NextGen Carrier Ethernet
(T) Providing higher bandwidth applications (more) at a lower cost (with less) is the main driver for the present evolution of Ethernet. But to achieve that goal some legacy limitations […]
(T) Providing higher bandwidth applications (more) at a lower cost (with less) is the main driver for the present evolution of Ethernet. But to achieve that goal some legacy limitations […]
(T) Every year at the RSA Conference, I have the same feeling: that information security is not changing and at the same time somewhat changing. What is changing is obviously […]
(T) Although most of us have been exposed to the basis of computation theory through the Turing Machine, fewer of us probably remembered that Alan Turing was a code breaker […]
(B) Earlier this year, Bill Gross from PIMCO identified in his January 2008 Investment Outlook, the emerging risks to the financial system caused by the $45 trillion credit default swaps (CDS). […]
(B) The present crisis of the US financial system that raised its peak with Bear Stearns’ collapse last week has its roots in the US addiction to put too much […]
(T) To continue on my previous article about data encryption and access control, following is a new approach to provide security policies and encryption keys for IP Security (IPSec) network […]
(T) Information security professionals need constantly to ask themselves what are the requirements to secure the digital assets that they are in charge. Today again in the headlines a new […]
(E) Barron’s in its October 1, 2007 edition has ranked the top 50 hedge funds based on their average returns over the last three years (The article is available online […]
(T) For the last two products that I started, the operating system of the equipment was a Linux kernel. Most network equipment vendors have been switching recently from VxWorks from WindRiver to […]
(E) There is hype. And, there is the reality. And, in most cases, if you do not pay too much attention, it is hard to distinguish the hype from the […]
(E) Last week, one of my best friends was in Europe for a business trip and on Friday at 9 pm shoot me an e-mail on my BlackBerry asking me […]
(T) As reported by Light Reading recently, Avici Systems became the last vendor to exit the Internet core routing market. Before Avici, Caspian Networks, Pluris, Chiaro Networks, Hyperchip, Axiowave, and […]
(T) With 100 Gb Ethernet coming soon, Ethernet, by all means, is a versatile technology. It can be deployed in many applications over many data rates. But, we need to […]
(T) They were this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. I was a little bit disappointed by the 2007 RSA conference this year versus the previous years. The […]
(T) It was certainly more exciting to be at MacWorld at the Moscone Center in San Francisco than at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. How fun it […]
(T) Yes, a telecom start-up can still be bought for $290M like Entrisphere today by Ericsson! But it has been a while since the last time that happened. I believe […]
(B) In an interview in the June edition of the Harvard Business Review, Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman, and CEO of GE describes how he intends to grow organically GE two to […]
(T) At the 2006 RSA Security Conference in San Jose, both Bill Gates and John Chambers articulated similar market and product strategies that both aim to increase the security of […]
(T) MPLS has strongly emerged as the best technology to provide initially IP VPNs also called Layer 3 VPNs and now PWS (Pseudo Wires Services) and VPLS (Virtual Private LAN […]
(T) Organizations have been demanding virtual private networks (VPNs) instead of costly leased lines from their service providers and, Ethernet and IP services instead of DS1 and DS3 services. MPLS […]
(T) At SuperComm 2005 in Chicago, most vendors of optical CPE and transport products have now adopted the new Ethernet over SONET/SDH (EoS) family of protocols. The first EoS chips […]
(T) At the 2005 MPLS World Congress in Paris, an evolution of GMPLS called GELS was announced to provide a control plane to Ethernet switching. The idea is quite interesting […]