Hot Interconnects Symposium - August 26-28

The 22nd annual IEEE Hot Interconnects symposium will be held at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California on August 26-28. The event is an international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from multi-core on-chip interconnects to those within systems, clusters, and data centers. Early registration ends July...

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VeloCloud Launches Subscription-based Virtualized WAN Service

VeloCloud Networks, a start-up based in Los Altos, California, is launching a subscription-based, virtualized WAN service for enterprises that aggregates multiple access lines (cable modem, DSL, LTE) into a single secure connection that is defined and controlled in the cloud. The VeloCloud service uses an Intel-based customer premise device at a branch office to communicate with a VeloCloud gateway in the cloud. The service analyzes network performance...

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ViaWest Opens 140,000 Sq Ft Data Center in Denver

ViaWest opened its fifth data center in the Denver area. The Compark data center, located in the Denver Technology Center near southeast Denver, boasts 140,000 square feet of raised floor space and  high-density configurations supporting 700+ watts per square foot. The data center also is marked by a Projected Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.2. “As our fifth data center in the Denver area and 27th across the U.S., Compark was built...

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Sea-Me-We 5 Project Takes Another Step Forward

Orange signed a construction and maintenance agreement for Sea-Me-We 5 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 5), a new submarine cable that will connect  Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh,  Sri-Lanka, India, Pakistan, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen,  Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Italy and France. Sea-Me-We 5 initially offer an aggregate capacity of 24 Tbps and the ability to carry 100G wavelengths....

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Ericsson's Q2 Sales Were Flat Y-o-Y

Ericsson reported sales of SEK 54.8b (US$8.01 billion), down -1% YoY and up 13% QoQ. Sales in the quarter year-over-year were driven by growth in the Middle East, China and India, as well as continued capacity business in North America. This was offset by, as previously communicated, lower revenues from two large mobile broadband coverage projects in North America that peaked in the first half of 2013, and reduced activity in Japan. Ericsson...

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