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Liberty Global has selected Ericsson for the consolidation of Network Operations Center service delivery in six European locations: the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland and Germany. Under the contract, Ericsson has successfully undertaken operations consolidation and transfer of services functions of the various NOCs. This builds on the existing Managed Services contract between Ericsson […]
Intel and Ericsson completed the first 5G-NR compliant live data call over the 39 GHz band using Intel’s RF mm-Wave chip with Ericsson Radio System commercial equipment, including the 5G NR radio AIR 5331, baseband and Intel 5G Mobile Trial Platform. The 5G trial was completed in labs in Kista, Sweden, and Santa Clara, California. […]
Colt Technology Services announced the expansion of its SD-WAN service across Asia Pacific and North America, enabling customers to benefit from application-based traffic steering, real-time service changes via an interactive customer portal, virtual routing and firewall services enabled via Network Function Virtualisation (NFV). The SD-WAN services are delivered via universal CPEs, which are now also […]
ColorChip will showcase a family of PAM4 optical interconnects ranging from 100G to 400G, with reaches up to 40km, at the CIOE 2018 exhibition in Shenzhen, China. ColorChip’s100G CWDM4 2km and 4WDM-10 10km QSFP28 solutions leverage its proprietary “SystemOnGlass” technology. “To support the massive use of fiber in fronthaul and backhaul networks, the evolving 5G […]
OpenStack, which now powers more than 75 public cloud data centers and thousands of private clouds at a scale of more than 10 million compute cores, has now advanced to its 18th major release. OpenStack “Rocky” has dozens of dozens of enhancements, the significant being refinements to Ironic (the bare metal provisioning service) and fast […]
The user experience is the ultimate test of network performance. For many applications, this often comes down to the lag after clicking and before the screen refreshes. We can trace the packets back from the user’s handset, through the RAN, mobile core, metro transport, and perhaps long-haul optical backbone to a cloud data center. However, […]
Ciena reported revenue of $818.8 million for its fiscal third quarter 2018, as compared to $728.7 million for the fiscal third quarter 2017. Ciena’s GAAP net income for the fiscal third quarter 2018 was $50.8 million, or $0.34 per diluted common share, which compares to a GAAP net income of $60.0 million, or $0.39 per […]
ZTE Corporation reported revenue of RMB 39.434 billion for the first six months of 2018, down 27% from RMB 54.010 for the same period in 2017. For the six months, ZTE’s net profit attributable to holders of ordinary shares of the listed company amounted to RMB-7.824 billion, representing year-on-year decline of 441.24%. Basic earnings per […]
The Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSFP-DD) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) completed a mechanical plugfest to validate the compatibility and interoperation between member’s designs. The MSA said the event confirmed that the maturity of design experience resulted in a highly successful outcome. A key value proposition of QSFP-DD form factor is the backward […]
Nutanix reported revenue of $303.7 million for its fourth quarter ended July 31, 2018, up from $252.5 million a year earlier, reflecting the elimination of approximately $95 million in pass-through hardware revenue in the quarter as the company continues to execute its shift toward increasing software revenue. Software and support revenue amounted to $267.9 million […]
Sales of 25 Gbps controller and adapter ports is forecasted to grow at a 45 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group, as 25 Gbps advances to become the mainstream speed in cloud and enterprise servers. “25 Gbps has seen a strong initial ramp-up […]
The server market is on track to surge $10 billion higher in 2018 before growth rates taper, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. Vendor landscape is trending to lower-cost white box cloud servers. “Although we forecast a five-year compounded annual growth rate of only two percent, the growth of the server market in […]
A10 Networks announced preliminary revenue of $60.7 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2018, up 12% year-over-year. GAAP net loss was $4.5 million, or $0.06 per share, and non-GAAP net income was $1.6 million, or $0.02 per share. “We have made steady progress across our key initiatives including strengthening our team, increasing our pace […]
