Global Capacity's Mary Stanhope: Ethernet Drives Today's Hybrid WANs

Ethernet continues to drives the next wave of hybrid networks or software-defined WANs, says Mary Stanhope, VP of Marketing for Global Capacity, speaking at the MEF's Annual Members Meeting in Boston. See video: https://youtu.be/kLdHHMJfLAc MEF16 - November 7-10, 2016, Baltimore...

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ONF's Dan Pitt: SDN Meets MEF's Lifecycle Service Orchestration

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has been working with the MEF for over a year to bring SDN and NFV into the scope of Carrier Ethernet, says Dan Pitt, Executive Director of ONF. The focus now is on Lifecycle Service Orchestration and carrier-grade SDN into multi-carrier deployments. See video: https://youtu.be/UYtHIjTg8H8...

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Wedge Networks on Security and Lifecycle Services Orchestration

Security must be an essential part of the MEF's Lifecycle Services Orchestration (LSO) and the Third Network, says Wedge Networks' CTO Hongwen Zhang. Tomorrow's cloud-based economy will rely on the security of network services. Wedge Networks is proposing a Security as a Service Ad Hoc Working Group within the MEF. See video: https://youtu.be/gmOQf_yeZgw ...

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MEF Readies University Partnership Program

The MEF is looking to kick-off a new University Partnership program aimed at fostering collaboration with academia, says Lance Hassan, MEF Director and Principal Engineer at Charter Communications. The first site will be Purdue. See video: https://youtu.be/LhXCBsSZPaw...

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Riverbed: Olympic Games Could Strain Enterprise Networks

The majority of global enterprise network managers expect to be monitoring performance trends next week as the summer Olympics are underway in Brazil, according to a survey of 403 companies commissioned by Riverbed. The survey found that network managers are wary of employees accessing Olympic video content during business hours, potentially impacting the performance of mission-critical applications. Riverbed said 85% of surveyed companies reported...

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IEEE Publishes 802.3by 25 Gb/s Ethernet Standard for Server Interconnectivity

IEEE officially released its 802.3by Standard for Media Access Control Parameters, Physical Layers and Management Parameters for 25 Gb/s Operation. The standard defines single-lane 25 Gb/s PHYs for operation over electrical backplanes, copper twin axial cables with lengths up to 3-5 meters and multimode fiber with lengths up to 100m. IEE said this new amendment to 802.3 represents the first available industry standard developed specifically to address...

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Velostrata 2.0 Accelerates Workload Migration to AWS and Azure

Velostrata, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, released version 2.0 of its solution for migrating enterprise workloads to public clouds, especially stateful workloads like ERP, collaboration, middleware, OLTP, Oracle and MS-SQL databases, and compilers. Velostrata 2.0 is an agentless, streaming-based mobility software that decouples compute from storage for rapid migration. Velostrata uses streaming and caching to allow applications to be...

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Everspin Readies First 256Mb MRAM

Everspin Technologies announced the commercial release of the world’s first product using perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ) based ST-MRAM to customers. The 256Mb DDR3 product, which is the highest density commercially available perpendicular ST-MRAM in the market, is based on Everspin’s third generation MRAM technology. Product highlights: Supports over 100,000 times faster write speeds than NAND flash Persistent data with retention...

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ZTE Seeks to Crowdsource the Next Big Idea in Mobile

ZTE USA, which claims to be the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the U.S. and second largest in the no-contract market, is seeking to crowdsource “the next great mobile device.” Project CSX will engage directly with consumers at every step of the development process, from conception to what is finally delivered to consumers. The project will be broken into two key development stages where users can submit and vote for their favorite ideas. Submissions...

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Ethernet Alliance Adds to its Board

The Ethernet Alliance named David J. Rodgers of Teledyne LeCroy to its Board of Directors. Rodgers, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Teledyne LeCroy, focuses on defining, designing, deploying, and marketing high-speed serial analysis test and measurement products for Ethernet and Fibre Channel SANs and LANs. A 30-year industry veteran, he is a member of industry groups and organizations including the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA); PCI...

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Viewics Secures $10.5 Million for Healthcare Analytics

Viewics, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $10.5 million in new funding for its healthcare-focused analytics for hospitals and health systems. The new funding was led by existing investor Canvas Ventures and new investor Roche Venture Fund, whose portfolio includes 23andMe, Flatiron, and Lumos Pharma. City National Bank also participated. Viewics HIPAA-compliant platform provides advanced analytics beyond business intelligence...

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Aerohive Posts Q2 Revenue of $47.6 Million, up 29% YoY

Aerohive Networks posted Q2 2016 revenue of $47.6 million, an increase of 29% compared with $36.8 million for the second quarter of 2015 and an increase of 19% compared with $40.1 million for the first quarter of 2016. There was a GAAP net loss of $7.4 million, compared with $10.8 million in the second quarter of 2015. GAAP gross margin was 67.5%, compared with 67.0% in the year-ago period. Software subscription and services revenue was $8.1 million,...

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Phononic Unveils Precise Temperature Control for Optical Electronics

Phononic introduced a high-performance solid-state thermoelectric module (TEM) designed to provide precise temperature control in order to meet the unique thermal management requirements of optoelectronics and fiber optic modules. The new pico-TECs, which are manufactured using advanced automated semiconductor fabrication technology, have a device height of less than 0.7mm with a typical ΔT max of 65°K and a Qc max of 25 W/cm2 or more. In addition...

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Silicon Labs Launches High-Speed Multi-Channel PLC Input Isolators

Silicon Labs introduced the industry’s first high-speed, multi-channel digital isolators designed to meet the demands of programmable logic controller (PLC) applications. The new Si838x PLC field input isolator family offers a combination of high-speed channels (up to 2 Mbps), up to eight channels per device, bipolar input flexibility, high noise immunity and 2.5k VRMS safety isolation.  Target applications include industrial I/O modules,...

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