Juniper Announces Restructring Program

Juniper Networks announced a corporate restructuring aimed at "enhancing its operational efficiency, returning capital to shareholders, refocusing on strategic opportunities and reinvigorating its culture."  The plan has the support of Elliot Management, an outside investment firm that has been lobbying for changes at Juniper. Juniper said it plans to refocus on "innovation that matters most to service providers and enterprises where demand...

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NSN's Virtualized OSS Offers Rapid Recoveries

Nokia Solutions and Networks announced enhancements to its virtualized Operations Support System (OSS), NetAct 8, to help operators restore large-scale network configurations in record time and keep network operations running even if there are unexpected spikes in demand or in the unlikely event that a Network Operations Center (NOC) goes down. NetAct 8 now enables operators to change the configuration of up to 10,000 base stations automatically...

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Radisys and VMware Collaborate on Virtualized Media Processing

Radisys has partnered with VMware on a virtualized media processing solution for mobile operators that delivers more than 90 percent capacity compared to Software MRF running on a bare metal server. Radisys’ Software MRF implementation of VMware vSphere 5.5 delivers virtualized high-performance media processing with minimized delay for real-time communications services. Radisys’ MRF Release 1.7 also works with VMware vSphere vMotion to enable...

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Gigamon Announces NFV for Tools (NFVfT)

Gigamon introduced an NFV for Tools (NFVfT) concept that aims to standardize APIs and the demarcation point for network traffic and Big Data to be brokered into an elastic compute architecture for analysis. The NFVfT framework would offer visibility arbitration so that the Big Data analytics tools can virtualize their functions and process data on demand enabling a per-unit-of-information-processed pricing model. Gigamon said its vision is to...

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Radisys Positions its COTs Platforms for NFV/SDN

Radisys announced its Telecom Cloud-ready T-Series platforms, a commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS), open standards-based ATCA solution that leverages merchant silicon, open source software and a broad range of third-party blades. The platforms are pre-configured with the latest Intel silicon and integrated load balancing to meet high-performance requirements for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) deployments....

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