Blueprint Column: Fighting Commoditization with the Right Edge

by Dave Martin, Vice President, Edgewater Networks Year after year, I read about the “rapid rate of network commoditization.” Yes, it is indisputable. Even as network service providers have been investing billions to build out networks, the margins on connectivity services are shrinking and enterprises have more and more providers competing to get their business. To add insult to injury, market power has shifted to application and content providers—Google,...

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Brocade Launches Vyatta 5600 vRouter for NFV

Brocade introduced its Vyatta 5600 vRouter designed for NFV deployments in telco-class networks. The Brocade Vyatta 5600 virtual router is a follow-on from the company's Vyatta 5400 vRouter for multitenant workloads, which is deployed in some of the largest clouds, including Amazon, Rackspace and SoftLayer. The Vyatta vRouter runs on multicore Intel x86 servers. The new Vyatta 5600 is up to 40 times faster than competitive virtual routing products,...

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DE-CIX to Launch Distributed, Carrier-Neutral Internet Exchange in NYC

DE-CIX, which operates the massive Internet Exchange in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), will establish Internet exchanges in major U.S. metro regions.  New York City has been chosen for its first distributed, carrier- and data center-neutral Internet Exchange for North America. DE-CIX makes this game-changing move in the North American telecommunications market in an effort to begin boosting the country’s vital digital infrastructure and the infrastructure...

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RagingWire Raises $230 Million to Fund Data Center Expansions

RagingWire Data Centers closed on a $230 million credit facility to fund its strategic growth plan and ongoing expansion of its data center campuses in Sacramento, California and Ashburn, Virginia. The funding was led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, co-led by Comerica Bank, and included eight financial institutions in total. The interest rate varies from 200 to 350 basis points over LIBOR depending on leverage. “We are pleased that our company...

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América Móvil and AT&T Extend Network Alliance

América Móvil and AT&T are enhancing their network interconnections to serve multinational companies operating in Latin America and the U.S. This milestone in the alliance between AT&T and the América Móvil group of companies --which include Telmex, Embratel and Claro, amongst others -- will allow broader regional coverage with deeper in-country reach: Interconnection to América Móvil's group of companies' networks provides AT&T...

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Riverbed Enhances its Cloud Storage Appliance

Riverbed Technology revamped its Whitewater cloud storage appliance family with new models that provide more capacity, faster ingest speeds and more replication options. Enhancements include new Whitewater model appliances with up to triple the cache of previous models and support of up to 14.4 petabytes of logical data.  A newly released Whitewater Operating System (WWOS) 3.0 also offers new features, including pairwise replication...

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Zayo Adds 2,500 Route Miles in Southeast

Zayo Group has added more than 2,500 route miles in the southeast region of the U.S. The new routes will extend Zayo’s long-haul connectivity into Richmond, Va., Raleigh, N.C., Tampa, Fla., and Orlando, Fla. As a part of this expansion, Zayo will also be able to provide diverse connectivity into the existing metro market of Miami. Zayo offers a suite of high-bandwidth services, including wavelengths, Ethernet, IP and SONET. Key manufacturing,...

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Oclaro Samples Low-Cost 10GE SFP+ Transceiver for Mobile Backhaul

Oclaro has begun sampling a low-cost 10G Ethernet SFP+ transceiver for single-mode fiber applications up to 2 km. The 10G SFP+ CPRI transceiver is optimized for wireless backhaul applications and is compliant with the IEEE 10G Ethernet transceiver standards as required by the Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) specification covering the CPRI rates from 2457.6 Mbps (Option 3) to 9830.4 Mbps (Option 7). Oclaro said its SFP+ CPRI transceiver...

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