IBM Refines its Cloud Consulting Practice

IBM is expanding its Cloud Consulting Services portfolio with customizable options and a number of fast-start industry solutions delivered as a service for cloud-based applications. IBM said this new strategy contrasts with the current "one size fits all" approach that most cloud providers offer when migrating businesses onto the cloud. The fast-start industry solutions, which are hosted on a private cloud using SoftLayer and offered as a managed...

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Verizon Cloud Implements Virtualized Traffic and Security with F5

F5 Networks confirmed that its BIG-IP product suite is providing network traffic and security management services for the new Verizon Cloud. Specifically, Verizon embedded F5’s suite of application services into Verizon Cloud Compute, its new infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform. As part of this solution, F5’s BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager connects isolated environments and intelligently directs users to the best-performing data center...

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Video: Procera's Deep Packet Inspection Software Engine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpOghFYm_BY Procera Networks' Network Application Visibility Library (NAVL) features next-generation Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, providing real-time, Layer-7 application classification and metadata extraction for network traffic. NAVL uses a combination of deep packet inspection and application classification techniques to deliver industry leading coverage and accuracy of network traffic.  NAVL...

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Verizon Wireless Marks 3 Years Since LTE Launch

Verizon Wireless marked the three year anniversary of the launch of its LTE network (05-Dec-2010). The Verizon LTE network now extends to over 500 markets across the U.S., covering a population of 303 million in 50 states. With its initial rollout complete, Verizon Wireless is now adding Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum capacity nationwide. During Q3 2013, Verizon Wireless added 6.8 million LTE devices, bringing its total to 36 million...

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Reliance Globalcom Upgrades Trans-Atlantic Cable with Ciena’s GeoMesh

Reliance Globalcom has upgraded its FA-1 North submarine cable system with 100G wavelengths using Ciena’s converged packet optical and GeoMesh solution.  The undersea network now supports low-latency OTN and 100GbE client services between London and New York with greater capacity to meet soaring bandwidth demand. The upgrade complements Reliance Globalcom’s deployment of Ciena’s GeoMesh technology on its FA-1 South submarine network that...

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Hong Kong's CSL Readies VoLTE with ZTE

Hong Kong's CSL has activated VoLTE in its network using ZTE's 4G and IMS solutions.  The full commercial launch is expected to take place in the first half of 2014. ZTE’s IMS solution supports eSRVCC (enhanced Single Radio Voice Call Continuity), delivering smooth handovers between voice calls on 4G and 3G networks for CSL’s VoLTE service. Customers can also access CSL’s 4G mobile data services simultaneously, while conducting VoLTE calls...

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AT&T and Bharti Airtel Sign MPLS Network Agreement

AT&T and Bharti Airtel signed a Network-to-Network Interconnect (NNI) agreement that will give AT&T customers access to more than 100 cities across India via Bharti Airtel’s more than 130 MPLS-enabled IP Network nodes. AT&T previously operated 8 MPLS network nodes in India (Delhi / National Capital Region, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad). http://www.att.c...

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HP's Sarwar Raza to Head ONF's Northbound Interfaces Working Group

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has appointed Sarwar Raza, director of Cloud Networking and SDN in the Advanced Technology Group within the Networking organization at HP, as chairperson of the Northbound Interfaces (NBI) Working Group. The NBI Working Group was established in October 2013 and is designed to develop information models for NBIs, validated by prototyping and gaining end-user feedback on selected examples with real code. “ONF...

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Swiss Researchers Announce Breakthrough in Optical Efficiency

Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have discovered a way to increase the capacity of fiber optic cables by optimizing the shape of each photonic pulse. The breakthrough produces "Nyquist sinc pulses" almost perfectly. The pulses have a pointed shape, which enables them "to fit together tightly like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle." By reducing the spacing between pulses, more data can be transmitted in the same...

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Windows Azure Expands in Brazil

Microsoft launched a Windows Azure Region in Brazil. Brazilian customers will experience reduced latency for Windows Azure cloud services.  They will also have the ability to keep all of their data within the national borders of Brazil.  Microsoft's Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) can ensure three copies of customer data are replicated inside the country. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/12/04/expanding-windows-az...

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Equinix Opens Osaka Data Center

Equinix is continuing its expansion with the opening of a new data center in Osaka, Japan. The new carrier-neutral facility - called OS1 — was opened in partnership with K-Opticom, one of the largest access providers in the Osaka/Kansai area, and Kanden Energy Solutions (KENES) with support from O-BIC, an Osaka government agency that supports foreign-owned companies establishing businesses in the region. The first phase of OS1 will offer an...

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