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Virtual Central Office

October 18, 2017

Central Office (CO) virtualization is a hot topic for communications service providers (CSPs) today. Service providers face increasing competition in global markets, and are highly motivated to improve service agility and operational efficiency in order to improve customer experience and lower costs. In the US alone there are more than 10,000 central offices with a broad range of equipment and configurations which have traditionally been managed locally and manually. This provides tremendous potential for optimization through network virtualization, software defined networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and standardization through open source-based, interoperable solutions.

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North Coast Macintosh Users Group

NCMUG is about people helping people learn all about the Mac. At meetings, visitors are welcomed by one of a cadre of volunteers who help them get oriented and point them to people and resources that are available. Speakers run the gamut from authors, software and hardware vendors, to club members with special talents. Beyond the meetings, there are special interest groups (SIG's), workshops, members only discounts from major Macintosh vendors, an award-winning newsletter, website and on-line members-only email lists that keep people sharing around the clock. All of these resources are available to members, whether or not they can attend meetings.

OTHER WHITEPAPERS

Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform

whitePaper | September 23, 2022

The Cisco HyperFlex™ HX Data Platform revolutionizes data storage for hyperconverged infrastructure deployments and makes Cisco HyperFlex Systems ready for your enterprise applications—whether they run in virtualized environments such as Microsoft Windows 2016 Hyper-V

Dell EMC VxRail vSAN Stretched-Cluster Planning Guide

whitePaper | November 20, 2019

vCenter Server is the centralized platform for managing a VMware environment. It is the primary point of management for both server virtualization and vSAN and is the enabling technology for advanced capabilities such as vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and HA. vCenter scales to enterprise levels where a single vCenter can support up to 1000 hosts (VxRail nodes) and 10,000 virtual machines. vCenter supports a logical hierarchy of datacenters, clusters, and hosts, which allow resources to be segregated by use cases or lines of business and allow resources to be moved as needed dynamically. This is all done from a single interface.

VMware vSphere & VMware vSphere+ Compute Virtualization

whitePaper | July 12, 2022

vSphere+ is the multi-cloud workload platform that brings the benefits of cloud to onpremises workloads. vSphere+ combines industry-leading virtualization technology, an enterprise-ready Kubernetes environment, and high-value cloud services to transform existing on-prem deployments into SaaS-enabled infrastructure that centralizes management, supercharges productivity, and accelerates innovation. With vSphere+, IT admins and developers can easily build, run, manage, protect, and secure their traditional and next-gen applications. vSphere+ can be purchased through a flexible subscription plan that better aligns with the business.

Virtualization Defined - Eight Different Ways

whitePaper | October 4, 2021

Virtualization as a concept is not new; computational environment virtualization has been around since the first mainframe systems. But recently, the term “virtualization” has become ubiquitous, representing any type of process obfuscation where a process is somehow removed from its physical operating environment. Because of this ambiguity, virtualization can almost be applied to any and all parts of an IT infrastructure. For example, mobile device emulators are a form of virtualization because the hardware platform normally required to run the mobile operating system has been emulated, removing the OS binding from the hardware it was written for. But this is just one example of one type of virtualization; there are many defi nitions of the term “virtualization” fl oating around in the current lexicon, and all (or at least most) of them are correct, which can be quite confusing.

Virtualization Best Practices

whitePaper | May 27, 2022

This best practice guide will provide advice for making the right choice in your environment. It will recommend or discourage the usage of options depending on your workload. Fixing configuration issues and performing tuning tasks will increase the performance of VM Guest's near to bare metal.

Growing 5G+Wi-Fi RF Complexity Demands Innovative, Advanced & Tightly Integrated RFFE Solutions

whitePaper | July 28, 2023

According to Counterpoint Research, the 5G+Wi-Fi 7 market will see cumulative shipments of over 7 billion devices through 2027 and grow at more than 100% annually between now and 2027 driven by leading applications including smartphones, gateways and routers, and the automotive sector.

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