Verizon Confirms VoLTE Coming Later this Year

Verizon confirmed plans to commercially launch its Voice over LTE service across its nationwide network later this year. A specific launch date was not specified. From the beginning, Verizon’s VoLTE service will offer an HD Voice experience using the AMR-wideband standard.  The company said it will have a robust line-up of VoLTE-enabled smartphones available when the service launches. A software upgrade will also be available for certain other...

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Cisco Names Intercloud Partners: Dimension Data, Sungard, Telstra

Cisco announced partnerships with Dimension Data (part of NTT, Sungard Availability Services and Telstra to extend its vision of the Intercloud.  The partners will align their public cloud infrastructure to the Cisco Cloud architecture and deliver Cisco Cloud services to customers and resellers. Cisco's open Intercloud allows local hosting and local provider options that enable data sovereignty. The hybrid cloud capabilities that differentiate...

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Cisco's John Chambers and Rob Lloyd on Consolidation, Intercloud, ACI and NSA

On Industry consolidation In your keynote, you predicted a "brutal consolidation" for the IT sector.  What do you foresee? John Chambers:  I've seen this movie before.  All of our competitors from 15 years ago are gone.  They were good companies but they missed critical transitions. Now you are seeing this accelerate. The role of a pure hardware player will be challenged.  We are a software-hardware-ASIC-cloud company moving...

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Infonetics: VoLTE Fuels 37% Year-Over-Year Growth in Q1 Carrier VoIP and IMS market;

Worldwide service provider VoIP and IMS equipment revenue totaled $992 million in 1Q14, an increase of 37% from 1Q13, but a sequential decline of 9%, according to a new report from Infonetics. Most segments were down on a sequential basis following a strong 4Q13. VoLTE continues to positively impact the service provider VoIP and IMS equipment market, though we look for the market to slow this year as operators commercially launch services and...

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HP Intros Orchestrated Datacenter Software

HP introduced its Orchestrated Datacenter solution, an automation and cloud-management suite for optimizing data center operations. This includes orchestrating the full stack—from  physical, virtual servers, networks, storage and databases to the middleware and the application layer—and automating end-to-end IT workflows across the service desk, monitoring and security operations. HP said its Orchestrated Datacenter lets IT teams design, customize...

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Vitesse Licenses GigE IP Cores for Freescale's QorIQ Processors

Freescale Semiconductor has licensed Vitesse Semiconductor's VSC9953-01 SparX Gigabit Ethernet switch IP core for use in its 28nm QorIQ T1040 quad-core and T1020 dual-core communications processors, now sampling to customers. Targeted applications include gateway routers and industrial automation, as well as unified threat management (UTM) and network attached storage (NAS) networking. Together, Freescale's processor family and Vitesse's complementary...

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