Bloggers
Time to start saving power, money and real estate in your 5G packet core
February 16, 2022
As Communications Service Providers (CSPs) worldwide scale up the deployments of their 5G networks, they face strong pressure to optimize their Return on Investment (RoI), given the massive expenses they already incurred to acquire spectrum as well as the ongoing costs of infrastructure rollouts.
Time to stop speculating about “5G’s Uber”
September 27, 2021
During September, I’ve been very fortunate to attend two actual physical conferences focused on 5G. The first was in Denver Colorado, conveniently just across the Rocky Mountains from my current home in Grand Junction. The second was in London England, 200 miles or so south of my original home in Yorkshire (typically celebrated as the home of the most successful cricket team ever, though puddings also get a well-deserved mention).
What will you do with all the money you save in your edge data center?
May 5, 2021
Charlie Ashton, Senior Director Business Development at Napatech, looks at the importance of power and cost in edge data centers – the process of offloading virtual switching from server CPUs onto programmable Smart Network Interface Cards (SmartNICs).
The Effect of Packet Loss on an IDS Deployment
December 2, 2019
Peter Sanders, VP Field Applications Engineering at Napatech, looks at the importance of zero packet loss to a successful IDS deployment - measured by its effects on intrusion alert generation and file extraction.
Surviving the Death of Moore’s Law
December 3, 2018
When you stop to think about it, the entire IT industry is driven by the premise that Moore’s law will continue to provide double the number of transistors per square inch every 18 months and thereby help us to keep up with the relentless growth in data to be processed. What happens when this is no longer true?
Solving the NFV Challenge: The Need for Virtualized Acceleration and Offloads
November 9, 2018
In continuation of his previous blog on the history, vision and challenges of NFV, Daniel Proch now moves on to discuss the solutions that are required to overcome those challenges.
Network Functions Virtualization – A Shining Star for 5G
October 14, 2018
This article is a first of a two-part series, where Danny Proch, VP of Product Management at Napatech, will be outlining the history of the NFV concept, and the challenges in realizing the vision, specifically in the context of 5G networks.
Team structures for mixing support and development tasks
October 1, 2018
Combining product development with ongoing maintenance can offer a series of challenges from an organizational perspective. In his latest blog, Project & Business Process Manager Ulrik Møller looks at the typical setups, and weighs the pros and cons of each model.
IoT Evolution Podcast
August 31, 2018
On this episode of IoT Time Podcast, Ken Briodagh, editorial director at IoT Evolution (iotevolutionworld.com), sits down with Danny Proch, VP, Product Management, Napatech (napatech.com), to talk about the intersection of IoT and SD-WAN, or what Ken decides to coin "SD-IoT."
Continuous Packet Capture: A Valuable Tool in Supporting Modern Networks
June 22, 2018
Peter Sanders, VP Field Applications Engineering at Napatech, talks about the importance and benefits of continuous packet capture for network security.
The road to FPGA-based reconfigurable computing
June 1, 2018
In his latest article, Claus Ek delves into his expertise on hardware to throw light on some of the requirements that need addressing to make a successful high-volume use case for FPGA-based reconfigurable computing platforms.
The three stages of reconfigurable computing – stage 3
April 13, 2018
The final in the 3-part series of articles by Dan Joe, where he explores the various stages of reconfigurable computing.
Combining stage gate and agile process models for product development
March 16, 2018
When it comes to balancing long-term development and short-term customer needs it is all about finding the right process. In his first blog article, Ulrik Moller looks into the benefits of combining stage gate and agile process models for product development.
The three stages of reconfigurable computing – stage 2
March 13, 2018
The second in the 3-part series of articles by Dan Joe, where he explores the various stages of reconfigurable computing.
The three stages of reconfigurable computing – stage 1
February 5, 2018
The first in the 3-part series of articles by Dan Joe, where he explores the various stages of reconfigurable computing.
Packet Capture As a Service
January 17, 2018
A blog article by Alex Agerholm, who explains and delves into the concept of packet capture as a service in a virtualized environment.
QSFP-DD, the new ‘kid’ on the block
November 28, 2017
As a continuation to his previous blog - “Flexible Pluggable Front Port Technology”, in the current blog Claus Ek focuses on the latest addition to the QSFPx form factor family - the QSFP-DD.
Why do you need 100G network traffic replay?
October 27, 2017
In his latest blog, Sven talks about the network traffic replay at 100G and its benefits in a test scenario.
In the Age of FPGA
October 6, 2017
FPGA has shown that it can provide significant acceleration and a high level of reconfigurability and doing all that with an efficient compute power per watt.
So where does all this lead and who is the winner?
Is it time to reimagine the NFV infrastructure?
September 29, 2017
In the run-up to SDN World Congress in The Hague, it is interesting to note that it was at this very show in Dusseldorf 5 years ago that the original NFV whitepaper was first presented. How time flies!
Flexible Pluggable Front Port Technology
August 21, 2017
I am writing this blog article in continuation of my previous blog – “Future-proof FPGA platforms the longevity and upgradability”. In this blog entry, I discuss the available pluggable front port technology, complementing the flexible properties of the described future-proof FPGA-based SmartNICs.
Burst! Does it matter if packet bursts are contiguous or scattered?
July 3, 2017
Packets burst into contiguous memory provide a huge performance benefit due to L1 HW prefetching and optimal PCIe utilization.
Key Take-aways from Two Great Open Source Events
June 23, 2017
During the first week of May I attended the RedHat Summit in Boston for the first time. This year over 6000 people from the open source community around the world got together for 3 days to learn about the latest innovations, ideas and initiatives under the RedHat umbrella.
