Facebook Intros Open Source Wireless Access Platform

Facebook introduced OpenCellular, its open source, wireless access platform designed for remote areas of the world not served by traditional networks. Facebook said it seeks to encourage telecom operators, entrepreneurs, OEMs, and researchers to locally build, implement, deploy, and operate wireless infrastructure based on this platform. Facebook plans to open-source the hardware design, along with necessary firmware and control software. OpenCellular...

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Ixia's TrafficREWIND Captures Traffic Patterns for Replay

Ixia announced TrafficREWIND, a new solution that captures traffic patterns from a production network and accurately recreates them in a controlled sand-box environment. Ixia said the goal of TrafficREWIND is to speed fault isolation and outage resolution with real world testing. The solution leverages the advanced functionality of several of the company’s solutions, including the Vision ONE network visibility solution to capture production network...

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Twistlock Raises $10 Million for Container Secuirty

Twistlock, a start-up based in San Francisco and Tel-Aviv, announced $10 million in funding for its enterprise security suite for virtual containers. The company says its security suite provides full stack vulnerabiltiy management, advanced access control, and smart runtime protection. The Series A funding round was led by TenEleven Ventures and Rally Ventures. Twistlock was founded by Ben Bernstein (CEO) and Dima Stopel (VP R&D). “A good...

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KOSC Telecom Picks ADVA for National Network in France

KOSC Telecom has selected the ADVA FSP 3000 for a new nationwide DWDM transport network in France for delivering 100G wholesale connectivity to other service providers. KOSC is a new telecom operator dedicated to the wholesale business connectivity market in France. The new network will serve major French cities, such as Paris and Marseille, to mid-sized cities, including Annecy and La Rochelle, spanning 20,000km and covering all regions of the...

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Ericsson to Acquire Spanish fiber-services leader Abentel

Ericsson agreed to acquire Abentel, a subsidiary of Abengoa that specializes in end-to-end fiber installation and management.  The deal includes the transfer of Abentel's assets, projects and employees to Ericsson. Financial terms were not disclosed. Abentel has approximately 500 employees who provide fiber network roll-out and maintenance services. Richard Hoepner, Head of Network Roll-Out and Customer Support, Ericsson, says: "Fiber is...

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Google Acquire Moodstocks for Machine Vision

Google has acquire Moodstocks, a start-up based in Paris, that specializes in image recognition and machine vision technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed. Moodstocks said its new mission "will be to build great image recognition tools within Google." The team included Denis Brule and Cedric Deltheil. http://www.moodstocks....

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Vodafone Tests 136 Mbps Uplink Carrier Aggregation

Vodafone Ireland has tested Ericsson's Uplink Carrier Aggregation (CA) and 64 QAM modulation technology in its commercial network.  The tests achieved 136 Mbps uplink speeds -- a 200 percent improvement compared to current uplink performance, with the ability to deliver peak throughputs of up to 150 Mbps. The demonstration also featured the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor with X12 LTE. “Qualcomm, Ericsson and Vodafone have collaborated to...

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ThousandEyes Brings Support For Cisco Enterprise Routers

ThousandEyes, a San Francisco-based start-up offering a network intelligence platform that delivers network visibility, announced support for Cisco Enterprise Routers. ThousandEyes Enterprise Agents that use containers to run directly on Cisco equipment at branch offices. ThousandEyes is one of the first technology partners to certify support for application hosting on Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISR) 4000 Series and Aggregation Services...

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Samsung's Universal Flash Storage Cards Reach 256 GB

Samsung Electronics introduced a line of removable memory cards based on the JEDEC Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 1.0 Card Extension Standard. The cards are designed for high-resolution mobile shooting devices such as DSLRs, 3D VR cameras, action cams and drones. Storage capacities include 256, 128, 64 and 32 gigabyte (GB). Samsung’s new 256GB UFS removable memory card ─ simply referred to as the UFS card - provides more than five times faster...

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