AT&T and Verizon strike a deal to build cell towers with Tillman

AT&T and Verizon reached an infrastructure sharing agreement in which they will work with a third party, Tillman Infrastructure, to build hundreds of cell towers. Tillman will build, own and operate the towers, small cells and smart cities infrastructure. AT&T and Verizon have committed to leasing and co-anchoring the co-located towers. Construction will begin in Q1 2018. Financial terms were not disclosed. The three companies see the potential...

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Verizon offers SD-WAN for wholesale customers

Verizon Partner Solutions (VPS) has launched a Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solution for wholesale customers. Verizon said the new service provides its wholesale customers with better control of network operational costs while improving bandwidth efficiency. Key features of Verizon Partner Solution’s SD-WAN Transport independence: IPsec overlay and traffic distribution over multiple paths, with built-in load balancing and automatic...

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Video: Welcome to MEF17 - Nan Chen

 Nan Chen gives an overview of this week's MEF17 event in Orlando, Florida. See video: https://youtu.be/WhRkEBzdG4Q ...

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Video: SDN is Real - Michael Howard

When we look back at 2017, we'll say it was the year that SDN became real - says Michael Howard, Senior Research Director at IHS Markit - Technology. Many operators now have real deployments with real SDN and NFV customers. See video: https://youtu.be/zSNufkBPeUA ...

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NTT Com and Dimension Data to integrate their clouds

Dimension Data, the global technology solutions and services provider, and NTT Communications, the ICT solutions and international communications business within NTT Group, will create a single ‘cloud powerhouse’ by bringing together their cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) capabilities under the management of NTT Communications. Dimension Data is a subsidiary of the NTT Group based in South Africa and with operations in 48 countries. Both...

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Mellanox: Infiniband powers most Supercomputers

InfiniBand solutions accelerate 77 percent of the new high-performance computing systems on the TOP500 list deployed since the previous list (June 2017 to November 2017), according to Mellanox Technologies. Some highlights: Mellanox accelerates the fastest supercomputer on the list InfiniBand connects 2 of top 5 systems - #1 (China) and #4 (Japan) InfiniBand connects 6 times more new HPC systems versus proprietary interconnects (June’17 - Nov’17) InfiniBand...

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NTT Communications to Acquire Secure-24

NTT Communications (NTT Com) agreed to acquire Secure-24 Intermediate Holdings, Inc. (Secure-24), a U.S.-based leading provider of comprehensive managed services. Financial terms were not disclosed. Secure 24, which is based in Southfield, Michigan, uses proprietary automated operation tools to deliver managed security services. NTT Com and NTT Group companies including Dimension Data expect to combine Secure-24 services to enhance their ability...

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