Inocybe Technologies is banking on the continued growth of open source-based software-defined networking (SDN)controllers. The company is expanding the physical reach of its operations and depth of its leadership team. The Montreal-based firm, which provides open source SDN controllers based on OpenDaylight (ODL) specifications, opened new offices in San Francisco, Boston, and London. Inocybe said the move […]
Open Source Champion Zannos Joins Inocybe (Sarah Thomas, Light Reading)
John Zannos, a prominent figure in the open source world, has left Canonical and joined open networking technology company Inocybe as chief revenue officer. Montreal-based Inocybe Technologies announced Zannos’s arrival on Monday, along with the company’s expansion into San Francisco, Boston and London. Inocybe, while only 25 employees strong, has gone into growth mode, with plans to […]
CIOs And CTOs Must Understand How The Internet Of Things Is Changing How Business Is Done (Chris Wilder, Forbes)
First and foremost, it’s important to remember IoT is not new. In fact, one could argue industrial IoT was invented by stalwarts like Johnson Controls, Honeywell, Itron, General Electric and Schneider Electric last century through their sensors, meters and other devices used to monitor and manage HVAC, SCADA and other energy assets. What’s changed are improvements in interest, infrastructure and information. […]
Inocybe Hires Top Open Networking Experts (Light Reading)
MONTREAL — Inocybe Technologies announced today the hiring of networking veterans and top contributors to OpenDaylight, Andrew McLachlan, Brady Johnson, Thomas Pantelis and Ryan Goulding. With their cumulative experience in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), they further expand Inocybe’s global team of Open Networking expertise. They advance the company’s open source SDN […]
PoC: OPNFV Community Demo: Virtual Central Office (Telecom TV)
Proof of Concept: Presented by Azhar Sayeed, Chief Architect, SDN & NFV, Red Hat Central Office Virtualization is a hot topic for Telecommunication Providers. While CORD (Central Office Re-Architected as a Data center) has been demonstrated before, However, Telcos continue to be interested in building the virtualization architecture of Central Offices using OpenDaylight SDN controller. […]
10 Most important open source networking projects (Brandon Butler, Network World)
There’s an open source insurgence happening in the networking industry. Increasing demands on the network to scale to unprecedented levels and at the same time become more customized to specific use cases has led to the emergence of open source projects to support them. In many cases networking vendors are using these open source projects […]
Carbon to Fuel Cableco, IoT Deployments (Paula Bernier, NFVZone)
The OpenDaylight Project this month came out with a new release of its software-defined networking open source platform. This latest iteration, known as Carbon, features enhancements to address cable operator concerns, Internet of Things deployments, and metro Ethernet technology. “We continue to see new use cases emerging for OpenDaylight, including our work with Avaya on […]
OpenDaylight Carbon Brings Support for Metro Ethernet, Cable Services (Converge! Network Digest)
The OpenDaylight Project, delivering an open source platform for programmable, software-defined networks, has announced its sixth release, Carbon, featuring enhancements designed to better support metro Ethernet and cable operators, as well as Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. OpenDaylight’s latest release advances the platform’s scalability and robustness with new capabilities to support multi-site deployments for geographic […]
Un-Masking FD.io – the Open Source Project that Processes Packets (Linda Hardesty, SDxCentral)
The Fast Data Project (FD.io) is a networking open source project whose scope includes software-based packet processing, fast Input/Output (IO), and universal data plane management across bare metal, hypervisor, and container environments. FD.io, which was open-sourced by the Linux Foundation in February 2016, was garnering quite a lot of attention at the recent Open Networking Summit […]
Open Source Is Still Pretty Cool (Denise Culver, Light Reading)
One of the benefits of my job as the caretaker of everything Pedia related is that I have a bird’s-eye view of how new listings are placed into Virtuapedia and Testapedia that others just don’t have. And every once in a while, that perspective provides me with a fresh insight that, while not earth shattering, […]