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MACOM Technology Solutions introduced its latest high-performance RF switch portfolio for SATCOM, 5G wireless, test and measurement (T&M), EW and microwave radio applications. MACOM’s new GaAs-based SPDT MASW Series switch covers the 17.7 – 31 GHz frequency range, with low insertion loss of 1.6 dB, high isolation at 30dB and switching speed of 12 ns. […]
Cohesity, a start-up based in San Jose, California, raised $250 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund with strong participation from strategic investors Cisco Investments, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, along with early investor Sequoia Capital and others. Cohesity specializes in hyperconverged secondary storage. […]
Commentary from Lynn Lucas, CMO, Cohesity “We’ve all seen the transformation of the data center for primary workloads and mission-critical applications, largely founded on the new principles around hyper-converged infrastructure. Nutanix and others are leaders in this area.” “At Cohesity, our CEO, Mohit Aron, was CTO and co-founder of Nutanix, colloquially known as the father […]
IBM Cloud continues to build out its cloud footprint with 18 new availability zones in Europe (Germany and UK), Asia-Pacific (Tokyo and Sydney), and North America (Washington, DC and Dallas, Texas). An availability zone is an isolated instance of cloud inside a data center region, with independent power, cooling and networking to strengthen fault tolerance. […]
A10 Networks is introducing an automated way to integrate enterprise-grade load-balancing with application visibility and analytics. The new A10 Ingress Controller for Kubernetes, which integrates with A10’s container-native load balancing and application delivery solution, can automatically provision application delivery configuration and policies. It ties directly into the container lifecycle to automatically update application delivery configuration […]
Foundry.ai, a start-up based in Washington, D.C., announced $67 million in funding for its artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions for large enterprises . Foundry has launched four businesses to date: Vizual.ai, which provides image optimization to web publishers and e-commerce businesses; Supplier.ai, which allows enterprises to improve procurement economics through improved vendor selection, pricing and […]
GARR, Italy’s national research and education network, has deployed Infinera’s Cloud Xpress 2, featuring the Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE4), to meet growing bandwidth demands driven by scientific computing applications. GARR’s network reaches approximately four million users and connects over 1,000 public institutions across Italy with other international networks worldwide. Infinera said GARR deployed its Cloud […]
Splunk agreed to acquire VictorOps, which offers in DevOps incident management software, for approximately $120 million. VictorOps, which is based in Boulder, Colorado, offers incident management software that features automated alerting, centralized information, and essential documentation. “The combination of machine data analytics and artificial intelligence from Splunk with incident management from VictorOps creates a ‘Platform […]
Huawei is showcasing Intent-Driven Network (IDN) solution for vertical industry sectors at this week’s CEBIT 2018 fair in Hannover, Germany. “The integration of the Internet into industries has brought the first wave of digital dividends and continues to penetrate into global industrial markets. The introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will set off another round of […]
AT&T is bringing FirstNet mobile plans and devices into its 5,300 retail stores across the country. This lets verified first responders sign up for FirstNet service under a personal account. AT&T and FirstNet said some EMS, fire and law enforcement agencies don’t provide their personnel with wireless service plans or devices. Verified personnel will be […]
MACOM introduced a portfolio of Non-Linear Transmission Line (NLTL) comb generators optimized to meet the demanding performance requirements of radar transceiver, VSAT and microwave radio applications. MACOM said its new MLPNC Series comb generators feature the lowest phase noise in the industry, which is expected to significantly improve the overall performance of RF multiplier modules. […]
Major sporting events are often used as showcases for next-gen networking technologies. Earlier this year, KT conducted a number of 5G tests at the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, Korea. The 5G public demos were interesting but not directly relevant to fans equipped with current generation smartphones. For the upcoming World Cup, MTS, the leading […]
SKBoadband, a leading cable operator in Korea, has hit a record speed of 4 Gbps downstream and 1Gbps upstream, using DOCSIS 3.1 SKBroadband rolled out DOCSIS 3.1 downstream and upstream pilot service in the Anyang area in Gyeonggi Province and the Gwangju area in Jeollanam Province in November 2017. The deployment uses the Cisco cBR-8 […]
