Blueprint: The Rise of the Network Monitoring Engineer

by Patrick Hubbard, Head Geek, SolarWinds Today’s network engineers experience tremendous complexity, in part due to increasing demand, but also given the diversity of protocols and the high number of multi-tier applications that are often outside of their control. Combined with improved automated failover it’s become impossible (except in the largest of organizations) for network administrators to be highly specialized, meaning the days of being...

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Telia Carrier Brings its 100G Backbone to CyrusOne Data Centers

Telia Carrier is bringing its global IP network to CyrusOne, one of the largest carrier-neutral data center providers in the United States. Telia Carrier's global IP network, AS1299, offers CyrusOne customers immediate 100G availability scalable to multi-terabit capacity, and includes the benefits of the wholesale carrier's Wavelength, IP, and Ethernet services. Telia Carrier owns and operates its global network. "As one of the leading providers...

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ONUG Launches Open IT Framework Initiatives

The Open Networking User Group (ONUG) is kicking off a set of industry initiatives focused on open IT frameworks and software-defined infrastructure: Open SD-WAN Exchange (OSE) Open Interoperable Control Plane (OICP) Open Traffic Management Format (OTMF) Open Network State Format (ONSF) “The new open industry initiatives will promote collaboration amongst vendors, academics, standards and open source organizations, and enterprise IT business...

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Weaveworks Raises $15 Million for Container Monitoring

Weaveworks, a start-up offering networking and monitoring for containers and microservices, secured $15 million in Series B funding led by new investor GV (formerly Google Ventures). Weaveworks’ Weave provides a simple and consistent way to connect and manage containers and microservices. It provides simple and reliable networking across development, test and production environments and any mix of data centers and public c111louds. Weave also provides...

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Videotron to Deploy Ciena's Packet/Optical in Quebec

Videotron is deploying Ciena’s converged packet optical solution to upgrade its regional and backbone network in Quebec. Ciena said the deployment will allow Videotron to accommodate several terabits of traffic, meeting the surge of bandwidth for Internet and 4K video. Videotron was the first Canadian telecommunications provider to offer its customers Ultra HD set-top boxes in 2015, and in February 2016, began carrying live sports programs in...

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Royal Bank of Scotland Picks Red Hat's Mobile, Container and Cloud

Royal Bank of Scotland is powering its new Open Experience center with Red Hat technologies, including the Red Hat Mobile Application Platform and OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat's web-scale container application platform. Open Experience is a technology solutions center launched by Royal Bank of Scotland in February 2016 at its headquarters in Edinburgh, U.K., to pursue innovative new technologies for the bank and its customers. Not only a physical...

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IPG Photonics Acquires Menara Networks for Pluggable Optical Modules

IPG Photonics agreed to acquire Menara Networks, a supplier of enhanced optical transmission modules and systems for cable multi-system operators (MSOs), carriers and data centers, for $46.8 million in cash. The companies recently announced a partnership to provide an integrated solution for simplified repeater-less 100G DWDM transmission for metro and data center interconnection. Menara’s cost and foot-print-saving product suite of 10G and 100G...

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GTT Teans with GBI for Middle East Coverage

GTT Communications and GBI, a global service provider that owns and operates a multilayer, carrier-neutral network connecting the world to the Middle East, announced a strategic relationship to provide enhanced services and connectivity in the Middle East. As part of the agreement, GTT will be adding new points of presence (PoPs) in the Middle East, starting with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar. The agreement will also provide GBI with...

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