Ericsson: Everything is Going Mobile

By 2017, 85 percent of the world’s population will have internet coverage via 3G and there will be close to 9 billion mobile subscriptions, compared to 6 billion at the end of 2011, according to Ericsson’s second Traffic and Market Report. Speaking at a press event in San Francisco, company CEO Hans Vestberg, predicted that this rapid growth will bring the number of mobile broadband subscriptions to over 5.1 billion by 2017. Currently, the Ericsson...

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Cyan Supplies Software Controlled Optical Network for NESC

The Northeast Service Cooperative (NESC), which provides broadband connectivity to the Northeast region of Minnesota, has selected the Cyan Z-Series packet-optical transport platforms (P-OTP), Cyan 360 software-defined operations suite, and Cyan PRO professional services to deliver innovative, high-speed Ethernet services for the Northeast Middle Mile Fiber Project. The network will feature a fully automated, software controlled network operations model.The Northeast Middle Mile Fiber project will connect 300 sites throughout the area. The deployment...

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Cisco Introduces Elastic Packet Core - ASR 5500

Cisco introduced a new packet core platform for mobile networks.The new Cisco ASR 5500 system, which builds on the packet core foundation acquired with Startent Networks in 2009, brings innovation in the software architecture optimized for signalling-intense smartphone applications. The Cisco ASR 5500 system offers 10x improvement in throughput performance, and introduces the "elastic" software for integrating signaling, data, in-line services, and...

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Airtime Launches its Video Chat Site

Airtime launched its video chat service for Facebook users. The site lets users find open video chat sessions by topic. The video chats can also jointly view YouTube and other content.Airtime was founded by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning of Napster fame. It also has the financial backing of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, joined by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, and Social + Capital. http://www.airtime....

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AppliedMicro's "Black Mamba" PacketPro2 Processors Offers On-Chip Virtualization

AppliedMicro's "Black Mamba" APM8669x chip, which is the highest performing member of its PacketPro2 family of multi-core processors, offers virtualization and domain protection capabilities designed to keep systems operating continuously. The virtualization capability is aimed at developers who integrate multiple systems into one processor are thereby face contention among these systems for shared resources. Black Mamba's domain protection capabilities...

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Zayo to Acquire FiberGate for Washington D.C. Metro Network

Zayo agreed to acquire FiberGate, which operates a Washington, D.C. metro area network, for an undisclosed sum. The FiberGate acquisition adds 130,000 fiber miles to Zayo’s metro network in and around the nation’s capital. The current FiberGate network also includes 315 on-net buildings and two recently completed expansions to Frederick and Baltimore, Maryland. FiberGate's only service is dark fiber.“The Washington, D.C. / Northern Virginia area...

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IPv6 Day: Top Websites and ISP Enable IPv6

Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies are marking June 6 as "IPv6 Day".The goal is to set a major milestone in the transition to IPv6, which was standardized in 1996. ARIN ran out of IPv4 addresses last year to supply to regional Internet registries.Over 3,000 websites – including the top 4 and many other major sites – that have agreed to permanently enable IPv6. These include Facebook,...

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Netflix Offers 100 Terabyte Content Caches to ISPs

Netflix is rolling out its own content delivery network. The plan is have ISPs deploy "Open Connect" content caches in their local data centers, or to peer with the Netflix Open Connect network at common Internet Exchanges, thereby delivering better streaming performance to end users and potentially saving upstream bandwidth for ISPs. Netflix is proposing to deliver either form of access with no cost to the ISP. The caches would have at least one...

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Netronome Powers Ahead with 200 Gbps Flow Processor

Netronome introduced its 200 Gbps NFP-6xxx family of network flow processors based on Intel’s 22nm 3-D TriGate technology and designed for high-performance networking applications that require programmable, line-rate, stateful processing on millions of simultaneous, complex flows. The devices deliver full L2-L7 processing on both packets and flows, with 120 cores being devoted to flow processing and 96 cores for packet processing. The company claims...

