Crehan: Data Center Switch Market Hits $12B in 2015, Reports Crehan Research

The data center switch market reached $12 billion in sales in 2015, according to a new report from Crehan Research. Ethernet, which accounts for the majority of data center switch revenues, grew 7% in 2015, while InfiniBand revenues surged to a record year, surpassing its prior record of 2012. In contrast with Ethernet and InfiniBand, Fibre Channel switch revenues declined slightly following growth in 2014. “Ethernet remained by far the dominantdata...

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Frontier Launches Ethernet Private Line Service

Frontier Communications has added Ethernet Private Line (EPL) to its E-Line Ethernet Solutions portfolio. EPL joins Frontier’s local IntraLATA EVPL offering and will be available in Frontier’s service areas with the same bandwidth profiles and at the same rates. EPL has also been rolled into the Carrier InterLATA EPATH offering, previously launched in October 2015 as a service multiplexed, vlan aware only offering, in Frontier’s Idaho, Indiana,...

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SpaceX Launches SES-9 on Falcon 9 Rocket

SpaceX successfully launched the SES-9 satellite using a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. SES-9 is SES’s largest satellite to serve the Asia-Pacific region. It weighed 5.3 tonnes at the launch and has 57 high-power Ku-band transponders – equivalent to 81x36 MHz transponders’ It thus provides significant expansion capacity to serve the buoyant and fast-growing video, enterprise, mobility and government sectors across...

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In Memory: Raymond Tomlinson

Ray Tomlinson, who is credited with developing email while working on ARPANet in 1971, has died. He was 74. The first email was sent between two machines that were literally side-by-side using a program that Tomlinson developed called SNDMSG. Tomlinson chose the user@host addressing format that remains in use today. http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.h...

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