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 ever…

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…

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…