Cisco Introduces Virtualized and Programmable Elastic Access Portlio

Cisco introduced a new Elastic Access" portfolio of software and hardware products designed to bring virtualization, programmability, economical scale and architectural convergence in the access segment of the network. The new products, which are key elements of Cisco's recently introduced Evolved Programmable Network (EPN), leverage software-defined networking (SDN) to deliver new levels of service agility, including "bandwidth on the fly" and...

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Nokia: Three Metrics of Disruptive Innovation

by David Letterman, Nokia ‘Disruptive innovation’ has been a favorite discussion topic for years. I am sure every industry, every company and every innovation team, has had rounds and rounds of discussion about what disruptive innovation means for them. Rather than attempting another end all, be all definition for innovation, let’s focus on the passion it evokes and the permissions it enables. Disruptive innovation, as an internal charter, allows...

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HP's Helion Portfolio Pulls Together OpenStack Cloud Resources

HP introduced its "Helion" portfolio that brings together all of its resources in hardware, software, and services for private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions. The architectural vision for Helion is premised on OpenStack. HP also announced plans to invest more than $1 billion to support and deliver new open source cloud products and platforms in the new Helion portfolio in the years ahead. “Customer challenges today extend beyond cloud. They...

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NTT DOCOMO to Conduct 5G Experimental Trials

NTT DOCOMO announced plans to conduct experimental trials of emerging 5G technologies with leading vendors, including Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia and Samsung. The research program will look at the potential of 5G mobile technologies to exploit frequency bands above 6GHz and realize very high system capacity per unit area, and new radio technologies to support diverse types of applications including machine-to-machine (M2M) services....

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AWS Adds CloudFront CDN to Free Usage Tier

Amazon Web Services added its CloudFront content delivery network to its list of AWS Free Usage Tier benefits. AWS Free Usage Tier is the company's introductory program for customers to launch new applications, test existing applications in the Cloud, or simply gain hands-on experience with AWS. The free tier for Amazon CloudFront includes up to 50 GB data transfer and 2,000,000 requests per month aggregated across all AWS edge locations. h...

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BT Passes Two Thirds of UK Premises with Fibre Broadband

BT's open fibre network now passes more than 19 million homes and businesses, represting about two thirds of UK premises. BT originally said it would cover 19m premises with fibre by the end of 2015. It passed that total in March this year, around 21 months earlier than planned, with the vast majority of that footprint being enabled by BT under its commercial plan. The remainder has been enabled in partnership with the public sector. BT noted that...

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CyrusOne Expands Data Center in Phoenix

CyrusOne is breaking ground on a second data center at its Phoenix Campus in Chandler, Arizona. The new building will have 60,000 square feet of white floor space at full build, with up to 12 megawatts of power to serve customers in the Western region of the United States. The expansion adds to the more than 77,500 square feet of space already commissioned. http://www.cyrusone.com ...

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Taiwan's Accton Tech Joins Open Compute Project

Taiwan-based Accton Technology has joined the Open Compute Project and announced its plans to open source a design for a 10GbE top-of-rack switch and adapter to allow standard 19” rack switches to function in an Open Rack. Accton said its Edge-Core AS5712-54X Top-of-Rack Switch will offer forty-eight 10GbE SFP+ and six 40GbE QSFP ports in a 1U form factor. The switch is based on Broadcom’s StrataXGS Trident II Ethernet Switch silicon, and has...

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