Fall 2015 ONUG Meeting Highlights

The Fall 2015 meeting of the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) gave customers a chance to hone their use cases and deliver the candid, critical feedback to vendors who are working on open networking products.

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Open Networking Is Gaining Steam, But Challenges Persist

While many point to the progress with open networking, the future, while bright, is not without its challenges. Adoption of open networking is see as positive by all except the entrenched hardware vendors but this does not mean that all of the obstacles are cleared.

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The Collision Of Open Source, Open Networking, And SDN

Open source is a driving factor in enterprise technology, and it is fueling the move to open networking and SDN. As businesses are “betting the business” on open source in cloud and enterprise platforms, networking, the last bastion of proprietary stacks, is ready to be toppled.

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SD-WAN: Driving Business Benefits

Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) is changing the technology landscape, but more importantly, SD-WAN is having a real impact on the business side of the equation. SD-WAN vendor Silver Peak is recognized for the WAN expertise and driving the clear business benefits with SD-WAN.

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Can Broadband Change the WAN?

For years, wide area networks (WANs) were based on multi protocol label switching (MPLS) technology, but MPLS is very expensive and less flexible. A new generation of software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) products are adding broadband to create hybrid WANs. Silver Peak is one of the leaders in this space.

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Spring 2015 ONUG Meeting Highlights

A summary of the various meetings and discussions from the Spring 2105 meeting of the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) where user needs flow into use cases that are shared with vendors who are delivering open networking products.

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Bringing Dev Ops to WAN Orchestration

The movement to dev ops was primarily focused on application development but Glue Networks brings the concepts of dev ops to WAN (and network orchestration) through their latest Glueware release.

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Fifty Shades of Open Networking

There is a continuum of open networking that covers the wide spectrum of needs and deployments. Customers are anxiously seeking change and Dell has a strategy to drive open across their entire networking product line.

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