Alcatel-Lucent's TWDM-PON Carries Four 10G Wavelengths

Alcatel-Lucent introduced the industry’s first TWDM-PON (Time and Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Networks), a new fixed, ultra-broadband access technology for scaling the capacity of existing fiber networks. TWDM-PON uses four wavelengths per fiber, giving a total capacity of 40 Gbps. An operator can choose to deliver different services over each wavelength, enabling residential, business and mobile backhaul services to be carried...

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ZTE Intros ElasticNet SDN IPRAN Solution

ZTE introduced its ElasticNet SDN IPRAN (Internet Protocol Radio Access Network) solution for virtualizing the access layer of mobile networks. Its goal is to simplify network structures and operations and maintenance (O&M) for mobile operators by introducing an intelligent, maintainable IPRAN bearer network. ZTE said the problem of complexity in mobile network backhaul has been growing because of the number of eNB base stations required for...

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Alcatel-Lucent’s G.fast in 12 Carrier Trials

Alcatel-Lucent 's ultra-broadband G.fast solution is now in trials with a dozen carriers around the world and is exptected to become available in the first quarter of 2015.  Announced test sites include A1, a subsidiary of Telekom Austria, in which a regular subscriber was connected in order to independently test G.fast in the field. Other trials have included BT and Orange. Alcatel-Lucent said its new 7368 ISAM single-port G.fast Optical...

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Verizon: 79% of Wireless Data Traffic Rides LTE

Driven by continued growth in smartphone adoption and LTE activations, Verizon reported third quarter 2014 revenue of $31.6 billion, a 4.3 percent increase compared with third-quarter 2013. EPS came in at 89 cents for the quarter, compared with 78 cents per share in third-quarter 2013. Capital expenditures totaled $12.6 billion through the first nine months of 2014, up 6.9 percent year over year. Verizon projects capital spending of around $17...

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Mirantis Raises $100 Million for OpenStack

Mirantis, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, raised $100 million for its pure-play OpenStack solutions. Mirantis offers software and services for running production-grade OpenStack clouds. Its solution provides a visual interface as a single control plane for OpenStack clusters and enables automated hardware discovery and network verification. For this round, Insight Venture Partners was joined by August Capital, as well as existing...

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Broadcom Posts Record Revenue of $2.26 Billion

Broadcom reported record net revenue for the third quarter of 2014 of $2.26 billion, an increase of 10.7% compared with the $2.04 billion reported for the second quarter of 2014 and an increase of 5.3% compared with the $2.15 billion for Q3 last year. Net income (GAAP) was $98 million, or $0.16 per share (diluted), compared with GAAP net loss of $1 million, or $0.00 per share (basic and diluted), for Q2 2014 and GAAP net income of $316 million,...

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ZTE Captures Big Share of China Mobile Tender for Routers

ZTE has been awarded 30.77% of China Mobile Group’s annual tender for high-performance routers, the second-highest allocation among all vendors. ZTE confirmed that its ZXR10 M6000-S broadband multi-service gateway will now be qualified for deployment in China Mobile’s networks supporting 4G LTE, IP MAN networks, internet data centers, and enterprise-class services. China Mobile’s 2014-15 tender for high-performance routers and switches drew bids...

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Arbor Networks Defends Against Fast Flood DDoS attacks

The latest release of Arbor Networks' Peakflow distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) platform can now detect Fast Flood DDoS attacks in as little as one second and initiate mitigation in less than thirty seconds. The Peakflow platform includes two main components, Peakflow and the Peakflow Threat Management System. Peakflow combines network-wide anomaly detection and traffic engineering with the Peakflow Threat Management System’s carrier-class threat...

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VMware Posts Q3 Revenue of $1.52 Billion, up 18%

VMware reported Q3 2014 revenues of $1.52 billion, an increase of 18% from the third quarter of 2013. Operating income for the third quarter was $242 million, a decrease of 16% from the third quarter of 2013, reflecting the impact of the AirWatch acquisition. Net income (GAAP) for the third quarter was $194 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, down 26% per diluted share compared to $261 million, or $0.60 per diluted share, for the third quarter of...

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