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Each of us has sat in standstill traffic, trying to understand why this major highway we drive all the time has suddenly backed up, with our phone maps application showing a line of red for the next mile or two. As we crawl towards the bottleneck, we see it: A fender bender with dented cars still…

If you haven’t seen the official trailer for Top Gun: Maverick, you need to. And if watching the trailer makes you think about your own need for speed…network speed that is, you’re not alone. We’re all feeling the need for speed, and the race to 400G and above has already started. It’s…

Acquisitions can be tough to get right and easy to get wrong. For example, HP acquired Autonomy for $11.2 Billion in 2011, only to discover later that they had cooked their books, resulting in a $9B writedown. Back in the dot com era, Terra Networks acquired Lycos for $12.5 Billion, only to unload…

In my last blog about SRv6, I reviewed SRv6 technology and Ixia’s solution to validate SRv6 implementations. Now, over 10 months passed, there is a lot more excitement and interest in the market. Multiple SRv6 implementations, commercial deployments, and next-generation network design…

Customers in the finance sector often ask the question – “What is latency across an optical tap?”. Buddy, can you spare a nanosecond?In the world of low latency trading, where servers are co located with Exchange matching engines, latencies do add up and sometimes nanoseconds matter, so the latency…

The broadcast industry has embraced IP technology and is transitioning from tradition serial digital input (SDI) to IP/Ethernet infrastructure for live production and professional television to meet the increasing amount of content distribution, flexibility for modern media processing, as well as a…

I ran across an interesting statistic a couple weeks ago. According to a Ponemon Institute, report titled “The State of Cybersecurity in the Oil & Gas Industry”, 68 percent of security and risk managers reported losing confidential information or experiencing disruption over the previous year…

The recently released 2019 State of the Cloud report by RightScale found that 58% of 800 technical professionals surveyed use a hybrid strategy [1]. Combining on-premises, virtual, and cloud-based resources offers great flexibility, but managing hybrid IT is also more complex. IT teams need new…