Take a Network Break! Episode 66 dives into a couple of SD-WAN deals: an acquisition and a startup’s new customer. We also look at a couple of IoT announcements, including a Cisco partnership for remote lighting, and a new IoT server from HPE.
We speculate on whether F5 might be a takeover target, and dig into market data on global switching and routing sales (switches are up, routers flat).
Comcast attempts a Jedi mind trick by telling us that data caps are not data caps, and China invests billions of dollars to become a chip manufacturing powerhouse.
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Show Notes:
SD-WAN: Consolidation And Customers
Cradlepoint Buys Pertino in SD-WAN Deal – eWeek
Early SDN Startup Pertino Gets Acquired By Cradlepoint – SDX Central
Vonage SmartWAN To Deliver Enhanced Quality of Service for Business Customers – VeloCloud
IoT Lights In The Fog
Cisco Partners With Philips To Sell Internet-Connected Lights – Fortune
Edgeline Is HPE s Answer to Fog Computing & IoT – SDX Central
Market Analyst: F5 Attractive For Takeover
F5 Networks Could Be Ripe for the Picking – SDX Central
IDC: Switches Up, Routers Flat
IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Ethernet Switch and Router Trackers Show Ethernet Switch Market Moderately Improving in 3Q15; Router Market Stays Flat – IDC
Comcast s Weasely Wording
The more bits you use, the more you pay : Comcast CEO justifies data caps – Ars Technica
China To Build Chip Giant
Exclusive: China’s Tsinghua Unigroup to invest $47 billion to build chip empire – Reuters