Cisco Prevails over Arista in Patent Case

Cisco has prevailed in a long-running patent dispute with Arista (the '944 case). On Thursday, the International Trade Commission issued a Final Determination that Arista’s products infringe three Cisco patents. Two of the patents cover Cisco’s private VLAN network security technology which Arista included in its switches. The third covers Cisco’s proprietary core SysDB technology. Additional court ruling are expected in the coming months for a...

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Huawei Marine Builds Cable Linking Kamchtka-Sakhalin

Rostelecom has authorized Huawei Marine to begin the construction of a 900-km submarine fiber cable connecting Kamchatka and Sakhalin. The construction represents the second phase of the Far East cable system that connects the regions of Kamchatka-Sakhalin-Magadan. Phase One connecting Sakhalin – Magadan was completed in 2015 along with the land-based  telecommunication network on the Kamchatka peninsula. This terrestrial network connects...

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OpenDaylight Lauches TransportPCE Projects

Orange, with the support of Telia Company and AT&T, has initiated a new TransportPCE project within OpenDaylight. The new Transport PCE project aims to make it easier to deploy multi-layer transport use cases using OpenDaylight, as well as IP/MPLS. The project will develop the first Transport PCE for L1 service requests and serve as a testing and validation means for network topology updates. The group said it seeks to foster broad adoption...

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Pica8 Adds Support for 25/50/100 GbE

Pica8 is rolling out a new version of its networking operating system for white box switches that adds support for 25/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networking. PicOS supports ultra-fast networking on switches based on Cavium’s XPliant and Broadcom’s Tomahawk switch ASICs. These enhancements are incorporated into PicOS 2.7.1, which is now shipping on 100GbE white box switches from Edgecore Networks and Inventec. In addition, PicOS 2.7.1 introduces...

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Samsung and Red Hat Collaborate on NVMe + Ceph Storage

Samsung Electronics and Red Hat announced a high-performance, data center storage architecture that combines NVMe SSDs with Ceph. Samsung said its NVMe Reference Design platform, together with Red Hat Ceph Storage, can deliver a highly scalable, more efficient TCO reference architecture that supports unified storage for enterprise IT or cloud environments in handling transactional databases, machine-generated data and unstructured data. The combined...

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