Windstream Wholesale announces 3 new fiber routes

Windstream Wholesale has begun the initial work to add fiber to three routes on its rapidly expanding transport network: New York City to Albany to Montreal; Jacksonville, Florida, to Savannah, Georgia, to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to Raleigh, North Carolina; and Tulsa to Muskogee, Oklahoma, to Little Rock, Arkansas. Windstream said these three new routes are part of its initiative to expand its fiber infrastructure and provide a rich set...

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Arista expands its R3-Series routers for next-gen edge

 Arista Networks introduced new routers and enhancements to its EOS (Extensible Operating System) for next-generation network edge roles in the multi-cloud era. The new capabilities for virtual private networking and traffic engineering enable three additional edge use cases for multi cloud, metro and 5G RAN based on Arista’s cloud-grade routing principles.Multi Cloud Edge: Demand for public cloud services is creating the new cloud edge,...

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Mavenir demos first 2G containerized architecture

Mavenir announced the commercial readiness of a containerized GSM 2G architecture using an enhanced fronthaul (FH) interface between the Multi Radio Access Technology (MRAT), Remote Radiohead Unit (RRU) and the Distributed Unit (DU) and demonstrating full frequency hopping, multiple TRX’s, multiple codecs, ciphering and handovers in readiness for commercial deployments.Mavenir combined the 2G technology from its ip.access acquisition and containerized...

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Palo Alto Networks sees rapid growth in SASE

Palo Alto Networks reported revenue of $1.2 billion for its fiscal fourth quarter 2021, ended July 31, 2021, compared with total revenue of $950.4 million for the fiscal fourth quarter 2020. GAAP net loss for the fiscal fourth quarter 2021 was $119.3 million, or $1.23 loss per diluted share, compared with GAAP net loss of $58.9 million, or $0.61 per diluted share, for the fiscal fourth quarter 2020.Non-GAAP net income for the fiscal fourth quarter...

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Cerebras advances its "Brain-scale AI"

Cerebras Systems disclosed progress in its mission to deliver a "brain-scale" AI solution capable of supporting neural network models of over 120 trillion parameters in size. Cerebras’ new technology portfolio contains four innovations: Cerebras Weight Streaming, a new software execution architecture; Cerebras MemoryX, a memory extension technology; Cerebras SwarmX, a high-performance interconnect fabric technology; and Selectable Sparsity,...

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Keysight joins Google Cloud Partner Initiative

 Keysight Technologies has joined Google Cloud’s partner initiative to support agile orchestration of 5G services at the network edge.Keysight offers a wide range of solutions for validating early designs, system interoperability and performance, network and end-point security, as well as compliance to 3GPP and O-RAN specifications. Keysight’s end-to-end solution portfolio, built on common hardware and software platforms, enables a cloud-centric...

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KGPCo to re-sell Ribbon's Cloud & Edge and IP Optical solutions

KGPCo, a leading communications network services and supply chain provider, will re-sell Ribbon's entire portfolio of Cloud & Edge and IP Optical solutions.Ribbon and KGPCo, which already have a number of customers in the IP Optical market including joint wins at CL Tel, Eastern Slope Rural Telephone and Tombigbee Electric Cooperative, said the expanded partnership enables both organizations to leverage their respective expertise and further...

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