Telefónica Opens Massive Alcalá Data Center - Phase 1

Telefónica inaugurated the first phase of its massive Alcalá Data Centre project outside of Madrid, which aims to be one of the largest Tier IV data centers in Europe and the world. The first phase, which is now operational, is a new building measuring 24,700 m2, with seven IT rooms covering an area of 682 m2 each. The complete project, which will progress gradually, will cover a total area of 65,700 m2 (over 700,000 square feet) and include a...

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Telefónica Sells 40% Stake in Central American Operations

Telefónica will sell a 40% equity stake in its operations in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama to Corporación Multi Inversiones (CMI) for US$500 million. The deal also includes the payment of an additional amount of up to US$72 million based on the operational performance of the aforementioned assets in the coming years.  The implied multiple for the total amount of the transaction means 6.5 times EBITDA 2012 of the companies...

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HP Unveils SDN Data Center Core Switches, NFV Router

HP introduced a series of software-defined network (SDN) data center switches that deliver advanced automation capabilities and scalability for bandwidth-intensive applications such as Hadoop.  The new offerings the HP FlexFabric 12900, an OpenFlow-enabled core switch capable of scaling to meet the demands of increasing virtualized workloads. HP said its FlexNetwork architecture, powered by the new switches, deliver two times greater scalability...

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HP Forms New Converged Systems Group and HP Servers Group

HP is establishing a new Converged Systems business unit to deliver purpose-built technology for social, cloud, mobile and big data solutions. The HP Converged Systems business unit will extend the portfolio of converged application appliances that fuse infrastructure, applications and productivity tools into a single system. This includes appliance systems for Apache Hadoop, HP Vertica, SAP HANA and HP CloudSystem. The new business will be led...

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WSJ: Obama to Nominate Wheeler as Next FCC Chairman

Major media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, reported that President Obama is set to nominate Tom Wheeler as the next Chairman of the FCC, replacing Julius Genachowski, who recently stepped down. Tom Wheeler served as President of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) from 1979 to 1984 and was later CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) until 2004. He is currently Managing Director of Core Capital Partners, a venture capital firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. with approximately $350...

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Verizon to Invest $100 Million in Fuel Cells & Solar Power

Verizon plans to spend $100 million in a solar and fuel-cell energy project to help power 19 of its facilities in seven states across the country. The project aims to generate more than 70 million kilowatt hours per year of green energy. Specifically, Verizon has selected ClearEdge Power, a manufacturer of scalable, distributed power systems, to install PureCell Model 400 fuel cell systems at Verizon sites in California, New Jersey and New York....

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ALU Selected for 100G Bay of Bengal Undersea Cable

A consortium composed of Vodafone Group, Dialog Axiata, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat), Reliance Jio Infocomm, Omantel and Telekom Malaysia, selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy a new 100G submarine cable system connecting Oman, the United Arab Emirates, India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. The Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) cable system will have landing points in Barka (Oman), Fujairah (United Arab Emirates), Mumbai and Chennai (India),...

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Telstra Tests Ericsson's 1 Tbps Optical Transmission

Telstra has successfully tested Ericsson's terabit optical transmission technology over its real network. Ericsson has announced it will provide Telstra with the SPO 1400, the latest packet optical transport platform (POTP) for the metro and the MHL 3000 for long-haul applications with 100Gbps service support. The trial tested a 1Tbps line card in the MHL 3000. "This has been over two years in the making, and our teams have collaboratively...

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Cavium Posts 4.8% Sequential Sales Increase in Q1, Net Loss of $3.2M

Cavium reported Q1 2013 revenue of $69.5 million, a 4.8% sequential increase from the $66.4 million reported in the fourth quarter of 2012. Net loss (GAAP) was $3.2 million, or $(0.06) per diluted share compared to $78.8 million, or $(1.56) per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2012. http://www.cavium.co...

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IBM Intros Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT)

IBM outlined a significant step forward in its Smarter Planet strategy with the introduction of a "MessageSight" appliance that leverages Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol to handle the billions of mobile devices and sensors increasing being deployed in automobiles, traffic management systems, smart buildings and household appliances. IBM said its MessageSight appliance is capable of supporting one million concurrent sensors or...

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BT Cloud Compute Makes Global Debut

BT announced the international launch of its Cloud Compute service, offering "pay as you go" cloud pricing and consistent levels of quality, security and service from BT. BT Cloud Compute will be hosted in more than 45 data centers around the globe and managed by customers through a self-service dashboard.  BT said its service will help CIOs meet their stringent compliance requirements and local law and regulatory obligations by letting them...

