Alcatel-Lucent Embeds OTDR Fiber Troubleshooting into Access Platform

Alcatel-Lucent  is adding a fiber troubleshooting capability based on Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR) to its access platforms. The Bell Labs solution plugs into a network’s existing fiber access nodes and is integrated with the Motive Network Analyzer, Alcatel-Lucent’s remote management solution for broadband access networks. Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR) accurately identifies and pinpoints faults or cuts...

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Microsoft to Acquire StorSimple for Hybrid Cloud Storage

Microsoft agreed to acquire StorSimple, a start-up developing Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS) solutions.  Financial terms were not disclosed. StorSimple, which is based in Santa Clara, California, offers solutions that combine the data management functions of primary storage, backup, archive and disaster recovery with cloud integration. StorSimple said it can automatically protect and rapidly restore production data using public clouds. Microsoft...

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Verizon Wireless Buys Plateau Wireless in New Mexico

Verizon Wireless has acquired wireless assets in New Mexico RSA #6, owned by E.N.M.R. Telephone Cooperative and its subsidiary Plateau Telecommunications and operated under the brand name Plateau Wireless.  Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal includes Plateau Wireless' Cellular, PCS and AWS spectrum covering southeastern New Mexico, as well as customers and related GSM operations.  The licenses and the operating assets...

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Space Data Corp. and Lemko Launch Satellite LTE in Alaska

Space Data Corp. and Lemko have deployed a satellite-based commercial LTE network in Atqasuk, Alaska. offering mobile broadband data speeds of over 70Mbps. Lemko's DiMoWiNe (Distributed Mobile Wireless Network) software is co-located at the eNodeB to optimize the LTE over satellite backhaul.  The company says that by virtualizing the core, all switching and routing in the network is moved to the network's edge, resulting in a LTE...

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Interoute Powers 100GigE Services Across Europe with Infinera

Interoute, which operates a pan-European network spanning across 60,000km of lit fiber, has activated 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services using Infinera's DTN platform -- making it the first to broadly offer 100 GbE services across the continent. Interoute was among the first in Europe to deploy Infinera’s DTN four years ago. Interoute said that will carriers and enterprises are already using multiple 10 Gbps) services, which can become...

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Ericsson Positions SSR 8000 as Broadband Gateway

Ericsson introduced Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) functionality for its SSR 8000 Smart Services Router family. Ericsson said its next generation Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) supports up to 768,000 subscribers in a single rack with a total power consumption, fully loaded, of 14,000 watts. The platform can enable the delivery of services targeted at a specific user or session or device. Ericsson BNG on SSR 8000 offers a wide range of interfaces....

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Dell Offers OpenStack Cloud Appliance from Morphlabs

Dell is now selling an OpenStack-powered cloud appliance developed by Morphlabs that enables wholesale hosting companies to a private cloud service. The new Dell mCloud Helix is a PowerEdge C6220 server system with solid state disks (SSD), OpenStack cloud software, and Dell’s Crowbar software framework, along with 24×7 remote management and support services. The solution is able to support 80 virtual CPUs (vCPUs) and 3TB in a single 2U C6220 chassis,...

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Cisco Announces Web Conferencing Solution for Private Clouds

Cisco announced a series of enhancements to its collaboration portfolio, delivered via public, private or hybrid cloud models. "At Cisco, we're seeing exceptional growth and adoption across our collaboration cloud offerings. Case in point: More than half of the world's leading service providers have adopted Cisco's HCS solution. We feel it's about choice.  And, it's ultimately about providing exceptional end user experiences, regardless of...

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Russia's MegaFon Tests 100G DWDM with Cisco

The North West Branch of MegaFon, one of the three largest mobile operators in Russia, has tested a 100G DWDM implementation with Cisco.  The tests were conducted based on other vendors’ technologies. The project was aimed at testing the effectiveness and interworking of Cisco 100G transponders, Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers and the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) at the distance of 140 and 384...

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ADVA and Corning Achieve 100G Direct Detection over 600km

ADVA Optical Networking and Corning have successfully tested direct-detection 100G technology over  600km of Corning LEAF optical fiber -- the first time that direct-detection 100G technology has been used outside of the metro environment. The test used the ADVA FSP 3000 with inline amplification and Corning LEAF fiber. ADVA's 100G Metro solution leverages 4x28G direct detection technology. Corning's LEAF fiber requires...

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Gridstore Raises $12.5 Million for Software-Defined Storage Control

Gridstore, a start-up based in Mountain View, CA, raised $12.5 million in Series A financing for its scale-out grid storage solutions. Gridstore's  Virtual Controller Technology delivers scalable, software-defined storage via a Microsoft Managment Console (MMC) snap-in that integrates with Active Directory. The funding round was led by GGV Capital and ONSET Ventures with participation from all existing investors bringing the...

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Spain's SARENET Selects Overture for Ethernet-over-Copper

SARENET, an Internet service provider based in Spain, has selected Overture's 4000 and 400 platforms as the cornerstone of a new Ethernet-over-Copper deployment.  The service will offer customers up to 20 Mbps  (with capabilities up to 60Mbps) over unbundled local loops. Overture’s EoC  enables Carrier Ethernet services over existing copper infrastructure. The Overture 400 demarcation device enables service providers and...

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Cisco Infographic: The Future and Present of Cloud Collaboration

Cisco reports that its WebEx colloboration solution is generating 428,000 meetings per day -- this equates to 31 million attendees per month. http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1080...

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NSN Selects Tail-f to Enhance Multi-vendor Config Mgt

 Nokia Siemens Networks will use Tail-f Systems's NCS multi-vendor configuration management and network automation software in NetAct, NSN's network management system.  Tail-f’s NCS  is a network abstraction layer that will be integrated into NetAct to manage a wide variety of network equipment common in Service Providers' IP networks, such as Cisco and Juniper switches.  NCS allows services to be modeled and automatically translated...

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