Blueprint: Round-Two for Next Generation Firewalls

by Casey Quillin, Director at Dell'Oro Group As the enterprise sector turns to the cloud to deliver applications to mobile users across widely dispersed networks, Cisco and Juniper must catch up with smaller competitors. But how much does time-to-market matter? Risk is omnipresent in the enterprise sector. Business applications must be protected. Data must be protected. Users and their information must be protected. Business intelligence must...

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IBM Positions z13 Mainframe for Mobile Economy

IBM unveiled its z13 Mainframe built for the mobile economy.  The system, which springs from a $1 billion investment over five years, exploits more than 500 new patents for enhanced performance, availability, analytics and security. Some highlights: z13 is the first system able to process 2.5 billion transactions a day - equivalent of 100 Cyber Mondays every day of the year.  z13 transactions are persistent, protected and auditable from...

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Mavenir to Acquire Ulticom for Diameter Signaling

Mavenir Systems agreed to acquire Ulticom, a supplier of telecom signaling solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. Ulticom, which is based in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, offers a scalable, virtualized Diameter Signaling Controller (DSC) that scales mobile operator networks and securely provides interoperable 4G LTE and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services. The Ulticom DSC is suitable for deployment in IMS and EPC environments.  Major functions...

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Alcatel-Lucent Hits 10 Million VDSL2 Vectoring Line Shipments

Alcatel-Lucent has reached the milestone of 10 million VDSL2 vectoring line shipments. VDSL2 vectoring allows operators to deploy ultra-broadband services of up to 100 Mbps over their existing copper telephone networks. Alcatel-Lucent first launched its VDSL2 vectoring solution three years ago. Proximus (formerly Belgacom), Belgium’s operator and the first in the world to deploy a nationwide VDSL2 vectoring network, celebrated a year of successful...

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Huawei Cites Strength in Carrier, Enterprise, Consumer Business

Huawei posted further details on its 2014 unaudited results, saying sales revenue were expected to reach CNY287-289 billion, an increase of nearly 20% year-on-year, with profits of CNY33.9-34.3 billion and a margin of 12%, which is proportionately in line with 2013. Both cash flow from operating activities and asset to liability ratios remained stable and strong. Huawei's Carrier, Enterprise, and Consumer Business Groups recorded strong performances...

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Fortinet Intros WLAN APs with Threat Protection and Analytics

Fortinet released seven new Wireless LAN Access Points aimed at retailers, branch offices and distributed enterprises. Fortinet's new FortiAP Wireless Access Points combine the company's threat prevention technology with dual and triple stream MIMO 802.11ac. The company said the FortiAP Wireless LAN Access Points integrate seamlessly with its FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Unified Threat Management (UTM) products, eliminating the...

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Ionic Security Raises $40 Million

Ionic Security, a start-up based in Atlanta, has raised $40.1 million in Series C funding for its distributed data protection platform. Ionic's platform combines protection, visibility, attribution, and granular control with massive-scale machine learning, and streaming graph analytics to provide enterprises with control of their data without the need for, or use of, gateways. Meritech Capital Partners led the round with participation from Kleiner...

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Infonetics: Global Service Provider CAPEX to Flatten After 2015

Global mobile service revenue barely budged in the first half of 2014 (1H14), up just 0.5 percent from the same period a year ago, badly dragged by Europe again, according to a new report from Infonetics. Overall, growth in telecom revenue continues to slow in every geographic region. Europe’s 5 largest service providers—Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, and Vodafone—continue to experience declining revenue, though less pronounced...

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DragonWave Tops $47 Million in Quarterly Revenue

DragonWave reported revenue for its third quarter of fiscal year 2015, ended November 30, 2014,  of $47.3 million, compared with $37.9 million in the second quarter of fiscal year 2015 and $22.2 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2014. DragonWave had two customers who each generated more than 10% of revenue. Revenue through the Nokia channel was $23.7 million or 50% of total revenue this quarter, versus 60% in the second quarter of...

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Alcatel-Lucent Hires Bhaskar Gorti to lead IP Platforms

Alcatel-Lucent appointed Bhaskar Gorti as President of its IP Platforms business.  He will take charge of business units developing technologies for cloud-based networking and virtualization, including NFV (network functions virtualization), as well as OSS, the Charging/Policy/Payments activity, Customer Experience Management, Network Performance, and the Cyber-Security monitoring and prevention software platforms. Gorti, who will hold the...

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Infinera Adds to its Sales Team

Infinera announced the appointments of Pete Dale as vice president of sales for Cloud and Content, and Wray Varley as vice president of Government sales. Most recently, Dale was the senior vice president of America sales at BTI Systems. Prior to BTI, he held leadership positions at telecommunications companies including Optovia, Ciena, Internet Photonics, Lucent and Bay Networks. Varley previously was the area vice president of sales at CenturyLink...

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