 25, 2012

Is Verizon an Infinera Customer?


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April 25, 2012 :

How Is Juniper Sizing Up for 2012?


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April 25, 2012 : Q1 looked OK, but as Juniper brings out its new core router, packet-optical switch and data-center fabric, a good 2012 is not a slam dunk
Comment: Re: Just questions - Craig Matsumoto April 25, 2012
Comment: Re: Nothing excited - Craig Matsumoto April 25, 2012
Comment: Apple - Craig Matsumoto April 25, 2012
Comment: QFabric - Craig Matsumoto April 25, 2012
Comment: EZchip - Craig Matsumoto April 25, 2012
Comment: Multi-CoS - Craig Matsumoto April 24, 2012

Juniper's Rookie Products Get Called Up


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4)
April 24, 2012 : Big hopes sit behind Juniper's T4000, QFabric and PTX, and the company is trying to show the products are off to good starts
Comment: Juniper earnings - Craig Matsumoto April 24, 2012

Juniper Reports an Upbeat Q1 Early


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April 24, 2012 : Jumping the gun on the close of the market, Juniper says its Q1 was pretty good, while Q2 could be comparatively flat
Comment: Re: IPv6 - Craig Matsumoto April 24, 2012
Comment: Non-double-counting - Craig Matsumoto April 24, 2012
Comment: Wi-Fi Freedom - Craig Matsumoto April 24, 2012
Comment: Network Processors - Craig Matsumoto April 24, 2012

Broadcom Finally Gets to 100G


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April 24, 2012 : Its relatively quiet network processor division steps up to the level EZchip and Xelerated (now Marvell) reached a while ago

Cisco Talks SDN


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April 23, 2012 : What problem is software defined networking even trying to solve? David Ward, from Cisco's CTO office, tells the Open Networking Summit how service providers could approach that question

Interlaken


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April 23, 2012 : A chip-to-chip interface useful in 100G

SDN Fever Takes the Valley


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April 20, 2012 : 4:25 PM Silicon Valley seems to love software defined networking, and it's big in Japan, but there's still a long way to go
Comment: Re: Hyperbole Plus! - Craig Matsumoto April 20, 2012

IPv4 Stash Opens for Carriers


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April 19, 2012 : But they'd better not use the IP addresses for IPv6 procrastination, or the IETF will get all uppity
Comment: Re: SDN != OpenFlow - Craig Matsumoto April 19, 2012

Cisco Outlines an SDN Plan


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April 19, 2012 : The company confirms that $100M spin-in Insieme is working on software-defined networking in some form
Comment: Re: The Doctor - Craig Matsumoto April 19, 2012

Photos: Open Networking Summit


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April 18, 2012 : Silicon Valley's lovefest for software-defined networking drew a much bigger crowd than expected
Comment: Re: Real world - Craig Matsumoto April 18, 2012
Comment: Real world - Craig Matsumoto April 18, 2012

OpenFlow's Optical Connection


Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (5)
April 18, 2012 : 11:25 AM The guys who live down at Layer 1 are cheering for software defined networking more fiercely than you might realize

Google Uses OpenFlow Massively


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (6)
April 18, 2012 : It's also making its own 10Gbit/s switches, which isn't a surprise, but it's nice to hear someone admit it
Comment: The Doctor - Craig Matsumoto April 18, 2012
Comment: Federating CDNs - Craig Matsumoto April 17, 2012
Comment: OpenFlow and AT&T - Craig Matsumoto April 17, 2012

Why Verizon Is Keen on OpenFlow


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
April 17, 2012 : Not every carrier is sold on software-defined networking, but Verizon thinks it's the way to unlock some crucial data-center capabilities
Comment: Usage-based billing - Craig Matsumoto April 16, 2012

Cyan Targets Usage-Based Ethernet


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April 16, 2012 : The idea of making money off of occasional bandwidth bursts in the enterprise comes one step closer to reality for service providers
Comment: OpenFlow + Cloud - Craig Matsumoto April 13, 2012
Comment: Verizon markets - Craig Matsumoto April 13, 2012

Citrix Blends OpenFlow & Cloud


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comment (1)
April 13, 2012 : They might taste great together, but the exact recipe is still up for debate
Comment: OpenFlow startups - Craig Matsumoto April 12, 2012

Startup Tackles OpenFlow Security


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (4)
April 12, 2012 : Some NetScreen veterans say they're covering up a real-world weakness of OpenFlow's, and they won't be the last
Comment: Re: Me-too CDN ? - Craig Matsumoto April 12, 2012
Comment: 'Pull a BlackBerry' - Craig Matsumoto April 11, 2012

Dell Gets Into the CDN Business


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
April 11, 2012 : Teaming up with EdgeCast, Dell wants to cash in on the trend of service provider-owned content delivery networks

HP Configures the Cloud


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
April 10, 2012 : On the heels of its OpenFlow obsession, HP adds software around another popular networking buzzword

Edge ROADM Specialist Gets Bought


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (13)
April 9, 2012 : Nistica has built up fans in Japanese industry through the years, so the deal isn't exactly a shocker

Privacy Ages Well


Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (5)
April 6, 2012 : 9:45 AM We keep hearing about privacy slipping away – but how privacy-minded were you 10 or 20 years ago?

Photos: VentureBeat Mobile Summit


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April 5, 2012 : App developers and mobile operators got out of the Valley for a couple of days to hang out and talk shop
Comment: LightSquared - Craig Matsumoto April 5, 2012
Comment: Re: Huh? - Craig Matsumoto April 4, 2012
Comment: Transcoding - Craig Matsumoto April 4, 2012
Comment: Carrier incubators - Craig Matsumoto April 3, 2012

AT&T Defends Carrier Incubators


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April 3, 2012 : Carriers can't really get nimble just by hanging out with startups, can they? Luckily for AT&T, John Donovan was around to answer that