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Sandra D. Motley as President of Nokia’s Fixed Networks Business Group effective January 1, 2019. She replaces Federico Guillén, who as previously announced has been named President of Customer Operations, EMEA & APAC. Motley will report to Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri. Motley started her career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, held a range of […]
NETGEAR completed its previously announced distribution of 62,500,000 shares of Arlo common stock (NYSE: ARLO) owned by NETGEAR, representing approximately 84.2% of the outstanding shares of Arlo common stock. After the completion of the distribution, NETGEAR no longer owns any shares of Arlo common stock. In addition, Patrick C.S. Lo resigned as a director of […]
Zayo signed a global Software as a Service (SaaS) for data center colocation at one of its Midwestern data centers. The deal doubles the customer’s data center footprint with Zayo. “This expansion is a testament to the customer’s impressive growth and success,” said Bruce Garrison, senior vice president of Zayo’s zColo business segment. “Our ability […]
Beginning on December 27 at around 10am MST CenturyLink was hit by a widespread outage impacting consumer and businesses across the United States. Numerous communities reported a loss of 911 service. Businesses reported a loss of mission-critical cloud services. Residential customers complained about the loss of broadband connectivity. CenturyLink’s network status page posted the following […]
NEC agreed to acquire KMD A/S, the largest Danish IT company, for approximately 8 billion Danish Kroner (DKK) from Advent International, a global private equity firm. The acquisition is expected to be completed by the end of February 2019. KMD mainly provides software and IT services in Denmark through business models that generate profit continuously […]
MPEG LA announced today that patent holders in MPEG LA’s AVC/H.264 Patent Portfolio License have enforced verdicts of injunction in German District court (“Landgericht Dusseldorf”) cases finding that Huawei Deutschland GmbH (“Huawei”) and ZTE Deutschland GmbH (“ZTE”) infringed patents by their use in mobile phones that implement the AVC/H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) Standard. As a […]
NTT Communications (NTT Com) agreed to acquire a majority stake in Transatel (HQ: Paris, France, CEO: Jacques Bonifay), a global Internet of Things (IoT) cellular connectivity management provider and Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE). Financial terms were not disclosed. Transatel, established in 2000, has since 2012 been a pioneer in deploying its own worldwide data […]
IRIDEOS, an Italian infrastructure provider with 12 data centers and 30,000 km of optic fiber deployed along motorways, announced the ability to support connections up to 400 Gbps following an upgrade to its transport network. The IRIDEOS network is based on ultra-low latency, direct optical paths ensuring high performance, and on an ASON architecture and […]
Michael Bushong, Juniper Networks’ VP of Enterprise and Cloud Marketing Network automation will hit the curve in the proverbial hockey stick. Despite years of talking about automation, the vast majority of enterprise operations are still manual, CLI-driven activities. In 2019, adoption will shift from linear to something more aggressive. This will be driven in part […]
by John English, Director of Marketing, Service Provider Solutions, NETSCOUT 5G just can’t ‘contain’ itself In 2019 as virtualized network architectures are rapidly adopted to support 5G we expect to see containers emerge as the de-facto platform to run new applications and workloads The excitement around 5G is building as we hear more news about […]
by Heather Broughton, Sr. Director of Service Provider Marketing, NETSCOUT Operators will ‘scale or fail’ to meet the 5G demand in 2019 5G will be faster, smarter and more efficient than 4G, but in order to meet demand and to support new architectures, networks will have to scale. While most of the scale in the […]
Cloud Constellation Corporation, a start-up based in Los Angeles, announced a funding commitment of $100 million from HCH Group Company for its “SpaceBelt” series of data centers in orbit. Cloud Constellation’s SpaceBelt is described as “an innovative cloud service for the protection of an organization’s strategic, mission-critical data assets.” The company plans to deploy a […]
Philips will sell 100% of its Photonics GmbH division to TRUMPF. Financial terms were not disclosed. Philips Photonics, which iss headquartered in Ulm, Germany, designs, manufactures, markets and sells VCSEL-based solutions for data communications, consumer and industrial applications. Its product portfolio ranging from high speed VCSELs (vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers) for data communication to infrared illumination […]
