Mobile Edge Computing Initiative to Boost Base Station Capabilities

A new Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) initiative has been formed by Nokia Networks,Vodafone, IBM, Intel, NTT Docomo and Huawei with the goal of bringing standard compute and storage capabilities into wireless base stations. The initiative, which is organized as a new European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Industry Specification Group (ISG), will focus on open architecture and application programming interfaces (APIs) for value creation...

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EMC to Take Controlling Stake in VCE as Cisco Sells

VCE will become an EMC business as Cisco agrees to sell all but 10% of its equity stake in the joint venture to EMC. VCE is the joint venture formed in 2009 by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel.  VMware is a subsidiary of EMC. Going forward, VCE will be a subsidiary of EMC and will serve as  "an integration point for technologies from across the company." VCE's flagship product is its Vblock Systems, a converged infrastructure...

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IBM and Microsoft Announce Hybrid Cloud Collaboration

IBM and Microsoft agreed to collaborate to provide their respective enterprise software on Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. Key points: IBM and Microsoft will make key IBM middleware such as WebSphere Liberty, MQ, and DB2 available on Microsoft Azure. Windows Server and SQL Server will be offered on IBM Cloud. IBM and Microsoft are working together to deliver a Microsoft .NET runtime for IBM's Bluemix cloud development platform. To support hybrid...

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Broadcom's G.fast Silicon Supports Selective Upgrades on VDSL Systems

Broadcom has begun sampling a G.fast line card chipset promising Gigabit performance over currently installed twisted pair copper cabling. The new BCM65200 DSP and BCM65900 analog front end VDSL chipset with on-chip vectoring and integrated G.fast support a new state-of-the-art DSP architecture to deliver unmatched levels of integration.  Incorporating up to 36 lines of VDSL2 or six lines of G.fast, plus high-speed vector interfaces that eliminate...

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AT&T Users Migrate to Mobile Share Plans of 10GB+

AT&T added 2 million wireless users in Q3 while making progress in migrating its existing customer base onto Mobile Share plans and away from unlimited data plans.  About 62% of the postpaid customers are now on Mobile Share plans, with more than half on plans sharing 10GB of wireless data per month with family members. The company said its wireless margins have been impacted by strong adoption of Mobile Share Value plans, but that customer...

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Wind River Releases Benchmarks for Pattern Matching Engine for NFV

Wind River announced that its high-speed pattern matching software is able to achieve a benchmark of over 36 Gbps on Intel Atom processors and exceeding 280 Gbps on high-end Intel Xeon–based platform. The Wind River Content Inspection Engine provides the high-speed pattern matching that enables security appliance vendors to scale security performance and intelligence across the network from low-end to high-end platforms. Software pattern matching...

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ADVA Posts Q3 Guidance of EUR 87.1 million

ADVA Optical Networking reported Q3 2014 revenues of EUR 87.1 million, slightly above guidance of between EUR 82 million and EUR 87 million. This is up 10.2% vs. Q3 2013 at EUR 79.1 million and sequentially flat vs. EUR 87.2 million in Q2 2014. “We are pleased with the development of our Q3 2014 revenues of EUR 87.1 million, near the record level seen in the previous quarter, and slightly above guidance. The year-on-year increase of 10.2% is based...

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CenturyLink Builds Las Vegas Data Center with Switch SUPERNAP

CenturyLink will open a new data center at the Switch SUPERNAP Las Vegas campus.  A new agreement between the firms will also ensure Switch customers access to CenturyLink’s global data center footprint and portfolio of colocation, cloud, managed services and network.   CenturyLink currently operates 57 data centers throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Switch is a privately held company based in Las Vegas where it has a 1.7 million-square-foot...

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DragonWave Receives Follow On Orders in India for LTE Roll Out

DragonWave received follow on purchase orders for its Horizon Compact+ from a major Indian telecom and broadband Service Provider. Financial terms were not disclosed. “We are pleased to have received additional orders from this key Indian customer to further build our their 4G Network,” said DragonWave President and CEO Peter Allen. “India is a very important market and our solutions are ideally placed to deliver cost effective capacity for operators...

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Good Tech Acquires Macheen for BYOD App Insights

Good Technology, which specializes in secure mobility solutions, has acquired Macheen, a mobile cloud application service provider based in Austin, Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Good Technology said the acquisition extends its capabilities to provide customers with embedded corporate data plan support across business-required apps. Split-billing capabilities enable customers to tie data usage costs directly to the apps using that...

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