Nicira is part of the nascent, so-called software defined networking industry, which basically decouples software, or intelligence, from networking hardware — the routers and switchers.
DealBook » VMware to Buy Nicira for $1.05 Billion | VMware is buying a start-up that is part of the "software defined networking industry," which basically decouples software, or intelligence, from networking hardware.
Speaking at a gathering of journalists and networking industry analysts, several Cisco executives outlined what they called a "$14 trillion opportunity" in bringing sensors, communications and data analysis to all the world's traffic systems, hospitals, refineries, and other civil and business infrastructure.
When the computer networking industry gathers in Atlanta next month for the Networld+Interop trade show in Atlanta, one of the least-attended sessions will be a meeting of the Distributed Management Task Force.
Wednesday morning in Chicago, Zander is set to address a khakis-and-polo-shirt crowd of telecom and networking industry types and observers at a trade show just 30 miles from his company's Schaumburg, Ill., headquarters.
His fiber optics equipment company, Sycamore Networks scmr, went public in October 1999 with an initial stock market capitalization of $20 billion.He's one of a handful of networking industry executives that made the Forbes billionaires list this year.
The company, whose routing equipment lets telecommunication service providers send data across the Internet at high speeds, is doing what many networking industry watchers once considered impossible: going head-to-head with Cisco Systems the world's largest maker of Internet gear, and winning accounts in Cisco's core business.
The issue is that within the networking industry, most of products used to maintain networks are decades old and out of date.
SDN has revolutionized the networking industry by providing architectural support for 'programming the network'.
