Blueprint: SDN and the Future of Carrier Networks

by Dave Jameson, Principal Architect, Fujitsu Network Communications The world has seen rapid changes in technology in the last ten to twenty years that are historically unparalleled, particularly as it relates to mobile communications. As an example, in 1995 there were approximately 5 million cell phone subscribers in the US, less than 2 percent of the population. By 2012, according to CTIA, there were more than 326 million subscribers.  Of...

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Australia's NBN Co Tests Coriant's Terabit Super-channel

Australia's NBN Co has completed a trial of a one Terabit per second (Tbps) super-channel over a 1,066 km fibre optic ring in South East Queensland, Australia using Coriant's innovative FlexiGrid technology on the NBNCo Transit Network, which is a wholesale, open access network. Coriant said this trial demonstrated a Tbps super-channel transmission in a 369GHz grid over 1,066 km. It showed a greater than 35 percent improvement in spectral efficiency...

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Telecom Italia Tests HSUPA 16QAM with NSN

Telecom Italia achieve uplink speeds of up to 11 Mbps using HSUPA 16QAM (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) technology in a lab environment. The tests, which were conducted in Turin, used Nokia Solutions and Networks' advanced receivers, which can double the peak data rate and significantly increase the network capacity. The devices supporting HSUPA 16QAM are already available on the market. NSN noted that the advanced Interference Cancellation...

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Prolexic: High-Bandwidth NTP Amplification DDoS Attacks up 371% in 30 days

Prolexic Technologies, a division of Akamai that specialize in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, issued a high alert threat advisory on NTP amplification DDoS attacks. Due to the availability of new DDoS toolkits that make it simple to generate high-bandwidth, high-volume attacks with just a handful of servers, Prolexic has seen a surge in this attack method. With the current batch of NTP amplification attack toolkits,...

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Broadcom Intros 10/40/100G Lite-PHY for Data Centers

Broadcom introduced the first triple speed 10/40/100G Lite physical layer transceiver (Lite-PHY) designed for high-density data center applications. The new BCM82322 Lite-PHY, which is fabricated in 28 nanometer (nm) CMOS, delivers the industry's highest port count density (12 full duplex ports) and reduces power up to 50% , consuming <150mw 10g="" duplex="" full="" nbsp="" p="" per="" port.=""> Key features: Single 100GE CXP cPPI to CAUI...

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Coriant Advances Collaboration with Juniper

Coriant reported further progress in its collaboration with Juniper Networks to create an integrated packet transport network (IPTN). Recent joint R&D between the two networking innovators resulted in the first multi-vendor line side interworking between router and DWDM system suitable for long haul (LH) transmission. This IPTN solution is a combination of the Coriant hiT 7300 DWDM system, Coriant TransNet planning tool, and TNMS network management...

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