Craig Matsumoto is a 451 Senior Analyst focusing on the confluence of CDNs, interconnect fabrics and cloud access. Craig has covered service-provider and enterprise networking since the dot-com bubble of 1999, including more than 10 years at Light Reading, where he covered broad topics including optical networking, routing and the then-new beat of software-defined networking. He also spent four years at SDxCentral, delving further into SDN, NFV and container technologies.
Before joining 451, Craig spent one year back at Light Reading as editor-in-chief. He holds a bachelor of science degree in engineering mathematics from UC Berkeley.
The company is continuing its cadence of high-end Ethernet switch chips with the new Tomahawk 4, capable of handling 25.6Tbps of traffic. Combined with the Trident 4, Tomahawk 4 signals Broadcom's continued leadership role in the space for merchant networking silicon.
The new Cloudflare for Teams set of products focuses on securing an enterprise's own employees as they access cloud-based and SaaS tools, and moves the security provider into identity and access management, malware protection, and (through the S2 acquisition) browser isolation.
The company's newest ASIC architecture, Silicon One, will be available to third-party network equipment vendors as will Cisco's IOS XR7 operating system and its optical modules. But the radical change is Cisco is becoming more open and disaggregated, partly to satisfy service providers and ever-important hyperscale customers.
The company recently held its eighth annual re:Invent conference. While more than 65,000 attendees (vs. 53,000 in 2018) were on hand, CEO Andy Jassy reminded the audience this is primarily an education, developer-driven and networking event.
The vendor's Compute@Edge is the latest entrant in the CDN edge computing race, continuing content delivery networks' push into becoming programmable edge platforms. One twist is that Fastly didn't use JavaScript, as most other CDN providers do.
The mist has lifted off the vendor's urban edge infrastructure strategy as it positions itself as a colocation and cross-connectivity provider on the edge of success. By year-end, Vapor is on track to have a presence in five metros.
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