FCC Plans Transition to All-IP Infrastructure

The FCC's Technology Transitions Policy Task Force (Task Force) authorized a 6-month trial to examine providing interconnected VoIP providers direct access to telephone numbers.  The goal is to speed the transition away from TDM to all-IP infrastructure while ensuring resiliency. The FCC is seeking comment and data on several issues: First, the FCC is seeking comment on a VoIP interconnection trial that would gather data to determine whether...

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Huawei's Ren: No IPO for Next 5-10 Years

Huawei issued comments from its CEO and Founder, Mr. Ren Zhengfei following his first ever press briefing outlining the company's business ambitions and global cyber security challenges. Two key comments from Mr. Ren: None of his family will be the next CEO of the company Huawei will not go public in the next 5-10 years.  "As a leading global company, Huawei attaches great importance on cyber-security," Mr. Ren said. "Cyber-security...

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Infonetics: Slow and Steady Growth Forecast for Carrier Ethernet

The global carrier Ethernet equipment market declined 3% to $34 billion in 2012, following a 13% spike in 2011, but is forecast to grow to $39 billion in 2017, according to a new report from Infonetics. Some highlights of the report: Spending on IP edge routers totaled $9.4 billion in 2012, the most of any carrier Ethernet equipment segment Asia Pacific currently accounts for the greatest portion of carrier Ethernet equipment revenue, followed...

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BT Reports Flat or Declining Revenue, Increased Profit

BT reported flat but stable revenue for its most recent fiscal quarter – a significantly improved performance for the company.  EBITDA was up 4% and earnings per share up 22%.  Some other key points: Fibre available to more than half of UK homes and businesses and roll out accelerating in rural areas Fibre customer base more than doubled, now at more than 1.5m BT Global Services order intake of £2.0bn The decline in underlying revenue...

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Primus Telecom Sells North American Retail Operations for $129M

Primus Telecommunications Group agreed to sell its North American retail telecommunications operations to affiliates of York Capital Management, for approximately US$129 million. PTGi's retail telecommunications operations in Canada provides international and domestic long-distance voice, local, broadband, Ethernet, hosted-VoIP and wireless services to SMEs, residential customers and government agencies. In the United States, PTGi provides international...

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Clustrix Raises $16.5 Million for Scale-out SQL for the Cloud

Clustrix, a start-up based in San Francisco with branch offices in Seattle and London, raised $16.5 million in funding for its scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud. In April, the company released Clustrix 5.0 on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The AWS offering is the next step in the company’s cloud strategy, following database-as-a-service announcements with Rackspace, GoGrid, Equinix, and BlueBoxGroup. Clustrixsaid it is able to achieve...

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Cloudera and Splunk Partner on Big Da

Splunk and Cloudera, which specializes in Apache Hadoop in the enterprise, formed a strategic alliance for big data analytics across the enterprise. The alliance ensures bi-directional integration to easily and reliably move data between Splunk Enterprise and Hadoop. “Splunk’s mission is to make data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. By working together, Splunk and Cloudera deliver big data analytics that span the needs of any organization,”...

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NSN Enhances its Intelligent Self Organizing Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is rolling enhancements to its intelligent Self Organizing Networks (iSON) to help operators manage self-configuration, self-optimization and self-healing. New capabilities for Nokia Siemens Networks Tools include: an Automated WCDMA Site Creation content pack, which extends the LTE version launched in February 2013. The content pack gives operators full visibility of the automated configuration of 3G sites, with regular...

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ShoreTel's Peter Blackmore Announces Retirement

Peter Blackmore, president and CEO of ShoreTel, announced his intention to retire as soon as a successor is announced. "It has been a privilege to work with the ShoreTel team,” said Mr. Blackmore. "I am confident that the company is well-positioned in both the cloud and premise unified communications markets. With recent changes to our organizational and cost structure, we can now scale with a model positioned for profitability, enhancing our objective...

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