Articles by Arthur Cole 

The AI chip sector is growing fast. 

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It's becoming increasingly viable for enterprises to customize network hardware solutions.

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Service providers who wish to cash in on enterprise NFV must pursue one of three options.

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As they deploy automated — and, eventually, intelligent — network technology, enterprises need better monitoring tools.

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The sheer pace of development these days may be hampering the decision-making process.

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Fiberoptic connections help support cloud computing and IoT implementations.

The virtualization giant has unveiled several new network-focused initiatives that could bring it into competition with Cisco and other networking vendors.

The dream of network automation is alluring, but implementing it on legacy hardware can be a nightmare.

Microservices architecture will put new demands on network infrastructure.

Software-defined networking is getting its own programming language.