Huawei Develops Protocol-Oblivious Forwarding Control Plane

Huawei introduced a software-defined networking (SDN) forwarding plane technology named Protocol-Oblivious Forwarding (POF). Huawei said the goal of its Protocol-Oblivious Forwarding is to evolve the Open Networking Foundation's OpenFlow protocol towards a more flexible programming model where forwarding devices are no longer limited by pre-defined packet protocols or forwarding rules.  Data plane hardware is not limited by hard­-wired protocol...

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Huawei Marine Achieves Financial Breakeven

Huawei Marine, which builds and maintains submarine cable networks, achieved its first, financial breakeven year in 2012 after only four years of operation. Huawei Marine was formed in late 2008 as a Joint Venture between Global Marine Systems Limited and Huawei Tech Invest HKG with the specific intent to develop a series of high-quality products for the submarine optical market and build a capability in delivering turn-key submarine cable systems. Key...

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Lightower and Sidera Complete Merger -- 20,000 Fiber Route Miles

Lightower Fiber Networks completed its merger with Sidera Networks, creating one of the largest metro fiber providers in the United States. The new Lightower operates a broad, dense and unique fiber-optic network throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Chicago metro areas. The fiber footprint extends 20,000 route miles  throughout New England, the New York metro region, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Virginia and west to Chicago, with...

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Deutsche Telekom Raises Offer for MetroPCS

Deutsche Telekom AG (XETRA: DTE) announced a "best and final offer" to acquire MetroPCS and merge it with its subsidiary, T-Mobile USA. Under the terms of the current agreement between MetroPCS and Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile USA would be contributed to the combined company with shareholder loans totaling US$15 billion. In its improved offer, Deutsche Telekom will reduce these shareholder loans by US$3.8 billion to US$11.2 billion, significantly...

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Level 3 Names Jeff Storey as CEO

Level 3 Communications named Jeff K. Storey as its new president and CEO effective immediately, replacing James Q. Crowe. Storey joined Level 3 in 2008 as the company's president and chief operating officer.  Prior to joining Level 3, Storey served as president of Leucadia Telecommunications Group where he was responsible for investments and operations across various industries. Before Leucadia, Storey served as president and chief executive...

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Avago to Acquire CyOptics for InP Expertise

Avago Technologies agreed to acquire CyOptics, a specialist in Indium Phosphide (InP) optical chip and component technologies, for approximately $400 million in cash. CyOptics designs, fabricates and packages a broad portfolio of optical component products across enterprise, data center, access, metro and long-haul market segments. It optical components are integrated into optical transceivers, transponders and line cards. Its expertise includes...

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Deutsche Telekom Selects Tail-f's SDN for TeraStream Project

Deutsche Telekom has chosen Tail-f Systems to deliver key SDN components for its TeraStream project. As the face of networking is changing, TeraStream’s goal is to create an all-IP transformation to cope with exponential traffic growth while streamlining the delivery of network services in real time.  Specifically, the TeraStream project will use Tail-f’s NCS (Network Control System) to provide a network-wide and service-aware unified...

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Neul Appoints Stan Boland as CEO

Neul, a startup developing solutions for whitespace wireless, has appointed Stan Boland as its new CEO. Boland was previously CEO and co-founder of Icera, a UK-based company building 4G/3G/2G cellular chipsets and software which was acquired by Nvidia in 2011 for $367 million. Prior to this, he was CEO and co-founder of Element 14, a UK company building ADSL chipsets and software which was acquired by Broadcom in 2000 for $640 million. Neul,...

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