Cisco targets AI features for collaboration and security

Cisco previewed generative AI features for its Collaboration and Security portfolios that are expected later this year.A top AI feature is a generative AI-powered summarization capabilities in Webex. The AI will extract the key points, and capture action items with owners. Cisco said the capabilities will ask users to opt in.In the Vidcast video messaging tool, the AI will produce highlights and chapters. For contact centers, conversation summaries...

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AT&T and Cisco expand SD-WAN capabilities / reach

AT&T and Cisco are expanding their existing partnership to enhance SD-WAN connectivity with add-on services such as 5G and broadband.The partnership will also natively integrate Cisco’s Webex Calling with the AT&T mobile network to provide a mobile-first and unified collaboration experience via a single business mobile number.For small and medium businesses, AT&T is launching a new self-service option to simplify and accelerate SD-WAN...

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Emirates’ du builds 5G fixed wireless with Nokia

du, which is part of Emirates Integrated Telecommunication Company, is deploying a Multi-Access Gateway (MAG) to deliver both residential and business broadband services over 4G/5G fixed-wireless access, in addition to mobile services.The installation will leverage Nokia 7750 Service Routers, FastMile 5G gateways, MAG, and Nokia professional services.The companies said fixed-wireless broadband is emerging as one of the most significant use cases...

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IBM to open Quantum Data Center in Germany

IBM will open its first Europe-based quantum data center in 2024 in Ehningen, Germany, and will serve as IBM Quantum's European cloud region. IBM said the data center is being designed to help clients continue to manage their European data regulation requirements, including processing all job data within EU borders. The facility will be IBM's second quantum data center and quantum cloud region, after Poughkeepsie, New York."Europe has some of...

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Dell’Oro: Hyperscale drives strong SP router demand in Q1

The worldwide Service Provider (SP) Router and Switch market saw extraordinarily strong growth in the 1Q 2023 fueled by hyperscalers and an unleashed component supply that allowed equipment vendors to fulfill orders and catch up on backlogs, according to a newly released report from Dell’Oro Group.  “We were caught by surprise as revenues blew through the roof, growing 15 percent year-over-year. Only three times in the past twelve years...

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NEC selected for East Micronesia Cable System

NEC signed a contract  for construction, supply and installation of an optical fibre submarine cable system to be called East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS).EMCS, with a total length of approximately 2,250km, will connect four islands amongst FSM (Pohnpei and Kosrae), Kiribati (Tarawa) and Nauru with a large-capacity optical fibre submarine cable. This is the first submarine cable connection for the islands of Tarawa (Kiribati), Nauru and the...

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Fortinet names 11 SD-WAN partners

Fortinet announced that 11 new managed security service providers (MSSPs) have adopted Fortinet Secure SD-WAN: Kyndryl; 11:11 Systems; Claro Empresas; Globe Business; InfiniVAN; KT Corporation; Neurosoft; Sify Technologies; SPTel; solutions by stc; and Tata Teleservices.Fortinet said its Secure SD-WAN serves as the foundation for organizations to seamlessly adopt advanced networking technologies including Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), SD-Branch,...

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AWS releases a Snowblade for U.S. Department of Defense

Amazon Web Services announces the availability of AWS Snowblade, a 5RU compute/storage rack, for U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract customers. AWS Snowblade is designed to provide AWS compute, storage, and other hybrid services in remote locations, including Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) environments for the DoD. AWS Snowblade is the first AWS Snow Family device designed...

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Nokia: Surge in malicious IoT botnet activity

Malicious IoT botnet traffic surged fivefold over the past year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and stemming from the growing increase in profit-driven hacking collectives operated by cybercriminal, according Nokia’s newly released Threat Intelligence Report.The report is based on data aggregated from monitoring network traffic on more than 200 million devices globally where Nokia NetGuard Endpoint Security product is deployed.Some highlightsThe number of IoT devices (bots) engaged in botnet-driven DDoS attacks rose from around 200,000 a...

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