ZTE Posts Q1 Revenue of US$3.41 Billion, up 4% YoY

ZTE posted Q1 2016 revenue of RMB21.859 billion (US$3.41 billion), representing a 4.09% increase year on year. Net profit amounted to RMB950 million, representing a 15.97% increase from the same period last year. ZTE noted that it invested 13.96% of revenue in R&D in Q1. http://www.zte.com.cn...

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Verizon Strike Continues, Parties at Odds

The strike by 39,000 Verizon employees continues. Employees represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) walked off the job on April 13. On April 28, Verizon presented union official with an updated proposal for about 36,000 wireline employees in the company’s Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. The new proposal offered to increase wages by 7.5 percent over the term of...

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FBI Expands Data Center in Idaho

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning a huge data center expansion in Pocatello, Idaho. The 100,000 square foot facility is expected to bring hundreds of jobs to the area. For the past several years, the FBI has been working to consolidate its IT operations into fewer data centers. http://www.fbi....

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AT&T Integrated Cloud Speaks OpenStack

AT&T took home the "OpenStack Superuser" award from this week's OpenStack Summit in Austin.  The award recognizes companies making their organizations competitive in the current software-defined economy through their contributions to OpenStack. The AT&T Integrated Cloud is already the biggest OpenStack deployment in the world, according to the company, as it deployed a total of 74 AIC zones (data centers or network centers) in 2015....

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FCC Seeks New Rules for Business Data Services

The FCC has found the special access tariffs filed by four incumbent local exchange carriers (AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink and Frontier) to be unjust and unreasonable, with the effect of decreasing facilities-based competition and inhibiting the transition to new technologies. The FCC is requiring these companies to withdraw the illegal terms of these tariffs and file new tariffs within 60 days of release of the order. The FCC is also seeking...

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Amazon Web Services Q1 Revenue Hits $2.57 billion, up 64% YoY

In its Q1 financial statement, Amazon noted that its Amazon Web Services unit generated revenue of $2.57 billion, up 64% year-over-year. AWS is also the most profitable business at Amazon, with operating income for the quarter coming in at $604 million. Overall, Amazon's net sales increased 28% to $29.1 billion in the first quarter, compared with $22.7 billion in first quarter 2015. Excluding the $210 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year...

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Cypress to Acquire Broadcom's Wireless IoT Unit for $550M

Cypress Semiconductor agreed to acquire Broadcom's Wireless Internet of Things (IoT) business and related assets for $550 million in cash. The deal includes Broadcom's Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee IoT product lines and intellectual property, along with its WICED brand and developer ecosystem. Broadcom's IoT business unit, which employs approximately 430 people worldwide, generated $189 million in revenue during the last twelve months. The acquisition...

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Juniper Posts Q1 Revenue of $1.01 Billion, up 3% YoY

Juniper Networks reported net revenues for the first quarter of 2016 of $1,097.9 million, an increase of 3% year-over-year and a decrease of 17% sequentially. GAAP operating margin for the first quarter of 2016 was 13.5%, an increase from 12.3% in the first quarter of 2015, and a decrease from 21.2% in the fourth quarter of 2015. GAAP net income was $91.4 million, or $0.23 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2016, an increase of 14% year-over-year...

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Infinera Posts Q1 Revenue of $245 Million

Infinera reported GAAP revenue for the first quarter of 2016 of $244.8 million compared to $260.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2015 and $186.9 million in the first quarter of 2015. GAAP gross margin for the quarter was 47.5% compared to 44.5% in the fourth quarter of 2015 and 47.2% in the first quarter of 2015. GAAP operating margin for the quarter was 6.1% compared to 5.3% in the fourth quarter of 2015 and 8.1% in the first quarter of 2015. GAAP...

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A10 Posts Q1 Sales of $53.8 million, up 22% YoY

A10 Networks reported Q1 revenue of $53.8 million, up 22 percent year-over-year. There was a GAAP net loss for the first quarter 2016 of $9.5 million, or $0.15 per share, compared with a net loss of $13.7 million, or $0.22 per share, in the first quarter of 2015. “The first quarter was a strong start to the year as we continued to build on our solid momentum,” said Lee Chen, president and chief executive officer of A10 Networks. “Our high-end...

