Saturday, November 22, 2014

Comcast Business Builds Direct Connect to Clouds

Comcast Business is building direct connections into cloud exchanges to give its Ethernet customers dynamic and scalable access to a range of cloud service providers. As part of this strategy, Comcast Business has private, high-performance connections with automated provisioning to multiple cloud services through the Equinix Cloud Exchange at 10 Gbps, 1 Gbps and sub-gigabit connections. Since launching its private Ethernet services in 2011, Comcast...

Telefónica Joins Equinix Cloud Exchange

Telefónica announced support for Equinix's Cloud Exchange as a means to provide its enterprise customers with dedicated connectivity to multiple cloud service providers. Telefónica will offer this connectivity through its global IP MPLS network to Equinix’s ecosystem of cloud service providers in select Equinix IBX data centers across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific via the Equinix Cloud Exchange™ interconnection service. “By connecting...

RapidIO Delivers 16 Gbps Interconnect for NVIDIA-based Clusters

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) and Orange Silicon Valley have co-developed a new compute architecture that leverages massive, highly scalable, low-latency clusters of low-power NVIDIA Tegra K1 mobile processors along with using IDT’s RapidIO technology which can interconnect multiple nodes at up to 16 Gbps. The architecture can scale to more than 2,000 nodes in a rack and enables ultra-high Gflop density and energy efficiency not achievable...

California Research & Education Network Upgrades to 100G

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) has completed a 100G upgrade for the core backbone of the California Research & Education Network (CalREN). CalREN is a 3,800-mile fiber-based advanced network serving the California K-12 System, California’s Community Colleges, the California State University, the University of California, and many private universities including Caltech, Stanford, and USC, as well as a...

Fujitsu Intros In-Building LTE Femtocell

Fujitsu introduced its BroadOne LS100 Series LTE Femtocell, a small and lightweight indoor base station for North America. Fujitsu said its new small cell implements a unique interference avoidance capability that provides the highest signal strength from either the macrocell or the small cell, and provides a smooth handoff between them. Interference is mitigated through four distinct control functions – frequency, power, timing and access - in...

Coriant Supplies its hiT 7300 DWDM to Indonesia's PGASCOM

Indonesia's PGASCOM will deploy Coriant's hiT 7300 Multi-Haul Transport Platform to expand the capacity of its long haul submarine cable network that links Jakarta and Singapore. Coriant said its hiT 7300 will help PGASCOM improve optical performance in its Jakarta to Singapore long haul link and reliably expand network capacity in a pay-as-you-grow fashion to meet the evolving service demands of its end-user carrier customers. Key benefits of the...

Primary Data Appoints Steve Wozniak as Chief Scientist

Primary Data, a start-up based in Los Altos, California, announced that Steve Wozniak has joined the company as Chief Scientist. Primary Data is developing data virtualization technology that aligns applications, servers and storage systems in a single, global dataspace. The comapny's solution is to separate the metadata that describes files from the actual file data to allow universal access to data across all types and tiers of storage. An intelligent...

OIF Launches New Project to Identify APIs for Transport SDN

The OIF has launched a new project to develop implementation agreements (IAs) for the application programming interfaces (APIs) used between application and network controller. The new initiative will build on the Service Request and Topology APIs prototyped in the recent Transport SDN demonstration held with the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) last month. The new initiative will also create IAs for Service Request, Path Computation, Topology...