Fortinet to acquire Lacework for Cloud Native Application Protection Platform

Fortinet agreed to acquire Lacework, a start-up based in Mountain View, California specializing in security solutions that offer visibility, threat detection, and compliance across multi-cloud environments. Financial terms were not disclosed.Lacework offers an AI-powered, Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). It features an agent and agentless architecture for data collection, a homegrown data lake, and a code security offering. The...

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Nokia debuts API Network Exposure Platform

Nokia introduced a new Network Exposure Platform designed to expand and simplify the number of APIs available to operators, their partners, and customer channels to enable the creation of network powered applications for consumer, enterprise, and industrial customers. It will support Linux Foundation CAMARA APIs, TM Forum Open APIs, edge-based APIs, and other APIs for connecting networks securely to a broader B2B digitalization ecosystem.Nokia Network...

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Vonage and Telstra partner on advanced network APIs

Vonage, a division of Ericsson, and Telstra have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote the digitalization of network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) within Australia’s enterprise sector.This non-exclusive agreement will integrate Telstra’s network APIs into the Vonage platform, enabling enterprises and developers to harness these network capabilities for creating innovative, advanced applications and improving the customer...

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Mavenir builds Generative AI Co-Pilot for CSPs

Mavenir introduced an Operations Co-Pilot that uses generative AI (GenAI) to improve service-level agreements (SLAs) and optimize operational efficiency for communications service providers (CSPs). Mavenir’s Operations Co-Pilot for RAN Service Assurance (RSA), which was developed in collaboration with NVIDIA and AWS, automates network troubleshooting, enabling mobile network operators to rapidly and accurately anticipate network issues and address...

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JUNO cable linking Japan-US deploys Ciena’s WaveLogic 6

The NTT DATA-led JUNO submarine cable system, which will link Japan and the United States, will deploy Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme, powered by WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e). The 10,000km JUNO cable, which is slated to launch at the end of 2024, will be the highest capacity trans-Pacific cable.Ciena said the state-of-the-art cable will benefit from its performance-optimized WL6e, enabling 800Gb, 400Gb, and 100Gb services. JUNO will also benefit from...

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AWS to launch Taipei Infrastructure Region

Amazon will launch an AWS infrastructure Region in Taiwan by early 2025. The new Asia Pacific (Taipei) AWS Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, adding to AWS’s existing 105 Availability Zones across 33 geographic regions globally. With today’s announcement, AWS has plans to launch 21 more Availability Zones and seven more AWS Regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the...

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Ayar adds VP of Packaging and Test to its team

Ayar Labs appointed Pooya Tadayon as its Vice President of Packaging and Test. Tadayon was formerly a Fellow and Director of Assembly & Test Pathfinding within Intel’s Assembly and Test Technology Development (ATTD) group. He holds 47 patents and has over three dozen pending, in areas including test interconnect technology, thermal technology, and package/product architecture.“The demand for photonics technology is rapidly increasing to...

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