Juniper Launches Contrail SDN

Juniper Networks announced the commercial launch of its Contrail software-defined networking (SDN) solution for enterprise data centers and Service Provider networks. The company said the primary benefit of Contrail is that it provides a simple way to connect physical networks with a virtual environment and provision underlying services, reducing the time, cost and risk for customers when configuring the network. In addition to virtualizing network...

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Juniper Offers Open Source Version of Contrail

Juniper Networks introduced OpenContrail, a new initiative that makes the source code library for its Contrail SDN solution available through an open source license.  OpenContrail will provide all the components necessary to run a data-center overlay including an SDN controller, virtual router, orchestration API, analytics and management console.  The use of OpenContrail is available today via an Apache 2.0 License. The company said...

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Sprint Brings LTE to 34 More Markets

Sprint activated LTE service in 34 more markets. With this announcement, Sprint now provides LTE service in 185 markets nationwide and is aiming to provide LTE to 200 million people by the end of 2013. "Today’s announcement means that even more Sprint customers can enjoy the speed and power of Sprint 4G LTE – up to 10 times faster than 3G,” said Bob Azzi, senior vice president-Network, Sprint. “Our nationwide network build includes new 3G and...

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DuPont Closes $195 Million Unsecured Term Loan

DuPont Fabros Technology, which operates enterprise-class, carrier-neutral, large multi-tenanted wholesale data centers, closed on a $195 million senior unsecured term loan.  The load bears interest at LIBOR plus 1.75% and matures on February 15, 2019, with no extension option. DuPont Fabros' ten data centers are located in four major U.S. markets, which total 2.5 million gross square feet and 218 megawatts of available critical load to power...

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China's Z-Com Picks Radisys’ LTE-TDD Software for Small Cells

Z-Com, a leading global wireless solution provider based in Nanjing, China, has selected Radisys’ TOTALeNodeB small cell software solution to enable its small cell LTE-TDD (Time Division Duplex) network deployments in China. Radisys’ TOTALeNodeB will be used for ultra-low cost and low power, high performance enterprise domain small cells provisioned by mobile operators serving dense urban environments. Z-Com will roll out LTE-TDD trial deployments...

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ADVA Demonstrates SDN Interconnect for Dispersed Data Centers

ADVA Optical Networking, in partnership with IBM and Maris College, demonstrated a virtualized optical transmission network using Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow-based control. The idea is to extend virtualization to the physical network that interconnects data centers. In the SDN demonstration, which took place at Marist College in New York, three geographically diverse data centers with switching, server and storage technology...

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Splunk to Acquire BugSense for Mobile App Analytics

Splunk, which provides software for real-time operational intelligence, agreed to acquire BugSense, a start-up providing an analytics solution for machine data generated by mobile devices. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded in 2011, BugSense provides developers and users rich analytics across a wide variety of use cases including mobile app performance, app quality, troubleshooting and usage based on data from mobile devices. BugSense supports...

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Oclaro Reports Continue Losses, Sale of Certain Businesses to II-VI

Oclaro reported revenues of $136.1 million for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2013, compared with revenues of $141.6 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2013.  GAAP gross margin was 9% for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013, compared with a GAAP gross margin of 9% in the third quarter of fiscal 2013. GAAP operating loss was $44.1 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013, which included $18.9 million of flood-related income, net of expenses,...

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Polatis to Demonstrate SDN-enabled Optical Circuit Switching

Polatis, in partnership with the High Performance Networks Group at the University of Bristol, will host a live demonstration of a hybrid packet/optical circuit switched software-defined network (SDN) at next week's European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) in London. The demo will showcase hybrid packet-optical circuit switching architectures for dynamic management of large flows in data center applications such as virtual machine migration. Polatis...

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ZTE’s Announces Reconfigurable Terabit Router

ZTE announced a flexible reconfigurable terabit router for high-performance broadband networks. The terabit router, which uses a custom chipset developed in-house, is designed to support a variety of line cards ranging from 10G up to 1 Tbps. The router's modular design will enable it to scale from 200G to 18T of total throughput. ZTE said its platform will achieve leading power-consumption performance of 0.8W/Gbps. “Globally, it is becoming more...

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Belgacom Cites Digital Intrusion

Belgacom reported a digital intrusion in the company’s internal IT system. There has been no impacts on customers or their data. Belgacom said it has all appropriate actions to protect the integrity of its IT system and to further reinforce the prevention against possible incidents.  The company is looking to Belgium's Federal Prosecutor to pursue the investigation. Belgacom did not say who it believes is behind the intrusion. ht...

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