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NeoPhotonics Posts 22% YoY Growth, Strength in 100G

NeoPhotonics reported Q1 revenue of $99.1 million, up $17.8 million, or 21.8%, from the first quarter of 2015, and up $10.0 million, or 11.2%, from the prior quarter. GAAP Gross margin was 31.4%, up from 29.6% in the first quarter of 2015, and up from 28.2% in the prior quarter. GAAP net income was $2.3 million, up from $0.1 million in the first quarter of 2015, and up from $0.4 million in the prior quarter. “In our first quarter NeoPhotonics...

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Innovium Raises $15M, Settles Broadcom Litigation

Innovium, a pre-launch start-up targeting infrastructure solutions, announced the settlement of all litigation with Broadcom.  Financial terms were not disclosed. Innovium also announced $15 million in Series A funding from Capricorn, Walden Riverwood and other venture capital investors. The company, which is based in San Jose, California, was founded by Rajiv Khemani (previously Cavium), Puneet Agarwal (previously Broadcom), and Mohammad...

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Levyx Raises $5.4 Million for Big Data Store

Levyx, a start-up based in Irvine, California, announced $5.4 million in Series-A funding for its high-performance processing technology for reducing infrastructure costs associated with big-data applications. The funding was led by Chicago-based OCA Ventures. Additional investors include Amino Capital (a.k.a. zPark Capital) and Sumavision USA Corporation, as well as individual investors. Levyx said its "Helium" data engine is built for the modern...

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Intel Promotes Diane Bryant to Executive VP

Intel announced the promotion of Diane Bryant to executive vice president. Bryant has been leading Intel’s Data Center Group (DCG) as general manager and senior vice president since 2012. Previously, she was an Intel vice president and chief information officer of Intel. “The data center has become a primary growth engine for Intel, and under Diane’s leadership, it reported record revenue of $16 billion in 2015,” said Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. “This...

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LeEco Opens Autonomous Driving R&D Center in San Jose

LeEco, a leading Chinese Internet company, inaugurated its new, 80,000 square foot North American headquarters in San Jose, California. The headquarters will also be the future home of LeEco’s autonomous driving research center, the LeFuture AI Institute. In recent weeks, LeEco announced second-generation smartphones, an all-new 4th-generation SuperTV, the LeEco VR headset and its autonomous LeSEE electric vehicle concept car. http://www.leeco...

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Verizon Deploys OpenStack NFV in 5 Data Centers

Verizon has completed a Network Function Virtualization OpenStack cloud deployment across five of its U.S. data centers. Verizon said its NFV project, which began in 2015, created a production design based on a core and pod architecture that provides hyperscale capabilities. The project is based on OpenStack with Red Hat Ceph Storage and a spine-leaf fabric for each pod controlled through a Neutron plugin to Red Hat OpenStack Platform. The multi-vendor...

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Verizon Reports 57 Incidents of Sabotage in 2 Weeks

Verizon reported a more than 100 percent increase in the number of suspected incidents of sabotage that have cut off thousands of Verizon customers from critical wireline services, since April 13.  The incidents include: In Delaware, three separate incidents occurred this week in Hockessin at fiber hub locations; fiber cables were severed in multiple locations. In New Jersey, there have been 17 incidents of suspected sabotage since April...

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Telia Carrier Lights 2nd West Coast Route with Infinera

Telia Carrier is adding a second low latency, high capacity route between Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, connecting the Internet Content superpowers of the Bay Area with the entertainment and media giants of Hollywood. The route uses the Infinera DTN-X platform. In addition, Telia Carrier has lit up a 100G-enabled metro ring linking strategically important connection points in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Infinera TM-Series features multi-service...

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Facebook Reaches 1.65 Billion Monthly Users

With its record quarterly financial report, Facebook posted several other impressive growth metrics: Monthly active users (MAUs) were 1.65 billion as of March 31, 2016, an increase of 15% year-over-year. Daily active users (DAUs) were 1.09 billion on average for March 2016, an increase of 16% year-over-year Mobile DAUs were 989 million on average for March 2016, an increase of 24% year-over-year Mobile MAUs - Mobile MAUs were 1.51 billion as of...

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AT&T Brings NetBond Connectivity to its Cisco WebEx Global Service

Starting in May, AT&T Conferencing with Cisco WebEx global conferencing solution will include AT&T NetBond connectivity for customers meeting eligibility requirements. AT&T NetBond ensures improved network performance and security to cloud platforms. In a blog posting, Vishy Gopalakrishnan, Product Marketing Management AVP at AT&T, observes that millennials are becoming a driving force for unified voice and collaboration solutions. "For...

