Radisys -- T-Series Platform Innovations for NFV and SDN

SDN and NFV are opening up a tremendous opportunity for network equipment manufacturers to innovate, says Karl Wale, Director of Product Marketing at Radisys.  In this video, he presents the Radisys T-Series platform. Although originating with enterprise cloud systems, the new telecom cloud equipment is designed to meet stricter reliability requirements.  It must also support low latency applications and heterogeneous transport (optical,...

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AT&T Contemplates Widescale FTTH Rollout

AT&T may go big with its rollout of residential fiber in major markets across the U.S.  The company announced a major initiative to expand its Gigabit-capable fiber network to up to 100 cities and municipalities nationwide, including 21 new major metropolitan areas. The company is not changing its CAPEX guidance for 2014.  The initiative will fall under Project VIP. "AT&T U-verse with GigaPower" service is available in parts of...

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China Telecom Powers Internet Data Center with Huawei's SDN

The Beijing branch of China Telecom has deployed Huawei's software-defined networking solution in its Internet Data Center (IDC) for northern China.  The SDN installation is supporting a range of new IDC services, such as “DC-one” for virtual resource services, “DC-care” for assurance services, “DC-keeper” for auxiliary services like detailed traffic reporting, and DC-private for customized services. The companies said the SDN architecture...

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China Mobile Verifies FDD/TDD Carrier Aggregation with Huawei

China Mobile has verified multiple core TD-LTE-Advanced technologies including FDD/TDD Carrier Aggregation, MSA, 256QAM, inter-site CoMP, and MU-MIMO in field tests conducted in partnership with Chengdu Electronic Technology University and Huawei. Huawei said this pre-commercial verification of 3GPP R12 technologies marks a milestone in improving the entire TD-LTE network performance and user peak throughput. Some highlights of the testing: LTE...

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NTT Com Tests Browser-based WebRTC Chat

NTT Communications kicked off a free trial of "WebRTC Chat on Skyway" - a web application that uses WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communications)for browser-to-browser communication between devices in real time. NTT Comm sees WebRTC as a breakthrough technology because it enables highly private communication for web services while minimizing server requirements. WebRTC stores the beginning and end of connection logs, so communication can be traced if...

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Microsoft and Motorola Solutions Sign Licensing Deal

Microsoft announced a worldwide patent deal under which Motorola Solutions licenses its intellectual property devices running the Android platform and Chrome OS operating system. "Microsoft and Motorola Solutions share a respect for intellectual property and a commitment to fair and reasonable patent licensing programs," said Nick Psyhogeos, general manager, associate general counsel, IP licensing of the Innovation and Intellectual Property Group...

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Verizon Appoints Chris Formant to Lead Enterprise Business

Christopher Formant has been named president of Verizon Enterprise Solutions. He was most recently senior vice president and president of Avaya Government Solutions and Avaya Professional Services. At Avaya, he was also president of Global Services.  In addition to his leadership roles at Avaya, Formant has held executive positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers and MBNA, as well as serving as adviser/investor to early-stage technology compan...

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