Video: Where is SDN today? (part 2)

Where does SDN stand today in Service Provider networks? 00:10 - Verizon -- Prodip Sen, Director, Network Architecture 01:45 - NTT Communications, Nayan Naik, Director, Product Strategy, Data Center, Services 03:17 - Telstra, Frank Ruhl, CTO 03:45 - Ericsson, Jan Haglund, VP, Product Area IP & Broadband 04:30 - Cyan, Steve West, CTO 05:29 - Overture - Michael Aquino, President and CEO 06:17 - Metaswitch,...

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Verizon's LTE Now Covers 95% of its 3G Footprint, 28% of Devices on LTE

Verizon reported Q1 revenue of $29.4 billion, a 4.2 percent increase compared with first-quarter 2012, and 68 cents in EPS, a 15.3 percent increase compared with first-quarter 2012 earnings of 59 cents per share.  Growth was driven by an 8.6 percent year-over-year increase in wireless service revenues, 4.3 percent year-over-year increase in wireline consumer revenues, and a 6.0 percent year-over-year increase in revenues for global enterprise...

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Amazon S3 - Two Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests / Second

Amazon Web Services is currently storing two trillion objects in its S3 cloud storage service, double the number of just one year ago (it took the first six years of the service to reach the first trillion).    Peak loads are often reaching 1.1 million requests/second. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/04/amazon-s3-two-trillion-objects-11-million-requests-second.h...

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Netronome Raises $19 Million for Flow Processors

Netronome raised $19 million in Series E funding for its flow processors designed for cyber-security, software-defined networking and mobile networking applications. Netronome said it will use the funds to expand its software and customer engineering organizations. The company cited new wins based on its recently disclosed next-generation flow processor line, the NFP-6xxx, being built using Intel’s state-of-the-art 22nm 3D tri-gate technology. The...

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TE SubCom Carries 200G and 400G Channels Across TransPacific Span

TE SubCom has demonstrated transpacific transmission using both 200 Gbps and 400 Gbps data channels.  The test demonstrated a total capacity on a single fiber pair of 21 Tbps transmitted over more than 10,000km at a spectral efficiency of 6b/s/Hz. TE SubCom said its achievement was enabled by careful engineering of the transmitted signals, in order to achieve both long-distance performance and high spectral utilization. “Transpacific length...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Remains Profitable in Q1

Nokia Siemens Networks delivered a strong financially and contributed to an overall improvement in Nokia Group's cash position despite the seasonally weak Q1. Overall net sales for in Q1 2013 came it at EUR 2.804 billion, down 5% YoY and down 30% compared to Q4 2012. In the first quarter 2013, Global Services represented approximately 51% of Nokia Siemens Networks net sales, compared to approximately 52% in the first quarter 2012 and approximately...

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Alcatel-Lucent: 1 Million Lines with VDSL2 Vectoring

Alcatel-Lucent announced a company milestone:  the shipment of its one millionth VDSL2 vectoring line. Alcatel-Lucent launched its VDSL2 vectoring technology in late 2011.  The solution achieves downlink rates of up to 100 Mbps over existing copper connections at up to 400m. Alcatel-Lucent’s one million VDSL2 vectoring lines have been delivered to 11 different service providers, including Belgacom and Telekom Austria. In addition, Alcatel-Lucent...

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