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Pica8 Expands Global Footprint to Middle East and Africa; Signs MEA Distribution Agreement with Dubai-based Distilogix

Pica8, a leading provider of advanced, open networking software, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Dubai-based VAD (value-added distributor) Distilogix that licenses them to sell Pica8’s PICOS® Linux-based network operating system (NOS) and PicaPilotTMwhite box switch automation and management software in the Middle East and Africa. Distilogix specializes in bringing a variety of software-defined...

Pica8 Teams with Dell to Add 1G Brite-Box PoE Networking Option for Legacy Enterprise Access-Edge Switch Stack Replacements

Pica8, a leading provider of advanced, open networking software, today announced that the company’s PICOSÒnetwork operating system (NOS) has been ported to the Dell N3048EP-ON 1G PoE Ethernet switch and is now available for immediate deployment in enterprise campus, branch and remote office networks. The addition of the 48-port Dell N3048EP-ON to Pica8’s growing hardware compatibility...

Pica8 Launches PicaPilot™ Switch Orchestration Software, Crushing Enterprise Network Deployment and Management Complexity

Pica8, a leading provider of advanced, open networking software, today announced PicaPilot™, the first-ever networking software solution capable of automatically connecting almost any number of multivendor 1G to 100G white box Ethernet switches and running them as if they were a single logical switch with a single IP address. With PicaPilot, Pica8’s PICOS® network operating system...

Pica8 and NEC Demonstrate 100G Multivendor SDN Switching Fabric

San Francisco Business Times

Pica8 and NEC Demonstrate 100G Multivendor SDN Switching Fabric

Pica8 and NEC Demonstrate 100G Multivendor SDN Switching Fabric

Pica8, a leading provider of advanced, open networking software, today announced that it is demonstrating a multivendor 100G switch fabric using the NEC ProgrammableFlow SDN Controller to drive its PICOS® network operating system on core and edge switches from Dell EMC, NEC and Edgecore to facilitate open networking. With this commercial demonstration, NEC is showing...

White Box Networking in Remote and Branch Offices

Cabling and Installation

White Box Networking in Remote and Branch Offices

Not just the domain of hyperscale data centers, white box networking can be deployed efficiently in the enterprise. BY Pica8. With hundreds or thousands of locations to be connected, managing network services in remote or branch offices can be a significant challenge. Network services support everything from internal and guest WiFi to internet access, internal...

Pica8 Plans to Introduce Retailers to PicOS

Open Networking

Pica8 Plans to Introduce Retailers to PicOS

With Thanksgiving around the corner, Black Friday – and Cyber Monday (News - Alert) – and the official opening of the holiday shopping season is coming in short order. Retailers spent the previous year prepping for this consumer spending spree, with shows like the National Retail Federation’s annual trade show and conference serving to add insight for innovation in the industry. Pica8 plans to unveil, PicOS network operating system for retailers at the January trade show. The preeminent provider of open networking solutions is providing the retail industry with a value proposition that is difficult to deny.

Pica8 To Introduce White Box Networking Solution for Retailers at NRF

Pica8, Inc., a leading vendor of white box switch software, today announced that it is launching its PICOS™ network operating system into the retail market with an exhibit in booth 1480 at the National Retail Federation’s annual trade show and conference at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York on January 14-16 (#nrf2018, #NRFBigShow)....