@Gigamon: Visibility into Virtualized Environments

Click to see video:  https://youtu.be/KopQRFFV4I4 Maintaining visibility into virtualized environments is essential.  In this video, Ananda Rajagopal, VP of Product Line Management at Gigamon, discusses virtual workload monitoring and what it means for security....

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PMC's DIGI-G4 Processor Scales OTN Line Card Capacity by 4X

PMC-Sierra has commenced sampling of its new DIGI-G4 chip -- the industry's highest density 4x100G OTN processor and featuring 50 percent less power per port than the previous generation. The DIGI-G4 OTN processor, which builds on the success of PMC’s DIGI-120G, enabling the transition to 400G line cards in packet optical transport platforms (P-OTP), ROADM/WDM and optimized data center interconnect platforms for OTN switched metro networks. It increases...

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F5 Delivers LineRate Point Virtual Load Balancer and Volume Licensing

F5 has released a virtual "LineRate Point" Load Balancer that delivers massive scalability and rapid deployment for cloud service providers and enterprise Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) environments.  The layer 7 load balancing solution is aimed at customers with large volumes of applications that require foundational load balancing and application proxy capabilities. F5 said LineRate Point Load Balancer’s lightweight architecture reduces...

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Orange Business Launches SDN+NFV Pilot for SMBs

Beginning next month, Orange Business Services will be conducting a pilot deployment of virtualized network functions for small and medium enterprises (SMBs). Orange Business Services confirmed that around ten SMBs (with up to ten sites) will test an SDN-enabled system that lets users manage their Intranet and Internet service in real-time. Users will be able to order and customize new virtualized application services of their choice: Internet content...

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Juniper and Mirantis Extend SDN Partnership

Juniper Networks and Mirantis announced an expanded engineering partnership to integrate the Mirantis OpenStack distribution with Juniper Contrail Networking, a standards based SDN solution for enterprise and service provider customers. Mirantis OpenStack also supports and interoperates with OpenContrail, an open source SDN solution. The companies have published a reference architecture for deploying and managing this joint solution. The reference...

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Northrop Grumman Selected to Protect DISA-Managed Networks

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded a task order to Northrop Grumman to continue its lead role on the Acropolis and Sensor Operations program - a capability that protects DISA-managed networks from cyber-attack and provides global cyber situational awareness for these networks. The award, which is worth up to $73.6 million over four years, covers operational services that support DISA's overarching Acropolis mission (formerly know...

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DT Launches DNS Service Resilient to DDoS

International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), the international wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom, is launching a new Domain Name System (DNS) service called ICSS Route that is to be resilient against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. ICSS Route is based on global DNS network and intelligent routing capabilities, which ensure fast response times, low latency and reliable access from anywhere in the world. It also incorporates monitoring...

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Telefónica Hits 10 Million M2M Connections

Telefonica’s now has over 500 enterprises using its Smart m2m solution worldwide, for a total of over 10 million connections. The Smart m2m solution, which was developed and built with Telefonica’s own assets and resources, incorporates advanced features such as real time consumption monitoring, supervision and global tracking. The solution also offers fraud detection functionalities such as the ability to restrict communication between a list of...

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Russia's MegaFon Picks Nokia for LTE

MegaFon awarded a seven-year contract to Nokia Networks to upgrade its nationwide network in Russia. Under the deal, Nokia Networks will supply its Single RAN technology for greater capacity, higher data rates and low latency. Subscribers in Moscow, Central and Caucasus regions will be first to enjoy the LTE services. http://networks.nokia.com/news-events/press-room/press-releases/megafon-selects-nokia-networks-to-build-its-4g-lte-network htt...

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