Sunrise Adds IPv6, 10G SONET/SDH, VoIP and Copper Tests

Sunrise Telecom has enhanced its RxT Smart Productivity Test Platform with the addition of testing capabilities for IPv6, 10G SONET/SDH, VoIP, and copper: IPv6 testing: The addition of IPv6 testing capabilities to the RxT 10GE module enables customers to migrate their networks from IPv4 to IPv6 and perform the same layer 2/3 service activation tests in IPv6-based networks. PDH/SDH/SONET testing: The new RxT TEN Module combined with the already...

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SOFTBANK MOBILE Awards LTE Contract to Ericsson

Ericsson announced a contract to build an LTE radio access network for SOFTBANK MOBILE. The deployment will cover Japan's major cities - Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya - which together account for 70 percent of the country's total data and voice traffic. SOFTBANK MOBILE is currently Japan's third-largest mobile operator, with more than 29 million subscribers. In addition, Ericsson will upgrade SOFTBANK MOBILE's packet core network, including systems integration and deployment of an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) solution, and build a new LTE radio access...

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Vyatta Debuts Vplane Forwarding Plane Software

Vyatta introduced a highly scalable forwarding plane software solution for next-generation enterprise and cloud network designs. Vyatta vPlane's fast-path architecture promises far better performance than the company's previous generation software on the same off-the-shelf hardware. Leveraging the new fast-path architecture on an Intel Westmere-class system, Vyatta vPlane is capable of delivering more than 8 million packets per second per core,...

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MegaPath Expands Ethernet Over Copper Footprint Across U.S.

As the result of its latest buildout in central offices across the country, MegaPath, the new local exchange carrier formed through the merger of Speakeasy, Covad Communications and MegaPath, now claims to be the largest provider of on-net Ethernet over Copper (EoC) services in the United States. MegaPath offers EoC on its network in 19 major markets, including Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Dallas, Miami and San Francisco, reaching...

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Tellabs Appoints CFO

Tellabs appointed Andrew Szafran as its new chief financial officer (CFO), replacing Timothy J. Wiggins, who resigned in December to accept the CFO position at DeVry. Prior to joining Tellabs, Szafran served as senior vice president and CFO at APAC Customer Services, a leading BPO (business process outsourcing) firm, since 2008. Szafran previously served as vice president and CFO for Communications Supply Corp., a distributor of IP infrastructure...

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Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Network Rollout Continues

This week, the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network is being activated in 27 new markets and expanded in 44 markets. With these activations, Verizon Wireless will have 4G LTE network coverage in 230 markets across the United States. By the end of 2012, the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network will be available in more than 400 markets, and will be available to more than 260 million people in the United States. "Verizon Wireless 4G LTE is the premier wireless...

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Verizon Financial Network Cuts Latency for Chicago - NYC

Verizon has implemented a number of network enhancement to cut latency for ultra-fast financial trading along the key Chicago to New York City route. The Verizon Financial Network is now offering speeds as low as 14.5 milliseconds round-trip, one of the fastest speeds in the industry. The performance gain is achieved in part with Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform. Verizon's premier service features full network monitoring and management for...

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NEC: "SDN is Ready to Go!"

NEC has made an early bet on OpenFlow and software defined networking (SDN), said Kaoru Yano, Chairman of the Board of NEC Corporation, in a keynote address at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, California. The company has been involved in SDN since its early days at Stanford and has played a leading role in many OpenFlow projects in Japan and around the world. This pioneering effort is really an extension of the company's long term research...

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Google Links Data Centers with Software-defined Networking

WAN economics to date have not made Google happy, said Urs Hoelzle, SVP of Technical Infrastructure and Google Fellow, speaking at the Open Networking Summit 2012 in Santa Clara, California. Ideally, the cost per bit should go down as the network scales, but this is not really true in a really massive backbone like Google's. This scale requires more expensive hardware and manual management of very complex software. The goal should be to manage...

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