Layer123 SDN & OpenFlow World Congress: Platforms for Innovation

"The basic value proposition of SDN remains the same -- either you make money or save money," said Dan Pitt, Executive Director, Open Networking Forum speaking at the opening of the Layer123 SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Bad Homberg, Germany. What has change in the past year since the last SDN World Congress? Attendance at the event has nearly doubled to about 700 and the companies presenting at the event have increased in number and diversity...

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ONF Forms Northbound Interface Working Group, Wireless & Mobile Working Group

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has established a Northbound Interface (NBI) Working Group with a charter to develop information models for NBIs and to help the application developers actively seeking an open Application Programming Interface (API) to develop code against. “The proliferation of approaches to NBIs is impeding the progress of SDN,” said Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation. “As part of our role in helping...

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VMware to Rollout vCloud Hybrid Service in UK

VMware is preparing to launch its vCloud Hybrid Service in the UK beginning with a first data center location in Slough. In addition, VMware announced new hybrid cloud management capabilities and the vCloud Hybrid Service Application Marketplace. VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, built on VMware vSphere®, enables customers to extend the same applications, networking, management, operations and tools across both on-premises and off-premises environments....

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VMware Acquires Desktone for Desktop-As-A-Service

VMware has acquired Desktone, a start-up offering a multi-tenant desktop virtualization platform for delivering Windows desktops and applications as a cloud service. Financial terms were not disclosed. Desktone, which is based in Lexington, MA, offers a "Desktone" platform that was purpose-built for service providers to deliver windows applications and desktops as a cloud service with unique capabilities such as: Multi-tenancy – A must for cloud...

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Advantech Integrates Netronome's Flow Processing Technology

Advantech and Netronome are collaborating to produce high performance x86 systems for the networking and telecom industries. Specifically, Advantech integrates Netronome's NFE-3240 acceleration cards into its Carrier Grade and Optimized IO servers that are a part of its CGS-6000 High Performance Server Line. Highly optimized, next generation appliance and server designs which leverage Netronome’s NFP-6000 series of flow processors are now under...

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Australia's Megaport Deploys Brocade MLXe Core Routers

Australia-based Megaport has selected Brocade's MLXe Core Routers will the goal of becoming a leading provider of network interconnection services across the Asia-Pacific region.   ASI Solutions serves as integrator for the project, which represents the first delivery of 100 Gbps network services in the region from Brocade. Since its launch in July 2013, Megaport -- which currently extends to 18 major data centers in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane...

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ACG: Strong Optical Networking Spending Promises Steady Growth

ACG Research is projecting that the Total Worldwide Optical Networking market will increase from $14 B to $17.25 B by 2018 (CAGR 4.4%). Its study finds that the immediate growth is coming from network expansions of the incumbent carriers in North America and APAC and driven largely by the up-take in LTE services. This build-out should take a couple years to complete and will also expand to the EMEA market where it will fuel revenue growth in the outlying three to five years. The projected five-year growth on a regional basis will be EMEA (CAGR...

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Mid-Atlantic Broadband Completes NTIA/BTOP Middle Mile Fiber Project

The Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation (MBC), a wholesale open-access network transport provider, has completed the $20 million capital project to connect more than 120 K-12 schools in southern Virginia. The US Department of Commerce’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) awarded MBC a $16 million grant which was matched with a $4 million grant from the Virginia Tobacco Commission. MBC completed the project within the allotted...

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Aruba Cites Large 802.11n to 802.11ac Upgrade Project

Aruba Networks has deployed one of the world’s largest 802.11ac networks to date for the Australian Catholic Education Office Sydney. The next generation Wi-Fi network reaches more than 30,000 users including students (years 7-12), teachers and administrators spanning 39 secondary schools in Sydney. A legacy 802.11n infrastructure was upgraded to 802.11ac for better network performance and management. Additionally, there was a requirement for a single...

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