Facebook Expands Fort Worth Data Center to Five Buildings

Facebook revealed plans to expand its data center in Fort Worth, Texas from one building to five buildings on the same campus. Construction on the first building is nearing completion. Facebook is now rolling racks of servers into the new building. The facility will be powered by 100% renewable energy, thanks to the more than 200 MW of new wind power that we worked with Citigroup Energy, Alterra Power Corporation, and Starwood Energy Group to bring...

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SC16 Opens in Salt Lake City

SC16, annual super computing confernce is underway this week, November 13-18, in Salt Lake City with with more than 12,000 conference exhibitors and attendees expected. SCinet, the high-performance, experimental network built specifically for the conference, will deliver more than 5 Tbps of internal network bandwidth. The Utah Education Network (UEN) and CenturyLink are partnering wtih SCinet to enable tens of 100 Gbps Ethernet circuits to bring...

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MEF16: Accedian's Greg Spear on Performance Monitoring

Accedian Networks' Greg Spear describes the Proof-of-Concept focused on ensuring customer quality of experience for advanced network services. The Carrier Ethernet demonstration, which was conducted at MEF16 in Baltimore with CenturyLink, focused on test & turn-up as well as performance monitoring at Layer 2 and Layer 3. See video: https://youtu.be/LUhxWYjx0LE ...

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MEF16 - Colt's Mike Kopp on 100G Rollouts

Colt is excited about the 100G connectivity it is now able to deliver in some 200 data centers internationally, says Mike Kopp, VP of Channel Sales.  Delivering 100G capacity enables customers to scale up their cloud connectivity as required. See video: https://youtu.be/_GwaqtEe...

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IEEE Approves 802.3bz-2016 for 2.5 Gbps and 5.0 Gbps

IEEE has approved and published 802.3bz™-2016 - Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Media Access Control Parameters, Physical Layers and Management Parameters for 2.5 Gb/s and 5 Gb/s Operation. The starndard supports Ethernet over structured twisted pair wiring beyond the 1 Gbps capability provided by the IEEE 802.3ab standard (1000BASE-T). It defines Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) parameters, physical layer specifications, and management objects...

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High-Speed Rail and CENIC Join Forces

The California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) and the Corporation for Education Networking Initiatives in California (CENIC) announced a partnership to expand the availability and accessibility of high-capacity broadband to communities and institutions throughout California. As a part of the high-speed rail system corridor, the Authority and CENIC will create an ultra-fast broadband network, connecting into CENIC’s statewide research and...

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Couchbase Powers Verizon Labs’ Next-Generation Enterprise IoT Platform

Couchbase announced that its NoSQL document-oriented database supports device management capabilities for millions of connected enterprise devices on Verizon Labs’ IoT platform. The company said its technology was selected to support Verizon’s IoT platform because of its scale of deployment, flexible schema and ease-of-use.  The database enables enterprises to scale quickly to support billions of connected devices and to achieve sub-milliseconds...

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Viptela and LiveAction Develop Visibility Solution for SD-WAN

Viptela and LiveAction announced a joint solution for network visibility for SD-WAN deployment planning, operation and service assurance. The Viptela SEN (Secure Extensible Network) platform allows organizations to “mix and match” private and public IP connections such as MPLS, wireless LTE/4G, broadband and Ethernet to meet application requirements based on geographic location, bandwidth and whether they are based in the branch office, campus,...

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UNH-IOL Launches Three Time Sensitive Networking Consortiums

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) has launched three industry-specific time sensitive networking (TSN) consortiums – Automotive Networking, Industrial Networking, and ProAV Networking - designed to provide deterministic performance within standard Ethernet for real-time, mission critical applications. UNH-IOL will provide high quality test plans, tools, and test beds for the consortiums. TSN standards enable...

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O3b Delivers 7 Gbps of Connectivity Across Africa

Since launching commercial service in September 2014, O3b Networks has brought up more than 18 African customers in Chad, Somalia, Madagascar, DRC, Congo, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Angola. The company said these customers have contracted over 7Gbps of internet capacity, supplementing existing satellite links from GEO systems and, in many cases, fiber connections with limited reliability. O3b is a satellite-based global...

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Zayo Adds M. Catherine Morris to Board

Zayo Group Holdings announced that M. Catherine (Cathy) Morris was elected to the company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. Morris is the chief strategy officer of Arrow Electronics, leading its strategic initiatives, including global merger and acquisition activity. During her 20-year tenure at Arrow, she has held progressively senior roles in computing solutions, finance and corporate development. She joined Arrow in 1994 through...

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