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  In 2017 a top 3 telecom provider with a heavy retail presence (more than 4,000 stores in the U.S.) made a business decision that has been delivering solid dividends ever since: It started replacing some 5,000 Cisco Catalyst switches in its stores with Pica8’s PicOS® Software Switches on white box...

  In recent years, we’ve seen a real upsurge of interest in deploying network access control (NAC) in the enterprise campus. We’re not at all surprised by this, given the network is now used by more types of devices (IoT, security cameras, BYOD) and users (students, employees, contractors) than...

  Interest in intent-based networking (IBN) continues to grow, even as the definition remains vague and varies by vendor. In this post, I’d like to offer my take on one element that I believe will be important for any successful IBN implementation: efficient and effective open telemetry. Telemetry...