ETSI’s NFV Group Publishes Phase 1 Specs

ETSI’s Network Functions Virtualisation  (NFV) Industry Specification Group (ISG) announced the publication of eleven specifications under phase 1 of its activity. The work includes an infrastructure overview, an updated architectural framework, and descriptions of the compute, hypervisor and network domains of the infrastructure. The new specifications also cover management and orchestration, security and trust, resilience and service quality...

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Verizon Announces Connected-vehicle Service

Verizon introduced a new connected-vehicle service available directly to consumers in the U.S. Verizon Vehicle, expected to make its commercial debut in the second quarter of 2015 as a subscription offer, provides in vehicle services such as diagnostic information and roadside assistance. It operates through an OBD reader that can easily be self-installed in the under-dash diagnostic port, a Bluetooth-enabled speaker attached to the visor and a...

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Obama Calls for Municipal Broadband Support

President Obama is calling for new measures to promote faster and more affordable broadband by supporting municipal networks and spurring competition. Key elements of the plan, as outlined by the White House: Calling to End Laws that Harm Broadband Service Competition - opposing laws in 19 states that limit the range of options available to communities to spur expanded local broadband infrastructure, including ownership of networks. The Obama Administration...

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F5's State of Application Delivery Survey

Current application environments are huge and growing, with many organizations reporting 200-500 applications currently deployed, according to F5 Networks' newly released 2015 State of Application Delivery survey.  More than 300 F5 customers from a broad range of vertical markets were interviewed for the survey. Some key takeaways: 20 percent of respondents said they have 201-500 applications currently deployed, and 28 percent have 1-200...

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Zayo to Acquire Latisys for $675 Million

Zayo agreed to acquire the operating units of Latisys Holdings, a colocation and infrastructure as a service (“Iaas”) provider for US$675 million. Latisys provides colocation and IaaS services through eight datac enters across five markets – Northern Virginia, Chicago, Denver, Orange County and London. Its data centers currently total over 185,000 square feet of billable space and 33 megawatts of critical power with the ability to expand. Latisys...

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IBM Opens Softlayer Cloud Data Center in Mexico

The new facility, located in Querétaro (near Mexico City) strengthens IBM Cloud’s presence in Latin America by offering data residency within the region, even more redundancy in the Americas, and the complete SoftLayer platform, enabling customers to create their ideal fully integrated, scalable cloud computing environment in Mexico. The Mexico City cloud center follows SoftLayer’s standardized pod design, having the capacity for thousands of physical...

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Riverbed Releases its Most Powerful SteelHead

Riverbed introduced its most powerful Riverbed SteelHead WAN optimization appliances to date. The Riverbed CX 70 series features a complete hardware update, including solid state drive-based architecture, double the RAM capacity and increased processing power for great scalability and even better application performance. It is targeted at hybrid enterprises seeking to accelerate performance of on-premises, cloud, and SaaS applications.  To...

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SoftBank Mobile Selects JDSU xSIGHT for LTE Assurance

Japan's SoftBank Mobile (SBM) has selected the JDSU xSIGHT Customer Experience Assurance solution to optimize the scale and quality of experience (QoE) of its LTE services, and offer a differentiated customer experience. JDSU said it was picked following a competitive trial. “SBM had a very demanding and aggressive set of requirements, which is a testament to a strong commitment to continually improve the quality of their LTE service offerings and...

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Nutanix Hires Former Citrix VP to Head Product Strategy

Nutanix announced the appointment of Sunil Potti to the position of senior vice president of engineering and product management. He joins Nutanix from Citrix, where he led the Citrix NetScaler business for over five years of record growth. He joined Citrix from F5 Networks, where he was vice president of the acceleration and virtualization group. Prior to F5, he co-founded and led all product efforts for application-oriented networking at Cisco. “Nutanix...

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International M2M Council Gains Momentum

The International M2M Council (IMC), which is an industry group representing the Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2M) sector, announced that KORE CEO Alex Brisbourne has been voted Chairman. KORE is the world's largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) dedicated to providing wireless connectivity for M2M. The IMC also noted that its membership roster has skyrocketed to over 5,000 members joining since February...

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