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VSS Monitoring Deepens its Line of Network Packet Brokers

VSS Monitoring is rolling out significant additions and enhancements to its "vBroker" line of network packet brokers (NPBs), which enable network monitoring and security tools to gain traffic visibility.  The VSS vBroker system extends the capacity, centralized link-layer visibility, and scalability of networks through advanced traffic filtering, packet optimization and offloading of unnecessary processing to increase tool capacity and efficiency. The...

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BT Wholesale Wins 10-Year Backhaul Contract with Telefonica UK

BT announced a new ten year deal to support the 4G network of Telefonica UK (O2). Under the deal, BT Wholesale will build a new high capacity, managed transmission network to provide O2 with the network capacity required to support its planned 4G services.  BT will also provide O2 with a sizeable increase in backhaul capacity by delivering the high speed mobile backhaul links between its mobile base stations and the new transmission network....

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Huawei Unveils Five-year Strategy in Enterprise Market

Huawei outlined a five-year business strategy to strengthen its role in the enterprise market by focusing on enterprise ICT solutions and being integrated with the global enterprise ecosystem, bringing faster, better and more Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) saving ICT products and solutions to customers. Huawei Enterprise's sales revenue are expected to reach US$2.7 billion in 2013.  The company is targeting sales revenue of US$10 billion...

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Radisys and GENBAND Partner on Virtualized Media Processing

GENBAND has selected Radisys' Software Media Resource Function (MRF) to provide the IP media processing for the GENBAND EXPERiUS application server and CONTiNUUM call session controllers. Radisys and GENBAND collaborated to enable virtualized media processing to meet the growing demand for cloud-based deployments. By offering these software components in a virtualized cloud deployment model, GENBAND can provide its customers with flexible service...

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Sea Fibre Networks Connects Dublin to Paris

Sea Fibre Networks (SFN) announced an expansion of its C-Fibre connectivity from the greater Dublin area to Paris, via London. The carrier said it is seeing demand for high capacity bandwidth and low latency connectivity to Paris being largely driven by data centers. Diane Hodnett, Sea Fibre Networks’ CEO, said; “We are excited to connect into this burgeoning cloud economy. In 2014 we will reinforce this solution by creating a robust, resilient...

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Interoute Expands Ghent Data Center

Interoute announced the significant expansion of its Ghent data centre, which can now accommodate up to 8000 servers for hosting and colocation. The company said this state-of-the-art in Belgium will help its VPN and colocation business, which is already being used by the likes of Domo, Van de Velde and Eandis the Flemish natural gas and electricity distributor. The Ghent Data Centre is directly connected to other Interoute Data Centres including...

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NTT Com Expands Data Center Service to Moscow

NTT Communications will begin offering data center services in Russia via IXcellerate’s Moscow One carrier-neutral data center in Moscow, beginning with colocation services in May. IXcellerate’s newly completed facility offers premium enterprise-class data center services.  NTT Com Russia will integrate and expand its network, cloud and hosting services in the Russian market via this facility. http://www.ru.ntt.com/en...

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Riverbed Posts Q1 Revenue of $246 Million, WAN Optimization Grows 6%

Riverbed reported Q1 revenue of $246 million, compared to $182 million in the first quarter of 2012, representing 35% year-over-year growth.  This includes $52 million contributed by OPNET, which Riverbed recently acquired. GAAP net loss for Q1'13 was $8.1 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $6.9 million, or $0.04 per diluted share, in Q1’12. ”Non-GAAP revenue grew thirty-eight percent over the prior year...

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DOCOMO to Establish Smart-life Business Units

NTT DOCOMO will establish several new business units on July 1 as an initiative to restructure its business and organizational structure aimed at generating new revenue streams. The new units are the Smart-life Business Department and the M2M Business Department.  Within the Smar-life unit, DOCOMO will focus on opportunities including Mobile Retail, Content, Solutions (education, healthcare, ecology), Financial (credit payment services and...

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Singtel Invested S$150 Million in 4G Rollout

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) invested $150 million over the past year to launch its 4G network across Singapore. SingTel is now providing street-level coverage across the island, as well as indoor coverage in more than 550 buildings, including shopping malls, hotels and other commercial properties. Singtel said that it is progressively deploying Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology in commercial buildings to boost maximum...

