Blueprint: NFV, SDN and Carrier Ethernet Make Progress

By Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer and SVP of R&D at Overture Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) have been getting a lot of airplay recently, and everyone is coming out with their SDN or NFV stories.  With all the airplay on Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN), some critically important information is getting lost in the hype. NFV and SDN are not standalone...

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Huawei Posts SDN IPv6 in Google Play and Apple App Stores

Huawei released a Software-defined Networking (SDN) App, SDN IPv6, in both Google Play and Apple App Store. Making use of the northbound interface of the SDN controller, SNC, and the innovative flow table technology, Huawei's SDN IPv6 solution flexibly generates and loads various transition technologies on simple SDN forwarding devices to streamline the deployment of IPv6 transition and to reduce complexity in shifting between different transition...

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Ericsson Launches Software-based Virtualized Encoding Solution

Ericsson introduced a software-based Virtualized Encoding solution designed to remove the complexity of TV Anywhere video processing. Ericsson Virtualized Encoding supports all input-types (compressed off-air or mezzanine and uncompressed), all output-types (traditional linear broadcast on cable, IPTV, DTH satellite and DTT, Multiscreen ABR delivery over IP) and all codecs (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC and HEVC). It can be implemented on processing platforms...

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Harris Broadcast Splits into Imagine Comm and GatesAir

Harris Broadcast, which is owned by The Gores Group, will split into two companies: Imagine Communications and GatesAir at its inaugural MediaDay held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Imagine Communications will be headquartered in Dallas, with offices in Denver, Toronto, Los Angeles, Tel Aviv and Beijing. The company's five decades of media software and networking innovation has secured more than 3,000 customers spanning 185 countries,...

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Level 3 Plans Pacific Cable for Colombia

Level 3 Communications is planning a new undersea cable connecting the Pacific coast of Colombia to its international undersea network.  The project will reduce Colombia reliance on international fiber connectivity via its Caribbean coast. The terrestrial segment of the cable in Colombia is being constructed in conjunction with EMCALI Empresas Municipales de Cali, a state-owned utilities services company, will construct the terrestrial portion...

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Ruckus Launches Dual-band, Three-stream 802.11ac Wi-Fi AP

Ruckus Wireless introduced the first dual-band, three-stream indoor Wi-Fi product specifically designed for the new 802.11ac standard. The Ruckus ZoneFlex R700 AP integrates the company's BeamFlex+ adaptive antenna array technology to extend the range, reliability and speed of indoor Wi-Fi services, giving enterprises and service providers the ability to offer Gigabit-class Wi-Fi performance. It can operate as a standalone access point (AP) or...

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Alcatel-Lucent Builds New Office Deskphones

The Enterprise division of Alcatel-Lucent debuted a new range of Premium DeskPhones featuring wideband audio through the handset or hands-free mode. It offers secured capabilities such as IPV6 ready and embedded software encryption. The company said it believes a majority of employees still rely on solid, trusted tools like a deskphone.  http://www.alcatel-lucent.c...

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