ONF moves ahead with reference designs

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced a series of reference designs backed by ONF’s operator leadership, which includes AT&T, China Unicom, Comcast, Google, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, NTT Group, and Turk Telekom. The initial set of open source Reference Designs, which target edge and access clouds infrastructure, essentially are “blueprints” for how to put common modular components together to create platforms based on open source....

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Mellanox supplies Infiniband for Sandia's ARM supercomputer

Mellanox Technologies will supply an InfiniBand solution to accelerate the world’s top Arm-based supercomputer to be deployed in Sandia National Laboratory in the second half of 2018. The Astra supercomputer will include nearly 2600 nodes, and will leverage InfiniBand In-Network Computing acceleration engines. Astra is the first system in a series of the Vanguard program of advanced architecture platforms, supporting the US Department of Energy’s...

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Colt activates U.S. network

Colt has connected 13 major cities in North America, including New York, San Francisco and Chicago, to its dense Asian and European metro networks, which is made up of more than 870 data centers and 26,000 fiber-connected buildings. Colt services available in the US include; enterprise bandwidth services up to 100Gbps, delivered over entire wavelengths and Ethernet, with private network options, and a number of wholesale services. Colt’s On Demand...

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Facebook open sources binary optimization and layout tool

Facebook has decided to open source a binary optimization and layout tool (BOLT) that optimizes the placement of instructions in memory, thereby reducing CPU execution time by 2 percent to 15 percent. BOLT rearranges code inside functions based on their execution profile. Facebook said the tool was proven to be very efficient with its highly complex services which are driven by very large source code bases. https://code.facebook.com/posts/605...

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DE-CIX deploys Infinera Cloud Xpress 2

DE-CIX, the world’s leading internet exchange operator, has deployed the Infinera Cloud Xpress 2 to address soaring demand for internet exchange services in rapidly growing markets including New York City, Frankfurt and Dallas. DE-CIX serves over 1,300 carriers, internet service providers and content networks from more than 100 countries, including all leading international players in various metro markets in Europe, the Middle East, India and North...

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ADVA's Oscilloquartz delivers enhanced PRTC for 5G network timing

Oscilloquartz, which is a division of ADVA, launched an enhanced primary reference time clock (ePRTC) system for 5G network timing. The Oscilloquartz solution, which is able to provide timing accuracy and stability even when the GNSS signal is lost, features the OSA 3230B ePRC atomic cesium clock connected to an Oscilloquartz clock combiner and grandmaster. The company said the technology provides the ideal timing source for mission-critical transport...

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HPE to invest $4 billion in Intelligent Edge technologies

Hewlett Packard Enterprise plans to invest $4 billion in Intelligent Edge technologies and services over the next four years. The plan calls for investments in research and development to advance and innovate new products, services and consumption models across a number of technology domains such as security, AI and machine learning, automation and edge computing. HPE said it intends to build out its portfolio of transformational advisory and professional...

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Cisco to acquire July Systems for location services platform

Cisco agreed to acquire July Systems, a start-up offering a cloud-based mobile experience and location services platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. July Systems, which based in Burlingame, California with offices in Bangalore, India, has worked for several years as an OEM for Cisco Connected Mobile Experience (CMX). Cisco plans to add July Systems’ platform and business context capabilities to provide a unified solution on which partners...

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Orange conducts Cloud RAN trial with Nokia

Orange conducted a trial of Cloud RAN technology in its live network in Poland in conjunction with Nokia. The trial, which used Orange's own cloud infrastructure, took place from March to the beginning of May in Poland, with radio sites in the city of Chelm and the virtualized part of the baseband running in a data center in Lublin, around 70 km away.. The two companies trialed Cloud RAN technology to prepare for the eventual introduction of a distributed...

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HPE debuts GreenLake Hybrid Cloud

HPE introduced its GreenLake Hybrid Cloud for managing its enterprise customers' private infrastructure while optimizing integration with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack. Unlike a traditional managed service, HPE said its GreenLake will provide an automated, cloud-native model that eliminates the need for organizations to hire or train new staff to oversee and manage cloud implementations. "Enterprises need a fast, simple way to optimize their...

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Toshiba launches lower cost SAS SSDs for servers

Toshiba introduced a new category of SAS SSDs to replace SATA SSDs in servers. The RM5 12Gbit/s value SAS (vSAS) series feature Toshiba's BiCS FLASH TLC (3-bit-per-cell) 3D flash memory and will initially be available in capacities up to 7.68TB in a 2.5” form factor. Toshiba said the new drives offer capacity, performance, reliability, manageability and data security advantages – at a price that obsoletes SATA SSD...

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