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UK Plans White Space Trial

Ofcom, the official telecoms regulatory authority for the U.K.,  announced plans for a pilot of white space technology.  The study will test the inter-operation of white spaces devices, white space databases and the processes to mitigate against causing any undue interference to current spectrum users. Specifically, Ofcom is inviting industry to take part in the pilot, which is intended to take place in the autumn. The locations for...

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ODCA Examines VM Interoperability in the Enterprise Cloud

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) published a proof-of-concept (POC) paper that examines where the virtual machine (VM) industry currently is in meeting interoperability requirements outlined in the ODCA VM interoperability usage model. "The ODCA VM interoperability usage model has been adopted by many of our member companies as a core foundation for implementing their enterprise ready clouds and has been extremely instrumental in shaping new...

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ATIS Develops Cybersecurity Framework

ATIS has developed a framework for consistent and comprehensive cybersecurity design across multiple information and communications network technologies.  The work has been submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) Request for Information regarding cybersecurity. The framework, which was developed by the ATIS Technology and Operations (TOPS) Council, specifically addresses cyber-related design and implementation...

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ZTE Reports Improved Q1 Margins and Profitability

ZTE reported Q1 revenue of RMB18.09 billion, down 2.8% compared to a year ago. However, the company credited stringent efforts in cost control for improving its margins.  Net profit attributable to shareholders of the parent company rose to RMB205 million in the first quarter, and basic earnings per share increased to RMB0.06. Operating cash flow in the first quarter significantly improved compared to a year earlier.  This marks the second...

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NSN Appoints General Counsel

Nokia Siemens Networks announced the appointment of Maria Varsellona as general counsel, effective July 1, 2013. Varsellona will report to CEO, Rajeev Suri, and join the company’s executive board. She will be based in Munich, Germany. Varsellona joins Nokia Siemens Networks from Tetra Pak, an 11 billion euro revenue company, where she was General Counsel overseeing global legal operations. http://www.nsn.co...

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Digital Realty Announces Global Network Neutral Ecosystem

Digital Realty Trust, which owns 121 data center properties comprising approximately 22.7 million square feet, plans to build a Global Network Neutral Ecosystem providing direct connections between its tenants. The idea is to run high count dark fiber between its nearby buildings, enabling "plug and play" GigE as well as straight dark fiber cross-connects to customers, carriers and service providers campus-wide.  The rollout will begin with...

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Alcatel-Lucent Posts Loss of EUR 353 Million

Alcatel-Lucent reported Q1 2013 revenues of Euro 3,226 million, up 0.6% year-over-year but down -21.2% sequentially.  At constant currency exchange rates and perimeter, revenues increased 1.8% year-over-year and decreased -19.9% sequentially.  There was a first quarter reported net loss (group share) of Euro (353) million or Euro (0.16) per share, including restructuring charges of Euro (122) million and Euro (152) million of financial...

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Extreme Networks Appoints New CEO Following Resignation of Rodriguez

Extreme Networks appointed Charles W. "Chuck" Berger as its President and CEO, replacing Oscar Rodriguez who has resigned, effective immediately. Berger has also been elected to the Board of Directors, effective immediately. Rodriguez also resigned from the Board. Berger most recently served as CEO and Chairman of ParAccel, a privately held software analytics company that was recently sold to Actian. Prior to ParAccel, Berger served as the CEO...

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Poland's Netia Deploys 100G with NSN

Netia, Poland’s largest alternative provider of fixed-line telecommunications services, has deployed Nokia Siemens Networks’ optical transport DWDM platform hiT 7300 and 100 GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) transponder, to enable 100G wavelengths in its optical fiber network. The solution was integrated seamlessly into Netia's existing fiber optical infrastructure provided by a third party vendor. Nokia Siemens Networks also noted that the sale of its...

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NETGEAR Posts Lower Sales for Q1, Cites Product Transition Issues

NETGEAR reported Q1 net sales of $293.4 million, as compared to $325.6 million for the first quarter ended April 1, 2012, and $310.4 million in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012.  Net income  (GAAP) was $15.3 million, or $0.39 per diluted share.  This compares to GAAP net income of $25.1 million, or $0.65 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2012, and GAAP net income of $16.1 million, or $0.41 per diluted share, in...

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PMC-Sierra Posts Revenue of $125.2 Million, Sees Stronger Bookings

PMC-Sierra reported Q1 revenue of $125.2 million, a decrease of three percent compared to $129.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, and a decrease of five percent compared to $132.1 million in the first quarter of 2012.  GAAP net loss was $6.8 million, or $0.03 per share, compared to GAAP net income in the fourth quarter of 2012 of $10.8 million, or $0.05 per diluted share. "Our first quarter results were in line with our outlook and within the expected range," said Greg Lang, PMC President and Chief Executive Officer. “We are encouraged...

