Cyan Packs 800 Gbps in 1RU for Cloud Data Center Interconnect

Cyan unveiled its N-Series Open Hyperscale Transport Platform (OHTP), a new family of high-density, high-capacity transport products designed for the rapidly growing need of cloud and providers to deploy large numbers of 100G connections between data centers over campus or metro regional distances. Cyan is using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) silicon and photonic components combined with an open, carrier-grade Linux network operating system in...

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Cisco Builds Momentum - Q2 Revenue at $11.9 Billion, up 7%

Cisco reported stronger than expected second quarter revenue of $11.9 billion, net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $2.4 billion or $0.46 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $2.7 billion or $0.53 per share. "Our Q2 results reflect continued progress as we transform Cisco to become the #1 IT company. In the quarter we grew revenues by 7%, with strong EPS growth, and saw the best balance of growth across all our...

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Facebook Debuts "6-Pack" Open Hardware Modular Switch

Facebook is taking the wraps off of its "6-Pack" open modular switch platform designed for the flexibility, efficiency, and scale required in its massive data centers. The architecture allows Facebook to build different size switches using common line card and fabric card building blocks. Last year, Facebook disclosed the specification of its top-of-rack network switch (code-named “Wedge”) and a Linux-based operating system for that switch (code-named...

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Oracle Debuts Network Service Orchestration Solution

Oracle introduced its new Communications Network Service Orchestration Solution to enable communications service providers (CSPs) to more quickly create new network services to respond to market demand. The solution is part of the Oracle Communications intelligent orchestration framework, which gathers and analyzes network performance information, evaluates the network’s operation against predefined policies and business rules, and can trigger the...

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Facebook Launches ThreatExchange for Cyber Defense

Facebook is launching ThreatExchange - a platform where partners can securely exchange data on malware and phishing attacks.  Early partners include Bitly, Dropbox, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter, and Yahoo. The ThreatExchange operates using an API approach that builds on Facebook's internal ThreatData system to create a social platform designed for sharing indicators like bad URLs and domains. Various privacy measures are built into...

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Telecity and Interxion to Merge their European Data Center Operations

TelecityGroup plc and Interxion, both leading operators of data centers across Europe, have agreed to a merger. Under the deal, Interxion shareholders would receive 2.3386 new TelecityGroup shares per Interxion share. As a result, Interxion shareholders would own approximately 45%, and TelecityGroup shareholders approximately 55%, of the combined group. The primary listing for the combined group would be in London with a New York Stock Exchange...

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Adds Scalability, OpenStack Integration

A new version of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (release 3.5) adds new capabilities in the areas of scalability, management, and integration with OpenStack. The new version now offer support for four terabytes (4 TB) of memory per host, 4 TB of vRAM, and 160 vCPUs per virtual machine. Notable new features in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 include: Lifecycle management and provisioning of bare-metal hosts via integration with Red Hat...

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ONF to Support Open vSwitch, Appoints Principal System Architect

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced the appointment of Saurav Das as principal system architect, and the establishment of a new project to build upon the OpenFlow Configuration and Management Protocol (OF-CONFIG) to support Open vSwitch (OVS). As Principal System Architect, Dr. Saurav brings deep SDN and networking software expertise to support new ONF development projects, working with ONF’s CTO and Software Leadership Councils. Saurav’s...

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OpenDaylight Project Adds Members

The OpenDaylight Project, which is a collaborative open source project that aims to accelerate adoption of SDN and NFV, announced that CA Technologies, IIX, Megaport and Spirent have joined the project to support the development of one common and open SDN and NFV platform that can be leveraged by all. “The growth of the community is really quite astonishing ‒ already, over 300 developers globally are working together on OpenDaylight to solve real...

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Tabula Shutting Down

Tabula, a start-up that was developing high-performance packet processing solutions, is shutting down its operations, according to Silicon Valley Business Journal, which cited a state business filing. Tabula focused on silicon for 100G systems that leveraged innovations four key areas: a programmable 3D architecture, a RTL compiler, leading-edge process technology using Intel's 22nm Tri-Gate technology, and 3PLD devices.  Tabula was based in...

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