State of NFV: Containerizing the Telco Cloud

In 2019, NFV pretty much became mainstream. This year, the term is becoming irrelevant, says  Ron Haberman, CTO of Nokia Software, thanks to the shift to containers and the expansion capabilities into public cloud. This 5-minute video offers insights into the containerization of telcos clouds. https://youtu.be/Pfn5RnNi-ok ...

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Aruba launches Passpoint-based Wi-Fi service for mobile operators

Aruba is launching a roaming service for mobile operators that will enable cellular subscribers to securely and automatically roam onto participating Aruba enterprise Wi-Fi networks. Aruba Air Pass promises a seamless hand-off between cellular and Wi-Fi networks, without sacrificing security or quality of service. For existing Aruba enterprise customers, the new Air Pass service will use existing enterprise Wi-Fi infrastructure as a cost-effective...

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Aruba Air Slice brings to app prioritization to Wi-Fi 6

Aruba introduced a unique Wi-Fi 6 technology designed to provide application prioritization with carrier-grade quality assurance. Aruba Air Slice leverages the same OFDMA radio technology that powers the 4G LTE and 5G NR radios to dynamically allocate radio resources, such as time, frequency and spatial streams. The company says Aruba Air Slice guarantees performance for latency-sensitive applications such as AR/VR, Zoom and Slack, mobile gaming...

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HPE extends its 5G strategy with as-a-Service portfolio

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is advancing its edge-to-cloud, platform as-a-service offering with 5G in mind. HPE's portfolio will include a cloud-native software stack for 5G core, optimized telco core and edge infrastructure blueprints, and Wi-Fi 6 enabled services. The company will focus on open and interoperable platforms combined with carrier-grade infrastructure and modular software components. At the telco core – a new HPE 5G Core Stack,...

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Cignal AI: North American optical sales rebound in 2019

Sales of optical equipment in North America rose more than 25% for 4Q19 and 10% for all of 2019, according to the most recent Transport Hardware Report from research firm Cignal AI. The North American packet market for Access and Aggregation routing devices also grew strongly in the fourth quarter as demand for Edge and Core switching and routing dropped off dramatically. 5G and other access rollouts boosted growth in the Access and Aggregation...

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II-VI launches pluggable Optical Line Subsystem for 400ZR

II‐VI introduced a pluggable optical line subsystem (POLS) platform to enable the 400ZR coherent transceivesr ecosystem for next-generation datacenter interconnects (DCIs). II-VI’s initial product from the POLS platform is the OSFP-LS, designed in the very compact OSFP form factor, that plugs directly into a datacenter interconnect (DCI) switch port and enables full-duplex multi-channel 400ZR transport, including multiplexing, demultiplexing, and...

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MACOM extends Transimpedance Amplifier line for 100G to 800G

MACOM Technology Solutions released two new transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) optimized for use in optical networking applications ranging from 100Gbps DR1 to 800Gbps DR8 and FR8.  The new TIAs are available today in flip chip and wire bonding packaging options for fast, flexible deployment in QSFP, QSFP-DD and OSFP optical modules. MACOM says the rapid evolution to single lane 100G and multiple lanes 200G, 400G and 800G connectivity is increasing...

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CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange offers connections to Google Cloud

CoreSite Realty is adding on-demand direct connectivity to the Google Cloud Platform on the CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange. CoreSite continues to provide high-speed fiber connectivity to Google Dedicated Interconnect for the most demanding data needs and is now offering Partner Interconnect to Google within the CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange. “By simplifying and automating the provisioning process, offering flexible bandwidth options, and enabling...

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Open Eye Consortium specification defines 53Gbps per lane PAM-4

The Open Eye Consortium (Open Eye MSA) published its 53 Gbps single-mode specification defining the requirements for analog PAM-4 solutions for 50G SFP, 100G DSFP, 200G QSFP, and 400G QSFP-DD and OSFP single-mode modules. The Open Eye MSA aims to accelerate the adoption of PAM-4 optical interconnects scaling to 50Gbps, 100Gbps, 200Gbps, and 400Gbps by expanding upon existing standards to enable optical module implementations using less complex,...

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Innovium reports multiple customers for 400G production networks

Innovium reports that multiple cloud and data center customers are deploying its 12.8Tbps TERALYNX 7 based switches together with Innolight optics for 400G production networks. Customers were not named. “Massive growth in Data, AI and 5G is driving the need to scale data center networks. Leading data center customers are deploying Innovium 12.8Tbps switches together with Innolight’s comprehensive portfolio of 400G optical transceivers to scale their...

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