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Tellabs Posts Revenue of $209M, Loss of $56M

Tellabs reported Q1 2013 revenue of $209 million, compared with $258 million in the year-ago quarter. There was a GAAP net loss of $56 million or 16 cents per share in the first quarter of 2013, compared with a net loss of $140 million or 38 cents per share in the first quarter of 2012. Tellabs holds cash and marketable securities of $572 million as of March 29, 2013, thanks in part to the repatriation of approximately $375 million of cash held...

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Radisys Posts Q1 Revenue of $68.2 Million

Radisys reported Q1 revenues of $68.2 million and a GAAP net loss of $6.6 million or $0.23 per share. ATCA and software solutions revenue amounted to $46.5 million, or 68% of total revenue. Radisys noted its first revenue generating shipments of its new Media Resource Function (MRF), the MPX-12000, which will provide Rich Communication Services (RCS) capabilities in a network being rolled out by a tier one carrier in Asia. The company also noted that platform design wins in Q1 are expected to result in approximately $60 million of revenue over...

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Mellanox Reports Revenue of $83 Million, Down 6% YoY

Mellanox Technologies reported Q1 revenue of $83.1 million, down 32.0 percent from $122.1 million for the fourth quarter 2012, and down 6.4 percent from $88.7 million for the first quarter of 2012. GAAP net loss in the first quarter of 2013 was $8.5 million or $0.20 per diluted share, compared with net income of $18.4 million or $0.41 per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2012 and net income of $12.4 million or $0.29 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2012. “Despite the decline in our financial results over the past two quarters,...

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Cisco Tackles Network Storage with 24 Tbps Director Switch

Cisco introduced a multilayer storage director boasting 24 terabits per second of total switching capacity, almost three times the bandwidth of any director in the industry, along with a new fabric switch. The products are aimed at serving massive amounts of data, solid state drives (SSD) and cloud-based environments. The new Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director supports both high-density Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet, enabling...

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Ericsson Sees Strong Growth in North America, Other Regions Stall

Ericsson reported Q1 2013 net sales of SEK 52.0 billion (US$7.84 billion), down 22% compared to Q4 2012 but up 2% compared to Q1 2012. Operating income, including joint ventures, was SEK 2.1 billion,  with an operating margin of 4.0%. "Sales showed positive development in the quarter with a growth of 2% YoY, despite currency headwind. Sales for comparable units, adjusted for FX and hedging, grew 7%," said Hans Vestberg, President and CEO of...

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Sprint's Network Vision Remains On Track

Sprint reported wireless service revenue of $7.1 billion for its Sprint platform network, up nearly 9 percent year-over-year. Consolidated net service revenues of nearly $8 billion were flat year-over-year as Sprint platform growth offset declines in Nextel platform and Wireline revenues.  Operating income for the quarter was $29 million as compared to a loss of $255 million in the year-ago period. "This is a transformative year for Sprint...

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Gigamon's Unified Visibility Fabric Architecture Spans Physical, Virtual, SDN

Gigamon outlined its vision for software-defined monitoring based on a four-layer architecture: a Services Layer, a Management Layer, an Orchestration Layer and an Applications Layer. Gigamon said its strategy is to develop a unified Visibility Fabric architecture that would ultimately deliver orchestrated visibility across physical, virtual and software-defined networks (SDN). This will build on Gigamon's existing architecture and the principles...

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EarthLink Opens Data Center in Dallas for Cloud Hosting

EarthLink announced the opening of a new data center in Dallas. EarthLink said it is also preparing to open three additional data centers in Chicago, San Jose and Miami in the coming months. These four new data centers, in addition to the existing center in Pittsford, NY, provide the company with a total of five data centers on its next generation cloud hosting platform. EarthLink also operates data centers in Atlanta, Columbia, SC and Marlborough,...

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Transmode Picked for 100G Backbone in Hong Kong

Hutchison Global Communications Limited (HGC) awarded a 3-year contract to Transmode to supply a ROADM-based 100G optical backbone network for a new high capacity network in Hong Kong. Under the frame agreement, HGC will deploy Transmode’s TM-Series including Gigabit Ethernet, 2.5G, 10G, 40G and 100G transport over an 80-wavelength ROADM-based Flexible Optical Network with Transmode’s Enlighten multi-layer management suite. The first deliveries...

