SoftLayer Opens in Amsterdam

SoftLayer Technologies, which operates major data centers in Dallas, Houston, San Jose, Seattle, Washington D.C., and Singapore, has chosen Amsterdam for its European headquarters and site of new facility. SoftLayer is investing $75 million initially in Holland and its European operations, which also includes new network PoPs in Amsterdam, London, and Frankfurt. The new Amsterdam data center will feature capacity for more than 15,000 servers. In...

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Agilent and Datang Telecom Establish TD-LTE-Advanced Lab

Agilent and Datang Telecom Group have established the TD-LTE-Advanced Joint Research Lab to focus on developing new test standards to promote the technology.The new lab is the second project created by the two firms. Engineers from both organizations will work together to develop TD-SCDMA, TD-LTE and TD-LTE-Advanced solutions. The work will support Datang Telecom's research on technologies, systems and chipsets, as well as Agilent's instrument...

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Ericsson Wins TD-LTE with India's Augere

Augere has selected Ericsson's radio base station, the RBS6000; Evolved Packet Core technology and microwave transmission for a TD-LTE network in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Services will be rolled out under the ZOOSH brand to residential and business customers beginning in Q2 2012. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ericsson.com 13-Oct...

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Huawei Introduces Hybrid MPLS Prototype

Huawei introduced its H-MPLS (Hybrid-Multiprotocol Label Switching) prototype unified bearer solution for simplifying VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) planning within an access network and extending service scalability to the network at large. Hybrid MPLS is based on Huawei's SingleFAN broadband access solution and it provides a unified bearer platform for ATM, TDM, Ethernet and IP with MPLS encapsulation. Huawei said that unlike traditional MPLS, its H-MPLS does not require direct configuration of network edge devices. As a result, the number...

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Juniper Secures its Cloud Data Center with Juniper SRX Gateways

Dell will deploy Juniper Networks' SRX RX Series Services Gateways in one of its new cloud data centers. http://www.juniper....

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Riverbed Sees Opportunity in Optimizing Cloud Storage

Riverbed is continuing to enhance its Whitewater cloud storage gateways with goal of replacing tape storage with third-party, offsite solutions. The Whitewater platform ingests back-up data into its local data cache that scales to multiple terabytes in size. Whitewater performs deduplication, compression, encryption and other optimization techniques before delivering the back-up traffic over the WAN to a cloud-based storage service. Riverbed said...

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