Blueprint: Essential Elements of Transport SDN

by Stu Benington Vice President, Cloud/SDN Business Unit, Coriant There is a great opportunity emerging for service providers, driven by the widespread adoption of cloud-based applications by both enterprises and consumers. It’s a chance to capitalize on the elastic network needs of on-demand cloud-based services to create new sources of revenue and tighten control of CAPEX/OPEX costs. The lack of elasticity in most of today’s static networks makes...

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One Minute Videos: The Third Network

The MEF recently outlined its vision for a new, THIRD Network, delivering Agile, Assured and Orchestrated services worldwide, where: Agile means delivery of real-time on-demand services  Assured means delivery of performance and security guarantees  Orchestrated means automated delivery of services across multiple service providers. This set of One Minute Videos introduces The Third Network. Links below: Andrew McFadzen, Chairman...

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EMC Outlines its Vision for the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

EMC outlined its vision for the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, where an IT-as-a-Service model enables seamless interconnectivity between private data centers and public clouds, including VMware vCloud Air, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other EMC-powered cloud service providers.  The goal is to enable IT organizations IT to support all types of workloads and move them between cloud environments as needed. The EMC Enterprise Hybrid...

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EMC Acquires 3 Start-ups: CloudScaling, Maginatics and Spanning

EMC announced the acquisition of three start-ups focused on enterprise cloud networking: Cloudscaling, a start-up based in San Francisco, developing an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure system for enterprises. Cloudscaling's  Open Cloud System (OCS) provides an operating system to manage compute, storage and networking in the cloud. Maginatics, a start-up based in Mountain View, California,  is a cloud provider offering a highly...

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NEC Launches PFTAP SDN Controller for Monitoring

NEC Corporation of America (NEC) introduced its PF6800 TAP SDN appliance for automated aggregation of telephony packet flows on a network using an Open Network fabric.  The new controller, which is included in the recently announced version 6 release of NEC’s  ProgrammableFlow Software-defined Networking Suite, leverages an Open Network fabric to provide flow aggregation and orchestration; scalable filtration; and enhanced network...

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Gigamon Offers Active Visibility for High-Volume Traffic

Gigamon is preparing to release enhancements to the Gigamon Visibility Fabric for high-volume traffic in both scale-out and scale-up architectures for next-generation business infrastructures. The solutions are aimed at the increasing levels of east/west data center traffic from virtualization and distributed applications, which is driving higher traffic volumes from the leaf to the spine, spurring migration to 40Gb and 100Gb network connectivity. The...

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Gigamon Announces New Solutions for SSL Visibility

Gigamon is preparing to release a new GigaSMART traffic intelligence application that provides visibility into SSL sessions, thereby allowing deeper insight into infrastructure blind spots to help expose hidden threats or performance issues.  The company will also release a number of enhancements to its ‘Active Visibility for Multi-Tiered Security’ architecture detailed earlier this year, as well as associated upgrades to its Fabric Manager,...

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Orbital Suffers Launch Failure of Antares Rocket

An Antares rocket from Orbital Sciences Corporation exploded upon liftoff from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia.  The launch was a catastrophic failure with significant damage to the launch facility.  No personnel were injured. The rocket was carrying a Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft destined for the International Space Station (ISS).  The spacecraft carried 5,050 pounds (2,290 kilograms) of supplies, including...

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Moka5 Raises $16 Million for Container Infrastructure

Moka5, a start-up based in Redwood City, California, raised $16 million in Series D funding for its next generation container designed to manage, secure, and extend both cloud and enterprise Windows workspaces across platforms, networks, and devices. Moka5 offers a centrally managed container infrastructure for computers as well as mobile devices, an approach now being adopted by other vendors in the space. Investors include Khosla Ventures,...

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Chelsio to Extend RDMA Over Ethernet to Microsoft's Cloud

Chelsio Communications announced that its T5 Adapters RDMA over Ethernet solution will operate in Microsoft's Cloud Platform System (CPS), which lets customers operate a scalable cloud built from Azure. Chelsio's T5 adapters selected for Microsoft's solution are RDMA-capable Unified Wire adapters that simultaneously offload iSCSI, FCoE, RDMA and sockets applications, along with traffic management and QoS. Chelsio said its iWARP RDMA is well suited...

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CenturyLink Appoints Aamir Hussain as CTO

CenturyLink appointed Aamir Hussain as executive vice president and chief technology officer, where he will be responsible for design and delivery of next generation products, services and technologies. He reports to Glen Post, CenturyLink's chief executive officer and president. Hussain most recently worked in the Netherlands as Liberty Global's managing director and chief technology officer for Europe. Previously, he was senior vice president...

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