Blueprint: Is Wi-Fi Innovation Slowing Down?

by Jay Botelho, Director of Product Management for Savvius, Inc. Wi-Fi technology has improved our daily lives in ways unimaginable just a few years ago. We routinely connect to our own personal digital universe from the comfort of our living room, while sitting at a local coffee shop, or even from the passenger seat of a new car. Yet for all of the amazing progress Wi-Fi has made over the years, are we witnessing the end of rapid WLAN innovation?...

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Cisco Adds ACI Security Features and Docker Support

Cisco announced a new software release for its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) that adds microsegmentation for both physical (bare metal) applications and multivendor virtualized applications (VMware VDS, Microsoft Hyper-V). New features extend ACI across multi-site environments to deliver policy-driven automation across multiple data centers. The update also adds support for Docker containers through contributions to open source. Cisco...

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ONOS Enters 5th Release for Carrier-Grade SDN

ONOS, the open source SDN networking operating system for Service Provider networks, released its fifth generation platform. "When we initially released ONOS, our goal was to provide a solid platform that would act as a base on which ON.Lab, its partners and the community could rapidly develop a number of SDN applications," said Thomas Vachuska, Chief Architect at ON.Lab's ONOS project. "ONOS' growing list of SDN and NFV use cases and solutions...

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OpenFastPath Targets High Performance User Space TCP/IP

A new OpenFastPath (OFP) Foundation has been established with a mission of creating an open-source community around a standardized, accelerated TCP/IP stack that provides top performance for SDN-ready network functions. For operator networks, the new fast-path stack aims to deliver reduced IP latency, higher capacity and thus faster packet forwarding, and lower implementation costs. The OFP TCP/IP stack implementation is based on the open-source...

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Verizon Labs taps EMC for Software-defined Storage

Verizon Labs is working with EMC to expand its software-defined storage strategy. Specifically, Verizon Labs is running EMC’s software-defined storage on commodity hardware while taking advantage of containerized, scalable, geo-distributed object storage and maximum elastic performance. EMC is integrating its commercial storage software with the open source Apache Mesos technology, as well as with the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS),...

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Verizon Opens Secure Cloud Interconnect to IBM Cloud

Verizon has begun offering a secure and direct connection to the IBM Cloud. Verizon's Secure Cloud Interconnect service provides a flexible, private link to IBM Cloud data center sites located in Dallas and San Jose in the U.S. and Tokyo and Sydney in the Asia Pacific region.  Two additional sites are planned in Europe for the beginning of 2016. With IBM, Verizon's Secure Cloud Interconnect now offers access to eight cloud providers (Amazon...

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Digital Realty Launches "Direct Link Colo" to IBM Cloud

Digital Realty Trust introduced Direct Link Colo, linking its data centers directly to IBM Cloud via SoftLayer's global cloud infrastructure platform. Digital Realty said the new Direct Link Colo delivers incredible network performance, including latency as low as 1.5 milliseconds—one of the lowest latencies for a hybrid cloud solution in the industry. With Direct Link Colo, there are no third-party carriers involved, additional intermediary electronics...

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Frontier Gains Approval to Acquire Verizon's California Properties

The California Public Utilities Commission voted to approve Frontier’s proposed acquisition of Verizon's wireline, broadband and video operation in California, including the FiOS network. Frontier has received all other necessary regulatory clearances, including those from the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Public Utility Commission of Texas, for the $10.54 billion acquisition, which includes Verizon’s...

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Google Announces Huge Purchases of Renewable Energy

Google announce plans to add an additional 842 megawatts of renewable energy capacity to power its data centers. This brings the company's commitments for renewal energy purchases to  2 gigawatts. The new energy contracts include solar capacity purchases in the United States and Chile, as well as wind turbine power from several sites in the U.S. and Sweden. Google also noted that it has made separate agreements to fund $2.5 billion into 22...

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Vapor IO Secures Series A Funding for Hyper Modular Data Center

Vapor IO, a start-up based in Austin, Texas, announced a Series A funding round for its intelligent, hyper modular data center solution.  The funding was led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from AVX Partners, but the amount was not disclosed. Vapor IO is focused on new design for maximizing density and energy efficiency in data center design. “For the past nine months we’ve been singularly focused on building a telemetry optimized data...

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TIM Brasil Picks Nokia for Small Cells and 3G/4G

TIM Brasil has selected Nokia Networks to modernize and expand its 3G and 4G LTE networks in 17 states across the North, Northeast and Center West regions.Nokia Networks will also provide its small cells products, as well as implementation, optimization and care services. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://networks.nokia.com Nokia Launches 1 Gbps Small Cell Thursday, September 10, 2015  Nokia, Small Cells  1...

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