Tuesday, August 14, 2018

FWD: The FCC's much needed Disaster Working Group

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) opened a nominating process to select members for a new Disaster Response and Recovery Working Group of the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC). The long bureaucratic name might suggest to some a tedious process of government meetings, argumentation, and report writing geared at creating new rules that broadband service providers will likely find difficult to interpret, let...

Samsung unveils its first 5G modem - Exynos 5100

Samsung Electronics Co.unveiled its 5G modem that is fully compatible with 3GPP Release 15 (5G-NR). The Samsung Exynos Modem 5100 is built on 10-nanometer (nm) process technology and supports both sub-6GHz and mmWave spectrums specified in 3GPP’s 5G standard as well as legacy networks, including 2G GSM/CDMA, 3G WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, HSPA, and 4G LTE. The modem delivers a maximum downlink speed of up to 2-gigabits per second (Gbps) in 5G’s sub-6-gigahertz...

Verizon schedules Indianapolis 5G residential launch

Verizon named Indianapolis as its fourth city scheduled to receive 5G residential broadband service in the second half of 2018, joining Houston, Los Angeles and Sacramento. “The city of Indianapolis has been a strong partner in laying the groundwork for Verizon 5G,” said Tami Erwin, Verizon’s Executive Vice President, Wireless Operations. “We trialed 5G during the Indianapolis 500 in May 2017 and now we’re bringing next generation home broadband...

Endace and Gigamon announce partnership for packet capture/visibility

Endace and Gigamon announced a technology partnership to provide visibility into network traffic for SecOps, NetOps and DevOps teams. The partnership brings together the EndaceProbe Analytics Platform and the GigaSECURE Security Delivery Platform, which is a packet broker. Endace enables high-speed network recording, traffic playback and analytics hosting.  The companies said their joint solution enables customers to accurately record...

Interxion adds Google Cloud Interconnect PoPs across European network

Interxion announced dedicated access to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) across its European footprint through Cloud Connect, Interxion’s multi-cloud interconnection platform. With Google Cloud deploying its Cloud Interconnect points of presence (PoPs) in Interxion’s Paris Marseille, Frankfurt and Stockholm data centres, customers can now directly connect to Google Cloud Platform from these locations. Moreover, because Interxion is a partner of Google...

Sprint names LG as its first 5G phone

Sprint confirmed that it will offer a 5G smartphone from LG Electronics in the first half of 2019. Sprint recently announced plans to launch its 5G mobile network in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. "Sprint is moving fast on the road to 5G and we are thrilled to announce the first 5G smartphone with the innovative team at LG," said Dr. John Saw, Sprint chief technology officer....

Viavi posts revenue of $264 million following Cobham acquisition

VIAVI reported net revenue was $264.0 million for its fourth fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2018. GAAP net loss was $(28.8) million, or $(0.13) per share. Non-GAAP net income was $31.7 million, or $0.14 per share. The results include the integration of Cobham's test and measurement group. "VIAVI executed well on its strategic priorities in fiscal year 2018.  We improved NSE revenue quality, resulting in operating margin expansion, and increased...

Georgia Tech establishes Azure ExpressRoute with Internet2

Georgia Tech has established a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute circuit in partnership with Internet 2. A blog posting by Adam Smith, IT Service Delivery Lead, Georgia Tech discusses the challenges of turning up the Azure service while incorporating external private address space, routing issues, and cloud network architecture. Internet2 is the advanced technology community founded by the leading higher education institutions in the U.S. https:...

Servato intros unified rectifier and battery management for cell sites

Servato, a start-up based in New Orleans, introduced its Smart Power System solutions suite for remote battery management. Servato supplies its active battery management solutions to telecom, power, transportation, and solar companies. The SPS-R is a unified rectifier power and battery manage solution that integrates the functionality of Servato’s SPS-248 battery management system with GE’s Rectifier Modules. Servato said it is taking remote power...

Ixia brings visibility into east-west flows without hypervisor access

Ixia announced a new feature for its CloudLens platform that provides visibility into East-West traffic without requiring hypervisor access. An administrator can virtually tap (vTap) or capture, filter and forward a copy network traffic directly to either tools or a network packet broker. The new Cloud Sensor vTap enables organizations to better manage their security risk in private and hybrid cloud environments, such as Microsoft Azure Stack. “Private...