Cisco: Global Cloud Traffic Growing at 35% CAGR

Global data center traffic will triple from 2.6 zettabytes in 2012 to 7.7 zettabytes annually in 2017, representing a 25 percent CAGR, according to a newly published Cisco Global Cloud Index, but the transition to cloud services is driving global cloud traffic at a growth rate greater than global data center traffic. Global data center traffic will grow threefold (a 25 percent CAGR) from 2012 to 2017, while global cloud traffic will grow 4.5-fold...

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Broadcom Unveils its ARMv8-A Multi-Core Processor Architecture for NFV

Broadcom unveiled its ARMv8-A architecture for a new generation of multicore processors designed to deliver server-class performance for network functions virtualisation (NFV). The new design is built around a 64-bit ARM core with virtualized accelerators for networking, communications, big data, storage and security applications. The design also features a quad-issue, quad-threaded 64-bit ARMv8-A core with superscalar out-of-order execution. The...

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Infinera. Brocade and ESnet Collaborate on 100G Multilayer SDN

Infinera and Brocade, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), have demonstrated how SDN can be used to automatically provision services and optimize network resources, such as dynamically increasing or rerouting data center to data center interconnect bandwidth services, across a multi-layer network as traffic demands change. About the demo: The first phase of this new demonstration leveraged...

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Juniper Upgrades its MX Series Edge Routers

Juniper Networks announced line-card enhancements and a new switch fabric for its SDN-ready, MX Series 3D Universal Edge Router portfolio.  The upgrades significantly expand system capacity, subscriber bandwidth and service performance. The new line cards increase per-slot bandwidth up to 520 Gbps and offer hardware support for as many as 128,000 subscribers, enabling cost-effective subscriber concentration. The new switch fabric module more...

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Coho Data Comes Out of Stealth with Cloud-Scale SDN Storage

Coho Data, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California with R&D in Vancouver (Canada) and Cambridge (UK), emerged from stealth mode to introduce a new storage architecture that combines flash arrays for performance, COTS server hardware for scale-out sizing, and SDN intelligence. coho Data, which was founded by key contributors to the Xen ecosystem, is taking a software-defined approach that combines commodity hardware with software that’s tuned...

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Procera's PacketLogic 8960 Policy Enforcement Platform Packs 7 0Gbps Throughput

Procera Networks introduced its PacketLogic 8960, a 2RU flexible Intelligent Policy Enforcement (IPE) appliance for network deployments supporting high-density subscriber scenarios.The PacketLogic 8960 supports up to 70 Gbps of network traffic throughput accessible through 6 modular I/O slots supporting up to 12 x 10GE or 24 x 1GE channels. It supports up to three million active subscribers and 20 million active flows, with the ability to enforce...

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Russia's TransTeleCom Launches 100G with Cisco

TransTeleCom (TTK), one of Russia’s largest telecom operators, announced the commercial launch of its 100G Ultra Long Haul (ULH) DWDM network in the St. Petersburg-Moscow and Moscow-Chelyabinsk-Yekaterinburg segments. The coherent optical technology increases the backbone network capacity from 40 to 100G per optical carrier. The network uses Cisco's optical technology. Launch of the segments with a total length of over 3000 km completes the first stage of the company’s project to create a national 100G ULH DWDM network. The operational segment...

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Alcatel-Lucent Workers Protest in Paris

More than 1,500 employees of Alcatel-Lucent marched in a public protest in Paris over the company's recently announced plans to reduce its workforce by 10,000 by the end of 2015.  About 10% of the cuts are to occur in France, which the protesters said is too much.  The company is to begin negotiation with work councils soon. Earlier this month. Alcatel-Lucent said the coming he job cuts would include a reduction of 4,100 positions in...

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IEEE Comments on Trust in Standards Setting Process

On the observation of World Standards Day, the IEEE now is an opportune moment to denote the importance of The IEEE published a commentary discussing current erosion of trust in the technical foundations of the Internet. Reflecting on the open standardization processes and the principles of OpenStand, the modern standards paradigm that has driven technological and economic advances in recent decades, the IEEE said the standardization processes must...

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CipherCloud Delivers Breakthrough Searchable Strong Encryption

CipherCloud announced new techniques to improve the searchability, usability and security of cloud data protected with AES 256-bit encryption. CipherCloud's Searchable Strong Encryption (SSE) solution provides organizations with the ability to strongly encrypt their sensitive information in real time before it's sent to the cloud and exclusively retain their encryption keys. The solution also enables organization to comply with government regulations and industry mandates including – GLBA, PCI, HIPAA and HITECH, the EU Data Protection Act, UK...

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