Huawei Unveils Massive Data Center Switch Scaling to 192 Ports of 100GE

Huawei introduced its CE12816 CloudEngine (CE) switch for the data center core, boasting the largest capacity in the industry at 64 Tbps. The new switch uses Huawei's next-generation VRP8 software to deliver high-performance L2/L3 switching capabilities. Like all the switches in Huawei's Cloud Engine 12800 family, the CE12816 provides support for 1, 10, 40 and 100 GE connectivity. Densities supported on the CE12816 include up to 192*100GE, 384*40GE,...

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Riverbed's Stingray Moves to ADC-as-a-Service

Riverbed introduced the ability for cloud providers to deliver application delivery controller-as-a-service (ADCaaS) via its Stingray Services Controller.  The idea is to enable an "ADC per application" deployment model instead of today's network-centric model of "one application per ADC box." In today's network architecture, applications and application objects may very well be distributed between data centers and application traffic flows...

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Procera Networks Sharpens its Network Analytics Tools with Dynamic LiveView

Procera Networks introduced a real-time, dynamic query capability for network analytics that leverages the deep packet inspection capabilities of its Intelligent Policy Enforcement (IPE) system. Procera said its new PacketLogic Dynamic LiveView enables network operators, cloud providers, and high-speed enterprises to gain customized real-time insights into network behavior. Dynamic LiveView extends the current historic reporting functionality...

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Hetzner Online Deploys ADVA's 100G

Hetzner Online, a web hosting provider and data center operator in Germany, has deployed ADVA Optical Networking's 100G coherent solution throughout its national backbone network to respond to fierce growth in video traffic and other bandwidth-intensive applications. The 100G deployment stretches over 470km and connects data centers in Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Falkenstein. http://www.advaoptical.com http://www.hetzner.com ...

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Big Switch and F5 Team on Cloud Application Delivery Networking Services

Big Switch Networks is collaborating with F5 to automate the configuration of Application Delivery Networking services in private clouds. The solution leverages the F5 BIG-IQ Cloud REST API to integrate the Big Virtual Switch network virtualization application, BIG-IP Application Delivery Networking (ADN) services and OpenStack into a flexible and unified cloud orchestration framework. Big Virtual Switch dynamically provisions virtual network...

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Cavium Intros SDN-capable Server Adapters

Cavium introduced a new LiquidIO Server Adapter family designed to support software defined networking (SDN) by cloud service providers, enterprises and private data centers worldwide. Cavium said its LiquidIO server adapters offer the performance required for software based switching and tunneling. The adapters offload SDN and network processing from the main server CPU and are fully programmable to handle expected updates to virtualization protocols. Cavium's...

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Telstra is Biggest Spender in Australia's Spectrum Auction

The government of Australia raised A$1.96 billion (US$2 billion) through the auction of 700MHz and 2.5 GHz spectrum.  Telstra was the biggest spender, pledging A$1.30 billion in total. “The spectrum purchased in the digital dividend auction and the resulting network developments will greatly advance Australia’s mobile services in coming years,” said Senator Stephen Conroy, Australia's Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital...

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Syria Internet Severed

Internet traffic into and out of Syria was cut off abruptly at on Tuesday evening at approximately 21:45 local time.  The sudden drop in traffic was recorded by numerous ISPs, including Google's Transparency Report service. No official reason has been given for the outage. The last Internet blackout to hit Syria occurred in November 2012. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/disruptions/82...

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Polaris Wireless Completes Recapitalization Round, Adds to Board

Polaris Wireless, which supplies high-accuracy, software-based wireless location solutions, closed on a recapitalization of existing equity interests. The company completed a Series C financing with $10 million from Industry Ventures and returned capital to Series A investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). In addition, Industry Ventures Managing Director Victor Hwang has joined the Polaris Wireless Board of Directors. “Industry Ventures seeks to...

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Oclaro Reports a Tough Quarter

Oclaro reported revenues of $141.6 million for the quarter ending 30-March-2013, compared with revenues of $159.5 million in the previous quarter.  GAAP gross margin was 9%, compared with a GAAP gross margin of 14% in the preceding quarter.  There was a GAAP operating loss was $28.9 million. Oclaro also announced it has secured $25 million in short-term bridge loans from Providence Equity Capital Markets, who joins Wells Fargo Bank and...

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