Cavium Scales its OCTEON II Processor Line

Cavium Networks is extending its family of OCTEON II processors with four new processor lines that integrate one to ten cnMIPS64 cores. The additions expand both low and mid range options in a fully software compatible manner with other members of the OCTEON II and OCTEON Plus family, enabling enterprise, data center and service provider equipment including routers, switches, appliances, 3G/4G wireless base stations, RNCs, xGSNs, evolved packet...

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F5 Positions its Service Delivery Networking for Mobile Data Tsunami

F5 Networks, which specializes in layer 7 traffic management solutions, is positioning itself as a strategic control point for the growing tsunami of mobile data traffic. Specifically, F5's Service Delivery Networking (SDN) leverages its BIG-IP appliance to offer a set of integrated solutions for service and subscriber management -- such as intelligent traffic steering, large-scale IPv4 to IPv6 translation, secure DNS traffic management, traffic...

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Cisco Debuts Carrier Packet Transport with MPLS-TP

Cisco introduced its Carrier Packet Transport (CPT) System -- a metro access aggregation platform that aims to integrate the capabilities of Ethernet + TDM switching, transponders and ROADMs in order to deliver packet network efficiencies in the transport network. Essentially, CPT unifies the packet and transport layers in one compact, carrier-class platform. It integrates DWDM, OTN, Ethernet, and MPLS-TP functionality, giving service providers...

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NTIA Seeks to Free up 115 MHz of Spectrum

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is recommending that 115 MHz of spectrum be reallocated for wireless broadband service within the next five years. As part of the announcement, NTIA released two complementary reports detailing the effort to nearly double commercial wireless spectrum: a Ten-Year Plan and Timetable, as well as a Fast Track Evaluation identifying the 115 megahertz of spectrum to be made available...

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AT&T to Offer Samsung Galaxy Tab Pay-As-You-Go Monthly Data Plans

AT&T announced two pay-as-you-go data plan options for the Samsung Galaxy Tab: a $14.99 pay-as-you-go plan for 30 days with up to 250 MB of usage and a $25 pay-as-you-go plan for 30 days with up to 2 GB of usage. If customers use all the data included in their plan before 30 days, they can purchase another pay-as-you go plan. For additional convenience, these plans can automatically renew every 30 days, when customers pay for these plans with...

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Clearwire and Sprint Launch 4G in Sacramento

Clearwire has launched its WiMAX network in Sacramento, California. Regionally, service extends out to Davis to the West, to Elk Grove in the South, to Roseville/Folsom out to the East and Natomas to the North. Sprint also announced 4G commercial service availability in Sacramento. http://www.clearwire....

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Facebook Messaging: SMS + IM + Email + FB

Facebook unveiled its new messaging platform aimed at unifying SMS, instant messaging, email and Facebook updates. The new service, which will be rolled out to the company's 500 million subscribers, will let users send messages from within Facebook to any of the outbound channels. Incoming messages from any channels can also be seen from within Facebook and users will have the option of sharing with friends or keeping messages sorted by conversation...

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EMC to Acquire Isilon for Big Data Storage

EMC agreed to acquire Isilon Systems, which develops "scale-out" network attached storage (NAS), for $33.85 per share in cash -- which equates to approximately $2.25 billion, net of Isilon's existing cash balance. Isilon, which is based in Seattle, offers a highly scalable, low-cost storage infrastructure solution for managing "Big Data", such as the storage needs for new generation applications in the life sciences (e.g. gene sequencing), media...

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Juniper's T4000 Driven by 45nm Trio Silicon

James E. CarrollEditor-in-ChiefJuniper Networks unveiled its next generation T4000 core router featuring 16-slots operating at 240 Gbps and capable of supporting high-densities of 10G connections, as well as 40 and 100GE interfaces. The new platform, which continues Juniper's Junos operating system and retains existing interfaces from its T640 and T1600 core routers, addresses the scalability challenges of service provider backbone and major Internet...

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Brocade Delivers Virtual Cluster Switching

Brocade introduced the first two products in a new line of 10 GigE data center switched specifically build for highly virtualized and cloud-optimized data centers. The switches eliminate the need for Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), collapsing the access and aggregation networking layers to create a flat, multipath, deterministic network. Brocade believes this approach is ideal for virtualized environments because it provides virtual machines (VMs)...

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