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Broadband Forum Approves Specs for VDLS2 Testing

The Broadband Forum released its BroadbandSuite 6.1, offering practical implementation resources, functional and performance test plans, and best practice specification for DSL quality assurance.  Notable items include the following technical specifications: TR-114i2: “VDSL2 Performance Test Plan” TR-115i2: “VDSL2 Functionality Test Plan” TR-273: “Testing of Bonded Multi-pair Systems” TR-286: “Testing of MELT Functionality on xDSL Ports” TR-188i2:...

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Qualcomm Posts Q1 Revenue of $6.12 Billion, up 24% YoY

Qualcomm reported Q1 revenue of $6.12 billion, up 24 percent year-over-year  and 2 percent sequentially.  Net income was $1.87 billion, down 16 percent YoY and 2 percent sequentially.  Diluted earnings per share were $1.06, down 17 percent YoY and 3 percent sequentially. During the quarter, MSM chip shipments reached 173 million units, up 14 percent YoY and down 5 percent sequentially. "We delivered another strong quarter as the worldwide adoption of smartphones continues,” saidDr. Paul E. Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm....

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F5 Posts Revenue of $365.5 Million, Down 4%

F5 Networks reported revenue of $350.2 million for its second quarter of fiscal 2013, down four percent from $365.5 million in the prior quarter and up three percent from $339.6 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2012.  GAAP net income was $63.4 million ($0.80 per diluted share) compared to $69.5 million ($0.88 per diluted share) in the first quarter of 2013 and $68.6 million ($0.86 per diluted share) in the second quarter a year ago. “As we indicated in our announcement of preliminary results on April 4, service provider revenues for...

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Infinera Posts Q1 Revenue of $124.6 Million, Loss Narrows

Infinera reported Q1 revenue of $124.6 million, compared to $128.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 and $104.7 million in the first quarter of 2012.  The GAAP gross margin for Q1 was 34% compared to 34% in the fourth quarter of 2012 and 39% in the first quarter of 2012.  GAAP net loss for the quarter was $(15.3) million, or $(0.13) per share, compared to net loss of $(16.1) million, or $(0.14) per share, in the fourth quarter of 2012 and net loss of $(20.6) million, or $(0.19) per share, in the first quarter of 2012. “Our first...

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Ceragon Lands $8 Million Order in South America

Ceragon confirmed that a leading mobile operator in the Southern Cone region of Latin America has placed new orders valued at more than $8 million. The project has been ongoing since early 2012. Ceragon is supplying its FibeAir IP-10 and Evolution Long Haul solutions to help connect new 3G sites while expanding the capacity of the network’s backbone. The project is expected to be completed by Q3 2013. http://www.ceragon.co...

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Infonetics: Ethernet Surge Continues, 40G and 100G Prices Decline

The number of 1G, 10G, 40G, and 100G network ports shipped on service provider and enterprise equipment in 2012 grew 22% over the previous year, to top 360 million, according to a new report from Infonetics. “Overall, shipments of all port speeds have been on a steady upward path as a result of growing network traffic and the need to constantly upgrade networks, but the revenue growth opportunity is in higher-speed ports (10G, 40G, 100G – excluding...

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ADVA Optical Networking reported Q1 2013 revenue of EUR 77.0 million in Q1 2013, down 5.7% vs. Q1 2012 at EUR 81.7 million and down 4.0% vs. EUR 80.3 million in Q4 2012. IFRS operating income amounted to EUR 0.4 million in Q1 2013, after EUR 3.5 million in Q1 2012. “While the temporary decline of our business related to short-term market weakness driven by adverse macro-economic conditions and temporary shifts in carrier investment priorities clearly is a disappointment, we are still pleased to report our Q1 2013 revenues of EUR 77.0 million at...

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Orange Goes Global with its Business Together as a Service

Orange Business Services announced a global expansion of its Business Together as a Service, which provides unified communications to large enterprises.  This Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) is hosted in three regional data centers (Atlanta, Frankfurt and Singapore) that Orange Business Services has dedicated to cloud computing infrastructure. The service provides end users with a unified telephony, email messaging, IM/presence,...

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AT&T: Wireless Data Revenue up 21% in Q1

Citing a 21% surge in wireless data revenues, AT&T reported consolidated Q1 2013 revenues of $31.4 billion, down 1.5 percent versus the year-earlier quarter and up 0.9 percent when excluding revenues from the divested Advertising Solutions business unit. Net income totaled $3.7 billion, or $0.67 per diluted share, up from $3.6 billion, or $0.60 per diluted share, in the year-earlier quarter. “Our wireless network performance continues to be...

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