Monday, October 20, 2014

Blueprint: Streaming Audio Goes Over the Top and Under the Radar

by Jay Hinman, VP of Operator Solutions, Opera Software So much attention has rightly been paid by industry influencers—from media to analysts and vendors themselves—to the topic of over-the-top (OTT) video streaming and its effects on overall traffic and the end-user experience. While many solutions exist to address this very real need, nearly all in-network solutions overlook one of the fastest growing segments of OTT data consumption: audio...

Microsoft Builds Out its Azure Cloud - 19 Regions In Development

Microsoft aims to deliver the industry’s most complete cloud by pulling together Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics, said Satya Nadella, speaking at a company event in San Francisco. Microsoft announced several enhancements to its hyper-scale, enterprise-grade, hybrid cloud platform, including the new Azure G-series of virtual machines and Premium Storage; the general availability of the Microsoft Cloud Platform System, powered by...

OpenStack Juno Debuts with 342 New Features

Last week, the OpenStack Foundation  released the tenth version of its open source software for building public, private, and hybrid clouds. OpenStack Juno boasts 342 new features to support software development, big data analysis and application infrastructure at scale. It also makes 3,219 bug fixes, signaling a continuing maturation of the software as the most widely-supported cloud platform. A total of 1,419 individuals employed by more...

Vitesse and Aquantia Deliver 2.5G Ethernet Switch for Enterprise Wi-Fi

Vitesse Semiconductor and Aquantia announced a unique 2.5G Ethernet switch solution, reference design and software integration to accelerate Wave 2 802.11ac network deployments over existing Cat5e and Cat6 cabling infrastructure. Aquantia is the leading supplier of 10GBASE-T PHYs used for high-speed copper connectivity in data centers. Wave 2 802.11ac drives access point backhaul bandwidth above 1G, compelling Enterprises to find ways to enable...

ESnet Deploys Four Transatlantic 100G Links

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) announced a major upgrade of its transatlantic capacity in order to ensure ultra-fast access to scientific data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and other research sites in Europe.  ESnet provides advanced networking capabilities and tools to support U.S. national laboratories, experimental facilities and supercomputing centers. Specifically, ESnet is deploying...

Hurricane Electric Extends Presence in 17 Equinix Centers

Hurricane Electric, a leading global Internet backbone, is extending its global IPv4 and IPv6 network to Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in Asia and Europe -- for a total of 17 IBX deployments. Hurricane Electric anticipates a widespread migration to IPv6 as the Internet of Things becomes fully realized. Currently, the company estimates that IPv6 traffic represents just over four percent of global IP traffic. Global...

ZTE Transports 400G Single-Carrier Signal over 3000km

ZTE has achieved single carrier 400G wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) signal transmission over 3000km, traversing 10 reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs) with an improved frequency spectrum of 4b/s/Hz (bits per second per hertz). The company said it developed patented Nyquist filtering technology to overcome degradation typically seen as a 400G traverses multiple ROADM components. http://www.zte.com.cn...

IBM Exits its Silicon Foundry Business

GLOBALFOUNDRIES plans to acquire IBM's global commercial semiconductor technology business, including intellectual property, world-class technologists and technologies related to IBM Microelectronics. Under the deal, GLOBALFOUNDRIES will also become IBM's exclusive server processor semiconductor technology provider for 22 nanometer (nm), 14nm and 10nm semiconductors for the next 10 years. The transfer includes existing IBM semiconductor manufacturing...

Ocedo Enters Enterprise SDN Equipment Market

Ocedo GmbH, a start-up based in Karlsruhe, Germany, announced its entry into the enterprise SDN market. Ocedo is developing a range of cloud managed and SDN enabled network equipment to connect wired, wireless and wide-area networks. The Ocedo System enables IT departments and MSPs to roll-out entire networks remotely from the cloud, track network activity in a “single pane of glass”, and provision network configuration changes in real time. “SDN...