100G - Challenges for Performance and Security Visibility Monitoring

by Brendan O’Flaherty, CEO, cPacket Networks The 100Gbps Ethernet transport network is here, and the use cases for transport at 100Gbps are multiplying. The previous leap in network bandwidths was from 10Gbps to 40Gbps, and 40Gbps networks are prevalent today. However, while 40Gbps networks are meeting bandwidth and performance requirements in many enterprises, the “need for speed” to handle data growth in the enterprise simply cannot be tamed. As...

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Broadcom's acquisition of Brocade faces delay

Broadcom's pending acquisition of Brocade is facing a regulatory delay. The companies withdrew and re-filed their joint voluntary notice to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), triggering a new 45-day investigation period. Brocade and Broadcom now anticipate the acquisition to be completed by November 30, 2017, subject to clearance from CFIUS. Brocade now plans to directly sell its data center switching, routing and...

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US DoJ approves Centurylink + Level 3 merger with conditions

The U.S. Department of Justice cleared CenturyLink's pending acquisition of Level 3 Communications with certain conditions, including the divestiture of certain Level 3 metro network assets and certain dark fiber assets. Specifically, the combined company is required to divest Level 3 metro network assets in Albuquerque, N.M.; Boise, Idaho; and Tucson, Arizona. In addition, the combined company is required to divest 24 strands of dark fiber connecting...

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EdgeX Foundry announces its first release for Edge IoT

EdgeX Foundry, which is the open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation that is focused on Internet of Things (IoT) edge computing, announced its first major code release. The "Barcelona" software release, which will be available later this month, reflects the collaborative effort by more than 60 member organizations to build out and support an ecosystem for Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions. The software release includes important work on...

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Zain Saudi Arabia tests NB-IoT

Zain Saudi Arabia is testing NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things) technology at a live site in Mina area of Makkah Province. Nokia is the technology partner. The trial focuses on smart metering. NB-IoT is used to communicate temperature, humidity and air pressure from a remote location via a Nokia Flexi Multiradio 10 LTE base station at 900 MHz. NB-IoT is a 3GPP Release 13 radio access technology designed to enable connectivity to IoT device...

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IEEE publishes 5G and Beyond Technology Roadmap White Paper

IEEE published a white paper summarizing the challenges and opportunities in building and sustaining a 5G and beyond ecosystem. The whitepaper, which is titled "5G and Beyond Technology Roadmap", describes key technology trends that will impact design drivers and challenges for technologies to provide simultaneous wireless communication, massive connectivity, tactile internet, quality of service and network slicing. Some topics addressed include:...

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Yahoo now believes all 3 billion user accounts hit by breach

Yahoo, which is now part of Verizon's Oath division, provided notice that all of its 3 billion user accounts were impacted by the 2013 data breach.  Previously, Yahoo had disclosed that more than one billion of the approximately three billion accounts existing in 2013 had likely been affected. The company believes that the user account information that was stolen did not include passwords in clear text, payment card data, or bank account in...

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In Memorium: Paul S. Otellini, 1950 – 2017

Paul Otellini, who served as the fifth CEO of Intel from 2005 to 2012, passed away in his sleep Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, at the age of 66. Otellini, who joined Intel in 1974 and rose through the ranks, is remembered for many accomplishments at the company. He successfully guided Intel through many technology and market transitions, including the financial turmoil of 2008. Intel noted that in the last full year before Otellini was named CEO, its...

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