CoreSite Builds Direct Access to Germany's DE-CIX

CoreSite Realty, which operates major data centers in 7 of the largest markets in the U.S., announced plans to offer direct access to Germany's DE-CIX peering exchange from multiple CoreSite locations across the U.S. 

CoreSite said this new relationship with DE-CIX accelerates its mission to aggregate the interconnection capabilities of the world's leading internet exchanges. In particular, DE-CIX provides CoreSite customers with expanded peering opportunities through a simple connection to more than 480 ISPs from over 52 countries, including central and eastern European countries, Russia, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

"We are focused on bringing expanded solutions to our customers that increase interconnection options through an open-exchange platform," stated Brian Warren, Vice President of Product Management, at CoreSite. "By connecting to DE-CIX, we provide CoreSite customers simplified access to one of Europe's leading internet exchanges. It brings best-of-breed providers together to deliver dense interconnection ecosystems and diversity in the U.S. market."

http://www.coresite.com
http://www.de-cix.net

• CoreSite operates 12 data centers with over 2 million square feet of capacity in 7 major U.S. markets.

• Last month, DE-CIX, the Internet exchange located in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), hit a new data throughput record last week  as Internet traffic across its switching fabric exceeded the 2 Tbps (terabits per second) mark for the first time.
• DE-CIX currently servers over 480 Internet service providers from over 50 countries.  At DE-CIX, more than 12 petabytes of data are exchanged per day.

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ADVA Reports Revenue of EUR 82.3 Million

ADVA Optical Networking reported Q3 2012 revenue of EUR 82.3 million, up 3.7% year-on-year from EUR 79.3 million in Q3 2011, and in line with guidance  of between EUR 82 million and EUR 87 million.

IFRS pro forma operating income, excluding stock-based compensation and amortization & impairment of goodwill & acquisition-related intangible assets, amounted to EUR 5.6 million or 6.8% of revenues, at the upper half of guidance of between 4% and 8% of revenues. This compares to Q3 2011 IFRS pro forma operating income of EUR 5.5 million or 6.9% of revenues, and to Q2 2012 IFRS pro forma operating income of EUR 6.8 million or 8.0% of revenues. 

“Albeit a weaker demand environment in H2 2012 than anticipated, ADVA Optical Networking has neither lost customers nor market share with existing customers. We continue to be a leader in innovation and have a broad and deep customer base. ADVA Optical Networking won several new customers over the last months which we believed would lead to stronger short-term growth. In review, operators’ business models remain challenged due to intense competition and regulation. In order to pave the way to generating new revenue streams, major mobile broadband upgrades, especially LTE rollouts, are absorbing much of the available capital and are fundamental to sustaining a profitable business model. Thus, network providers are currently under-investing and delaying project roll-outs in wireline activities based on capital market pressures. Nonetheless, due to further broadband growth, a rebound in wireline capital spending is inevitable. ADVA Optical Networking continues to weather the spending slowdown due to our increasing exposure to mobile backhauling wins, while many of our peers are experiencing a significant top-line squeeze,” stated Brian Protiva, chief executive officer of ADVA Optical Networking.

http://www.advaoptical.com

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IBM Adds to its Big Data Offerings

IBM introduced new big data software  to help organizations gain actionable insights and transform the way they do business with customers, employees and partners. The goal is to tackle the most pressing big data challenges facing organizations today -- accessing and gaining intelligence into an enormous stream of data generated from mobile, social and digital networks. 

The new InfoSphere Streams software include cloud-hosted applications that deliver predictive analytics directly to a company's line of business employees.  The software is designed for financial services, retail, and education industry clients.

Sprint is using IBM analytics technology to capture and interpret all network data (e.g. location data, dropped calls, service interruption, network performance, etc.) to improve the overall customer experience and operational efficiencies.

"IBM is helping Sprint manage and analyze network data 90 percent faster than before," said Von McConnell, executive director of the Innovation and Advanced Labs at Sprint. "We can now customize new products and services in real-time and respond instantly to changing market dynamics. The insights we gain from big data analytics allows us to create and deliver new mobile applications in minutes, instead of hours, giving Sprint the ability to stay well ahead of our competitors."

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Amazon Web Services Suffers Cloud Outage

Amazon’s U.S. East data center suffered degraded performance on Monday, knocking a number of major websites offline, including Foursquare, Heroku and others.  The outage impacted the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud,  the Amazon Relational Database Service and the AWS Elastic Beanstalk, all of which are hosted in the Northern Virginia data center.

http://status.aws.amazon.com/

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Orange Interconnects Mobile HD Voice Calls Internationally

Orange announced the first cross border mobile HD voice calls.  Previously, for technical reasons, mobile HD voice calls have been limited to callers within the same country, assuming both parties have the right mobile phones and service.

Orange has now interconnected its mobile HD voice between Romania and Moldova, ensuring end-to-end HD voice quality  from one country to another. From now on, when a call is made between  two HD voice mobile phones from these countries, Orange customers will  enjoy crystal clear sound instead of "standard" voice quality.

