Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Aruba's new category of data center switch powered by Broadcom + Pensando

Aruba unveiled a new category of spine-leaf data center switch powered by Broadcom's Trident 3 switching silicon and Pensando Elba (7nm) DPU processors, which extend intelligent services into the data center network fabric.Aruba's CX 10000 Series Distributed Services Switch leverages the Broadcom silicon for data center L2/3 switching and the Pensando programmable DPU silicon to deliver software-defined stateful services inline and at scale. Advanced...

PEACE subsea cable lands in Marseille

The new PEACE (Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe) submarine cable has landed on the shores of Marseille. Orange, acting as the landing party for the PEACE cable in France has successfully completed the landing of the PEACE system in Marseille, will supply and operate the cable landing station. Orange is also responsible for extending the PEACE System to one of Marseille’s major data centers where the submarine line terminal equipment...

Prosimo enhances App Transit for multi-cloud environments

 Prosimo, a start-up that offers an Application eXperience Infrastructure (AXI) platform for secure application delivery in multi-cloud environments, released new advanced App Transit features that builds on the platform's four core capabilities  — Transit, Application Performance, Secure Access, and Observability.App Transit’s latest features include:Fastlane — dynamically optimizes performance for latency-sensitive and business-critical...

Ericsson reports growing 5G sales except in China

Ericsson reported strong 5G sales overall for Q3 2021 and confirmed that it has now secured 5G contracts with all three tier-1 US carriers. Excluding the sales reduction in Mainland China, Ericsson reported +6% organic growth overall with bross margin 44.0%1 and EBIT margin 15.7% - both improvements quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year.Ericsson also said some sales were impacted in Q3 by supply chain issues.Comments from Börje Ekholm, President...

GlobalFoundries announces IPO

GlobalFoundries (GF) announced of its initial public offering of 55,000,000 ordinary shares, 33,000,000 of which are being offered by GF and 22,000,000 of which are being offered by GF’s existing shareholder, Mubadala Investment Company PJSC, pursuant to a registration statement on Form F-1 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The initial public offering price is currently expected to be between $42.00 and $47.00 per...

Ribbon supplies IP + DWDM to Colorado-based Viaero

Viaero Wireless and Viaero Fiber Networks, which serve communities in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming, selected Ribbon's  suite of integrated IP and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) solutions. The Ribbon solution deployed by Viaero supports 1 Gigabit (G) and 10G aggregation over 200G optical transport that is easily scalable to 400G. In addition to its advanced support of Layer 1 through Layer 3 transport, Ribbon IP Optical...

Cato Networks raises $200 million for its SASE

Cato Networks, a start-up based in Tel Aviv, Israel, raised $200 million in new funding at a market valuation of $2.5 billion for its SASE solutions. The Cato SASE Cloud is distributed across more than 65 PoPs worldwide.The new funding round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with the participation of existing investors Greylock, Aspect Ventures / Acrew Capital, Coatue, Singtel Innov8, and Shlomo Kramer. “Cato is at the forefront of SASE...