AT&T Fiber extends its metro footprint

AT&T launched its fiber Internet service in 2 new metro areas – Biloxi-Gulfport, Miss. and Savannah, Georgia. The carrier also expanded availability to over 60 communities across 20 major metros. AT&T Fiber is now available to over 5.5 million locations across 57 metros, up by 1.5 million this year so far. There are now over 2 million Internet subscribers using AT&T Fiber access.  These plans include AT&T Internet 50, AT&T...

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Comcast Business Rolls DOCSIS 3.1 in Northeast & Mid-Atlantic

Comcast Business is now offering DOCSIS 3.1-based Internet service to business customers in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States including Greater Boston; Greater Philadelphia; New Jersey; and northern Delaware; as well as in Baltimore, MD; Charlottesville, VA; and Washington, D.C. Comcast plans to rollout DOCSIS 3.1-based Internet in other areas this Fall. The service is already avaialble in Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, Detroit, Chattanooga,...

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Flash Memory Summit – big changes in non-volatile memory - part 2

Over the past year, we’ve seen that HDD capacity increases have plateaued. Spinning disks have been surpassed in storage capacity by SSDs. Performance comparisons between the two is not even a topic of debate. For CIOs, the deployment of flash storage arrays is easy and offers an immediate boost in IOPs for critical applications. More importantly, all the innovation in new drive development has shifted to flash. We are now seeing many approaches...

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Versa confirms that Verizon SD-Branch using its FlexVNF software

Versa Networks confirmed that it has been added to Verizon’s SND platform for its new Software Defined Secure Branch (SD-Branch) managed service. Specifically, Verizon’s SD-Branch offering utilizes the Versa FlexVNF Software, which combines network and security capabilities to provide a full suite of Layer 3 to Layer 7 IP services that are built on a cloud-native, multi-tenant software platform. The Verizon offering includes software based networking,...

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AT&T Rolls G.fast to MDUs in 22 Metros

AT&T is now rolling out G.fast Internet service for apartment and condominiums (MDUs) in 22 major metro areas across the United States. G.fast can be deployed immediately in MDUs in parts of the following metros: Boston Denver Minneapolis New York City Philadelphia Phoenix Seattle Tampa Additionally, AT&T is offering G.fast to MDUs in parts of 14 other metros, including: Albany, N.Y.; Baltimore; Buffalo, N.Y.; Cincinnati; Colorado Springs,...

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ADTRAN's new G.fast extends gigabit services 650m beyond fiber endpoint

ADTRAN introduced a new Gfast deployment model to enable network operators to deliver gigabit speeds as widely as possible throughout their networks. This is accomplished by combining ADTRAN’s 2nd generation SDX 2200 series of 212MHz, reverse powered Gfast DPUs with the ADTRAN bonded Super-Vectoring (VDSL2 35b) technology, providing gigabit rates from existing cabinet infrastructure and thus extending gigabit services significantly. ADTRAN said...

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Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN completes tests

Silver Peak's flagship Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution completed a series of rigorous network packet-loss resilience tests conducted by Miercom, a leading independent network test lab. Specifically, Miercom, subjected the EdgeConnect solution to hands-on stress tests to validate the resiliency of multi-link bonded tunnels combined with path conditioning and dynamic path control. Key Test Findings: The high availability link bonding policy continued...

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Databricks raises $140 million to bring AI to its analytics platform

Databricks, a start-up that was founded out of the UC Berkeley AMPLab by the team that created Apache Spark, announced $140 million in a Series D funding round, bringing its total capital raised to date to $247 million. Databricks, which is based in San Francisco, povides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. The company said the new investment will...

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Druva raises $80 million for data-as-a-service

Druva, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced $80 million in new funding for its cloud data protection and management solutions. Druva provides a data management-as-a-service solution that aggregates data from endpoints, servers and cloud applications and leverages the public cloud to offer a single pane of glass to enable data protection, governance and intelligence. Earlier this month, Druva announced the Druva Cloud Platform Tech...

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Mellanox Supplies Network Adapters for Alibaba's 25G RoCE Ethernet Cloud

Mellanox Technologies confirmed that its 25GbE and 100GbE ConnectX®-4 EN family of Ethernet adapters has been deployed in Alibaba's data centers. Key capabilities of the Mellanox ConnectX-4 Network Interface Cards (NICs): RoCE - RDMA over Converged Ethernet - RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) technology is designed to solve the delay of server-side data processing in network transmission, as it enables network adapters to access the application...

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