Facebook Engineering: Building a Live Video Broadcast Capability

The Facebook Engineering team is building the ability for people to share live video on Facebook, potentially to very large numbers of viewers. In this blog post, engineers described "the thundering herd" problem - public figures with millions of followers on Facebook may suddenly start a live broadcast. Facebook needs to be able to handle the potential of more than a million people watching the broadcast at the same time, as happened recently with...

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Zayo Launches VMware Hybrid Cloud Service

Zayo launched its VMware Hybrid Cloud service, which provides customers with a dedicated hosting environment. The service is built with and operated using VMware vSphere 6 and VMware vCloud Director. Zayo said its differentiated hybrid cloud solution enables customers to utilize the same VMware infrastructure off-premises as they are running on-premises. Customers can manage and move on-premises, VMware-based workloads to Zayo’s private or multi-tenant...

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IHS: LTE Infrastructure Market Up 9% YoY

The worldwide mobile infrastructure market totaled $11.3 billion in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), up 1 percent from a year ago, driven by 3G W-CDMA capacity projects in EMEA and the end of LTE rollouts in China, according to a new report from IHS. Some highlights: Global LTE revenue is up 9 percent year-over-year, totaling $6.1 billion. On a quarter-over-quarter basis, the overall mobile infrastructure market is down 1 percent, mainly dragged...

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IHS: Network Security Space Remains Hot

According to a new report from IHS, the global network security market, including appliances and software, continued its strong performance in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), growing 7 percent year-over-year, to $2 billion. Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks continue to post strong year-over-year growth, and Check Point, Cisco, Fortinet, Intel Security, Juniper and Palo Alto all posted sequential growth in 3Q15. Some highlights: A sell-off of...

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After 3 1/2 Years, LightSquared's Case Takes a Step Forward

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved LightSquared’s Change of Control application, paving the path toward emergence from Chapter 11 as well as the installation of new leadership committed to collaborating with industry and government to spur economic growth by bringing the company’s mid-band spectrum to market. The company described the FCC grant as a significant milestone.  LightSquared originally filed for bankruptcy...

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AT&T Confirms Contract Ratification by Southeast Employee

AT&T announced that employees represented by the Communications Workers of America have voted to ratify a four-year contract with AT&T Southeast wireline operations. Employees also voted to ratify tentative agreements on two southeast regional contracts covering AT&T Billing Southeast and Southeast Utility Operations. The contracts cover about 24,000 employees in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina,...

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Pica8 Appoints Dan Tuchler as VP of Product Mgt

Pica8 appointed Dan Tuchler as vice president of product management. Previously, Tuchler was a product management executive at many successful startups, including Alteon Websystems, Blade Network Technologies, Force10 Networks, Mellanox Technologies, and Vyatta, and he consulted with Cavium/Xpliant on go-to-market strategies for the company’s switching ASIC. http://www.pica8.c...

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