Nokia Outlines its Priorities for Growth, Standalone Software Business

At the company's Capital Markets Day event in Barcelona, Nokia outlined its vision and strategic priorities for ensuring sustainable growth. The company cited four key priority areas: Lead in high-performance, end-to-end networks with communication service providers: Use our unparalleled, end-to-end portfolio to sustain our market and profitability leadership. Expand network sales to select vertical markets needing high-performing, secure networks:...

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Microsoft Azure Announces Cloud Bot-as-a-Service

Microsoft announced a new Azure Bot service powered by the Microsoft Bot Framework and serverless compute in Microsoft Azure. The new Azure Bot Service helps developers to build, connect, deploy and manage intelligent bots that interact naturally via app or website to text/sms, Slack, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Teams, Kik, Office 365 mail and other popular services. Bots run on Azure Functions, a serverless environment. The service scales based...

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NYT: Secret Backdoor in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say

Certain low-cost Android phones in the U.S. equipped with a certain Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) update software system were found to be sending data to a server in China without the owners' consent, according to The New York Times. The case involves firmware developed by Shanghai Adups Technology Company, which claims its code runs on more than 700 million devices worldwide. The phones in question were sold under the BLU brand name in the U.S.,...

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Intel Cites Gains with its Omni-Path Architecture Systems

Intel cited growing momentum in the nine months since Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel OPA) began shipping, The company said OPA is becoming the standard fabric for 100 gigabit (Gb) systems, as it is now featured in 28 of the top 500 most powerfulsupercomputers in the world announced at Supercomputing 2016.  Intel believes OPA now has 66 percent of the 100Gb market. This acceptance is twice the number of InfiniBand EDR systems. Top500 designs...

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CenturyLink Delivers 2.5 Tbps Super-channel Capacity at SC16 with Infinera

CenturyLink is delivering 2.5 terabits per second (Tbps) of super-channel transmission capacity to support SCinet at this week's International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC16) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The 2.5 Tbps of line-side capacity will connect the Salt Lake City Convention Center to CenturyLink’s global fiber optic network, utilizing the Infinera DTN-X Family. The multi-terabit deployment demonstrates...

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MEF16 - Highlights from this Year's Event with Pascal Menezes

Pascal Menezes, MEF's CTO, provides some highlights of MEF16 in Baltimore. One of the big themes was machine-driven, inter-provider communications based on APIs, which could be used to improve services across network boundaries in an automated. Another theme is automated analytics and machine learning for self-healing networks. MEF has just published a white paper on the idea of the Third Network that was written in coordination with other standards...

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MEF16 - Fujitsu's Jeff Babbitt on Open Architecture

Openness and Disaggregated are big themes at #MEF 16, says Fujitsu's Jeff Babbitt. But when you ask what openness really means, different vendors and different service providers will offer different interpretations.  To a large extend, it is a question of degree for both open software and open hardware. See video: https://youtu.be/L3S7rkKh...

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MEF16 - Fujitsu's Ralph Santitoro on LSO Becoming Real

Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO), SDN and NFV are becoming real, says Fujitsu's Ralph Santitoro, speaking at #MEF16 in Baltimore.  There is a lot of complexity with SDN and LSO. This requires the integration of many types of products and VNFs. The need for open environments adds to this integration challenge. At this year's MEF16, Fujitsu's SDN/NFV Solutions Practice won the award for "Best Consulting Practice".  See video:...

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MEF16 - Netcracker's Ari Banerjee on How Virtualization Requires Strategic Partnership

Enterprise services are the most profitable segment for operators, says Netcracker's Ari Banerjee. NFV offers great market potential for value-added services.  Implementing this technology is not just about orchestration. The relationship between the network operator and the vendor needs to change to a strategic partnership. See video: https://youtu.be/lqkA19mo...

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AT&T Fiber Launches in 20 More Metros This Month

AT&T is launching fiber Internet service in nearly 85 cities across 20 major metros in November, offering connection speed of up to 1 Gbps. The first four major metros launching this week are Baton Rouge, Birmingham, Charleston and Reno. AT&T is also expanding its 100% fiber network in 16 metros where it has already launched: Atlanta Charlotte Chicago Cleveland Dallas Fresno Houston Jacksonville Los Angeles (Los Angeles County and Orange...

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MACOM's 25Gbps Laser Enters Mass Production

MACOM Technology Solutions announced volume production of its family of 25Gbps lasers for data center, mobile infrastructure and Fiber to the home (FTTH) applications. MACOM leverages Etched Facet Technology (EFT), which, when combined with its in-house wafer scale Indium Phosphide manufacturing, are expected to provide a cost and capacity advantage previously unachievable by incumbent laser suppliers. The 127/129/131/133D-25G-LCT11 and 1295/1300/1304/1309-25B-LCT11-S...

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