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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Spirent Intros Carrier Agg Test Capabilities for Mobile Devices with Keysight

Spirent Communications introduced a solution for testing maximum data throughput performance for LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation in mobile devices. The product integrates Keysight Technologies’ UXM platform with the Spirent 8100 Carrier Acceptance and Conformance test solution. The new testing coverage supported by the Keysight UXM enables the Spirent 8100 cover three and four component carrier aggregation. It also supports both FD-LTE and TD-LTE...

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nCino Raises $29 Million for Cloud-based Services for Financial Sector

nCino, a start-up based in Wilmington, North Carolina, announced $29 million in Series B financing for its secure, cloud-based operating solutions for the financial services industry. nCino's Bank Operating System leverages the Salesforce Platform to provide financial institutions with superior transparency and clarity into their existing loan production pipelines, portfolios and operating efficiencies across all business lines, resulting in increased...

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Ixia Announces Better than Expected Preliminary Q4 Revenue of $127 Million

Ixia now exptects total revenue for its 2014 fourth quarter to be $127.2 million, compared with $120.6 million reported for the 2013 fourth quarter and $114.0 million reported for the 2014 third quarter. 2014 and 2013 fourth quarter revenue includes $17.8 million and $4.8 million, respectively, of revenue attributable to Net Optics, Inc. (“Net Optics”), which we acquired in December 2013. On a GAAP basis, the company expects to report net income...

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