Juniper Intros Programmable EX9200 Core Switch

Juniper Networks introduced its EX9200 Programmable Switch for enterprise campus and data center deployments. The new EX9200 family, which will be available in three sizes (4,8 and 14-slot), leverages a custom-built "Juniper One" programmable ASIC to support the programmability demands of new Software-Defined Networking (SDN) protocols and application flows. Beyond the management automation in the Junos OS, Juniper is building native interfaces...

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Oracle Announces Virtual Networking and Adds SPARC Servers/Solaris

Oracle announced its Virtual Networking open architecture for simplifying data centers using software-defined networking principles. With Oracle Virtual Networking, the company is promising "the industry's fastest data center fabric with up to 80 Gbs  bandwidth to the server and support for Oracle's SPARC T5, T4 and M5 servers along with the Oracle Solaris 11 on both SPARC and x86 platforms. More specifically, Oracle Virtual Networking is...

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Orange Expands LTE Across France

Orange has extended its 4G network to 15 new markets across France, including 50 towns, as well as the 1st, 2nd, 8th and 9th districts of Paris. LTE in additional cities will be launched in June 2013. Orange is supporting top theoretical maximum speeds of up to 150 Mbps. Consumer plans for high-speed mobile broadband start from EUR30.90/month with its Origami Play 4G/H+ offer. Orange made its initial LTE commercial debut in Marseille in June...

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T-Mobile USA Sees Growth Return in Q1

T-Mobile USA added 579,000 in the quarter to 34 million.  This compares to a net loss of 349,000 branded customers in the fourth quarter of 2012. "These results display positive momentum and the first positive branded growth in four years," said John Legere, President & CEO of T-Mobile USA. “We have made material progress in stabilizing our branded business in Q1, which provides a solid foundation to build on with the new Un-carrier...

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Cyan Files for Initial Public Offering

Cyan filed an S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering (IPO). Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities are joint book-running managers. Cyan is headquartered in Petaluma, California. http://www.cyaninc.c...

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F5 Warns Revenues Below Expectations, Slowdown in N. America

F5 Networks warned that revenue for its second quarter of fiscal 2013, ended March 31, are expected to be $350.2 million, below the company’s guidance of $370 million to $380 million. GAAP EPS is expected in the range of $0.79 to $0.80 per diluted share, compared to guidance of $0.93 to $0.96 per diluted share. F5 said the revenue shortfall resulted primarily from a slowdown in North American and to a lesser extent EMEA sales, while sales in Japan...

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Zerto Raises $13M for Disaster Recovery in Virtualized Data Centers

Zerto, a start-up based in Herzelia, Israel, closed a $13 million round of Series C financing for its hypervisor-based, disaster recovery and replication software for virtualized environments. The Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) 3.0 provides hypervisor-based replication and disaster recovery for all virtualized workloads at the VM-level.  This extends a software defined data center vision to business continuity/disaster recovery solutions.  The...

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