Verizon: SD-WAN and software-defined enterprise services

SD-WAN is an exciting area of growth for Verizon, says Shawn Hakl, Senior Vice President, Business Products, but it is important to understand how transformative it really is. SD-WAN is really becoming a control layer that lets enterprises pull in a whole new set of services. There has been a fairly rapid evolution of customers to whitebox solutions. Inevitably, customers don't buy SD-WAN as a standalone solution anymore. The market wants security...

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Cisco adds "baby" and "wireless brain" switches to Catalyst 9000

Cisco announced two major additions to its Catalyst 9000 switching portfolio: New Catalyst Wireless Controller: For the first time, customers can run consistent security, automation and analytics services across wired and wireless environments by leveraging the same OS. The Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller can be run anywhere—on premise, in any cloud, or embedded virtually on Catalyst 9000 switches. It supports today’s wireless standards...

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Cisco's path from Intent-based Networking to Multi-Domain Architecture

Just over a year ago, Cisco presented the industry with its vision for The Network Intuitive - or intent-based networking. The company is now building on this with a new focus on Multi-Domain Architecture. Fabio Gori, VP, Marketing Cloud, Cisco, talks about how this fits in the context of multi-cloud applications. https://youtu.be/7cYM2gaoZTA...

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Cisco integrates SD-WAN and security for the new Cloud Edge

Cisco is unifying its security and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technologies to help organizations address the reality of the new Cloud Edge. Many organizations now find their employees using applications hosted in multiple clouds, and doing so from home, coffee shops and airport lounges, instead of just the office. Cisco said this requires a more sophisticated SD-WAN that is capable of delivery the same level of enterprise security...

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SC18: Indiana University, Ciena, ESnet and Internet2 build Monon400

Indiana University is collaborating with Ciena, Internet2, and ESnet to power Monon400, a 400 Gbps network ever built for research and education. Monon400 has a current capacity of 1.2 terabits-per-second with a maximum capacity of 25.6 terabits-per-second, enabling high-speed sharing of massive amounts of data created by modern digital instruments like gene sequencers, powerful microscopes, and the Large Hadron Collider. The current Monon100 runs...

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SC18: ESnet demos SDN for End-to-end Networked Science

At this week's SC18 in Dallas, the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is demonstrating its Software-defined network for End-to-end Networked Science at Exascale (SENSE) research project. SENSE is building smart network services to accelerate scientific discovery in the era of ‘big data’ driven by exascale computing, cloud computing, machine learning and AI. The SENSE SC18 demonstration in the Caltech and University of Maryland...

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Kaloom collaborates with Red Hat on a Virtual Central Office for NFV

Kaloom, a start-up based in Montreal with offices in Santa Clara, California, has collaborated with Red Hat around the launch of the Red Hat virtual central office solution, a Virtual Central Office (VCO) solution for multivendor NFV deployments at the edge. Kaloom has developed a Software Defined Fabric (SDF) for automating and optimizing data center networks based on open networking white box switches. Kaloom's SDF, which is designed to virtualize...

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China's Tencent trials ADVA FSP 3000 TeraFlex 600G DCI

Tencent has successfully transmitted single-wavelength 600 Gbit/s signals over its OPC-4 open line system (OLS) using the ADVA FSP 3000 CloudConnect TeraFlex solution. The ADVA FSP 3000 TeraFlex high-density transport solution is capable of transmitting 3.6 Tbit/s of duplex capacity in a single rack unit with 600 Gbit/s bandwidth over a single set of optics. ADVA describes the groundbreaking trial with Tencent as a first for the Chinese market...

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10Gtek builds Active Copper Cables with Spectra7

10Gtek, a leading data center interconnect supplier and online retailer, has begun offering active copper cables (ACCs) using Spectra7’s GaugeChanger technology. Spectra 7 said its GaugeChanger technology allows copper to extend much longer lengths without the cost and power penalty of optics. It works equally well at 25Gbps NRZ and 50Gbps PAM4 enabling new connector standards of 100/200/400 Gbps. "Spectra 7 has created a revolutionary solution...

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Samsung's Exynos 9 Series 9820 Processor integrates 2.0 Gbps LTE Advanced Pro modem

Samsung Electronics unveiled its latest premium application processor (AP), the Exynos 9 Series 9820, equipped with a separate hardware AI-accelerator for on-device Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. The Exynos 9820 features a fourth-generation custom CPU, 2.0-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) LTE Advanced Pro modem, and an enhanced neural processing unit (NPU) to bring new smart experiences to mobile devices. The fourth-generation custom core...

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MACOM posts Q4 revenue of $151.2 million

MACOM reported Q4 revenue of $151.2 million, a decrease of 9.1% compared to $166.4 million in the previous year fiscal fourth quarter and an increase of 9.7% compared to $137.9 million in the prior fiscal quarter. Gross profit was $71.0 million, a decrease of 18.3% compared to $86.9 million in the previous year fiscal fourth quarter and an increase of 47.4% compared to $48.2 million in the prior fiscal quarter. Gross margin was 46.9%, compared to...

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