Integrating white-box switches and routers into business networks has its challenges, but properly scaled and vetted deployments can save money. If you’re an enterprise CIO, CFO, or network operations ...

AT&T says it’s not enough to deploy white box hardware and to orchestrate its networks with the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) software. “Each individual machine also needs its own operating ...

Pluribus Networks today rolled out a white box, multi-tenant data center gateway router that it says costs about one-fifth the cost of traditional data center gateway routers. “That’s where we see the ...

One of Cisco’s top customers is turning into a dangerous foe. One of the greatest threats to Cisco's business is the rise of generic "white-box" routers and switches. These unbranded devices generally ...

Major carrier AT&T has announced that it plans to deploy 60,000 open-standards based “white box” routers throughout the United States over the next few years. The new router boxes will run on open ...

AT&T submitted specifications for a new white-box architecture to the Open Compute Project (OCP), targeting service provider-class routers with chips optimized for 400 gigabits per second (400G) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AWS (Amazon Web Services) has had a rough couple of weeks. Maybe it was stress-testing its flexible computing infrastructure power ...

The wireless industry is in a state of transition to the next-generation 5G wireless network. In an attempt to beat other three major players — Verizon Communications Inc. VZ, Sprint Corporation S and ...

Single-vendor networking has an edge in enterprises, but SD-WAN and SASE are making a case for open white-box networks. Everyone says they want the best network, but there’s not much agreement on how ...