FCC Chairman Calls for New Net Neutrality Rules

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced plans to introduce new Net Neutrality rules saying his intent is to "preserved the Internet as an open platform for innovation and expression while providing certainty and predictability in the marketplace." The announcement comes a month after 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...

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Cisco Expands its Service Provider Virtualization Platform

Cisco introduced an Evolved Services Platform (ESP) for Service Providers that leverages its software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) offerings. The Cisco ESP is a unified virtualization and orchestration software platform that creates, automates and provisions services in real time, across compute, storage and network functions, to deliver desired business outcomes for applications running across multiple domains. Cisco...

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Google Looks to Expand Fiber Rollout to 34 More U.S. Cities

The Google Fiber projects is looking to expand it rollout beyond Kansas City, Austin and Provo to include up 34 additional cities over the next few years. The company is now encouraging cities in 8 metro regions across the U.S. to consider undertake a joint planning process to map out a Google Fiber network in detail and also assess what unique local challenges such a rollout might face. http://googleblog.blogspot.co...

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Facebook Pays Billions for Whats Apps

Facebook will pay $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares and an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units to acquire Whats App for its mobile messaging service. Some key stats on Whats App: Over 450 million people using the service each month; 70% of those people active on a given day; Messaging volume approaching the entire global telecom SMS volume; and Continued strong growth, currently adding more than 1 million new registered...

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Ericsson: World Reaches 6.7 Billion Mobile Lines, 92% Penetration

The total number of mobile subscriptions worldwide as of Q4 2013 reached 6.7 billion, of which 109 million were new subscriptions added during Q4, according to Ericsson's latest Mobility Report. Some key findings: The actual number of subscribers is around 4.5 billion, since many have several subscriptions. Global mobile penetration was 92 percent in Q4 2013.  China and India each accounted for around 20 percent of net additions, adding approximately...

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Brocade Signs Australia's Stargate for SDN

The Stargate Group, Australia's leading application service provider (ASP) to the mortgage finance sector, has deployed Brocade's NetIron® CER 2000 Ethernet/MPLS routers as a first step toward applying software-defined networking (SDN) to its operations. Brocade said its networking solution includes multiple routers deployed at Stargate's two data center sites and headquarters. The sites are linked over a Gigabit Ethernet mesh and also connected...

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Pertino Builds its Team for SDN-powered Cloud Networking Service

Pertino, a start-up based in Los Gatos, California, named Bharath Rangarajan as vice president of product and Ritch Haselden as vice president of inside sales. Pertinno offers a cloud networking service that lets SMBs “unbox” their networks by replacing traditional VPN and network appliances with cloud-based services that can be deployed in a few clicks. Since launching public beta early last year, the company says more than 5,000 customers have...

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