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Vapor IO, which is developing tower-connected edge colocation services, announced the addition of Alan Bock to its executive team, as vice president of business development, telecommunications. He will focus on carrier relationships as well as relationships in emerging verticals that include autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Bock is a former VP at telco infrastructure provider […]
At SDN NFV World Congress in The Hague, Edgecore Networks introduced disaggregated open OLT products to enable service providers to deploy 10G PON services and GPON services with the lower costs and greater software control of SDN-managed open network infrastructures. The Edgecore ASGvOLT32 and ASGvOLT64 GPON OLTs will provide 32-ports and 64-ports respectively of GPON, […]
At SDN NFV World Congress 2018 this week in The Hague, Wind River is showcasing edge cloud compute applications in collaboration with BT. The demo features Wind River Titanium Cloud, a deployment-ready virtualization software platform, running on a BT cellular base station. The proof of concept platform, which functions as an edge cloud compute node, […]
At SDN NFV World Congress, Netcracker unveiled its new Netcracker Business Cloud solution, an end-to-end cloud-based SDN/NFV solution as a service designed to help service providers fast track their cloud transformation initiatives. Netcracker said that by offering the industry’s first end-to-end, cloud-based SDN/NFV and IT solution—from VNFs to orchestration, OSS, BSS, portals and a digital […]
Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica Deutschland announced a network sharing deal under which at least 5,000 Telefónica Deutschland mobile base stations will be connected via Deutsche Telekom’s fiber-optic network in the long term. Deutsche Telekom said the commitment enables its to dedicate more resources to its own network expansion. T Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica Deutschland concluded […]
Luxembourg-based Millicom agreed to acquire a controlling 80% stake in Cable Onda, the largest cable and fixed telecommunications services provider in Panama, for approximately US$1.002 billion in cash. The deal values 100% of Cable Onda at an enterprise value of $1,460 million. Cable Onda is the leader in Panama’s broadband internet, pay-TV, fixed telephony and […]
CyrusOne is making a $12 million investment in ODATA Brasil S.A. and ODATA Colombia in exchange for a 10% equity interest in S.A.S. (collectively “ODATA”). “CyrusOne is a leader and innovator in the data center industry, and their design and construction expertise will be valuable in delivering timely, cost-efficient builds to hyperscale companies.” ODATA is […]
Rancher Labs released version 2.1 of its container management software, introducing next generation automatic cluster operations and application management, as well as a migration path for users moving from Rancher’s Cattle orchestrator to Rancher Kubernetes. “Rancher continues to be the de facto choice for enterprises looking to run containers and Kubernetes in production,” said Sheng […]
Facebook introduced two consumer video conferencing devices featuring smart camera and microphones as well as built-in Amazon Alexa capabilities. The service provides video conferenced between Facebook and Messenger contacts. The smart cameras use AI to track the users as they move about within view. Connectivity is provided via Wi‑Fi (802.11a/b/g/n/ac) with dual band MIMO (2.4GHz […]
Zayo announced a contract to provide a U.S.-based multinational bank with dark fiber, colocation and wavelengths. Zayo said the colocation solution at a zColo data center in the western U.S. will serve as an interconnection hub for the customer. Dark fiber routes from the data center, over existing Zayo network, will connect to the bank’s […]
Netflix represents 15% of all downstream traffic across the entire Internet, according to Sandvine’s newly released 1H 2018 Global Internet Phenomena Report. Some highlights: Video is ~58% of downstream traffic on the Internet BitTorrent is ~22% of all upstream traffic on the Internet Google is 40.2% of all connections in APAC League of Legends has […]
Epsilon, a privately-held global communications service provider based in London and Singapore, has deployed Juniper’s Metro Fabric solutions to support its global network upgrades to power future IoT applications and robust enterprise services. Epsilon combines on-demand infrastructure, automation, web-based portals and APIs to deliver “friction-free access to global connectivity for resolving complex networking challenges.” Its […]
Bloomberg Businessweek published a bombshell article alleging that a malicious microchip smaller than a grain of rice was secretly embedded into server motherboards designed and sold by SuperMicro and installed by 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon Web Services and Apple. The article, which cites unnamed U.S. government officials and insiders at AWS and Apple, claims […]
