Cisco: IP Traffic to Triple from 2014-2019

Driven by mobile access, increased demand for video services, and M2M communications, IP traffic will triple between 2014 and 2019, when it will reach a record 2 zettabytes, according to the 10th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast.  This equates to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent and marks the first global CAGR increase in consecutive VNI forecasts in nearly a decade (e.g., last year’s projected CAGR for 2013...

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Fortinet to Acquire Meru Networks for $44 Million

Fortinet agreed to acquire Meru Networks for approximately $44 million in cash ($1.63 per Meru share). Meru, which was founded in 2002 and completed its initial public offering in 2010, specializes in enterprise 802.11ac Wi-Fi solutions based on an open-standards-based architecture that is designed to enable unified management of wired and wireless networks. Its end-to-end application QoS enables enforceable service-level agreements. The company...

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Aruba Adds 802.11ac Wave 2 APs with MU-MIMO

Aruba Networks (now part of HP) introduced an 802.11ac Wave 2 access point (AP) with dynamic multi-user multiple input/multiple output (MU-MIMO) grouping, significantly boosting network capacity. The new Aruba 30 series AP integrates a BLE Beacon that can help manage battery-powered Aruba Beacons from the cloud for firmware updates, battery life monitoring, and configuration changes. Aruba also highlighted innovations in its patented ClientMatch...

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IEEE Study Suggests Multiple NG-EPON Specs

The IEEE released a Feasibility Assessment for the Next Generation of EPON based on the input of the wide industry ecosystem, including operators, system integrators, chip vendors, optics suppliers and others. Input was collected on the desired features and options for a next generation of EPON, operating at aggregate data rates above 10 Gigabit per second and minimizing the footprint and power consumption in optical access networks. To address...

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Palo Alto Networks Acquires CirroSecure for SaaS Security

Palo Alto Networks has acquired CirroSecure, a Silicon Valley-based company with a solution for extending security into sanctioned, Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, like Box, Dropbox, GitHub, Google, Yammer, or Salesforce. Financial terms were not disclosed. The CirroSecure technology offers a highly differentiated approach to securing these applications by providing visibility across all user, folder, and file activity while applying...

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Palo Alto Networks Posts Sales of $234.2 million, up 55% YoY

Palo Alto Networks reported record revenue for its fiscal third quarter 2015 of $234.2 million, up 55% compared with $150.7 million for the fiscal third quarter 2014. GAAP net loss for the fiscal third quarter 2015 was $45.9 million, or $0.56 per diluted share, compared with GAAP net loss of $146.6 million, or $1.96 per diluted share, for the fiscal third quarter 2014. "We reported record revenue in the fiscal third quarter 2015 as we continue to...

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Cisco Training Adds IoT and Cloud Certification

New Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certifications are being added to Cisco's training program. The curricula focuses on the ability to connect the unconnected, automate and orchestrate services, and provide the infrastructure to enable real-time data analytics in a pervasive manner. The new IoT-focused CCNA Industrial certification is a lab-based training and certification offering that is...

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Nokia to Acquire Eden Rock for SON

Nokia Networks has agreed to acquire Eden Rock Communications, a developer of multivendor, Self Organizing Network (SON) solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. Eden Rock’s Eden-NET is a centralized, multivendor, SON solution for GSM, UMTS and LTE networks. It provides an open framework with a Software Development Kit (SDK) that accelerates the creation, customization and deployment of custom SON Modules. Additionally, Eden Rock offers its...

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Dell'Oro: WDM Sales Drive Optical Transport Equipment Market in Q1

The Optical Transport equipment market reached $2.8 billion in the first quarter of 2015, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. WDM equipment sales accounted for the majority of the optical market's growth. In the quarter, the total WDM market, which comprises 76 percent of the optical market's revenue, grew five percent year-over-year. "One of the main drivers for WDM equipment demand is the interconnection of data centers, which are on...

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365 Data Centers and SFMIX to Expand Internet Exchange into San Jose

365 Data Centers and the San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange (SFMIX) announced a partnership to expand the Internet exchange into 365's colocation facility in San Jose, California (534 Stockton Avenue). SFMIX is a non-profit organization that offers core IX fabric locations within the San Francisco Bay Area, and its exchanges are only placed within carrier-neutral data centers to facilitate more carrier choice, service options and high-speed...

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ECI Announces ElastiCLOUD DCI Solution

ECI announced its ElastiCLOUD data center interconnect solution. The company said its platform will support more than 25T on a single fiber, offer low power consumption at less than 85W/100G,  and offer a mix of packet and optical interfaces in the same platform with extremely high density. ElastiCLOUD also support ECI’s LightApps SDN applications for dynamic bandwidth allocation, service scheduling and network automation. “Data traffic...

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