News Roundup from AWS re:Invent

Amazon Web Services remains on a fast growth track and now has over one million active customers. Traffic, as measured in petabytes, on the Amazon S3 cloud storage service is up 137% over last year. The number of "instance hours" on the Amazon EC2 cloud compute service is likewise up 99% y/y. Here's a roundup of cloud news from this week's AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. New Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) -- makes its possible to run...

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Nokia Demos Small Cell LTE-A Carrier Aggregation of over 200 Mbps

Nokia Networks demonstrated LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) carrier aggregation in small cells delivering a peak data rate of more than 200 Mbps. The demo, which was conducted at a Nokia lab in Arlington Heights, Illinois, showed small cell LTE-A intra-site carrier aggregation.  The test aggregated 2 x 20 MHz of TD-LTE using a TD-LTE capable Category 6 device resulting in a throughput approaching 220 Mbps. Nokia said this testing demonstrated that the...

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Equinix Partners with Datapipe on Hybrid IT for AWS

Equinix announced a partnership with Datapipe to provide managed Hybrid IT Solutions for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The solution leverages Equinix’s global footprint of more than 100 International Business Exchange (IBX®) data centers and combines Equinix’s Cloud Exchange™ interconnection solution with Datapipe’s managed services and the AWS platform. The companies said their joint solution provides improved security and performance, better control,...

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Where are SDN and NFV today? @Pica8 Responds

What's been missing in the equation so far have been customers willing to move beyond the study phase, says Steve Garrison, VP of Marketing at Pica8. The focus at Pica8 is how to integrate SDN into an existing Layer 2 Switching / Layer 3 Routing environment. See 90 second video: http://youtu.be/UzfK154F3Do...

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SK Telecom Carries 2G/3G over LTE

SK Telecom has developed and commercialized "2G/3G over LTE" technology -- a world first. "2G/3G over LTE" enhances the stability of 2G/3G mobile networks by utilizing LTE network as backhaul instead of fixed-line 2G/3G infrastructure. SK Telecom said the wireless backhaul network could prove to be more resilient than fixed-line 2G/3G infrastructure in the event of man-made or natural disasters.  In Korea, mobile networks typically have structural...

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ZTE's Optical Transmission Record: 16 Tbps over 3,500km

ZTE announced an optical transport milestone:  24-hour, error-free transmission at 16 Tbps over 3,500 km. The test used ZTE's WDM/OTN platforms with anced Nyquist WDM spectral compression optical modulation and optical impairments mitigation coherent reception techniques in the C band.  Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA)  were deployed with 100 km span separations. The test achieved a spectral efficiency of 4bit/Hz/s. "The successful...

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Nokia Networks and HP Advance their NFV Partnership

Nokia Networks and HP are moving ahead with their partnership to offer a telco cloud solution compliant with ETSI NFV principles and designed to provide operators with an open source-based cloud. The companies said they will provide telco operators with an integrated solution enabling Nokia Networks virtualized network functions (VNFs) to run on a cloud infrastructure layer that integrates HP data center hardware, hypervisor and virtual infrastructure...

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Microsoft Acquires Aorato for Enterprise Cloud Security

Microsoft has acquired Aorato, a developer of enterprise security solutions.  Financial terms were not disclosed. Aorato, which is based in Israel, uses machine learning to detect suspicious activity on a company’s network. Key to Aorato’s approach is the Organizational Security Graph, a living, continuously-updated view of all of the people and machines accessing an organization’s Windows Server Active Directory (AD). Microsoft said the acquisition...

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Mavenir Acquires Stoke for LTE Security Gateways

Mavenir Systems agreed to acquire Stoke, a developer of mobile gateways, for $2.9 million in cash plus the assumption of approximately $1.9 million of indebtedness.. Stoke, which is based in Santa Clara, California, supplies LTE Security Gateways. Its customers include NTT Docomo and Softbank. Stoke also has relationships with integrators including Net One Systems and Macnica Networks in Japan and Samsung in South Korea. Mavenir said the acquisition...

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Nokia Networks Confirms 3G Contract with Bharti Airtel

Bharti Airtel has awarded a 3G contract to Nokia Networks to upgrade its 3G network in the Mumbai, West Bengal and Bihar telecom circles. The upgrade, which will use Nokia’s latest Single RAN Advanced platform, will be an India-first dual band, dual carrier 3G network implementation of refarmed 900 MHz spectrum paired with Mumbai’s existing 3G network on 2100 MHz. This will enable higher throughput and thus improved 3G services for Bharti Airtel’s...

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