The infrastructures of federal networks in many ways resemble a gated community — and Stepford, while familiar and perhaps comfortable, was built decades ago. It doesn’t stand a chance against the ...

Telecom and internet service providers have turned to faster networking technology—whether it be 5G, DOCSIS 4.0 or fiber-optic cables—to boost sales and profitability. But even with these new network ...

As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

Campus Network Virtualization using an SDN Approach with a focus on slicing/traffic isolation lends itself to two main approaches, both of which have advantages over VRF-based legacy solution. Find ...

With traditional network infrastructure, services have been tied to dedicated hardware devices. Network functions virtualization (NFV) changes this paradigm by decoupling the network functions from ...

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While system virtualization — and to a lesser extent, desktop virtualization — has held most of the virtualization limelight, there is also a growing trend in network virtualization. Most of you in ...