Blueprint column: The importance of Gi-LAN in 5G

by Takahiro Mitsuhata, Sr. Manager, Technical Marketing at A10 Networks  Today's 4G networks support mobile broadband services (e.g., video conferencing, high-definition content streaming, etc.) across millions of smart devices, such as smartphones, laptops, tablets and IoT devices. The number of connected devices is on the rise, growing 15 percent or more year-over-year and projected to be 28.5 billion devices by 2022 according to Cisco's...

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A10 adds Zero-day Automated Protection to DDoS Defense

A10 Networks is bolstering its Thunder Threat Protection System (TPS) family of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defense solutions with Zero-day Automated Protection (ZAP) capabilities/ A10's ZAP capabilities are designed to automatically recognize the characteristics of DDoS attacks and apply mitigation filters without advanced configuration or manual intervention. A10 Networks’ ZAP is comprised of two components: dynamic attack pattern recognition...

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Arista's enterprise hybrid cloud leverages Azure

Arista Networks introduced its next-gen hybrid cloud architecture for the enterprise that leverages the Microsoft Azure global network. The new architecture integrates Arista EOS with Azure and Azure Stack. Arista said its EOS software enables seamless connectivity with elastic workload scaling across regions, accounts, and availability zones for the broadest array of workload, application, service, and data types. This now includes support for...

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Dell EMC collaborates with ADVA on virtualized uCPE

ADVA and Dell EMC today announced a strategic collaboration to deliver open virtualized uCPE solutions for service provider and enterprise customers. The new uCPE solution will be built on ADVA’s Ensemble Connector NFVi platform, which enables network operators to access virtual network functions (VNFs), including software-defined WAN (SD-WAN). New and existing Dell EMC customers will be able to take advantage of consolidated management as well...

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FCC: List of winning bidders for 28 GHz licenses

The FCC announced the following winning bidders for its auction of 28 GHz upper microwave flexible use service licenses (Auction 101): https://www.fcc.gov/document/auction-101-results-public-notic...

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Seagate ships 16TB helium-based HDDs

Seagate Technology is now shipping 16TB helium-based enterprise drives as part of the Exos X16 family for hyperscale data centers. The company also updated its IronWolf and IronWolf Pro Network Attached Storage (NAS) drive lines with new 16TB capacity models. Seagate’s new Exos X16 16TB drive delivers 33 percent more petabytes per rack compared to 12TB drives while maintaining the same footprint. “The Exos X16 is key in reducing total cost of...

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Achronix next-gen FPGAs leverage Rambus GDDR6 PHY

Achronix Semiconductor's next-generation Speedster7t FPGA family will use Rambus GDDR6 PHY for its top-end data rates. Rambus says its GDDR6 PHY is the fastest memory IP on the market, at 16 Gbps. The Rambus GDDR6 PHY enables the communication to and from high-speed, high-bandwidth GDDR6 SDRAM memory, which is a high-performance memory solution that can be used in a variety of applications that require large amounts of data computation. Rambus...

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NASCAR picks AWS as preferred cloud

National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) has chosen AWS as its standard for cloud-based machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads. Specifically, NASCAR will leverage AWS services to enhance its full range of media assets including websites, mobile applications, and social properties for its 80 million fans worldwide. NASCAR will use the breadth of AWS technologies to build cloud-based services and automate processes,...

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