Getting into the weeds with 5G MEC protocol interoperability testing
Every so often I have a tendency to dig a little deeper into internetworking protocols and their origins than is generally considered healthy. While ...
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What's New in Disaggregated Cell Site Gateways?
Disaggregation in switching and routing equipment decouples hardware, operating system software and applications, breaking down previously monolithic ...
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Applying DevOps techniques to deliver networking software faster and more reliably
Many of us have been around long enough to remember when it would take months and a team of a dozen engineers to do regression testing on a software ...
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Does 5G mean we can finally update the mobile data plane protocol?
For reasons I can’t even begin to explain, I’ve never particularly liked the General Packet Radio Service Tunnelling protocol (GTP). It’s certainly ...
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Implementing the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) in your NOS to track BGP network state
The worldwide public internet has long depended on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for exchanging routing a reachability information between ...
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Implement MPLS on white box switches with the Metaswitch NOS Toolkit
With the continued growth of the global MPLS IP VPN Services Market and the ongoing consolidation of of the access layer onto Multiservice MPLS edge ...
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Leveraging Open Compute technologies to build a portable NOS
Starting with the compute platforms themselves, data center network engineers have long enjoyed the benefits of hardware/software disaggregation. The ...
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A clear recipe for building your own network operating system
Building a network operating system (NOS) is a major undertaking for any organization, requiring significant amounts of time and money to complete. ...
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Composable Network Protocols Shortlisted for Network Transformation Awards
We’re excited to announce that Metaswitch’s Composable Network Protocols have been shortlisted in this year’s Network Transformation Awards for Best ...
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Composable Networking in Massively Scalable Data Centers
Like many missives that have come before, this blog post begins with some blatant plagiarism. When talking network disaggregation, Russ White -- ...
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Introducing Metaswitch - the newest OPX board member
As an integral part of our ongoing commitment to composable networking, Metaswitch has joined the board of OpenSwitch, a networking operating system ...
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Route Telemetry for IBCN and Beyond
To support the insatiable desire for immediate access to real-time information, we must not only dramatically increase the amount of distributed ...
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