Layer123 SDN & OpenFlow World Congress Wrap-up

by James E. Carroll There is no turning back from SDN and NFV as the future of carrier infrastructure, according to the presenters and delegates at this year's Layer123 SDN and OpenFlow World Congress, which was held last week in Düsseldorf, Germany.  The event attracted a sold-out audience of 1,300 -- over double the size of last year's conference. Here are some highlights: On this the 2nd birthday of NFV, ETSI's NFV ISG has generated...

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Huawei, KPN and China Mobile Complete VoLTE Roaming Call

KPN Netherlands and China Mobile completed what is believed to be the industry's first international Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based Voice over LTE (VoLTE) roaming call.  The interconnection between Europe and Asia was enabled using Huawei's solution. This IMS-based call was initiated by KPN Netherlands and connected by China Mobile utilizing IBASIS as a tandem office. It was tested to verify the commercial deployment of...

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Telekom Austria Connects First Customer with G.fast

Telekom Austria Group's A1 domestic subsidiary, together with its technology partner Alcatel-Lucent, has demonstrated G.fast running a several hundred megabits per second.  Currently, G.fast is still in a testing phase at A1 and the launch of commercial operations is expected in 2016. Hannes Ametsreiter, CEO Telekom Austria Group and A1 said: "We're proud to have succeeded in connecting the first customer in the world to our domestic A1 network...

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Algeria's DJEZZY deploys ALU's Microwave Packet Radios for Backhaul

Algeria's DJEZZY OTA, a division of Vimpelcom, is deploying Alcatel-Lucent's 9500 Microwave Packet Radio solution to upgrade its mobile backhaul network.  Alcatel-Lucent will also be providing DJEZZY (OTA) with its 7705 SAR A and SAM 5620 Microwave is more cost effective and practical for remote regions of the country. The MPR will be deployed in four zones out of a total of six, covering 67% of DJEZZY (OTA) ’s network. Alcatel-Lucent...

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GENBAND Joins HP OpenNFV Program

GENBAND has joined the HP ecosystem partners to help accelerate service providers’ transition to NFV. The HP OpenNFV Program provides an open standards–based network functions virtualization (NFV) reference architecture along with HP industry-standard products and capabilities, offering service providers ready-to-deploy solutions that can enable the transformation from legacy networks to NFV and Software Defined Network (SDN)-enabled infrastructure. GENBAND’s...

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CenturyLink opens Cloud Dev Center Near Seattle

CenturyLink has opened a cloud development center in Bellevue, Washington. Centurylink said the Seattle area was selected as the location for the facility due to the concentration of cloud companies and resources in the market. “The Cloud Development Center ushers in a new era for CenturyLink, offering a collaborative environment for top technology talent from around the world, a hub for client and industry discussions, and a focal point for...

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CENX Confirms Multi-Million Dollar Service Orchestrator Order

CENX confirmed a new multi-million dollar order from a Tier 1 North American service provider who is extending their Cortx Service Orchestrator deployment throughout their mobile backhaul network. “This new customer order is a testament to the tremendous value that Cortx Service Orchestrator brings to service provider networks,” said Ed Ogonek, President and CEO of CENX. “We work closely with our customers to deliver on their requirements to gain...

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NSFOCUS Unveils Anti-DDoS for Hosting SPs and Data Centers

NSFOCUS has launched an active DDoS attack mitigation appliance that defends against both known and unknown attacks and is specifically designed for hosting service providers, Internet data centers (IDCs), telecom carriers and managed security service providers (MSSPs). The ADS 8000 boasts up to 40 Gbps of mitigation capacity with a single unit and provides hundreds of Gbps of larger scalable mitigation capacity via simple cluster deployment. NSFOCUS...

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CALIENT adds OpenDaylight Plugin to SDN-Controlled Hybrid Packet

CALIENT Technologies announced a new plugin for the OpenDayLight (ODL) platform for providing programmatic control of it S-Series optical circuit switches. This builds on CALIENT’s existing support for the OpenFlow API by extending the OpenFlow protocol to support circuit switching. CALIENT's hybrid packet-optical platform adds an optical circuit switch to packet-based data center networks specifically to handle offloading of persistent...

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Zayo Rises 16% in IPO

Zayo completed its initial public offering of 21,052,631 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $19.00 per share.  The company offered 16,008,679 shares of common stock and selling stockholders offered 5,043,952 shares of common stock. The stock closed on Friday at $22, up 16% from opening price.   The shares are trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “ZAYO.”   http://www.zayo.com In...

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Microsemi Hits Milestone: 1 Billion Voice Line Circuits

Microsemi has reached a major milestone by shipping over 1 billion voice line circuits over The past 3 decades.   The company claims over 65 percent market share in voice line circuit solutions for VoIP enabled broadband gateways, It continues to develop voice line solutions with a wide array of products such as the next generation miSLIC Series, the ZL880, and VE950 product families. Microsemi’s latest line circuit devices are optimized...

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