Cavium Intros Chipesets for Next Gen Base Stations

Cavium introduced a family of chipsets designed for a new category of Macrocells and Smart Radio Heads with integrated Layer 1 functionality to enable seamless virtualization of the upper layers in a Cloud RAN deployment. The goal is to support macrocell BTS augmented with Cloud RAN for additional scalability and enterprise small cells for coverage and capacity. Cavium said current the architecture of the macrocell BTS utilizes a combination of...

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Verizon Deploys Ericsson Radio Dot System

Verizon has installed the Ericsson Radio Dot System at its regional headquarters building in Metro Detroit. This marks the first deployment of the Ericsson Radio Dot System in a commercial building in the United States. The Dot boosts indoor mobile coverage and capacity. In this first office application, the Dot is also supporting Verizon's Advanced Calling service, including HD Voice and Video Calling over LTE, in indoor environments. In addition...

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Blueprint: vCPE Evolution and NFV-Powered Network Assurance

by Scott Sumner With traditional business services shifting toward federated cloud connectivity, communication service providers (CSPs) have set a new course for delivering these critical services. Virtualizing customer premise equipment is a key part of their strategies—vCPE is a cost effective, proven technology approach that’s already showing significant returns. The Promise of vCPE Business services are not what they used to be. Enterprises...

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FCC Votes 3-2 to Adopt Open Internet Rules

The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to adopt a new set of Open Internet rules proposed by Commissioner Wheeler and backed by the Obama Administration. All of the new rules, which are based on the FCC's authority under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, would apply to fixed and mobile broadband alike, while leaving room for reasonable network management and its specific application to mobile and unlicensed WiFi networks. Here...

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Carriers Verify International VoLTE Roaming

NTT DOCOMO, KT and Verizon Wireless have successfully verified the feasibility of international voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) roaming between different regions of the world. The carriers have completed a series of tests using S8 Home Routed (S8HR) architecture, a technology based on the existing LTE data roaming platform, which allows speedy commercialization of VoLTE for high-definition voice and video roaming services with full end-to-end carrier-grade...

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FCC Preempts State Prohibitions on Municipal Broadband

The FCC voted to preempt state law in North Carolina and Tennessee that restrict or ban municipalities from expanding broadband service outside their current footprints despite numerous requests from neighboring unserved and underserved communities. The FCC noted that it acted on behalf of the Electric Power Board (EBP), a community broadband provider in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the City of Wilson, North Carolina.In addition to providing electric...

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Tropo Debuts Connect Platform for Network Services on Clouds

Tropo, a start-up based in Menlo Park, California, rolled out its platform to enable telcos and 3rd party developers to rapidly integrate traditional communications with popular cloud services and enterprise workflows. Tropo, which worked with Apcera and IBM’s SoftLayer to develop its platform, said these capabilities will put Service Providers at the center of a growing ecosystem of developer tools and cloud services. Tropo Connect enables web...

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Qualcomm Outlines LTE-U Roadmap for Small Cells & Mobile Devices

Qualcomm outlined its roadmap for extending LTE to unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U). Qualcomm expects LTE-U in the 5 GHz band to offer twice the capacity and range compared to traditional Wi-Fi. The company expects mobile operators to anchor their data services in licensed spectrum bands and use the unlicensed spectrum when available to burst to higher downlink rates. The first step is integrating LTE-U into a small cell SoC to expand capacity and seamlessly...

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CenturyLink Tests 1 Tbps Super Channels with Ciena

CenturyLink, the third largest telecommunications company in the U.S., has successfully tested superchannel transmission speeds of one terabit per second (1 Tbps) on a portion of its fiber network in central Florida.  The test used Ciena’s 6500 packet-optical platform equipped with WaveLogic 3 16QAM-based coherent optics and Flexible Grid photonic layer. The terabit superchannel, composed of five 200 Gbps wavelengths closely packed together,...

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Juniper and Canonical Target OpenStack-Based Clouds for Telcos

Juniper Networks and Canonical, the leading provider of services for Ubuntu deployments in the enterprise, are co-developing a carrier-grade, OpenStack software solution that will enable service providers to virtualize core networks and network functions for increased performance, scale and reliability. Juniper will also provide complete service support for Canonical’s Ubuntu Server operating system (OS) and Ubuntu OpenStack as part of Juniper Networks...

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ARM Envisions Intelligent Flexible Cloud Framework

ARM outlined its vision for an Intelligent Flexible Cloud (IFC) environment to meet the latency, power and size constraints for next-generation networks. ARM's IFM promises to bring together system-on-chips with heterogeneous compute capabilities supported by a common layer of enabling software and distributed network intelligence. The company's idea is to build on SDN and NFV with a distributed intelligence that enables applications to move out...

