Intel Positions New Xeon E7 v2 Processors for Big Data and IoT

Intel introduced its new Xeon processor E7 v2 family featuring triple the memory capacity and double the compute performance of the previous generation processor family, allowing much faster and thorough data analysis. The Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family is built for up to 32-socket servers, with configurations supporting up to 15 processing cores and up to 1.5 terabytes (TB) of memory per socket. To reduce data bottlenecks, the Intel Xeon...

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Freescale Unveils New Metrocell Base Station Processor

Freescale Semiconductor is unveiling its next generation QorIQ Qonverge portfolio of base station-on-chip processors. The new base station SoC integrates digital front-end (DFE) technology, which improves power amplifier (PA) efficiency and significantly reduces base station power and costs. The QorIQ Qonverge B3421 device offers embedded CPU cores, DSP cores, baseband accelerators and DFE technology.  It also features Power over Ethernet (PoE)...

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Infonetics: Optical gear Spending Flat in 4Q13

Worldwide optical network hardware revenue, including WDM and SONET/SDH, was essentially flat in 4Q13, totaling $3.1 billion, according to a new Optical Network Hardware report from Infonetics Research. Some highlights: For the full year 2013, the overall optical network hardware market is down 3% On a positive note, the WDM segment posted a 6th consecutive quarter of growth in 4Q13 and ended the full year 2013 up 11% as 100G deployments hit...

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F5 Enhances its Path to Software Defined Application Services

F5 Networks announced a number of enhancements to its recently-launched Synthesis architecture for building elastic, software-defined application services (SDAS).  F5's goal is to provide a high-performance services fabric across all types of systems and environments, including software defined networks (SDN), virtual infrastructures, and cloud. F5 introduced its Synthesis architecture in November 2013.  The new enhancements provide...

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GENBAND to Acquire uReach for Carrier Communications Suite

GENBAND agreed to acquire uReach Technologies, a privately-held supplier of carrier-class voice, video and unified messaging solutions and services. Financial terms were not disclosed. uReach’s unique messaging software also offers innovative business applications designed to dramatically enhance productivity and improve communications. The uReach solution suite includes Advanced VoiceMail, VideoMail, VisionMail and VirtualReceptionist. These solutions...

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Enea Demos Open OS Base on on Broadcom XLP Architecture

Enea, which specializes in operating system solutions for telecom infrastructure equipment, will demo a version of its Open Event Machine (Open EM) based on Broadcom's XLP Multi-core, Multi-Threaded Processor Series. The implementation is designed for multi-core applications demanding high performance in data plane/fast path packet processing. Enea's Open EM is designed as a high performance networking data plane software engine for multicore...

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Transmode Debuts All-pluggable, 100G Packet-Optical Metro

Transmode introduced a CFP-based, all-pluggable 100G Solution for metro networks with support for coherent optics.  The solution supports both Layer 1 WDM transport and Layer 2 packet-optical applications. Transmode's new Metro 100G Solution includes three highly flexible plug-in units for the widely deployed TM-Series. The range of new units includes a 100G Transponder, a 100G Muxponder and a 220G Layer 2 Ethernet Muxponder (EMXP). The new...

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