Blueprint: MEF’s Third Network & End-to-End Service Orchestration

by Chris Purdy A network that does the routine thinking, so you are free to innovate The convergence of LTE, Cloud, SDN and NFV promises dynamic, assured and differentiated services over efficient, orchestrated, and interconnected networks. This, the MEF’s Third Network vision, demands end-to-end Service Orchestration – and this is how it works. Hello World! A simple statement, and yet it is shorthand for an immensely complex process...

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Dell Releases its Network Functions Virtualization Platform

Dell introduced its deployment-ready NFV platform, which consists of its new Intel Xeon-powered 13th generation PowerEdge servers, Dell Open Networking, and software from open ecosystem partners and open source distributions. The platform also includes foundational software and open interfaces for Management and Orchestration (MANO) for simple operation and ease of integration. Key marketing points: Open and Standard: The Dell NFV platform is...

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Video: Dell's Pathway to NFV

Arpit Joshipura provides a 1-minute overview of the big disruption ahead with NFV .  Dell sees a big opportunity with NFV Pods -- essentially x86 servers stitched together with switches, storage and a layer of open source software. See video:  http://youtu.be/Rj8X_e1LxCU...

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NEC Teams with Dell on NFV/SDN

NEC Corporation of America (NEC) announced a collaboration agreement with Dell on a high-performance, highly reliable SDN-enabled fabric solution. Recently, the companies completed interoperability validation between NEC’s ProgrammableFlow Controller and Dell’s OpenFlow-enabled S-Series switches, helping ensure that the devices worked well together. “Dell’s SDN strategy is built on providing customers a choice, allowing them to tailor networks...

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Europe India Gateway Upgrades Cable to 100G with Ciena

The Europe India Gateway (EIG) consortium completed the first phase of a 100G upgrade on its international submarine cable system, spans approximately 15,000 kilometers and connects 12 countries across three continents. The first phase of the EIG cable upgrade - from the United Kingdom to Djibouti - is complete, with phase two - enhancing the cable capability to India - underway. Ciena said its GeoMesh submarine solution, using the OneControl Unified...

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HP Intros Distributed Cloud Networking for Multi Data Centers

HP introduced a new Distributed Cloud Networking (DCN) solution based on SDN and aimed at clouds spanning multiple data centers. DCN is especially aimed at accelerating communication service providers' (CSP) journey to Network  Function Virtualization (NFV) by optimizing network resources, increasing agility and  speeding time-to-market through dynamic, service-driven configuration.  The idea is to enable network administrators...

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HP and VMware Expand Partnership

HP and VMware are expanding their longstanding partnership with a new enterprise-class appliance for software-defined IT infrastructure. The HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC EVO: RAIL is a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance powered by VMware EVO: RAIL that tightly integrates compute, network, storage and management resources seamlessly.  It features a pre-integrated, pre-tested 100 percent VMware software stack, to provide high availability...

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Alcatel-Lucent Teams with KT for NFV Trials

Alcatel-Lucent announced a technical collaboration agreement with KT to drive innovation and the adoption of a comprehensive Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)-based infrastructure.  KT sees NFV underpinning its Giga Network architecture. Under the agreement, KT and Alcatel-Lucent will create an NFV proof-of-concept that includes Alcatel-Lucent’s: Virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) systems to provide advanced service delivery capabilities; CloudBand...

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Aerohive Cuts Q3 Guidance

Aerohive Networks, which specializes in controller-less Wi-Fi and cloud-managed mobile networking for the enterprise market, trimmed its financial guidance, saying it now expects revenue for the quarter to be approximately $34.5 million to $35.5 million, which is below the company's previously stated guidance of $38.0 million to $40.0 million. The company also expects for the third quarter net loss per share on a GAAP basis to be in the range of...

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