Cisco's Colin Kincaid: Virtualization is Transforming Service Providers

In thinking about how Service Providers are implementing technologies such as SDN and NFV in their central offices, it is becoming clear that edge services and a lot of traditional services can now be deployed as virtual entities.  There is a need to extend control of these virtual entities all the way back into the network in a single service chain. In this 90-second video, Colin Kincaid, CTO - Service Provider for Cisco, discusses this network...

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Digital Realty Plans to Build Really Big in Chicago

Digital Realty plans to expand its colocation facility on Cermak Road in Chicago into one of the largest data centers in the world. Specifically, CBRE Group has commenced pre-leasing for a new data center at 330 East Cermak Road in Chicago, to be developed by Digital Realty on a site adjacent to Lakeside Technology Center at 350 Cermak, which is one of the largest existing data centers in the U.S. at 1.1 million square feed and also one of the largest...

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Sprint Picks DragonWave's Microwave Backhaul for Network Densification

Sprint has selected DragonWave's microwave backhaul equipment for network deployment as part of the company's densification and optimization strategy. Financial terms were not disclosed. Specifically, DragonWave's microwave backhaul equipment will be used as part of Sprint's strategy to significantly densify its network through the deployment of small cells and other solutions, with the goal of further improving network performance and the customer...

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FCC Fines T-Mobile $48 Million over Unlimited Data Claim

The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau has ordered T-Mobile tp pay a fine and provide benefits to consumers totaling at least $48 million. The fine is part of a settlement resolving an investigation into whether the company adequately disclosed speed and data restrictions for its “unlimited” data plan subscribers. At issue is the policy of slowing down data speeds when T-Mobile or MetroPCS customers on so-called “unlimited” plans exceed a monthly data threshold....

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Open Networking Foundation and ON.Lab to Merge

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) announced plans to merge. The combined organization, which will operate under the ONF name, will be led by ON.Lab Founder and Executive Director, Guru Parulkar. It will bring together the operations, membership, budget and employees of both organizations, including ONF’s 110 member companies and ON.Lab’s ecosystem of more than 70 companies and 17 partners. “Over the last few...

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Red Hat and Ericsson Alliance Targets OpenStack, Containers, NFV, SDN and SDI

Red Hat and Ericsson announced a broad alliance to deliver fully open source and production-ready cloud infrastructure, spanning OpenStack, software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined infrastructure (SDI). The companies have previously collaborated to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Middleware to Ericsson customers.  The collaboration will now focus on NFV infrastructure (NFVi), OpenStack, SDN, SDI and containers...

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CORD Project Adds New Members

Seven more organizations have joined the CORD Project as collaborators, including Canonical, Mellanox, US Ignite, Viavi, Villa-Tech, Windstream and Xilinx have joined as collaborators. CORD, which stands for Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter, is an open source collaboration advancing the leading open source service delivery platform that combines SDN, NFV, and elastic cloud services to redefine network access. The project is hosted by...

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