Cloud native networks are not SDN reborn but a fundamentally different way to look at networks. While SDN seemed to take physical network machines and virtualized them, CNFs are not merely ...

Continuing our look at the work of the IOWN project, we find out what use cases the next evolved generation of the infrastructure will support and which firms are likely to gain.

Software is called "multi-tenanted" if a single instance can serve multiple tenants, and multi-tenancy is often referred to as an application "architecture." Cloud-native technology is challenging ...

Imagine managing a large apartment complex that is occupied by digital residents rather than real ones. They all share the same infrastructure, from the plumbing (the network) to the elevator (the ...

Microsoft has revealed it has collaborated with Ciena to define a blueprint for what it calls a zero-trust tiered optical network architecture. In a white paper explaining the nature of the ...