Microsoft Builds Azure's Networking Capabilities

Microsoft announced several new Azure networking services and features, including expanded ExpressRoute connectivity to other Microsoft Cloud services like Office 365 and Skype for Business Enterprise Voice. Some of the new features include: Standard VPN gateway enabling Site-to-Site (S2S) connectivity to a Virtual Network that also has a gateway connected to an ExpressRoute circuit. Virtual Network Enhancements, including user defined routes...

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Google Launches Bigtable: Same NoSQL Database that powers Google Search, Gmail and Analytics

Google officially launched Cloud Bigtable - a fully managed, high-performance, extremely scalable NoSQL database service that uses the same code and infrastructure that powers Google Search, Gmail and Analytics and nearly all of Google's largest applications. Google Cloud BigTable is accessible through the industry-standard, open-source Apache HBase API, which makes it natively integrated with much of the existing big data and Hadoop ecosystem. Google...

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OIF Launches New Integrated Photonics Projects

The Optical Internetworking has started work on technical specifications for high bandwidth optical modulators and receivers for coherent applications. The utilized coherent ASIC Baud Rate is no longer sufficient information to define the frequency response requirements for coherent electro-optical (EO) components now that the industry has embraced the use of preconditioning. The High Bandwidth Polarization Multiplexed Quadrature Optical Modulator...

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Cisco to Acquire Tropo for Phone/SMS APIs

Cisco agreed to acquire Tropo, a start-up offering real-time communications APIs. Financial terms were not disclosed. Cisco and Tropo will provide a collaboration platform-as-a-service, which allows customers and developers to create and sell new communications services with minimal development effort. Tropo makes it simple to build phone and SMS applications. The company says its APIs have attracted a network of 200K+ developers. The Tropo team...

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Equinix May Bid for Telecity

Equinix confirmed that it is in preliminary discussions with the Board of TelecityGroup regarding a possible cash and share offer for the company. Equinix said that in the United Kingdom, the acquisition of TelecityGroup would add capacity in Central London and Docklands that would complement the focus of Equinix’s current operations in Slough. Additionally, the acquisition would add capacity in several of Equinix’s current locations throughout...

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