Extreme sees the edge as the most exciting part of the network – like much of their competition. They also believe however, that their design philosophy will give them a different kind of edge over the competition moving forward.
Pulse Secure is seeing strong momentum in its virtual ADC business this year, with the growth of cloud applications, and is looking to both cloud-focused partners and their traditional partners broadening out their business to continue the trend.
Service providers may covet the heady promises being made by SDN and NFV purveyors, but their wait and see approach is harming traditional network sales.
In a marriage of SDN convenience, Ericsson and Ciena are teaming up on joint transport solutions that bring together the pair’s optical and IP capabilities.