Nokia Bell Labs, T-Labs and TU Munich Hit 1 Tbps w New Modulation

Nokia Bell Labs, Deutsche Telekom T-Labs and the Technical University of Munich have demonstrated a new modulation technique that achieved a net 1 Terabit per second transmission rate -  close to the theoretical maximum information transfer rate of that channel and thus approaching the Shannon Limit of the fiber link. The trial, which was carried out as part of the Safe and Secure European Routing (SASER) project, used the optical fiber network...

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Fujitsu and Fraunhofer HHI Develop Simultaneous Wavelength Conversion Technology

Fujitsu Laboratories and the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI have developed a new method to simultaneously convert the wavelengths of wavelength-division-multiplexed signals.  The researchers have successfully tested the method using high-bandwidth signal transmission in the range of 1 Tbps. Conventionally, optical wavelength conversion has worked by converting each individual optical wavelength into an electrical signal that is then...

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Acacia Debuts Long-haul Module for DCI

Acacia Communications introduced a new long-haul optical module solution as part of its AC100-CFP product family, which was initially launched in 2014 as a low power pluggable 100G optical transport solution targeted for metro and data center interconnect (DCI) applications. Acacia’s new long-haul CFP-DCO model is based on Acacia’s latest silicon photonics integrated circuit (PIC) and contains an internal digital signal processor (DSP) chip. In...

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Oracles Targets IaaS Market with Bare Metal Servers

Oracle has set its sights on AWS, Azure and other infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers with the launch of bare metal cloud servers that it says are 11.5X faster and 20 percent cheaper than the fastest solution offered by the competition. The new servers are deployed in a fully virtualized network environment and offer database-as-service, network block storage, object storage and VPN connectivity. In addition, Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services...

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IDC: Worldwide Server Market Revenue Declines 0.4% in Q2

Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market declined 0.4% year over year to $13.4 billion in the second quarter of 2016 (2Q16), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. IDC attributed the slowing market to a pause in hyperscale datacenter expansion and the continued drag from high-end server sale declines. In addition, the robust enterprise refresh cycle of 2015 will create difficult comparisons...

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Salesforce Embeds AI in its CRM Platform

Salesforce unveiled "Einstein" -- its artificial intelligence initiative for delivering more predictive and personalized customer experiences across its CRM platform. The company plans to embed Einstein AI capabilities will be embedded across every Salesforce Cloud. The ideal is to leverage all the data in Salesforce—customer data; activity data from Chatter, email, calendar and ecommerce; social data streams such as tweets and images; and even...

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Mellanox and Oclaro Connect 100G PSM4 Silicon to 25Gb/s LR Transceivers

Mellanox Technologies has teamed up with Oclaro to connect Oclaro’s 1310nm LR (Long Reach) SFP28 transceiver line with Mellanox ’ 1550nm PSM4 transceivers, demonstrating the transparent interoperability between transceivers of differing wavelengths. “Customers select PSM4 transceivers because they provide the most cost effective Ethernet links for reaches of 100m to 2km,” said Amir Prescher, senior vice president of business development, Mellanox...

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Vista Equity Partners to Privatize Infoblox

Vista Equity Partners plans to buy out Infoblox in a deal valued at $1.6 billion, or $26.50 per share of common stock in cash, which represents a 33% premium to Infoblox’s average closing share price over the last 60 trading days, and a 73% premium to Infoblox’s unaffected closing price as of May 11, 2016, when media reports of interest in acquiring Infoblox were first published. “Vista has an excellent track record of supporting and adding value...

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Tech Data to Acquire Avnet's Technology Solutions Unit for $2.6B

Avnet, a leading global tech distributor, will sell its Technology Solutions operating group to Tech Data Corporation in a stock and cash transaction valued at approximately $2.6 billion. Avnet’s Technology Solutions operating group is a global IT solutions distributor serving customers and suppliers in more than 80 countries. It provides next generation solutions, marketing, training, resources and services that span the cloud to the data center...

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Intel Appoints an Outsider as CFO

Intel announced the appointment of Robert “Bob” H. Swan as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), replacing Stacy Smith, who, as previously announced, is taking a broader role within Intel leading manufacturing, sales and operations. Smith served nine years as Intel’s CFO. Swan joins Intel from growth equity firm General Atlantic where he served as an operating partner. Previously, he served nine years as the CFO of eBay Inc....

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