Bloggers

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.

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).

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).

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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."

Peter Sanders, VP Field Applications Engineering at Napatech, talks about the importance and benefits of continuous packet capture for network security.

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 final in the 3-part series of articles by Dan Joe, where he explores the various stages of reconfigurable computing.

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 second in the 3-part series of articles by Dan Joe, where he explores the various stages of reconfigurable computing.

The first in the 3-part series of articles by Dan Joe, where he explores the various stages of reconfigurable computing.

A blog article by Alex Agerholm, who explains and delves into the concept of packet capture as a service in a virtualized environment.

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.

In his latest blog, Sven talks about the network traffic replay at 100G and its benefits in a test scenario.

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?

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!

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.

Packets burst into contiguous memory provide a huge performance benefit due to L1 HW prefetching and optimal PCIe utilization.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...