AT&T to Expand its Fiber Residential Footprint to 38 More Metros

AT&T unveiled plans to extend its  fiber residential network, which offers Internet speeds of up to 1 Gbps, to an additional 38 metro areas across the U.S..  This rollout will double the reach of the AT&T GigaPower service, which currently passes over 1 million locations, bringing the total number of metros served to 56. AT&T also announced the launch of its ultra-fast Internet service in parts of 2 of these metros – Los Angeles...

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GSMA: Mobile Industry Boosts European Economy

The mobile industry’s contribution to European GDP will increase from EUR500 billion in 2014 to EUR600 billion by 2020, as markets across the region benefit from the improvements in productivity and efficiency brought about by the adoption of new mobile technologies, including machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, according to a new study by GSMA. “Europe’s mobile operators have invested heavily in 4G over the past few years despite challenging...

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QLogic and Brocade Demo NVMe Over Fabrics with Fibre Channel

QLogic and Brocade demonstrated a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fabrics solution using Fibre Channel as the fabric. The demonstration, which is an industry first, is based on the draft specification of NVMe over Fabrics under definition by the NVM Express, Inc. organization and the draft Fibre Channel over NVMe (FC-NVMe) standards under definition by T11. The companies said this FC-NVMe proof of concept (POC) sets a foundation for lower...

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Spirent to Acquire Epitiro for Wi-Fi Experience Monitoring

Spirent Communications has acquired Epitiro, a privately-help company specializing in Wi-Fi experience monitoring. Epitiro, which is based in Cardiff (UK), offers compact, rugged probes that may be deployed in office buildings, factories, stadiums and other mobility locations providing real-time insight into the availability and experience of services.  Key metrics include availability of Wi-Fi connectivity, file transfer and web browsing speed,...

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New IBM Cloud Service for Apps Targeting Unstructured Data

IBM introduced a new, Bluemix cloud service that lets developers interactively compose and connect object storage into their apps. IBM Object Storage service provides app creators with a fully scalable, API-accessible platform to store and retrieve unstructured data, as well as build apps around this content.  It also allows developers to access this valuable data from external apps. IBM said that to help capture, store and gain intelligence...

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Alcatel-Lucent Lands Two More Big Routing Contracts in China

Alcatel-Lucent confirmed that China Unicom and China Mobile are both significantly expanding their deployment of the company’s core router. Financial terms were not disclosed. China Mobile’s CMNET, its national IP backbone network, is to deploy Alcatel-Lucent's 7950 XRS IP Core Router. China Mobile will also use the 7950 XRS in its metro networks. The agreement expands on terms announced in October 2014 of Alcatel-Lucent’s selection as the sole...

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City of San Jose Tests LED SmartPoles with LTE Small Cells

The City of San Jose will install 50 Philips SmartPoles, which bring together energy efficient LED lighting and fully integrated 4G LTE small cell technology by Ericsson. This pilot was initiated through the City’s Demonstration Partnership Policy. The 50 Philips SmartPoles, along with 750 Philips RoadFocus LED luminaires, are connected through a system in which they can be wirelessly controlled to modify lighting to accommodate the needs of the...

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Dell'Oro: Ethernet Switch Data Center Sales Surge

The Ethernet Switch – Data Center market surged to $2.6B, setting an all-time record in 3Q15, with the bulk of the increase driven by sales of 40 GE switches, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. In 2016, Dell'Oro Group is predicting explosive growth for 100 GE, with sales to well-exceed half a billion dollars. "The quarter was highlighted by Arista achieving the number two rank in revenue for the first time along with strong growth from...

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Mexico's Axtel to Merge with Alestra

Alestra announced a merger agreement with Axtel, a fixed line operator based in Monterrey, Mexico. It serves 39 cities across Mexico with fixed line services, including FTTH, VPNs and integrated communications. Alestra is an IT services company based in Monterrey, Mexico.  It operates five data centers across Mexico. It's parent company. Alfa, purchased AT&T's 49% in Alestra baci in 2011. http://www.alestra.com.mx/ http://new.axtel....

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Huawei Supplies Cloud Data Center Network for Abraxas in Switzerland

Abraxas, a large information and communications technology (ICT) integrator and Cloud Service Provider (CSP) in Switzerland, has built a virtualized multi-tenant cloud data centre network with Huawei’s Cloud Fabric Data Centre Network Solution. The fabric, built by Huawei through Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) and Ethernet Virtual Network (EVN), has helped Abraxas build an ultra-large cross-DC Layer 2 network, implementing...

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Marvell Posts Revenue of $674 Million, Down 28% YoY

Marvell Technology Group reported preliminary third quarter fiscal 2016 revenue of $674 Million, down approximately 5 percent from $711 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2016, ended August 1, 2015, and down approximately 28 percent from $930 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2015, ended November 1, 2014. In the third quarter of fiscal 2016, storage revenue declined 16% sequentially reflecting lower demand from HDD customers but was...

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