Singtel Launches 450 Mbps Mobile Data Speeds

Singtel launched 450 Mbps 4G LTE-Advanced service in its home market of Singapore. The 450Mbps service is available to all Singtel 4G customers at no additional charge. The first device to support the speed are the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Samsung Galaxy S7 edge.  LG V20 users will also be able to harness the higher speeds with a soon-to-be released software update. More compatible smartphone models are expected to be launched by early 2017. “Singtel...

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Verizon Enterprise Looks to SevOne for SD-WAN Visibility

Verizon is working with SevOne to deliver added levels of visibility into the performance of its Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD WAN) services. The solution provides an integrated Web interface giving enterprise clients gain an end-to-end view of services spanning the physical and virtual network. Some highlights: Analyze performance of the hybrid WAN to help enhance delivery of applications to users  Correlate disparate metrics...

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Viavi Delivers 40 Gbps Wire Rate Analytics, Traffic and Storage

Viavi Solutions introduced its latest Observer Platform featuring 40 Gbps wire rate analytics, traffic, and storage with real-time reporting. Key updates to the Observer Platform include: Custom-designed Gen3 capture card with 40 Gbps capture rate and accelerated analytics, providing the industry’s fastest access to stored packet data and analysis Fault-tolerant custom enclosures support four years of uninterrupted, 100% duty-cycle, line-rate...

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Aquantia Supplies Silicon for Dell EMC Open Networking Switch

Dell EMC Networking is using Aquantia's multi-Gig AQrate PHY products for its new N-Series family of Open Networking campus switches. Aquantia said its AQrate silicon delivers up to 5 Gbps throughput over 100m of Cat5e/Cat6 cables. Aquantia and major industry players co-founded the NBASE-T Alliance to further develop and promote the technology. In September 2016, this multi-Gig technology was formally approved as the IEEE 802.3bz standard. Aquantia's...

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China's EasyStack Raises $50M for OpenStack

EasyStack, a start-up based in Beijing, announced that it closed US$50 million in Series C funding for its OpenStack cloud enterprise solutions. EasyStack, which claims to be the leading OpenStack cloud platform and service provider in Asia-Pacific, was founded in February 2014 by the core team of IBM China R&D Center. In terms of products and services, EasyStack released the first OpenStack ESCloud for the enterprise customers in China,...

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Panzura Lands $32 Million for Hybrid Cloud Storage

Panzura, a start-up based in Campbell, California, raised $32 million in new venture funding for its hybrid cloud storage solutions. Panzura said its hybrid cloud storage software seamlessly combines the economics, capacity, and business model of cloud storage with the flexibility, performance and features of enterprise storage. The company is adding multiple petabytes of new enterprise storage per month. Panzura added over 26 new petabytes of enterprise...

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Aptilo Powers Wi-Fi in the London Underground

Aptilo Networks confirmed that its Wi-Fi service management solutions are being used by 3UK to serve some 500K subscribers with Wi-Fi in the London Underground. 3UK, which had no Wi-Fi capabilities prior to the launch in 2014, built its Wi-Fi service from the ground-up using the Aptilo Managed Service through an existing Wi-Fi access network deployed across the London Underground by Virgin Media. Mobile users in the Underground stations are able...

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Sandvine wins $4 million deal for application-based pricing and business intelligence at Tier 1 operator

Sandvine announced orders totaling over $4 million from a Tier 1 converged mobile/fixed communications service provider (CSP) headquartered in Sandvine's APAC sales region. Sandvine said this customer will use its PTS 32000 series platform and software licenses to launch application-based service plans for subscribers so that they can select the plan that best suits their Internet usage preferences. Additionally, Sandvine's business intelligence...

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