U.S. Court of Appeals Rejects FCC's Open Internet Rules

The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the FCC overstepped its boundaries in setting Net Neutrality rules that compel broadband providers to treat all Internet traffic the same regardless of source. The court found that even though the FCC has general authority to regulate the Internet, it has previously chosen to classify broadband providers in a manner that exempts them from treatment as common carriers and the Communications...

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Nutanix Raises $101 Million for Converged Data Center Solutions

Nutanix closed $101 million in Series D financing co-led by Riverwood Capital and SAP Ventures. The company, which is based in San Jose, California, said it has exceeded $100 million in lifetime sales and acquired 13 customers who have purchased more than $1 million of products within two years of launching its Virtual Computing Platform. Customers include eBay, McKesson, Toyota, Orange Business Services and Hyundai Hysco. The Nutanix Virtual...

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Pacnet Opens Flagship, Tier III Data Center in Singapore

Pacnet, which operates an extensive submarine networks across the Asia-Pacific region, officially opened CloudSpace II (SGCS2), a Tier III data center that is also designed in accordance with the BCA Green Mark scheme – the equivalent to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification by the US Green Building Council. The US$90 million facility is one of Pacnet’s flagship data centers built to help meet the rapidly growing...

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Australia Japan Cable Upgrades to 100G with Infinera

Infinera's DTN-X packet optical transport networking platform has been deployed across the Australia Japan Cable (AJC), which spans 12,700 km and offers diverse landings in Australia, Guam and Japan. AJC is composed of a consortium of leading service providers including Telstra, AT&T, NTT, Verizon and Softbank. Infinera said the Intelligent Transport Network, featuring the DTN-X platform with SD FEC super-channels and integrated OTN switching,...

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Southern Cross Adds Terabit Trans-Pacific Capacity with Ciena

Southern Cross Cable Network, which implemented Ciena’s 100 Gbps solution across its 30,000km network in July 2013, will use the Ciena WaveLogic 3 platform to add an additional 500 Gbps to both cables by July 2014. This will bring the total lit capacity across the two Southern Cross cables from 2.6 Tbps to 3.6 Tbps. Potential capacity is 12 Tbps. Southern Cross President and CEO Fiona Beck says “The continued expansion of our network using the best...

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China Mobile Demos First LTE TDD to GSM Voice Handover with Ericsson

Ericsson and China Mobile successfully demonstrated the world’s first enhanced Single Radio Call Continuity (eSRVCC) towards GSM on a live LTE TDD network.  The demo, which occurred in advance of the China Mobile Global Partner Conference 2013 last month, tested devices in a moving vehicle performing seamless eSRVCC voice handover without any perceivable interruption. SRVCC is a technology which enables seamless handover of voice over LTE (VoLTE)...

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Alpheus Expand in Texas with Overture's Carrier Ethernet

Alpheus Communications, a leading metro-regional network provider in Texas, is deploying Overture Neworks' Ethernet over Copper (EoC) solutions as part of a significant, ongoing network expansion. Overture’s bonded copper solutions deliver Ethernet services from 1 Mbps to 100 Mbps, providing operators a readily available means to reach more customers, more quickly, with high-speed business services, mobile backhaul and cloud connectivity offerings. Alpheus...

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Netsocket Announces a Virtualized Data Center Customer

Catapult Systems, a national Microsoft-focused IT consulting company, has deployed the Netsocket Virtual Network (NVN) in its data center to enable the managed service provider to easily turn on their new remote offices with full virtual networking functionality. Catapult, which is a Microsoft National Systems Integrator (NSI) providing full range IT services, is using the Netsocket Virtual Network solution for their own new remote offices. Netsocket...

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TE Connectivity Reduces Cost of Connecting Distributed Antenna Systems

TE Connectivity introduced a FlexWave Active Integration Panel (AIP) that provides multi-carrier, multi-protocol connectivity between mobile operator base stations (BTS) and distributed antenna systems (DAS). The FlexWave AIP is a rack-mountable unit that supports up to eight BTS TX/RX inputs, enabling it to connect multiple BTS in a multi-operator or neutral host application. The FlexWave AIP handles BTS power levels up to 100 Watts.  It is...

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Palo Alto Networks Boosts its Cyber Defenses

Palo Alto Networks announced enhancements that enable quick discovery and elimination of previously unknown malware, zero-day exploits, and advanced persistent threats (APTs). Unlike traditional security measures, such as stateful firewalls, intrusion prevention systems and anti-virus (AV) systems, Palo Alto Networks said its approach begins with positive security controls to reduce the attack surface. It inspects all traffic, ports, and protocols...

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Tesco Selects Verizon for Global Network

Tesco, one of the world's leading retailers, has selected Verizon to migrated to a single global network infrastructure, which will underpin Tesco's ongoing application and infrastructure centralization program.  Specifically, Verizon is providing secure connectivity to link Tesco's suppliers, partners, customers and colleagues in 12 countries. http://www.verizonenterprise.c...

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Emerson Embedded Computing & Power Relaunches as Artesyn

The former Emerson Embedded Computing & Power business of Emerson Network Power relaunched as Artesyn Embedded Technologies. Platinum Equity, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, acquired a majority interest in the company from Emerson in November. Emerson retained a 49 percent stake. Artesyn Embedded Technologies will continue to design and manufacture of highly reliable power conversion and embedded computing solutions for a wide range...

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Transmode Misses Q4 Sales Expectations

Transmode, which supplies packet optical networking solutions, announced preliminary sales for the fourth quarter 2013 of SEK 223 million (US$35 million), which is below the expected level reported previously. CEO Karl Thedéen commented: "Order intake in the fourth quarter was in line with our expectations and the fourth quarter of the previous year. The main reason for fourth-quarter sales being below the expected level stated in the Third-quarter...

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LSI Supplies PCIe Flash for Oracle's Next-Gen Exadata X4 Systems

LSI's Nytro flash accelerator cards have been selected as the PCIe flash acceleration technology for Oracle’s next-generation Database Machine, Oracle Exadata X4. In addition, the companies have collaborated on bringing a new LSI Nytro technology called Dynamic Logical Capacity (DLC) to Exadata customers. “Oracle Exadata X4 is a fully integrated and optimized database platform combining hardware and software designed from the ground up to work...

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