JDSU to Split in Two: Optics and Network Enablement

JDSU announced plans to split into two publicly traded companies: An optical components and commercial lasers company (“CCOP”) consisting of JDSU’s current Communications and Commercial Optical Products segment. The CCOP company, with its long-standing reputation for optical innovation and quality, serves a $7.4 billion optical communications market expected to grow at a compounded rate of 11 percent over the next four years.  It also addresses...

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T-Mobile US Pushes Ahead with Wi-Fi Calling

T-Mobile US announce its latest "Un-carrier" move: a push to enable Wi-Fi calling and texting for its Simple Choice smartphone customers.  The capability will now be supported by every smartphone it sells. T-Mobile said its disruptive approach is to leverage every available technology to deliver coverage in places unreachable by any cellular network. “Wi-Fi Un-leashed is a game changer. This is like adding millions of towers to our network...

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Infonetics: Data Center and Enterprise SDN Market Soars 192%

In-use for SDN Ethernet switch revenue, including branded Ethernet switches, virtual switches, and bare metal switches, grew more than 10-fold in 2013 from the prior year, driven by significant increases in white box bare metal switch deployments by very large cloud service providers such as Google and Amazon, according to a newly published report by Infonetics Research. Some highlights: Vendors are seeding the market with SDN-capable Ethernet...

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Cyan Extends its Packet-Optical + SDN with MPLS-TP

Cyan announced a series of new features to its Cyan Z-Series Packet-Optical Transport (P-OTP) and Blue Planet SDN platforms, including support for MPLS-TP, support for additional Carrier Ethernet 2.0+ capabilities, hitless software upgrades, traffic policing and shaping, and support for a new 100G DWDM coherent CFP. Some highlights of the enhancements: 8-degree, 96 channel ROADM – Cyan is adding to the existing family of single-slot 2- and 4-degree...

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Infonetics: Ethernet Switching Up 11% to $5.4B in 2Q14

The global Ethernet switch market grew 11% to $5.4 billion in 2Q14, a result of better than anticipated results at #1 Cisco and strong results by a number of smaller players including Arista, Brocade, HP, Huawei, Juniper, and ZTE, according to Infonetics Research's most recent Ethernet Switches report, which tracks unmanaged, web-managed, and fully-managed fixed and chassis switches by port speed (100M, 1G, 10G, 40G, 100G). Some highlights: Year-over-year...

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ALU Virtualizes its Velocix Content Delivery Network

Alcatel-Lucent is rolling out a series of enhancements to its Velocix Content Delivery Network (CDN) solution to enable pay-TV operators to better manage their networks and set a new standard for the customer experience of IP video services. The new capabilities bring this CDN solution in line with Alcatel-Lucent's NFV portfolio. The company said its goal with these improvements is to decouple the software that controls and routes traffic on a network...

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365 Data Centers Pulls in Funding for Expansion

365 Data Centers announced $16 million in Series B funding and a $55 million credit facility for the expansion of its co-location business. The announcement comes a few months after 365 Data Centers announced a new management team, corporate identity and 365 Quick Start, which makes data centers more accessible.  The company cityes triple-digit percentage YOY sales growth and broken its all-time quarterly sales record by over 20 percent. The...

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Google Hangouts Now Offering Free Calling

Google began offering free voice calls from Hangouts on Android, iOS and the web to regular telephone numbers in the U.S. and Canada.  International calls can be made a low rates. The new capability represents the integration of Google Hangouts with Google Voice. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/call-me-maybe-introducing-free-voice.h...

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