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...

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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...

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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...

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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.c...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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