AT&T and ONOS to Show Central Office Re-architected as Data Center (CORD)

At next week's Open Networking Summit (ONS2015) in Santa Clara, California, AT&T, ONOS project, PMC-Sierra and Sckipio will showcase the first public demonstration of the Central Office Re-architected as Data Center (CORD) proof-of-concept (POC). The idea behind CORD is to use SDN and NFV to transform carrier functions into workloads that are hosted on common, commodity infrastructure. The CORD solution POC spans the Telco Central Office, access...

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Key Themes for this Year's Open Networking Summit

See video: https://youtu.be/eEqhbmAza90 Ram Appalaraju previews key themes at next week's #ONS2015 in Santa Clara, California. The range of technologies on display will include OpenFlow, OpenStack, Open Daylight, OPNFV, ONOS, as well as vendor-specific offerings such as Cisco's ACI and VMware's NSX. http://opennetsummit.org/ ...

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AWS Offers 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 Haswell processors

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced M4 instances, the next generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) General Purpose instances. M4 instances get a performance boost using custom 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 Haswell processors. M4 also offers dedicated bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and provides Enhanced Networking for higher packet per second (PPS) performance, lower network jitter, and lower network latencies. AWS...

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U.S. Court of Appeals Won't Block Open Internet Rules

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided not to impose an injunction on the FCC's new Open Internet rules, allowing the new code to go into effect on June 12, 2015.  However, the court agreed to expedite the case. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler stated: “This is a huge victory for Internet consumers and innovators! Starting Friday, there will be a referee on the field to keep the Internet fast, fair and open. Blocking, throttling, pay-for-priority...

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Pluribus Ports Open Netvisor Linux OS onto Dell’s ONIE compatible 10G/40G Switches

Pluribus Networks announced an agreement to port its Open Netvisor Linux operating system onto Dell’s family of Open Networking (ONIE compatible) 10G/40G switches, including the S6000-ON and S4048-ON. Pluribus Open Netvisor Linux combines the benefits of Linux with a plug-and-play, application-aware fabric, advanced network flow programming and embedded analytics and visibility capabilities. It offers interoperability with the Layer 2 and IP/BGP...

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Hitachi Launches Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud Platform.

Hitachi Consulting announced the launch of its private, public, and hybrid cloud platform. The Hitachi Cloud Framework offers capabilities and services to support all levels of the data center -- from development and testing to operations and productionalized enterprise applications. "We work to understand the security, data access and reliability pressures that today's CIO's face every day. We help companies extend private cloud environments...

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ViaSat Acquires Start-up Focused on Virtualization

ViaSat has acquired Engreen, a privately-held company based in San Jose, California that is focused on network virtualization. Engreen's flagship virtualization product provides a path to enhance network management, lower capital expenses, energy and real estate, and minimize overall network complexity. ViaSat said the technology will benefit its satellite broadband netwokr "Our investment in Engreen reinforces our commitment to the global Ka-band...

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Sckipio G.fast Supports NETCONF and YANG

Sckipio Technologies' G.fast Distribution Point Unit (DPU) can now be SDN-controlled via the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF), using the standard G.fast YANG data model, and with traffic managed via OpenFlow. The support for NETCONF YANG and OpenFlow is part of Sckipio’s new G.fast Management Stack, the first management stack designed from scratch to enable software-defined network (SDN) control on G.fast devices. “G.fast is the ultra-broadband...

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ABI Research: 1.37 Billion LTE Users by Year-end 2015

There will be nearly 1.37 billion 4G LTE subscribers worldwide by year-end 2015, up from nearly 650 million in 2014, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. ABI Research predicts that the LTE subscriber base will exceed 3.5 billion by 2020, demonstrating a 5 year CAGR of 20.8%. The exponential rise in LTE points-of-presence covered justifies the need for sustained investment in LTE infrastructure, which is expected to grow nearly 10% year-on-year. The...

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Viptela Signs Macnica and Nissho Electronic for SD-WAN in Japan

Viptela, which offers a software-defined WAN solution, announced partnerships with Macnica Networks and Nissho Electronics for the Japanese market. These two leading solution providers will deploy Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) for large enterprises using the Viptela Secure Extensible Network (SEN) platform. Viptela enables enterprises to combine multiple transports into a single, cloud-adaptable WAN that is centrally managed. The...

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OIF Approves Thermal Interface Spec for Pluggable Optics Modules

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has approved a thermal interface implementation agreement (IA) for pluggable optics modules. The aim is to help optical module suppliers and system designers reduce heat and thermal management issues. “When optical modules are mated with heatsinks, the goal is to remove over 90% of the heat through the interface area into the airflow stream via the heatsink,” said Torsten Wuth, of Coriant and the OIF Physical...

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