Tintri offers Lego-like Enterprise Cloud Amidst Fierce Competition

Tintri, a networking start-up from Silicon Valley, made its initial public offering (IPO) on June 30,2017 and its shares are now trading on NASDAQ under the symbol 'TNTR'. The IPO raised approximately $60 million for the Mountain View, California-based company – a lukewarm Wall Street response considering earlier speculation that the shares might debut in the range of $10.50 to $12.50. Many expected the IPO to occur at the start of last week and...

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BT Openreach seeks support for large-scale roll-out of full fibre

BT unit Openreach has called for greater industry and political collaboration to support the construction of a large-scale, full-fibre broadband network that could help strengthen UK competitiveness and its position as a leading digital economy in the G20 group of countries.Openreach provides phone and broadband infrastructure to around 30 million UK homes and businesses via more than 580 communications provider customers, and has launched a consultation...

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Deutsche Telekom tests ADTRAN G.fast 212 MHz, cDTA

ADTRAN, a provider of next-generation open networking solutions, announced the commencement of lab testing of the latest developments for the G.fast standard, 212 MHz and coordinated dynamic time allocation (cDTA), in partnership with Germany-based global telco Deutsche Telekom (DT), serving around 165 million mobile customers, 28,5 million fixed-network lines and 18,5 million broadband lines.ADTRAN stated that DT is currently evaluating these ultra-broadband...

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Stockholm Internet eXchange upgrades with Coriant Groove G30 platform

Coriant announced that it has partnered with Stockholm Internet eXchange (STHIX), a neutral Internet Exchange focused on delivering IXP services to enhance the scalability, flexibility and efficiency of STHIX's metro network to support increasing traffic demands of its end-user ISP customers and over 100 connected networks.Following the recent deployment of the Coriant Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform, STHIX is able to quickly scale capacity...

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Juniper appoints Bikash Koley, formerly with Google, as CTO

Juniper Networks has named Bikash Koley as chief technology officer (CTO), reporting to chief executive officer Rami Rahim, with responsibility for charting Juniper's technology strategy and leading and executing several of the company's critical technology innovations, including Contrail and AppFormix.Mr. Koley, who is expected to join Juniper in August 2017, has extensive experience in both IP and optical domains and in designing and operating...

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Dell'Oro forecasts WDM revenue of $14bn by '21

In the new Optical Transport 5-year Forecast Report from Dell'Oro Group, the WDM market revenue is forecast to grow to $14 billion by 2021, driven by the demand for 100+ Gbit/s coherent wavelengths, while the total optical transport equipment market, including WDM, multi-service multiplexers and optical switches, is projected to reach $15 billion.Highlights from Dell'Oro's latest optical transport report include:1. Demand for WDM metro equipment...

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Logic selects Calix CMC and CSC solutions

Calix announced that Logic, a major service provider in the Caribbean, has selected the Calix Marketing Cloud (CMC) and Support Cloud (CSC) solutions to enhance its existing GigaCenter deployments and deliver an enhanced subscriber experience in the Cayman Islands.Calix stated that Logic is applying behavioural analytics and business intelligence insights provided by the two Calix Cloud services with the aim of optimising each subscriber interaction....

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Netronome Appoints Senior Vice President of Sales

Netronome has appointed Dr. Nils Rix as senior vice president of sales.  Previously, Dr. Rix was vice president of sales and technical sales, as well as Market Area CTO with Alcatel-Lucent EMEA. He previously held executive positions at Bharti Airtel Ltd. and Ericsson AB. He studied economics and applied physics at Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel and the University of Washington in Seattle and holds a Ph.D. from Christian-Albrechts-...

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