December Tech Roundup from EPS Global Share on Written by: EPS Global 12/10/2021 Most Read Blogs DENT and SONiC - The Hitchhiker and the Hedgehog! A decade has now elapsed since the creation of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and the Open Compute Project (OCP). The establishment of these two organisations, and the communities that spawned from within, has led to a complete reshaping of the data center market, and more recently, with the addition of the Telecom Infra Project, the telecoms industry. Read Now. New CGNAT Bundle to Help Service Providers Conserve IPV4 Addresses In November we announced a new bundled solution combining Lanner's Network Appliances with netElastic's CGNAT to provide a fully featured solution of unmatched performance, scalability, and flexibility to amplify your available network address space. Learn More. Fibre Backbone – Helping Landlords and Developers to bring improved fibre connectivity to their buildings [Case Study] "EPS worked with us from the beginning of this project from assisting in the solution architecture, vendor section and brokering introductions to IP infusion to start agreeing a viable solution that would provide scalability at a great cost per port."br> As a long-time customer of EPS Global, Zetta Connect coordinates with carriers to bring connectivity into new or refurbished buildings, site surveys, connectivity upgrades and significantly, by designing a fibre cable infrastructure to enable a plug and play solution for tenants. View the Video. Reducing Energy Costs and Carbon Emissions using Open Source Hardware Fresh off the back of COP26, energy consumption and carbon emissions are of great concern in the data center industry. Our Senior Systems Engineer sat on a panel along with the Open Compute Project & The Cube National Centre of Excellence for Low Carbon at Data Centres Ireland to discuss real life examples of how and where open source hardware is being used to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions in data centres worldwide. Watch Now. OCP's SP Spotlight: One man's journey into Open Networking via Dublin, New York and Glasgow From teaching golf in the Hamptons, to Pearl Jam, to open disaggregated networking... this is not your average tech talk. Steve Helvie from the OCP interviews Barry McGinley, our Senior Technical Engineer, as part of the OCP's Solution Provider Spotlight series. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as Barry enjoys talking! Listen Now. Most Watched Videos Ground-breaking ISP Deployment in Africa In this short overview we showed how EPS Global facilitated Virtual Technologies and Solutions (VTS) in connecting two cities, 200km apart in Burkina Faso utilizing software and hardware from IP Infusion, ufiSpace, Edgecore, SuperMicro, II-VI, and Amphenol. View the Video Here. Demo of the ASXvOLT16 Barry McGinley demos the ASXvOLT16 from Edgecore Networks. The ASXvOLT16 is a 16-10G-port XGS-PON virtual Optical Line Terminal (vOLT) with 4 x 100G/40G QSFP28 fixed ports, and is in stock and available now for purchase or trials. Watch Video. Vision, Innovation and Determination at the EY Entrepreneur of the Year The EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards was held in-person and virtually last month. The 24 finalists for this year’s EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards included EPS Global's CEO, and collectively employ more than 3,900 people and generate revenue in excess of €1 billion. A massive congratulations Brian O’Sullivan of Zeus Packaging who was named as overall winner. View the Video Here. World's First Unboxing of Edgecore's 400G Switch - AS9716-32D Our resident tech expert Barry McGinley gets his hands on one of the worlds fastest bare-metal data center switches available today, the 400G AS9716-32D, and gave us a quick rundown of the specs this switch provides. View the Video Here. World's First Hands on with the AS7926-40XKFB Open Core Router Barry McGinley gets his hands on one of the worlds first S7926-40XKFB's for an exclusive unboxing. This disaggregated router is designed with the Broadcom StrataDNX Jericho silicon and consists of 40x 100G QSFP28 Network Interfaces (NIF) plus 13x 400G QSFP-DD Fabric Interfaces (FIF) in a 2RU form factor. Watch Now. Most Popular Webinars Edgecore SONiC Solutions for Open Networking in the Cloud SONiC, production-hardened in the data centers of some of the largest cloud-service providers, is being widely adopted due to the ever-increasing feature set. We kicked off 2021 with a panel of industry experts from EPS, Edgecore and the OCP who took a refreshing look at the state of the industry and where SONiC fits in. Read the blog & watch on-demand here. The Importance of Automating your Test Lab In March, jointly held jointly with Pluribus, we explored how in pandemic environments like COVID-19, having a lab automation solution to remotely setup & configure lab networks is a key tool for business continuity. However the benefits do not end there, as a test lab automation solution reduces testing costs while at the same time accelerating the introduction of new products and services - providing measurable value to the business. Read the blog & watch on-demand here. x Build Flexibility into your Network at the Cell Site Gateway - On Demand Webinar In April, with UfiSpace, we provided insights into why telecom service providers are beginning their open disaggregation journey at the cell site with disaggregated cell site gateways and the benefits achieved by doing so. View the full webinar here. Hands-on Demonstration of Plume HomePass In October, at The Internet Services Providers' Association webinar on "The Future Wholesale and Retail ISP Models", Plume and EPS gave a hands-on demonstration of Plume's Frontline and Homepass mobile app, which enables service providers to expand the service offering for their subscribers while increasing their ARPU, ROI and NPS. View the Hands-On Demo. New Partnerships EPS Global and Radisys Announce Global Distribution Agreement EPS Global, a leading value-added distributor and IT services organization, and Radisys, a global leader in open telecom services and solutions have announced a global distribution agreement. Under this new agreement, EPS Global will sell the Radisys Connect Open Broadband portfolio to Service Provider customers worldwide. Read Press Release. EPS Global Partners with Plume to Deliver New Digital Subscriber Experiences EPS Global has announced its partnership with personalized smart services pioneer, Plume®. This new collaboration is designed to empower Service Providers to monetize smart homes and small businesses by providing access to new service propositions that leverage broadband to provide – among many benefits – flawless, self-optimizing Wi-Fi connectivity and unparalleled customer experiences. Read Press Release. EPS Global and Infrasolid Announce Global Distribution Agreement EPS Global, a global value-added distributor of Semiconductor and IT components, announced a new global distribution agreement with Infrasolid. Infrasolid develops and manufactures high-performance pulsable infrared radiation sources with a near black-body emittance for use in NDIR gas analysis and IR spectroscopy. Read Press Release. December Tech Roundup from EPS Global 12/10/2021 7:35:05 AM https://www.epsglobal.com/getattachment/ba3f0ea6-a060-4870-bd45-374bb4645880/December-Tech-Roundup-from-EPS-Global.jpg EPS Global https://www.epsglobal.com/Media-Library/EPSGlobal/news/eps-logo.jpg EPS Global