In Pictures: The Cisco/Insieme family
Cisco's Nexus 9000 product line, developed by spin-in Insieme Networks, is the company's response to the SDN craze
Vocus is preparing for the final stages of consolidating its core networks to a single ‘Supercore’ as it deals with the complex legacy of a string of acquisitions, particularly following the 2015-16 period of the M2 merger and acquisition of Nextgen.
Cisco has extended its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) software-defined networking solution to the public cloud, with the vendor announcing today that ACI would support Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure.
PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT (Hong Kong Telecom), has launched a global software-defined wide area network service (SD-WAN) using technology from recently acquired Console Connect, a US startup that conducted most of its R&D and software development in Brisbane.
Apstra, a startup developing intent-based networking technology, has received a significant boost to its fortunes: Yahoo Japan, one of the largest ISPs in Japan, has deployed version 2.0 of Apstra’s AOS operating system for intent-based networking in its multi-vendor production data centre network.
SD-WAN will be offered as a service on the Telstra Programmable Network thanks to a partnership with VeloCloud.