Sonus and GENBAND to merge to create company with $680m annual revenue

Sonus Networks, a provider of solutions that enable secure and intelligent cloud communications, and GENBAND, a supplier of carrier and enterprise network transformation and real-time communications solutions, announced a definitive agreement under which the two companies will combine to create a major next-generation communications networking company.Under the terms of the agreement, Sonus and GENBAND shareholders will each own approximately 50%...

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Calix demos 40G with NG-PON2 channel bonding

Calix announced what it claims is a fibre access technology first leveraging its AXOS software-defined access (SDA) platform with the demonstration of bonding of multiple channels or wavelengths of NG-PON2 technology over fibre.Employing technology compatible with ITU standards, Calix has demonstrated the ability of the AXOS E9-2 Intelligent Edge System to leverage NG-PON2 channel bonding to deliver bandwidth of up to 40 Gbit/s, or 80 Gbit/s aggregate...

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Altice to rollout single brand worldwide by mid-'18

Altice NV has unveiled a new unified global strategy, marking the next step in the group's strategy to strengthen its industrial and operational platform and building on its transformation into a trans-Atlantic telecoms, content and advertising company serving more than 50 million customers around the world after the acquisitions of Cablevision and Suddenlink in the U.S. last year.As part of this transformation, Altice is announcing its new global...

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Fastly, provider of edge cloud solutions, raises $50m in Series E funding

Fastly based in San Francisco, the edge cloud platform:a.         Founded in 2011 by Artur Bergman, current CEO of Fastly.b.         Developer of an edge cloud platform designed to enable secure and scalable delivery of digital services.c.         Which has raised total funding of approximately $129 million in four rounds from investors...

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Municipality of Arvada deploys Siklu radios to enable 1 Gbit/s connectivity

Siklu, a specialist supplier of millimetre-wave radios, announced it has provided high capacity wireless links supporting up to gigabit bandwidth for the city of Arvada in Colorado within the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood metro area.The Siklu wireless links, deployed by system integrator Netunwired, provide municipal facilities in Arvada with connectivity at up to 1 Gbit/s, and help to eliminate leased line expenses.Siklu explained that in 2016 a range...

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Cisco survey finds nearly 75% of IoT projects fail to meet objectives

Cisco has released the findings of its survey evaluating Internet of Things (IoT) projects worldwide at the annual IoT World Forum (IoTWF) event in London.Cisco noted that IDC predicts the installed base of IoT endpoints will rise from 14.9 billion at the end of 2016 to over 82 billion in 2025, but finds in its survey that 60% of IoT initiatives stall at the proof of concept (PoC) stage and only 26% of companies consider IoT initiative to have been a complete success.For the study, designed to assess the success of, and challenges faced, in implementing...

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Oscilloquartz unveils synchronisation solution for small cell deployments

Oscilloquartz, an ADVA Optical Networking company, announced the launch of the OSA 5405 SyncReach, an integrated PTP grandmaster and GNSS receiver featuring a patent-pending dual antenna and receiver and designed to support the large-scale roll out of small cells.The new technology from Oscilloquartz is engineered to provide accurate and affordable phase synchronisation for the growing small cell market and meet the timing requirements of 4.5G and...

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Finally, a big acquisition happens in SD-WAN

One thing Silicon Valley is known for is the frantic pace of mergers and acquisitions. Cisco's recent agreement to pay $610 million for Viptela, a start-up based in San Jose, is a big sigh of relief for the many innovators and investors who have been patiently advocating a new generation of software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technologies for the past five years. The deal was not unexpected and one could reasonably ask, why did it take so...

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