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NHN Techorus Links Data Centers with Infinera Cloud Xpress

NHN Techorus Corp., a data center operator in Japan, has deployed the Infinera Cloud Xpress to interconnect its Tokyo data centers. Working with Infinera’s partner, Nissho Electronics, Techorus selected the Infinera Cloud Xpress to serve the growing need for high capacity interconnectivity among Techorus locations, helping its customers to grow efficiently and connect to the metro Tokyo ecosystem of customers, partners and service providers. Infinera’s...

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6WIND Integrates with Mirantis OpenStack for NFV

6WIND announced integration with Mirantis OpenStack to simplify joint customer deployments for high performance data centers and Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI). Specifically, 6WIND Virtual Accelerator, which is hypervisor acceleration software, will integrate an OpenStack Fuel plugin for increased application throughput and efficiency in KVM environments. Both companies have worked together to release a Mirantis certified...

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Red Hat Cites OpenStack Rollouts with Fastweb, Paddy Power Betfair, and Produban

Red Hat announced OpenStack rollouts with several organizations across Europe, including Fastweb, Paddy Power Betfair, and Produban. Fastweb, a leading Italian telecommunications company, provides enterprise cloud-based information and communications technology (ICT) services to Italian businesses that lack internal resources to independently develop and support them. Fastweb has migrated to the Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Paddy Power Betfair,...

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Aviatrix Builds Cloud Native Networking for Scaling Virtual Private Clouds

Aviatrix, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, unveiled a "Cloud Native Networking" solution that combines a software-defined network controller and software gateways to enable businesses to scale out virtual private clouds (VPCs) with VLAN-like segmentation of cloud instances and policy-based security. The idea is to make it easier to provision and manage VPCs that span public, private and hybrid clouds. The Aviatrix software provisions,...

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IBM Boosts Support to OpenStack’s RefStack Project

IBM is confirming its lead role in the OpenStack RefStack Project, which was created last year as part of the OpenStack community’s effort to drive interoperability across clouds. The ability to move data and apps from one cloud to another is a major obstacle in the evolution of cloud and business. IBM, which is the lead contributor to RefStack, said the project is a critical pillar of its commitment to ensuring an open cloud. The specific upgrades...

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Riverbed Launches its SteelConnect SD-WAN Solution

Riverbed Technology introduced its SteelConnect SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) solution for networking in a cloud-centric world. Riverbed said it is delivering an application-defined approach to networking with SteelConnect, which aims to unify network connectivity and orchestration of application delivery across hybrid WANs, remote LANs and cloud networks such as AWS (available today) and Microsoft Azure (later this year). SteelConnect...

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AT&T Posts Q1 Revenue of $40.5 Billion

AT&T posted Q1 revenues of $40.5 billion and diluted EPS of $0.61 as reported; $0.72 diluted adjusted EPS, a 10.8% increase. The results include AT&T's acquisition of DirecTV. Compared with results for the first quarter of 2015, operating expenses were $33.4 billion versus $27.0 billion; operating income was $7.1 billion versus $5.6 billion; and operating income margin was 17.6% versus 17.1%. “It was a good start to the year. We had solid...

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Radisys Brings Enhanced Voice Services Codec to Mobile Operators

Radisys has added Ultra HD Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) audio codec support to its MediaEngine Media Resource Function (MRF). By leveraging the new EVS codec, mobile operators can use less spectrum to deliver HD Audio or can deliver Ultra HD Audio using the same spectrum required for HD Audio. In addition, advanced error resilience built into EVS makes it ideal for VoLTE, delivering the same voice quality as AMR wideband while using less bandwidth...

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Coho Data Adds OpenStack Support to its Cinder Storage

Coho Data, which specializes in scale-out flash storage for the enterprise, announced support for OpenStack on DataStream and that the Coho Cinder driver is part of the OpenStack Mitaka released earlier this month. The goal is OpenStack block storage infrastructure that dynamically scales both performance and capacity in response to application demands. Coho said its unique per-virtual machine (VM) visibility feature for VMware vSphere environments...

