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China Mobile and Nokia signed a frame agreement valued at up to EUR 1 billion for the continued delivery of mobile, fixed, IP routing, optical transport, customer experience management technologies and operational support as well as services expertise throughout 2018. The agreement was signed at the recent Sino-German Economic Forum by Li Huidi, Vice President […]
Corning introduced its Optical Network Evolution SD-LAN solution for in-building local area networks. The Corning SD-LAN decouples hardware and software layers, creating a flexible platform for deploying traditional Ethernet or passive optical LAN using the same hardware at the edge. Corning said it developed the solution to enable future-ready connectivity inside buildings with the ability […]
Hispasat, the Spanish national satellite operator, has agreed to invest in LeoSat, which is preparing to launch a constellation of low-earth-orbit communications satellites. Financial terms were not disclosed. With this agreement, Hispasat joins Asia’s largest satellite operator, SKY Perfect JSAT, as investors in LeoSat. Washington, D.C.-based LeoSat is working with Thales Alenia Space to develop […]
AT&T agreed to acquire AlienVault, a privately held company based in San Mateo, California that specializes in enterprise-grade security solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Financial terms were not disclosed. AT&T said it intends to integrate AlienVault’s threat intelligence with its cybersecurity solutions portfolio. “Regardless of size or industry, businesses today need cyber threat detection […]
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corp. announced 14TB and 12TB HDD SATA models for data center storage. The MG07ACA Series features both 14TB 9-disk and 12TB 8-disk models. The helium-sealed 3.5-inch mechanical design realizes better storage density and a lower HDD operating power profile, achieving a 40% increase in maximum capacity and 50% better power […]
EXFO reported sales of US$72.2 million for the third quarter of its fiscal 2018, up from US$58.5 million in the third quarter of 2017. The IFRS sales included a US$8.6 million contribution from recently acquired Astellia IFRS net loss in the third quarter of fiscal 2018 totaled US$6.0 million, or US$0.11 per share, compared to […]
The on-premise, enterprise data center market is flourishing, according to the newly released Data Center Strategies and Leadership North American Enterprise Survey from IHS Markit. “Application architectures are evolving with the increased adoption of software containers and micro-services coupled with a Dev/Ops culture of rapid and frequent software builds. In addition, we see new technologies […]
Mark McKillop, Network Engineer at Facebook, and Katharine Schmidtke, Sourcing Manager of Network Hardware at Facebook, talk about challenges in Facebook’s optical networks, both in backbone and in data centers. The first part of the video covers the optical systems used to connect Facebook’s POPs and data centers. The second part discusses optical scaling challenges […]
Facebook’s engineering group is developing a small, embedded C++ library called Spiral to providing the self-tuning of its data infrastructure necessary to fine-tune thousands of micro services. Machine learning is used with Spiral to create data-driven and reactive heuristics for resource-constrained real-time services. Facebook says software maintenance increasingly requires self-tuning capabilities because it is simply […]
Samsung Electronics has begun mass producing its fifth-generation V-NAND memory chips. The new memory is the first to use the “Toggle DDR 4.0” interface, which offers a data transfer speed of 1.4 Gbps between storage and memory — a 40% increase from Samsung’s 64-layer predecessor. Samsung said its new V-NAND also has the fastest data […]
Radisys released a decomposed Virtual Media Server for NFV that enables service providers to scale control and media elements independently. Decomposing the architecture allows application developers and service providers to support tens of millions of subscribers through application servers that leverage a large pool of media server resources for services such as conferencing, speech recognition, […]
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) introduced a cost monitoring and forecasting tool to help customers manage their bill. The tool tracks all services and projects managed inside of GCP. https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/
Seaborn Networks, a leading developer-owner-operator of submarine fiber optic cable systems, has added Mehmet Akcin to its Board of Advisors. Mehmet is one of Silicon Valley’s most innovative engineering executives, with 15 years of experience and 6 patents granted to his name while working at Microsoft. His areas of expertise include submarine cables, IP backbones, […]
