Video: Getting to 400 GbE

An official IEEE P802.3bs Task Force has been formed to develop a 400 Gbp Ethernet standard for 100m over multimode fiber, as well as 500m, 2km, and 10km over singlemode fiber. A number of technical and architectural issues, as described in this video, are up for discussion in the Task Force. John D'Ambrosia, Chairman of the Ethernet Alliance and Chief Ethernet Evangelist at Dell, is looking for ratification in early 2017. See video:  h...

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SingTel Launches 300 Mbps LTE-A

SingTel is launching a 4G mobile broadband service boasting data speeds of up to 300Mbps, double the speeds of currently available 4G services in Singapore. SingTel's 300 Mbps uses LTE-Advanced technology from Ericsson. SingTel is using LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) carrier aggregation to combine 20 MHz bandwidth each of its 1800MHz and 2600MHz spectrum bands.  The first live site at Singapore Expo is now ready for service.  By the end of the...

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Dell'Oro: Ethernet Switch Market Drops Close to $1B in Revenue in 1Q14

The Layer 2-3 Ethernet Switch market declined nearly $1 billion sequentially in the first quarter 2014 to just over $5 billion, according to a new report by Dell'Oro Group. "Several factors caused 1Q14 to deliver the second worst first quarter on record for the Ethernet Switch market," said Alan Weckel, Vice President of Ethernet Switch market research at Dell'Oro Group.  "Campus switching continues to struggle as many customers look towards...

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Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks Form Cyber Defense Consortium

Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks are leading the foundation of a new cyber defense consortium whose mission is to drive a coordinated industry effort against cybercrime and cyber criminals through deep collaboration on threat intelligence and sharing of preventative measures. 1. Better cross-industry, cross-vendor threat intelligence 2. Better coordination of incident response 3. Better prevention of cyber attacks using advanced malware “At Fortinet...

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IBM Patents Cloud-based Fraud Detection Technique

IBM was awarded a U.S. patent for a technique that helps online and cloud-based businesses improve their ability to eliminate fraud by analyzing browsing behavior. IBM received U.S. Patent #8,650,080 - "User-browser interaction-based fraud detection system" - for the technique, which could be used by web site operators, cloud service providers and mobile application developers to detect and deal with threats by using analytics to thwart fraudsters. "Our...

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ViaSat Readies L-band Managed Service for M2M

ViaSat is launching a new worldwide, L-band network service for the machine to machine (M2M) market. The ViaSat L-band Managed Service will introduce an innovative new waveform optimized for M2M that leverages ViaSat's extensive experience in serving U.S. government customers with highly secure, reliable, and rugged satellite-based global services. ViaSat said its new service will operate over the highest performance L-band satellites using new...

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Infoblox Posts Revenue of $61M, CEO to Step Down

Infoblox reported revenue of $61 million for its third fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2014.  Net revenue was up 5% on a year-over-year basis but on the low-end of company guidance. There was a GAAP net loss of $7.4 million, or $0.14 loss per fully diluted share, for the third quarter of fiscal 2014, compared with a net loss of $0.3 million, or $0.01 loss per fully diluted share, for the third quarter of fiscal 2013. “Revenue for the third quarter...

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