Effective NFV MANO Calls for Automated NFVI
June 16, 2017
In the world of fin tech, data capture has never exactly been the sexiest area of development.
But as market participants ready themselves for a new wave of trading rules, and as competition among cutting edge trading firms has shown no sign of abating, the importance of data capture has taken on much greater significance.
Web Content Filtering in 100G Telco Networks
June 6, 2017
In the world of fin tech, data capture has never exactly been the sexiest area of development.
But as market participants ready themselves for a new wave of trading rules, and as competition among cutting edge trading firms has shown no sign of abating, the importance of data capture has taken on much greater significance.
Embracing Service Agility, NFV Infrastructure Automation and the New Cloud Reality
March 23, 2017
At Mobile World Congress recently, I was privileged to be invited to speak on a panel debating NFV. The topic of the panel discussion was “NFV: a re-examination” and included participants from Telefonica, InterDigital Europe, Cisco, Spirent and Red Hat.
Key Take-aways From Mobile World Congress 2017
March 16, 2017
Following on from my last blog - “History of Ethernet - New "Rules" and The Ongoing Evolution”, in this blog, I will be discussing the evolution of FPGA technology supporting FPGA based network acceleration cards (NACs).
Future-proof FPGA Platforms: The Longevity and Upgradability
March 13, 2017
Following on from my last blog - “History of Ethernet - New "Rules" and The Ongoing Evolution”, in this blog, I will be discussing the evolution of FPGA technology supporting FPGA based network acceleration cards (NACs).
All in Good Time
January 30, 2017
From the dictionary of idioms, “all in good time” is described as the idea that for those who wait, and are patient, good things will happen. But in the world of network visibility and monitoring...
FloCon 2017
January 16, 2017
Last week I attended the FloCon 2017 conference in San Diego. It was attended by more than 200 people from different companies and organizations from around the world.
DPDK Packet Capture (PDUMP)
December 14, 2016
The 16.07 release of DPDK introduces a new packet capture framework, which will allow users to capture traffic from existing devices/ports/queues and dump the packets to a pcap file...
Hardware Acceleration in the Cloud – Why Not?
November 14, 2016
Data processing and computing power are these days moving into the cloud, which is mainly a virtualized environment with huge flexibility and scalability achieved through a massive infrastructure...
SIEM Thing, Different Day
October 27, 2016
The uptake of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technology in large enterprises is nearly ubiquitous. Today, there are very few large companies without a SIEM...
Packet Capture for Cyber Security
October 6, 2016
Cyber security attacks are on the rise and lately we have learned about a new major data breach at Yahoo, where they apparently lost some undisclosed information on 500.000.000...
History of Ethernet – New “Rules” and The Ongoing Evolution
August 11, 2016
When Bob Metcalfe pitched his “Ethernet” vision back in 1972 during his employment at PARC Xerox, I am sure that he, despite his visionary mind set, had no idea of what he had...
Go Open Source Or Be Left Behind
July 15, 2016
I was recently at the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco. This is the event that today has become synonym with open source solutions, one of the biggest trends to have driven the technology...
PCI Express Bifurcation in the 100G Era
July 5, 2016
Over the last few years, the increase in internet bandwidth has caused carriers to invest in equipment that can meet the requirements of the increasing network traffic. The rapid growth in 100G...
Security Prevention Alone Is Not Enough
June 3, 2016
Security prevention has been the predominant philosophy guiding security solutions to date. The premise is that it is possible through defense in depth and multiple layers of security to foil attacks...
How To Make Server-based Networking Solutions Reliable
May 27, 2016
With the internet being the backbone of modern society, we are extremely dependent on the availability and quality of the internet services provided. The need for availability and quality are addressed...
Artificial Or Not, the Intelligence Is Here
May 19, 2016
In an age when we are thinking of self-driving cars, computers with senses, virtual reality in gaming and robots gaining ground in industries like health care, it is clear that we are heading...
The Challenges of 100g Network Analysis
May 13, 2016
With the current data growth and explosion, we are experiencing a growing demand for a transition into higher capacity networks in order to be able to meet with the growing network...
Key Topics at NFV World Congress 2016
May 6, 2016
I visited the NFV World Congress for the first time last year. It was the year when the ideology of having ‘everything’ in software (SW) was the main topic and if one dared to ask if hardware...
Using FPGA or NPU Technology for NFV
April 21, 2016
When the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) work started back in 2012 one of the fundamental motivating factors behind the NFV technology was the strong desire to move away...
Are We Solving Micro-problems and Creating Macro-problems in NFV?
April 13, 2016
What a difference a year makes! At Mobile World Congress 2015, NFV was one of the catchwords of the conference. Every self-respecting vendor had something to say about NFV...
Impressions from OFC 2016
April 6, 2016
The annual highlight in the optical business is the OFC (Optical Fiber Communication) Conference, this year held in Los Angeles, California with 580 exhibiting companies and more...
Packet Capture the Complete Source To the Truth
March 30, 2016
In a world where cybercrime is constantly increasing and the question is no longer, if you get hacked but more likely when you get hacked, organizations are continuously trying...
RSA 2016 Lots of Hits and Some Minor Misses
March 15, 2016
Last week, I attended my very first RSA conference in San Francisco. As any first-timer, I also attended the event with a lot of expectations and anticipations, hoping to get an insight...
My Key Take-aways from Mobile World Congress 2016
March 4, 2016
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is an event well known to anyone within the telecom and mobile industry. This year, I attended the event for the fourth consecutive year and...
Big Data, IoT and the Enterprise Central Nervous System
February 23, 2016
Perhaps one of the most discussed topics today is Internet of Things (IoT) and each time this topic comes up, the scope and extent of what it encompasses seems to increase...