CORD Overview with Guru Parulkar

Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) combines NFV, SDN, and the elasticity of commodity clouds to bring datacenter economics and cloud agility to the Telco Central Office. In this video, Guru Parulkar provides an overview of the project, which is housed at ON.Lab. See video:  https://youtu.be/SJr64HJscq8 ...

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M-CORD Innovations - Interview with China Unicom

China Unicom is one of the world's largest mobile service providers by subscriber base and an active member of the CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter) project, which combines NFV, SDN, and the elasticity of commodity hardware to create a transformative network platform. In this video, Pingping LIN, M-CORD Technical Leader at On.Lab, interviews Dr. Xiongyan TANG, Director of Network Technology Research at China Unicom. See ...

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M-CORD Demo - Optimized Core for IoT

Mobile CORD (M-CORD) offers the potential to serve as the optimized core for IoT applications. Rishi Maulick, Architect for Radisys, walks us through a demo.  Key capabilities shown include MME disaggregation, Connectionless GW, and Core Slicing. See video: https://youtu.be/ngj6YIdQw10 ...

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Windstream expands metro fibre network, launches fixed wireless service in Detroit

Windstream, a provider of communications services to consumer and business customers, announced a major expansion of its metro fibre network in Detroit to provide the business community with advanced fibre and fixed-wireless infrastructure that connects more local data centres and commercial buildings with the operator's national fibre network. Windstream's latest expansion of its local metro fibre network and the launch of fixed wireless service...

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ADVA introduces FSP 150 Pro VMe pluggable server for NFV

ADVA Optical Networking has launched its new FSP 150 ProVMe (P2.4), designed to remove the risk of introducing virtualisation and helps service providers to quickly and cost-effectively implement NFV. The new FSP 150 ProVMe (P2.4) solution is intended to simplify NFV deployments leveraging a hot-swappable, pluggable server that allows NFV rollout as and when needed. In combination with hardware-assisted NFV infrastructure support functions, the...

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ECI selects Microsemi as Primary OTN Provider

Microsemi, a provider of semiconductor solutions, announced that ECI has appointed the company as its primary OTN solutions provider, and recently selected the DIGI-G4 fourth generation products for its Apollo family of packet optical transport platforms. Microsemi's DIGI OTN processors are designed to enable ECI to leverage a single software development model to address diverse end market hardware configurations, helping to reduce R&D costs...

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BICS deploys Coriant Groove solution in key European metro markets

Coriant, a global supplier of SDN-enabled packet optical networking and DCI solutions, announced that Brussels-based BICS, a global wholesale carrier for voice, mobile data and capacity services, is deploying the Coriant Groove G30 network disaggregation platform across its pan-European network. Deployment of the Coriant solution is designed to enable BICS to cost-efficiently address the growing demand for high-capacity, low latency connectivity...

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TIM teams with Ericsson for 5G field testing in Turin

Italy's TIM announced that furthering its efforts to implement 5G technology it is starting the first field tests in Turin and will demonstrate the technology in the city on 5G Day at its Open Lab innovation and development centre. The Torino 5G project, instituted by TIM through an agreement signed in March with the Turin municipal authority, will allow TIM to carry out early trials of 5G technology in a metropolitan environment by the end of 2018...

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Open-Silicon unveils Interlaken Chip-to-Chip Interface Supporting 1.2 Tbit/s

Open-Silicon, a supplier of system-optimised ASIC solutions and founding member of the Interlaken Alliance, announced the release of its eighth-generation Interlaken IP core, providing support for up to 1.2 Tbit/s bandwidth and up to 56 Gbit/s SerDes rates with forward error correction (FEC). Open-Silicon's high-speed ch ip-to-chip interface IP is based on an architecture that is designed to be flexible, configurable and scalable, making it suitable...

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