Startup watch

http://www.medianama.com/2012/10/223-gsf-accelerators-first-15-startups-zoomdeck-tushky-playcez-eduflix-more/

http://cubito.in/

Cloud Based IPTV

Oh!! man , IP based TVs are not a future technology since 10 years, but more and more network centric solutions amaze me.
When netflix was down a month back this year amazon web services were blamed and a glitch in their architecture caused the glitch in netflix since amazon EC2 and S3 are used to stream netflix (http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/infrastructure/cloud-connect-netflix-finds-home-in-amaz/229300547)

There are more cloud based

• Cisco videoscape
• ActiveVideo H5 
• Telus Optik TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8NOrnL3-4Q
http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1280717

New Era of Whitebox Virtual Switches

whitebox hardware companies are the once who are building the hardware to run enterprise level network switch software.

Some good examples are
http://cumulusnetworks.com

•  Interestingly most of the founders are ex-cisco

http://www.pica8.com/

• This should be chinese version of this solution

 Arista's 7x switch

• This week arista jumped and announced their new product 7000 series of switch ( note : cloud switch )
• Single tier spline : in the rush to use the terminology before cisco insieme release
• The Arista 7300 is comprised of three chassis: the Arista 7304, 7308 and 7316 with 4, 8 and 16 line card slots respectively. All three share a common resilient architecture that scales up to 512 ports of 40GbE or 2,048 ports of 10GbE, with wirespeed performance of 40Tbps (terabits per second) of throughput. X Series line card modules for the Arista 7300 include 10GBASE-T, SFP and QSFP configurations. Front-to-rear and rear-to-front airflow options along with platinum rated power supplies allow for improved efficiency and middle-of-row Spline configurations.
  Two Arista 7316 Series systems can fit in a single 42RU rack supporting over 4000 10GbE ports. With power consumption under 3W per 10GbE port and latency under 2 microseconds, a pair of 7300 series switches replaces two Catalyst 6509Es with more than ten times the scale, throughput, latency improvement and power efficiency.
  Complementing the 7300X series, the Arista 7250X Series is a high density solution delivering 64 ports of wire-speed 40GbE or up to 256 Ports of 10GbE in a compact and power efficient two rack unit fixed form factor with redundant and hot-swap power supplies and fan modules. Key features on the 7300X and 7250X Series:
  -- Unified Forwarding Table: The Layer 2 MAC table and Layer 3 routing tables dynamically expand based on the application to support up to 288K MAC entries, or 144K routes.
  -- New Duplex Fiber 40GbE Optics: Support for Arista's LRL4 QSFP optics requiring a single pair of single mode fiber, reducing the fiber requirements by 75% compared to existing choices.
  -- Network Telemetry: Real-time visibility into network congestion, buffer management and industry-standard sFlow support for traffic analysis.
  -- Physical-Virtual-Cloud Network: Arista VMTracer provisioning and native VXLAN support, workload mobility and migration at wire speed across multiple hypervisors.
  Pricing and Availability
  The Arista 7300 and 7250 Series are key components of the Arista Software Defined Cloud Network. The 7250QX-64 is available now and shipping for $1500 per 40GbE port. The 7300X series are available in Q1 2014 from $500 per 10GbE port. For more information, please visit http://www.aristanetworks.com/en/products/