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Avago to Acquire Emulex for Connectivity and Visibility Solutions

Avago Technologies agreed to acquire Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) for approximately $606 million in cash. Emulex, which is based in Costa Mesa, California, is a supplier of network connectivity, monitoring and management solutions. The Emulex portfolio includes Fibre Channel and 10GbE network connectivity that are designed into server and storage solutions from leading OEMs and ODMs worldwide. Through its Endace division, Emulex supplies network...

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Aruba Posts Record Revenue of $213 Million, up 21%

Aruba Networks reported record revenue of $212.9 million for its Q2'15, up 21 percent from the $176.4 million reported in Q2’14. GAAP net income for Q2’15 was $5.7 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, compared with a GAAP net loss of $10.7 million, or a loss of $0.10 per share, in Q2’14. “We are pleased to report solid results for the second quarter, reflecting continued execution on our strategic plan,” said Dominic Orr, president and chief executive...

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Mavenir Posts Revenue of $33.7 million, an increase of 24%

Mavenir Systems reported revenue for Q4 2014 of $33.7 million, an increase of 24% year-over-year and a decrease of 1% quarter-over-quarter. GAAP operating loss for the fourth quarter of 2014 was $8.8 million, compared with $1.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2013 and $3.8 million in the third quarter of 2014. "Mavenir delivered another strong year with solid financial results, resulting from the rapid adoption of 4G LTE and the launches of services...

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Blueprint: The Role of Policy in the Hybrid Cloud

by Harsh Karmarkar, Director, Solutions Consultants, Alliances & Channels at Apcera Enterprises today are looking to hybrid cloud to achieve a range of goals: to cut costs; enable a more flexible workforce; offer better customer service; and achieve greater scale. But in an era of “Big Data”, escalating security concerns, and an ever more fragmented set of technology functions being moved to the cloud, fulfilling those goals requires an IT management...

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#MWC15: Innovating with Hybrid Cloud OS - @Apcera

http://youtu.be/m0FST-mqHRg Mobile World Congress will showcase lots of innovation in radio access technologies, says Derek Collison, founder and CEO of Apcera. But once the flood of data arrives on the network, how do you trust it and how do you know which clouds services can tap into it. Apcera is introducing its Hybrid Cloud Operating System as a trusted platform to run anywhere.  ...

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Ericsson's 5G Radio Test Bed Tops 5 Gbps

An Ericsson 5G radio test bed has topped 5 Gbps throughput.  The company will demonstrate fundamental 5G technologies at next week's Mobile World Congress, including 5G-LTE Dual Connectivity and 5G Multipoint Connectivity. Ericsson's 5G radio test bed features 5G devices and 5G radio base stations operating at in the high frequency 15 GHz band. 5G-LTE Dual Connectivity:  The 5G mobile device moves between LTE and 5G radio access coverage...

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Ciena Debuts New Wavelogic Chipsets and Coherent Select Architecture

Ciena announced significant additions to its portfolio, including two new chipsets to power its next-gen optical transport systems, along with a new 100G photonic architecture. These innovations are aimed at solving the web-scale dynamics caused by cloud computing, network virtualization and openess. The two new Ciena WaveLogic 3 coherent optical chipsets, the WaveLogic 3 Extreme and WaveLogic 3 Nano,  are designed for the massive bandwidth...

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Mavenir Intros VoWiFi Calling for MSOs

Mavenir Systems introduced an NFV-based Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) solution for cable operators. Mavenir’s offering includes session control, application/messaging servers, access/border gateways, subscriber management/activation systems, and clients. It integrates with an operator’s existing IMS core network or can be deployed as a greenfield network to offer voice, video, and messaging applications using Wi-Fi access. Mavenir is engaged with multiple...

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IDT, NVIDIA and Orange Silicon Valley Develop

Integrated Device Technology (IDT), NVIDIA and Orange Silicon Valley are developing a supercomputing platform that uses clusters of low-power NVIDIA Tegra K1 mobile processors with IDT’s RapidIO interconnect and timing technology to analyze 4G to 5G base station bandwidth data in real time. Specifically, the Supercomputing at the Edge platform uses IDT’s 20 Gbps interconnect technology to connect a low-latency cluster of NVIDIA Tegra K1 mobile processors....

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Allot to Acquire Optenet, a Security-as-a-Service Solution Provider

Allot Communications agreed to acquire the operations of Optenet, a global IT security company providing high-performance Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) solutions to service providers and large enterprises worldwide, for approximately $6.5 million in cash plus a deferred payment of approximately $5.5 million to be paid over two years following closing. Optenet is a pioneer and global leader of enabling SECaaS. The company is based in Madrid, Spain...

