P4 programming language gets folded into the Linux Foundation

The P4 Language Consortium (P4.org), creator of the P4 programming language,  will become a project of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and become part of the Linux Foundation portfolio. P4 was designed to be target-independent (i.e. a program written in P4 could be compiled, without modification, to run on a variety of targets, such as ASICs, FPGAs, CPUs, NPUs, and GPUs), and protocol-independent (i.e. a P4 program can describe existing...

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Verizon tests Cisco’s Hybrid Information-Centric Networking

Verizon completed a series of tests on Cisco's Hybrid Information-Centric Networking (ICN), which is described as an innovative approach to content-aware service offerings based on “named data” rather than location identifiers such as IP addresses. Specifically, Verizon successfully demonstrated Cisco’s open-source ICN software and validated its benefits over standard TCP/IP solutions for optimized mobile video delivery in a lab at the Verizon Innovation...

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Rambus and IBM target future hybrid memory systems

Rambus and IBM announced a research pact to develop hybrid memory systems for data centers. The companies aim to optimize the use of DRAM and emerging memories to create a high-capacity memory subsystem that "delivers comparable performance to DRAM alone." As part of the collaboration, Rambus will develop a flexible prototype hybrid memory platform using the OpenCAPI interface to demonstrate the performance of multiple memory types in real-world...

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OE Solutions debuts 25G Transceivers for 5G fronthaul

OE Solutions, a global supplier of optical transceivers based in Gwangju, South Korea with R&D centres in the USA, the Netherlands as well as offices worldwide, introduced three new 25Gbps SFP28 transceiver products at OFC designed for emerging 5G wireless fronthaul architectures. The new 25Gbps transceivers joining OE Solutions’ extensive list of IT-rated transceivers for wireless applications are: 25Gbps SFP28 1270nm/1310nm BIDI IT for distances...

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RagingWire opens facility in Ashburn's Data Center Alley

RagingWire Data Centers, which is a subsidiary of NTT Communications, inaugurated its new Ashburn VA3 Data Center, a state-of-the-art facility with 245,000 square feet of space and 16 megawatts of critical power, located on RagingWire’s new Ashburn Data Center Campus. The VA3 Data Center is RagingWire’s third data center in Ashburn, and the first building on RagingWire’s new Ashburn Data Center Campus, a 78-acre parcel of land that is planned to...

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Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey elected to Intel’s board of directors

Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey was elected to Intel’s board of directors. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey has served as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PIK Professor of Population Health and Health Equity at the University of Pennsylvania since January 2018. From 2003 to 2017, she was the president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest U.S. philanthropy organization dedicated to health. She is a member of the National Academy...

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Etisalat selects NEC/Netcracker's NaaS for vCPE

Etisalat has selected NEC/Netcracker's Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) to deploy a virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) solution for enterprises. Specifically, Etisalat is using NEC/Netcracker's full-stack Network-as-a-Service solution comprised with Self-Service Portals, Service Orchestration and MANO offerings. The initial service includes security virtual network functions selected from NEC/Netcracker's Ecosystem 2.0 marketplace. The deployment...

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Toshiba delivers data center SSDs based on 64-layer 3-bit-per-cell flash

Toshiba announced its latest line-up of NVM Express (NVMe) and SATA data center solid-state drives (SSDs) based on its 64-layer 3-bit-per-cell TLC (triple-level cell) BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory. The drives feature controllers designed and developed in-house. The two PCIe® NVMe SSDs are designed to accommodate multiple data center workload profiles, with capacities ranging from 960GB to 7.68TB in a 2.5-inch form factor. These drives deliver up to...

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Enea acquires Openwave Mobility

Enea AB completed its acquisition of Openwave Mobility, a company offering a scalable NFV platform for mobile operators. The acquisition price was approximately US$90 million. Openwave Mobility is headquartered in California and generated preliminary adjusted revenues of approximately US$27 million in 2017 and an EBIT of US$ 3 million. ENEA said the acquisition expands its portfolio and addressable market....

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