ONOS Blackbird Focuses on SDN Control Plane Performance and Scale

A new version of the Open Network Operating System (ONOS), named Blackbird, has been released (the first version of ONOS was out in December 2014). ONOS features a highly available, scalable SDN control plane featuring northbound and southbound open APIs and paradigms for a diversity of management, control, and service applications across mission critical networks. It is architected as a distributed but logically centralized control plane to achieve...

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Video: Guru Parulkar on the Strategic Vision of ONOS

The strategic vision of ONOS is simple - to build a scalable, high-available, high-performance network operating system for Service Provider networks, says Guru Parulkar, Executive Director of ON.Lab. Here he gives an update of how this open community effort fits in with the ambition of network operators. See video:  https://youtu.be/ilKSkCK91U8  ...

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Video: Evolving Transport Networks for Clouds

TeliaSonera International Carrier is already seeing a major impact from cloud traffic, says Mattias Fridström Vice President, Technology.  Much of it is driven by the enormous flows between the mega data centers of the big cloud providers. Topics in this interview include: 1:04 - Does traffic from cloud services tend to be aggregated in big hubs? 1:44 - Has the market for 100G transport developed as expected? 2:39 - Who is buying 100G interfaces...

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FCC to Consider Spectrum Sharing in 3.5 GHz Band

The FCC upcoming open meeting on April 17 will consider ways to leverage spectrum sharing technologies to make 150 megahertz of contiguous spectrum available in the 3550-3700 MHz band for wireless broadband and other uses, as part of a Citizens Broadband Radio Service. http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-tentative-agenda-april-open-meetin...

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Dell'Oro: Strong Dollar to Have Big Impact on Telecom CAPEX

Telecom operators around the world invested heavily in their fiber and LTE networks during 2014 resulting in a fourth consecutive year of Capex growth as advancements in mobile related spending offset declining wireline investments. However, the strength of the dollar could wipe out $20 billion in telecom Capex in 2015, according to a newly published Carrier Economics report by Dell’Oro Group. “We have not made any major changes to our constant...

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Telstra to Sell IBM's SoftLayer Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Telstra will sell IBM's SoftLayer Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform from IBM. Under the agreement, Telstra customers will have access to SoftLayer’s highly secure and agile cloud infrastructure. IBM recently opened new data centres in Melbourne and Sydney. “Telstra customers will be able to access IBM’s hourly and monthly compute services on the SoftLayer platform, a network of virtual data centres and global points-of-presence (PoPs),...

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CyrusOne Buys New Data Center in Austin

CyrusOne will purchase an additional powered shell in Austin’s Met Center, creating what is expected to be its largest facility in Austin at 172,000 total square feet of shell and offering 120,000 colocation square feet (CSF), with up to 12 megawatts of power, and over 25,000 square feet of class A office space at full build. CyrusOne’s new Austin III data center will use the company's "Massively Modular" design engineering approach to optimize...

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