We’re starting a new series on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the routing protocol of the Internet. When it comes to BGP, service providers live and die by it. However, there are some divergents who don’t like BGP and decided against
PacketFabric is an innovative networking startup focused on disrupting the legacy carrier model. They provide automated SDN-based Layer-2 Terabit-scale connectivity in more than 128 colocation facilities in the US, including Equinix, Digital Realty, Coresite and others. Started in 2015, the PacketFabric
Verizon Enterprise Solutions with Viptela Verizon Enterprise Solutions has launched Virtual Network Services, a new SDN and NFV service for enterprise clients, in collaboration with Viptela, which provides control cloud network components such as SDN-WAN controllers. The new network-as-a-service is
100+ Companies Tell the US Government How to Foster IoT Growth IoT is one of the most anticipated and discussed telco market segments. Ericsson calculates that the IoT market will grow at CAGR 23% between 2015 and 2021, making up
Skyhigh Networks Partners with Zscaler The cloud access security broker, Skyhigh networks, announced that they have begun a partnership with Zscaler, a cloud security company, which will focus on securing cloud services. The two companies have stated they will be
Over the past several years, there’s been an emerging trend in the networking industry that has been heading away from physical infrastructure and towards virtual/cloud environments. As a result, open source router software has begun to shift the tides, challenging
Being a next-gen CDN is a difficult job, and is akin to being a mini-Google, where dozens of non-related systems must be hacked together, in order for them to work in unison. From an operational perspective, the job of continuous
According to a recent Bloomberg article, Apple is “assembling a high speed network” and “upgrading how it builds its data centers” because “Apple wants to own pipes linking its four data centers and Internet” to “ensure fast, reliable delivery of
Pluribus Networks just landed $50M in Series D, raising its total funding to $92.8M, which helped them leapfrog Cumulus Networks in total funding raised. Pluribus Network is used by CloudFlare in their CDN infrastructure. Going back in time to 2007,
2014 was a banner year for CDN feature set innovation, especially in the areas of Cyber Security, SDN, Virtualization and Wireless Last Mile Acceleration. 2015 is going to be a continuation of that, as CDNs make their feature sets more
SDN is a tidal wave in the making, and just the way MySQL decimated Oracle RDBMS in the web database business, SDN is likely to do the same to Cisco’s switching business. Many experts state that large enterprises won’t shift
There are three acceleration pieces involved in the delivery of content from the origin to the edge. They are the first mile, middle mile, and last mile acceleration techniques. Middle mile acceleration is associated with DSA and ADN (Application Delivery
Happy New Year. Bizety is publishing the 14th edition of the CDN Ecosystem Diagram. The Ecosystem has been updated to reflect the changes over the last year. The diagram is noisy, but rich in concept, and includes CDNs, Cyber Security,
CDN’s have been touting last mile and middle mile acceleration technologies for the last several years. DSA, FEO and Wireless Last Mile Acceleration was front line news for almost every CDN. Today however, FEO, DSA and Wireless Last Mile Acceleration
2014 is going down as the most innovative period in CDN history, where CDNs began to transform themselves from being a commoditized caching/streaming service play, to a hybrid cloud global infrastructure entity offering complex solutions in Cyber Security, SDN, WAN
