Take a Network Break! This week we’ve got stories on VMware selling vCloud Air, AT&T experimenting with white box switches, the Free Range Routing Project (a fork of the open source router Quagga), an update on the sale of consumer Internet data, and much more!
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Show Links:
OVH Announces Intent to Acquire VMware vCloud Air Business – VMware
AT&T Gives White Box Switches a Chance – Light Reading
Making the Switch: Disruptive Telecom White Box Collaboration Accelerates and Opens the Platform, Powering Unprecedented Network Performance and Insights – AT&T
Barefoot partners with AT&T and SnapRoute to deploy revolutionary forwarding plane programmability into high-speed networks – Barefoot Networks
Apple, Amazon, Google join bidding for Toshiba chip unit: media – Reuters
Broadcom Joins Bidding For Toshiba Chip Unit – Investor s Business Daily
Welcoming FRRouting to The Linux Foundation – Cumulus Networks Blog
Free Range Routing
DPDK Project Moves To The Linux Foundation – Packet Pushers
DXC Technology: Next Generation IT Services and Solutions – DXC
Dell Technologies Reports Fiscal Year 2017 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results – Dell Technologies
BlackRock Nominates Chuck Robbins to Board of Directors – Morningstar
Major internet providers say will not sell customer browsing histories – Reuters