Orange  already offers mobile HD voice in 14 countries: Moldova, Armenia,  Belgium, France (Metropolitan and Reunion), Spain (Catalonia), United  Kingdom, Egypt (Cairo), Luxembourg, Mauritius, Romania, Dominican  Republic, Kenya, Uganda and Jordan. Further launches in Africa and the  Middle East are scheduled by the end of 2012.

www.orange.com/hdvoice

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ModeGap Researches Achieve 57.6 Tbps over Multimode Fiber

Nokia Siemens Networks, and a consortium of R&D partners, announced a record optical transmission capacity of 57.6 terabit per second (Tbps) using multimode fiber. The demonstration employed spatial multiplexing over solid-core multi-mode fiber.

Members of the ModeGap consortium include Nokia Siemens Networks, the University of Southampton and the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, among others, The project was partially funded by the European Union under its seventh framework program.

The partners have presented the work to the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC).

"With this record data rate we can transmit, over a single fiber, double the capacity required for 7 billion people – the world’s population – to be connected over simultaneous phone calls,” said Robert Richter, head of R&D optical networks at Nokia Siemens Networks. “But this is only the beginning. By 2020, we will be able to support 100 times this capacity, which means that a single fiber would have enough capacity to deliver 40 million different TV streams – for example one for every household in Germany – simultaneously."

http://modegap.eu/
http://www.nsn.com

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China Mobile Nears 700 Million Users, ARPU at US$10.71

As of the end of September, China Mobile was serving 698 million lines -- the 700 million milestone has likely been crossed as the company continues to add nearly 5.4 million users per month. The company notes that as the number of low usage customers has increased, it is seeing more cases of  “one customer with multiple SIM cards.”



For the first nine months of 2012, China Mobile's operating revenue of the first three quarters

of 2012 reached RMB408.6 billion, representing an increase of 6.4% compared to the same
period of last year. EBITDA reached RMB187.3 billion, essentially maintained at the level
for the same period of last year. Profit attributable to equity shareholders reached RMB93.3
billion, representing an increase of 1.4% compared to the same period of last year.

Some highlights:

• The wireless data traffic in the first three quarters of 2012 increased by 188.1% compared to the same period of last year. 
• The number of 3G customers has exceeded 75 million
• ARPU remains steady at RMB 67 (US$10.71)

http://www.chinamobileltd.com

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VSS Monitoring Adds SSL Inspection to Network Packet Brokers

VSS Monitoring introduced SSL monitoring capabilities for its line of network packet brokers, providing visibility into encrypted communications across LAN, WAN and cloud boundaries.

 VSS Monitoring’s SSL inspection solution is based on 1U and 2U network appliances powered by Intel’s Xeon processors and accelerated by Netronome’s flow processors and SSL inspection software.

Key capabilities include:

· Line rate decryption for millions of simultaneous flows on 1/10 gigabit Ethernet links
· Support for inbound and outbound SSL inspection of network communications
· Full integration and interoperability with new and existing packet broker fabric deployments
· Interoperability with the McAfee Network Security Platform

 “Network security managers are facing an onslaught of new web- and cloud-based communications that use encryption by default,” said Dean Beaver, VP of worldwide sales & alliances at VSS Monitoring.  “Our network packet brokers with enhanced SSL inspection are a natural complement for organizations looking to extend the benefits of the McAfee Network Security Platform to include in-bound and out-bound SSL traffic while maintaining line-rate speeds.”

http://www.vssmonitoring.com

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Mellanox Creates Federal Sales Subsidiary

Mellanox Technologies has created a wholly owned subsidiary for driving business development for all federal government agencies and the federal integrator market.

The company has named Dale D’Alessio as CEO of Mellanox Federal Systems, which will be based in Vienna, Virginia. Mr. D’Alessio was previously co-founder and managing member of YottaStor, a professional service and product company specializing in big data storage solutions for the Intelligence and U.S. Department of Defense markets.

http://www.mellanox.com

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California State University Picks Alcatel-Lucent's OmniSwitch

The California State University (CSU) system will upgrade the local area networks on four of its campuses using the Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch over the next year. The overall project is estimated to be worth $22 million over the next eight years.  The migration will also enable CSU to add cloud computing technology in the future, serving its communities more efficiently and at lower costs.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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Procera Cites Traction with Multiple Rural Wireless Internet Service Providers

Procera Networks cited new deployments of its PacketLogic systems by several rural Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs), including Utah Broadband, Evertek and United Farmer’s Telephone.   Procera's solutions are used for monitoring network usage, from individual subscribers to network-wide views of application and device adoption.

“I use the Service Delivery Dashboard, a cloud-based application service from Procera, on a daily basis to monitor high-level trends regarding network traffic,” said Roxanne White, CEO and general manager of Evertek and United Farmer’s Telephone. “For example, we now know the breakdown of different devices on the network, and our experience dictates that certain devices account for the majority of our support effort while others require substantially less attention from our help desk. We are considering incentive programs to drive subscribers toward devices that require less support from us. This will improve customer satisfaction, limit our support exposure and increase service revenue.”

http://www.proceranetworks.com

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