Cisco Announces Videoscape Virtualized Video Processing – Adds 4K and HEVC

Cisco announced plans to virtualize and cloud-enable the video processing elements of its Videoscape TV service delivery platform. The Cisco Videoscape Virtualized Video Processing (Videoscape V2P) solution includes three elements: Virtualized Video Processing Portal -- for configuring complex workflows from a single screen. Virtualized Video Orchestrator -- allocates software and hardware resources from a common pool, which can be a mix of physical...

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Qualcomm's Next-Gen Snapdragons Pack LTE-A Carrier-Aggregation

Qualcomm introduced its next-generation Snapdragon 810 and 808 processors -- its highest performance mobile processors to date -- aimed at flagship smartphones and tablets.  The new devices integrate 4th Generation Cat 6 LTE Advanced multimode modem together with support for the Qualcomm RF360 Front End Solution, and support 3x 20MHz Carrier Aggregation, enabling speeds of up to 300 Mbps. Both processors are designed in 20nm technology node...

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Seagate Ships World's Fastest 6TB Drive For Scale-out, Cloud-based Data Centers

Seagate Technology announced commercial release of its 6TB hard disk drive (HDD) for scale-out data centers. Seagate said its Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 features the fastest performance available for a nearline HDD -- up to a 25 percent increase in performance over competing 6TB drives— making it ideal for 24 X 7 bulk data storage.  It supports the latest generation of 12Gb/s SAS as well as SATA 6Gb/s interfaces. The 7200-RPM drive employs...

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NTT Comm Installs Compass-EOS Router Equipment in Japan

NTT Communications is testing Compass-EOS’ r10004 core-grade modular routers in Japan. The Compass-EOS routers are the world’s first direct silicon-to-photonics-based routers. Net One Systems, a leading systems integrator in Japan, is supporting the project. “NTT Communications recognizes that high router power consumption and the resulting cooling requirements, along with the large physical equipment footprint, are turning into serious problems...

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IBM Expands MobileFirst Portfolio

IBM expanded its MobileFirst portfolio with new and enhanced services focused on mobile strategy and security, application development and device procurement and management. New and enhanced services in the IBM MobileFirst portfolio include: Infrastructure consulting services – Helps enterprises evaluate their existing mobile infrastructure environment, identify gaps and build a comprehensive mobile strategy and roadmap that meets their business...

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EXFO Acquires ByteSphere for Net Monitoring Software

EXFO has acquired the assets of ByteSphere, a privately held software company specializing in global IT management and network monitoring solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. EXFO said the merger extends its capabilities in network performance management for infrastructure monitoring through highly scalable device and network element polling.  ByteSphere's solutions feature advanced patented techniques for infrastructure performance...

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Ericsson Intros High Density Stream Processing Platform

Ericsson introduced a new video processing platform for TV service providers. The Ericsson AVP 1000 Stream Processor, which is described as the most dense and powerful stream processor of its kind, is a 2RU that can process up to 512 transport streams of up to 300 Mbps each. It includes 10GigE interfaces, six high capacity option slots, dual high-capacity power supplies and new front to rear cooling with twin independent airflows for maximum cooling...

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Freescale to Acquire Mindspeed's Comcerto CPE Processor Business

Freescale Semiconductor agreed to acquire Mindspeed Technologies' Comcerto CPE communications processor business.  Financial terms were not disclosed.  Mindspeed is owned by M/A-Com. Mindspeed's Comcerto line includes multicore, ARM-based embedded processors and associated software. The Comcerto 2000 SoC is supported by an extensive software library and combines two 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPUs with packet engines and communications accelerators. “This...

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Radisys and Broadcom Partner on Small Cells

Radisys introduced Trillium TOTALeNodeB 2.0 small cell software for Broadcom's 617xx Series dual mode system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. The joint solution is being used in Z-Com’s LTE-TDD trial deployments for CMCC in the first half of 2014 with an initial focus on the Enterprise small cell market. Z-Com is a leading global solution provider dedicated to research, design, development and manufacturing of wireless data solutions for broadband wireless...

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Interoute Opens Data Centre in Hong Kong

Interoute opened a new Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC) zone in Hong Kong, enabling global enterprises with presence in Asia to gain fast access to their applications and data stored in the Interoute cloud. In addition, customers can move data and applications across the entire Interoute cloud services platform between VDC zones for free, thanks to the integration of Interoute’s automated MPLS network. Interoute now has seven Interoute VDC...

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