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Dell Pushes Ahead with its Open Networking Initiatives

Dell announced several steps in advancing its Open Networking initiatives: Newly released Operating System 10 (OS10) aligns with community building and integration projects including Open Compute Project’s (OCP) Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) and partners Ansible, F5 and Silverpeak.  Dell OS10 and OCP SONiC– Dell, in conjunction with Microsoft Azure and other industry leaders, made foundational contributions to the newly-announced...

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Barracuda's Revenue Grows 16%

Barracuda Networks' revenue for the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2016 increased 16% to $83.7 million, compared with $72.2 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015. Appliance revenue was $21.7 million, compared with $20.9 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015, and recurring subscription revenue grew to $62.1 million, up from $51.2 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015, representing 74% of total revenue. GAAP net income...

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MACOM Files Patent Suit Against Infineon over GaN

MACOM Technology Solutions filed a legal claim against Infineon Technologies and International Rectifier (acquired by Infineon in 2015) concerning its rights to use the pioneering and patented gallium nitride on silicon (GaN) technology developed by Nitronex (acquired by MACOM in 2014) in MACOM’s core markets. GaN has potential applications in 4G/LTE and 5G base stations. http://www.macom....

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Juniper Advances its Software-Defined Secure Networks Framework

Juniper Networks announced several cloud and virtualized service offerings as part of its Software-Defined Secure Networks (SDSN) framework, including a new compact and containerized virtual firewall called Juniper Networks cSRX. This  next-generation firewall is designed for advanced security services for Software Defined Networks. The cSRX, which Juniper describes as the industry's first virtual firewall in a containerized form factor, provides...

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Netronome Brings Hardware-Acceleration to OpenStack Networking

Netronome has tuned its Agilio Server Networking Platform for delivering hardware-acceleration for OpenStack networking, allowing data centers to accelerate applications such as network virtualization, security, load balancing and telemetry using different data plane options suitable for use cases spanning traditional IT to IaaS and Telco NFV workloads. Netronome's own testing has found a 5X boost in VM performance when network functions are offloaded...

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Nexenta Adds OpenStack & Docker Support for Scale-Out Storage

Nexenta announced significant updates to its block and object storage platform, including seamless integration with OpenStack and Docker environments. The NexentaEdge is a software-only, scale-out, multi-service storage solution to deliver cluster-wide inline deduplication and compression, offering high-performance, simplified management of petabyte-scale repositories. With the latest updates, the block and object software-defined platform includes...

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QTS Signs Big Cloud Customer for DFW Mega Data Center

QTS Realty Trust confirmed that one of the world's largest cloud provider companies has doubled its custom data center agreement to support its rapid growth. The hyperscale cloud provider selected QTS in early 2016 to provide more than 20,000 square feet and four megawatts of power. The new agreement dramatically increases the company's usage to a total of 40,000 square feet and eight megawatts of power at the LEED Gold certified QTS Dallas-Fort...

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Mirantis and QCT Partner on OpenStack Appliance

Mirantis and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) are partnering to offer Mirantis Unlocked Appliances, turnkey, rack-based appliances featuring Mirantis OpenStack. The appliance is targeted at Cloud Native Applications featuring hardware and software from QCT and Cumulus Networks. “Mirantis Unlocked Appliances gives enterprises a fast, easy way to exploit the flexibility and cost-savings of OpenStack. They are off-the-shelf, optimized solutions that...

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EBSCO Load Balances OpenStack Cloud with Avi Networks

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has deployed Avi Networks on OpenStack to create a highly-automated private cloud and cutting-edge software-defined data center. Avi Networks delivers public-cloud-like agility for application services beyond load balancing including deep application analytics, predictive autoscaling, and security in the data center or public cloud. http://www.avinetworks.com...

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Sequans LTE for IoT Module Certified by AT&T

Sequans Communications' newest EZLinkLTE module, the US60L, has been certified to operate on AT&T’s 4G LTE network. At the heart of the module is Sequans’ IoT-optimized, LTE Cat 4-capable chipset, Colibri, along with memory, power management and a complete RF front-end. http://www.sequans....

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Blueprint: Top 10 Use Cases for OpenStack SDN

by Wendy Cartee, VP of Product Management and Marketing at PLUMgrid Years ago, Linux opened up the data center and made it programmable, uncorking a Genie’s bottle of previously unimagined use cases, wealth and possibilities that became known as the cloud. For years after the data center became a software-programmable cloud, networking remained the bottleneck in an otherwise programmable environment. Today, we’re seeing a similar transformation...

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