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Telstra Selects Metaswitch to Interconnect International Voice Network

Telstra has selected Metaswitch Networks to upgrade and enhance its TDM and IP voice network in response to the company’s growth throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Telstra’s Global Enterprise and Services (GES) business provides telecommunications services and solutions to carriers and multinational enterprises globally. It is a leading carrier in Asia-Pacific and facilitates access to more than 2,000 points of presence (PoPs) in...

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Dell'Oro: Microwave Transmission Outlook

http://youtu.be/lzIskAmieVQ Jimmy Yu, Vice President of Optical Transport Research at Dell'Oro Group, discusses key trends in the microwave market. including geographic variations in backhaul, the growth in packet microwave, and the impact of small cells.  The video also discusses the use of new spectrum bands for small cell backhaul. ...

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ADVA Posts Q4 Revenue of EUR 87 Million, up Nearly 14% YoY

ADVA Optical Networking reported Q4 2014 revenue of EUR 86.7 million, in the upper half of guidance between EUR 83 million and EUR 88 million. The figure is up a significant 13.8% vs. Q4 2013 at EUR 76.2 million and slightly down 0.4% vs. Q3 2014 at EUR 87.1 million. The IFRS operating income in Q4 2014 was EUR 5.1 million, up significantly from EUR 1.9 million in Q4 2013. "We are extremely pleased with our 2014 revenues which are at a record high...

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DOCOMO's LTE-Advanced to Hit 225 Mbps in March

NTT DOCOMO is preparing to launch LTE-Advanced service in Japan on March 27.  The carrier announced top downlink speeds of 225 Mbps with top uplink speeds of 50 Mbps. The LTE-Advanced service will leverage the company's Advanced C-RAN network architecture, which optimized radio capacity and maximum transmission speed simultaneously, especially in high-traffic areas.  DOCOMO said the use of carrier aggregation technology will enable it...

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Huawei Sees 4.5G Technology Delivering 1 Gbps Rates

Huawei outlined its vision of a 4.5G “business blueprint" for mobile operators that it sees as an intermediate step for LTE on the road to 5G. In a briefing held a week before Mobile World Congress, Huawei said 4.5G will help stimulate the increasing popularity of many technologies such as mobile virtual reality glasses, smart metering and drones.  Some observations from Huawei: 4.5G can deliver up to 1Gbps bandwidth on mobile networks, making...

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IBM and Juniper Tie Real Time Analytics to MX Routers

IBM and Juniper Networks are extending their longstanding partnership by announcing plans to provide real-time network analytics to help communications service providers (CSP) and enterprises become more agile and efficient, reducing time to deployment and cost, while enhancing end user application experiences. The companies are designing a new solution in which Juniper Networks' MX Router Service Control Gateway (SCG) will integrate with IBM Now...

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Mirantis and Google Integrate Kubernetes with OpenStack

Mirantis and Google are working to integrate Kubernetes with OpenStack with the goal of letting developers deploy containers on OpenStack in minutes. Mirantis said this development work uses Murano, the application catalog project in the OpenStack ecosystem. Murano automatically configures the compute, storage and networking resources for Kubernetes clusters, and provides integration for OpenStack infrastructure components such as load balancers...

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RETN Deploys Infinera 500G Super-Channels Across Europe

RETN, which operates a DWDM network connecting 26 countries across Europe, Asia and North America, has deployed Infinera's DTN-X packet optical transport networking platform to power its network core and its crucial points of presence that are located in Europe.  RETN's homogeneous Pan-European network infrastructure along with associated Internet Protocol circuits is now capable of providing 100 Gbps services on multiple routes in Europe. Infinera...

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Mavenir Debuts its SDN-enabled EPC

Mavenir Systems announced its advanced SDN-enabled Evolved Packet Core (EPC). The company said it is providing a full suite of standards-defined EPC functions (SGW, PGW, MME and ePDG) on a virtualized software platform that provides the flexibility and efficiency needed to cost effectively scale Evolved Packet Core networks. Mavenir also provides mobile operators a comprehensive suite of virtualized core network functions, including session border...

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Ixia Announces Native OpenFlow Integration

Ixia announced support for OpenFlow enabled switches from industry leading manufacturers for its ControlTower distributed network visibility platform.  Supported products include Arista, Dell and HP OpenFlow enabled switches. Ixia said its ControlTower visibility solution allows customers to leverage SDN and seamlessly layer the sophisticated management and advanced processing features of Ixia’s Net Tool Optimizer (NTO) family of solutions...

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