Top 3 Telecom Provider with a Heavy Retail Presence Selects Pica8 over Cisco
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…
Want NAC without Cisco’s Financial Handcuffs? Then You Want Pica8
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 ever…
Tech Talk: Why Telemetry is Critical to Successful Intent-Based Networking
nterest 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 is…
Welcoming Walmart to the Open Networking Community
Want to catch the latest in open networking? Head to your local Walmart store. It appears Walmart has bought into open networking in a big way. The company recently joined LF Networking, the collaboration ecosystem for Open Source Networking projects that is part of the Linux Foundation. “By…
3 Reasons Pica8’s PICOS® is (Already) Flourishing Across the Enterprise
I read with interest a blog post about the open source data center network operating system (NOS) SONiC. To date, SONiC has been deployed mainly by hyperscalers and other large cloud data center providers with very homogenous infrastructure and simple use cases, but a recent Gartner blog post…
Pica8 Earns Top 10 Spot on CRN.com’s list of Cool SDN Networking Tools
There are far worse ways to start 2021 than to be named a company with one of “The 10 Coolest Software-Defined Networking Tools of 2020” by CRN.com. Even better, in these days of almost zero investigative technology journalism and pay-for-play marketing to get onto lists like these, it was a breath…