Frederic Trate

  Guest Author: Muhammad Durrani Leading Global Network Architecture and Engineering Equinix Segment Routing 101 Segment Routing (SR) is a flexible and scalable way of performing source routing. The source chooses a path and encodes it in the packet header as an ordered list of segments. Eac…

The MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2019 is right around the corner. It goes without saying that this conference is a must to attend as it succeeds in gathering a large panel of industry experts from hyper-scale providers, telcos, enterprises, universities and networking vendors. While this year’s agend…

Who would have bet on a SRv6 interoperability demonstration at SIGCOMM 2017 conference this summer? Very few of us actually… For those who are not familiar with the SIGCOMM 2017 conference, this is a highly respected conference where key networking innovations and orientations are being discussed ev…

Google XTC and you find out it was an English rock band formed in 1972 and active till 2006 … It probably does not ring a bell to most of you – at least for me, I can’t recall any of their songs. XTC had another connotation in the 1980’s, but that’s not the point here either. So, what does XTC mean…

Once again, MPLS World Congress 2017 proves to be a major event for the Networking industry and a key milestone for Segment Routing debates between vendors and customers. Industry at large is backing up Segment Routing: we are seeing adoption across all customer market segments – Telcos, Web Provid…

Cloud Scale Networking software innovations are the outcome of a partnership with some leading innovators to utilize data center ‘DevOps’ principles and techniques to offer new levels of agility, efficiency, and simplicity. Key benefits include: Large-scale automation for provisioning and network c…

Co-authored with Ali Sajassi, Distinguished Engineer, Engineering. Ethernet VPN (EVPN) may be considered by some as the new kid on the block in VPN protocols. It is dubbed as next-generation all-in-one VPN technology that provides a wide of range of services such as E-LAN, E-Line, E-TREE, L3VPN, DC…

Co-written with Patrick Warichet, Technical Marketing Engineer I’ve been asking that question to many Service Providers and I’ve always got unclear answers. Either they don’t have the answer handy or they don’t really want to share this insight fearing to be compared with their peers … Without discl…

Co-authored with Nicolas Breton, Product Manager Marketing, Cisco In the era of Cloud-scale networking, network simplicity, agility and scale are essential.  Service Providers are currently expanding their Data Center footprint to offer on-demand virtualized network services. This is what the indust…