FWD: Arm expands infrastructure ambitions with Neoverse

Arm is recommitting and expanding its ambitions to supply processors for network and data center infrastructure. The renewed effort is inspired by the goal of building one trillion connected things by 2035 -- a figure cited by parent-company Softbank, whose multi-billion "Vision" fund invests in many start-ups across this ecosystem. At this week's ARMTechCon conference in San Jose, Arm outlined its "Neoverse Foundation", a dedicated infrastructure...

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The Service Provider Edge Cloud Opportunity

Will Service Providers be able to leverage the strategic advantage they have in Edge and Edge Clouds? Sally Bament, VP of Service Provider Marketing at Juniper Networks, comments. https://youtu.be/0xj-XQ0p_-4 ...

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Ciena bolsters its Packet Networking portfolio

Ciena introduced major additions to its Packet Networking portfolio, including new Adaptive IP capabilities, coherent optics, and purpose-built hardware platforms. The new capabilities and platforms address high-growth opportunities like the evolution from 4G to 5G, L2/L3/VNF Business Services, and Next-Generation Cable MSO Access. Highlights: Service-Aware Operating System (SAOS) enhanced with IP capabilities targeted at specific high-growth applications....

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Aquantia delivers 10GbE laptop docking station

10GbE to the laptop is coming. Akitio, a supplier of premium laptop accessories based in Orange County, California, is using Aquantia's AQtion AQC107 Ethernet controller for their new Thunder3 Dock Pro with 10GbE. The new docking station will support both Windows and macOS. A single cable connected to the Akitio Thunder3 Dock Pro provides a 10GbE port, as well as a variety of other connections including an SD 4.0 card reader, a CFAST 2.0 card reader,...

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Samsung previews FPGA-powered SSDs for accelerated data

At a Tech Day event in San Jose, Samsung Electronics previewed a FPGA-powered SSD featured accelerated data processing and the ability to bypass current generation server CPU limits. Samsung's forthcoming SmartSSD leverages quad-level cell (QLC)-SSD technology and an FPGA accelerator in the SSD unit for higher processing performance, improved time-to-insight, more virtual machines (VM), scalable performance, better de-duplication and compression,...

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Orange and EXFO deliver on-demand monitoring with ONAP Beijing

Orange has integrated EXFO's passive virtual probes (vProbes) into the Beijing Release of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP). The companies said this industry-first integration of a passive probing virtual network function (VNF) into the ONAP release delivers service assurance for SDN/NFV commercial deployments provides monitoring and troubleshooting of the service quality actually experienced by end customers. The unique on-demand monitoring...

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CyrusOne builds new data centers in London and Frankfurt

CyrusOne announced new data centers in London and Frankfurt. Construction is set to be completed by the end of the fourth quarter of 2019 for the London III facility, which is located on the Slough Trading Estate, a premier data center location in the UK. CyrusOne’s London III data center will offer approximately 39,500 square feet of data center space with a critical IT load of 9 MW. Each data hall will be customized to meet client specifications...

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Telefónica Deutschland picks Mavenir vIMS

Mavenir confirmed that Telefónica Deutschland is deploying its virtualized IMS solution (vIMS) for VoLTE and VoWiFi in their nationwide UNICA Data Centers Infrastructure, which is based on the Telefónica Group blueprint for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) architecture. The solution will support mobile and fixed services for more than 45 million customer connections. Financial terms were not disclosed. Mavenir said the NFV environment of this...

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