Blog posts tagged
"networking"

39 posts


Guest
10 May 2017

Crowd funding the Radio access technology

Article Internet of Things

This is a guest post by Ebrahim Bushehri, CEO Lime Microsystem. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com The next step towards open source cellular networks for all At Lime we have a mission to democratize wireless networks and to bring disruptive technology to the...

Guest
10 May 2017


Tom Callway
29 March 2017

Carrier Cloudification: What every telecom executive needs to know

Article Cloud and server

New imperatives, technologies, and the emergence of the public cloud are forcing telecom service providers to rethink and validate their fundamental business assumptions. The cloud has forced today’s telecom service providers to transform and perform at increasingly high speeds, counter to their normal mode of...

Tom Callway
29 March 2017


Canonical
1 March 2017

DevOps for netOps

Article Cloud and server

Increasing operational efficiency by managing switches like servers Historically, datacenter switch and network infrastructure has been staged and managed using network specific tooling that required separate teams with their own knowledge base. By disaggregating the network and using standard server management...

Canonical
1 March 2017


Stéphane Graber
14 February 2017

Network management with LXD (2.3+)

Article Cloud and server

Introduction When LXD 2.0 shipped with Ubuntu 16.04, LXD networking was pretty simple. You could either use that “lxdbr0” bridge that “lxd init” would have you configure, provide your own or just use an existing physical interface for your containers. … Continue reading →

Stéphane Graber
14 February 2017


Canonical
21 October 2016

Managing your physical infrastructure from the top of rack switch

Article Cloud and server

At the last OpenStack Design Summit in Austin, TX we showed you a preview of deploying your physical server and network infrastructure from the top-of-rack switch, which included OpenStack with your choice of SDN solution. This was made possible by disaggregating the network stack functionality (the “N” in Network...

Canonical
21 October 2016


Canonical
5 October 2016

Software defined networking is critical in big software

Article Cloud and server

The promise of Software Defined Networking (SDN) is to help an organization’s network to be more agile, streamlined, and adaptable. Today’s networks are growing in both size and complexity. SDN allows network engineers to automate the management and configuration of their network equipment and services. As a strategy,...

Canonical
5 October 2016


Canonical
3 October 2016

Big software has arrived

Article Cloud and server

It’s time for IT to let software do more of the work The world of business technology is under tremendous pressure and most organizations are ill-equipped to deal with the challenges and opportunities that are arising. Software as a Service, big data, cloud, scale-out, containers and microservices are not just...

Canonical
3 October 2016


eBook: CTO’s guide to SDN, NFV & VNF

White paper Cloud and server

  Networking and communications standards and methodologies are undergoing the greatest transition since the migration from analogue to digital. The shift is from function-specific, proprietary devices to software-enabled commodity hardware. Why is the transition happening and why is it important? Read this eBook to:...


Ellen Arnold
29 February 2016

Deploying Juniper Contrail SDN on Ubuntu OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

In this video, we’re going to show you just how quick and easy it is to deploy Ubuntu OpenStack and Juniper Networks Contrail Networking using Canonical’s cloud services modeling tool, Juju. Juju enables users to quickly model, configure, deploy, scale and manage entire cloud environments with just a few commands....

Ellen Arnold
29 February 2016


Canonical
25 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 3 Recap

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu OpenStack running SDN, VNFs and virtualised customer premise equipment (vCPE) The third day of Mobile World Congress was an demonstration in what’s going to be the ‘new normal’. Well, maybe not normal, but it gave us a glimpse into how virtualised network functions (VNFs), industrial IoT, and over-the-top (OTT)...

Canonical
25 February 2016


Canonical
24 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 2 Recap

Article Cloud and server

Day 2 of Mobile World Congress was awesome. The overarching theme of the day was again focused on NFV (Network Functions Virtualisation). But before we get to that, I’m excited to announce that Canonical received a Best of Show award from Trusted Reviews for the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet. A huge crowd gathered to

Canonical
24 February 2016


Canonical
23 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 1 Recap

Article Cloud and server

Bhaskar Gorti, President, Applications and Analytics at Nokia discusses Service Modeling and NFV deploymentThis is my first Mobile World Congress (MWC), and I have to say, the event is truly huge. Canonical is here demonstrating converged mobile/desktop technology, IoT drones and robots, top of rack switch integration...

Canonical
23 February 2016


Canonical
31 January 2016

Nodes Networking: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

Article Cloud and server

This is part 4 of my ongoing “Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju” series. The last post, MAAS Setup: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju, described the steps to deploy MAAS 1.9 itself and configure it with the fabrics, subnets, and VLANs we need to deploy OpenStack. In this post we’ll finish the MAAS...

Canonical
31 January 2016


Maarten Ectors
20 January 2016

NFV does not equal Hypervisor

Article Cloud and server

Summary: This blog post will explain why network equipment providers are incorrectly investing in hypervisors to provide network function virtualisation and why Intel bought Altera. The answer is networking. Until recently switches, routers, DSLAMs, mobile base stations, etc. were all using special purpose hardware...

Maarten Ectors
20 January 2016