Blueprint: Enterprise Agility – How the CE Services Market Will Top $50bn in 2015

by Kevin Vachon, COO of the MEF Increased enterprise agility and a dramatic boost to user productivity are promised by the latest wave of dynamic CE services now coming to market – a market set to grow by several percentage points in size to over $50bn globally in the next five years. Research and analysis firms Frost & Sullivan, Vertical Systems and Infonetics are all predicting an Ethernet services market worth approximately $50 billion by...

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MIT's Fastpass Promises to Cut Data Center Latency

Researchers at MIT are developing a "Fastpass" network management system that promises to significantly reduce the latency between servers in hyperscale data centers. According to a university blog, the MIT Fastpass system uses a central server called an "arbiter" to decide which nodes in the data center network may send data to other nodes in a designated time slot.  An arbiter based on the latest multicore silicon reportedly can keep up with...

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Orange Chooses Apigee to Deliver Telco Data and Services to Partners

Orange has selected Apigee’s digital platform to power the APIs (application programming interfaces) for Orange Partner, its business hub for developers, partners and start-ups programs. The Orange Partner program exposes a portfolio of APIs that enable developers and partners to build rich mobile and Web applications using Orange core networks and services. Orange already promotes several APIs, including enriched communications with joyn, machine-to-machine,...

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Ericsson Optimized Telefonica Brasil for World Cup

Ericsson supplied its Key Event Experience network optimization solution to support Telefonica | Vivo operations during the 2014 World Cup. The Key Event Experience solution, which was used for the first time in Brazil by the operator, enhances the perceived quality of network operators by improving the user experience during periods of increased traffic. Two servers were installed adjacent to the service provider's network management system to...

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Juniper Tunes its DDoS Protection for Upstream Mitigation

Juniper Networks announced a set of improvements to its Juniper DDoS Secure solution to provide tighter integration into routing and service provider infrastructures with BGP Flowspec and GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) protocols.  The goal is to enable new forms of protection that can more effectively and efficiently mitigate a variety of DDoS attacks without restricting or impacting normal service. Highlights of the announcement include: Upstream...

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CoreSite Offers High Precision Timing Service in its Data Center

CoreSite has begun offering "High Precision Time", a new certified timing service by Perseus Telecom, that is now available by direct interconnection from within CoreSite’s Northern Virginia Market. The service can be used to precisely synchronize time systems across multiple data centers and calibrate their perimeter to sub-nanoseconds of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) timescale. Perseus specializes in high-speed global...

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Linksys Ships New Line of Wi-Fi Range Extenders

Linksys introduce a new lineup of Wi-Fi Range Extenders for residential use. The new units are designed to extend b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi signals from any wireless router for up to 10,000 sq. ft. of coverage.  Linksys' Cross-Band technology enables the Wi-Fi signal to simultaneously receive data on one band and transmit on another, helping to overcome Wi-Fi deadzones in a home. Linksys is also introducing an audio streaming capability for the Wi-Ri...

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Orange Opens Large Scale PoP in Abidjan

Orange inaugurated West Africa’s first, very large-capacity IP Point of Presence (PoP) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. This paves the way for other carriers and local ISPs to offer Internet connectivity in the region at much faster speeds and with better reliability than has been available to date. Abidjan also hosts a landing point for the ACE submarine cable, a 17,000km-long cable which runs down the west coast of Africa from Europe. http://www...

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