Cisco Brings Hyperscale Cloud Smarts to IOS XR

Cisco is rolling out new capabilities for its IOS XR network operating system that deliver cloud-scale networking for service providers and web companies. The goal is to deliver cloud applications at scale with greater agility, automation and simplicity by enabling traditional and web service providers to converge their data centers and wide area network (WAN) architectures. Cisco developed the new capabilities with some of the world’s leading web...

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Coriant's Pluggables Disaggregate Optical Layer Functions

Coriant unveiled its Pluggable Optical Layer approach to disaggregating key components needed for high-speed metro optical networks. Coriant's Pluggable Optical Layer disaggregates the full suite of optical layer components into compact pluggables, including amplifiers, variable optical attenuators, power monitoring, combiners, splitters, WSSs, etc. The company said that by providing the ability to mix and match different functional components,...

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Three new IEEE 802.3 study groups

The Ethernet Alliance commended the recent formation of three new IEEE 802.3® study groups: The IEEE 802.3 25Gb/s Ethernet PMD(s) for Single Mode Fiber Study Group is tasked with exploring the development of new 25Gb/s Ethernet single-mode fiber links, as well as evaluating market requirements supporting longer reach 25Gb/s Ethernet interfaces up to 10 kilometers or more. The group’s work complements the fast-tracked efforts of the IEEE P802.3by...

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Citrix to Spinoff GoTo Products, Restructure Core Business

Citrix Systems will spinoff its GoTo family of products into a separate public company as part of an organizational restructuring aimed at renewing its focus on core products. Citrix plans to increase emphasis and resources to core enterprise products for secure and reliable application and data delivery, including XenApp, XenDesktop, XenMobile, ShareFile and NetScaler. The company will end investment in certain other products and programs, in some...

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ALU Joins the ONOS Project

Alcatel-Lucent has joined the ONOS project, the Open source SDN Network Operating System (ONOS) for service providers and mission critical networks and a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. ONOS is a carrier-grade SDN network operating system architected to provide high availability, scalability, performance, and rich northbound and southbound abstractions. Alcatel-Lucent will join leading service providers, vendors, collaborators and individual...

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Radisys, Octasic and Quortus Partner on Multi-Radio Network-in-a-Box

Radisys, along with Octasic and Quortus, announced a Multi-Radio 4G/3G/2G Network-in-a-Box targeted for the military and public safety organizations. The joint solution enables the rapid deployment of an end-to-end LTE network in a compact, ruggedized form factor.  The idea is to enable military and public safety professionals to rapidly deploy a complete portable network anywhere, whether in a UAV, a vehicle or a backpack. The network can...

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Ericsson to Offer Subscription VOD for SPs

Ericsson is launching an end-to-end subscription video-on-demand content service called NuVu that will be marketed with service providers. AirTel Nigeria will be first to launch NuVu beginning in Q1 2016. Subscribers will gain access to around 3,000 local and international TV and film titles for a small monthly fee. They will be able to download content directly to their smartphones or tablets at no additional data cost during off-peak network times,...

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ALU Lands 5-Year Deal with Ooredoo

Ooredoo Group awarded a 5-year frame supply deal to Alcatel-Lucent, extending and reinforcing the existing long-term collaboration between both companies. The agreement covers the technology evolution and latest innovations relating to ultra-broadband IP and transport networks. This contract will extend for five years and will benefit operations across the Ooredoo footprint in Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific and Southeast Asia. Financial terms...

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