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Ericsson: Everything is Going Mobile

By 2017, 85 percent of the world’s population will have internet coverage via 3G and there will be close to 9 billion mobile subscriptions, compared to 6 billion at the end of 2011, according to Ericsson’s second Traffic and Market Report. Speaking at a press event in San Francisco, company CEO Hans Vestberg, predicted that this rapid growth will bring the number of mobile broadband subscriptions to over 5.1 billion by 2017. Currently, the Ericsson...

Read More

Cyan Supplies Software Controlled Optical Network for NESC

The Northeast Service Cooperative (NESC), which provides broadband connectivity to the Northeast region of Minnesota, has selected the Cyan Z-Series packet-optical transport platforms (P-OTP), Cyan 360 software-defined operations suite, and Cyan PRO professional services to deliver innovative, high-speed Ethernet services for the Northeast Middle Mile Fiber Project. The network will feature a fully automated, software controlled network operations model.The Northeast Middle Mile Fiber project will connect 300 sites throughout the area. The deployment...

Read More

Cisco Introduces Elastic Packet Core - ASR 5500

Cisco introduced a new packet core platform for mobile networks.The new Cisco ASR 5500 system, which builds on the packet core foundation acquired with Startent Networks in 2009, brings innovation in the software architecture optimized for signalling-intense smartphone applications. The Cisco ASR 5500 system offers 10x improvement in throughput performance, and introduces the "elastic" software for integrating signaling, data, in-line services, and...

Read More

Airtime Launches its Video Chat Site

Airtime launched its video chat service for Facebook users. The site lets users find open video chat sessions by topic. The video chats can also jointly view YouTube and other content.Airtime was founded by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning of Napster fame. It also has the financial backing of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, joined by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, and Social + Capital. http://www.airtime....

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AppliedMicro's "Black Mamba" PacketPro2 Processors Offers On-Chip Virtualization

AppliedMicro's "Black Mamba" APM8669x chip, which is the highest performing member of its PacketPro2 family of multi-core processors, offers virtualization and domain protection capabilities designed to keep systems operating continuously. The virtualization capability is aimed at developers who integrate multiple systems into one processor are thereby face contention among these systems for shared resources. Black Mamba's domain protection capabilities...

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Zayo to Acquire FiberGate for Washington D.C. Metro Network

Zayo agreed to acquire FiberGate, which operates a Washington, D.C. metro area network, for an undisclosed sum. The FiberGate acquisition adds 130,000 fiber miles to Zayo’s metro network in and around the nation’s capital. The current FiberGate network also includes 315 on-net buildings and two recently completed expansions to Frederick and Baltimore, Maryland. FiberGate's only service is dark fiber.“The Washington, D.C. / Northern Virginia area...

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IPv6 Day: Top Websites and ISP Enable IPv6

Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies are marking June 6 as "IPv6 Day".The goal is to set a major milestone in the transition to IPv6, which was standardized in 1996. ARIN ran out of IPv4 addresses last year to supply to regional Internet registries.Over 3,000 websites – including the top 4 and many other major sites – that have agreed to permanently enable IPv6. These include Facebook,...

Read More

Netflix Offers 100 Terabyte Content Caches to ISPs

Netflix is rolling out its own content delivery network. The plan is have ISPs deploy "Open Connect" content caches in their local data centers, or to peer with the Netflix Open Connect network at common Internet Exchanges, thereby delivering better streaming performance to end users and potentially saving upstream bandwidth for ISPs. Netflix is proposing to deliver either form of access with no cost to the ISP. The caches would have at least one...

Read More

Netronome Powers Ahead with 200 Gbps Flow Processor

Netronome introduced its 200 Gbps NFP-6xxx family of network flow processors based on Intel’s 22nm 3-D TriGate technology and designed for high-performance networking applications that require programmable, line-rate, stateful processing on millions of simultaneous, complex flows. The devices deliver full L2-L7 processing on both packets and flows, with 120 cores being devoted to flow processing and 96 cores for packet processing. The company claims...

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