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Pica8’s PICOS® Enables Automated Policy Enforcement with New Round of Network Access Control Solution Integrations

Pica8, a leading provider of advanced, open networking software for enterprise campus and access networks, today announced enhanced capabilities for PICOS®, the company's flagship Linux-based network operating system. Effective immediately, PICOS supports a range of leading industry NAC solutions, including Aruba ClearPass and Cisco ISE as well as the open-source software NAC project, PacketFence. These...

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

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...

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)....

Kontron integrates Pica8 NOS on new 100G SYMKLOUD platform for multiple NFV core, edge and access solutions

Kontron, a global provider of cloud and carrier-class integrated infrastructure platforms, and Pica8 , a leading vendor of white box switch software, today announced another milestone in their partnership. With the recent launch of the SYMKLOUD MS2920 100GbE converged infrastructure platform, Kontron will market the 2U platform fully integrated and ‘out-of-the-box’ with the Pica8 PICOS...

Cloudistics® and Pica8® Partner to Deliver Secure Virtual Networking for Superconverged Infrastructures

Native network virtualization, micro-segmentation and network function virtualization delivers secure connectivity and control between applications and the infrastructure stack RESTON, VA -- December 1, 2016 - Cloudistics, an enterprise cloud computing company, announces a partnership with network operating system vendor Pica8 to extend the Cloudistics virtual networking capabilities to include industry leading OpenFlow™ and SDN....