5G Novel Radio Multiservice Adaptive Network Project Gets Underway

to develop a novel, adaptive and future-proof mobile network architecture for the 5G era. As part of the 5GPPP initiative, vendors, operators, IT companies, enterprises and academia in Europe are joining forces to launch the 5G NORMA (5G Novel Radio Multiservice adaptive network Architecture) project. The 5G NORMA project, which is expected to run for 30 months, will propose an end-to-end architecture that takes into consideration both Radio Access...

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Level 3 Acquires Black Lotus for DDoS Mitigation

Level 3 Communications has acquired Black Lotus, a start-up offering global Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation services. Details on the all-cash deal were not disclosed. Black Lotus, which is based in San Francisco, operates a global DDoS mitigation network which monitors traffic on edge routers to generate sample data called flows which are then sent to an analysis platform. The traffic sample is then evaluated to determine if there...

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Interoute Claims Fastest Transatlantic Cloud

Interoute claims that its global cloud platform, Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC), delivers nearly double the throughput across the Atlantic than the next best cloud provider, as evidenced by research conducted by Cloud Spectator. The research from March 2015 compared Interoute VDC with three leading cloud providers (Amazon AWS, Rackspace and Microsoft Azure), testing network throughput and latency between Europe and USA and between providers'...

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Ixia Ships its Private and Hybrid Cloud Visibility Solution

Ixia has enhanced its Net Tool Optimizer (NTO) platform with single-pane-of-glass visibility into hybrid cloud deployments, allowing a unified view of the entire network. The new major capabilities delivered in this release include: Unified visibility for virtual and physical networks under a single management interface Intelligent routing of application traffic Double the available interconnects with existing hardware High speed visibility with...

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June was busy for Start-ups + Networking + Cloud + Security

Cisco to acquire OpenDNS for $635 Million Tuesday, June 30, 2015  Cisco, Cyber Security, Mergers and Acquisitions, Start-ups  No comments Cisco agreed to acquire OpenDNS, a privately held security company based in San Francisco, for approximately $635 million in cash and assumed equity awards. OpenDNS provides a secure DNS offering with advanced threat protection for "any device, across any port, protocol...

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