Dell'Oro: Rapid growth for 5G workloads on the public cloud

A new report by Dell'Oro Group predicts that 5G workloads on the public cloud will grow revenues at an 88 percent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) and cumulative revenues are estimated at $4.6 billion over the 5-year forecast period 2022-2026. The report finds that the vast majority of 5G SA networks will be in the Telco Cloud, limiting the short-term opportunity for the Public Cloud to host 5G workloads.

“At first glance, this may appear to be a very conservative forecast. Especially in view of Hyperscale Cloud Providers’ (HCPs) plethora of press releases that suggest there is greater traction in the marketplace than previously identified. The new report discovers that the opportunity for HCPs to penetrate the Telco Cloud market is very limited in the short-term, with the momentum already established by Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) committing to the Telco Cloud,” stated Dave Bolan, Research Director at Dell’Oro Group. “Most of the HCP press releases are about HCPs adding network solutions for Enterprises that desire 5G device connectivity via a Hybrid Cloud at the edge location. Our projections are for Public Cloud revenues, not Hybrid Clouds at the edge of the networks.

“We found that 27 5G SA networks have been commercially deployed and only one MNO is running its 5G workloads in the Public Cloud. The balance chose to run their own Telco Clouds. Further findings show that another 130 MNOs have already cut contracts with 5G Core vendors to deploy their own Telco Clouds, and two MNOs have committed to run their networks in the Public Cloud.

“As a result, for the short-term, HCPs are focusing on the Enterprise opportunities extending their services to the network edge, either themselves or partnering with an MNO integrating their services inside the Telco Cloud. Longer term there is much more opportunity for the HCPs to host 5G workloads in their Public Clouds with 75 5G Non-Standalone (5G NSA) MNOs and another 600 LTE MNOs still to announce their 5G SA plans. The forecast exits 2026 with a higher year-over-year percentage growth rate for 5G workloads moving to the Public Cloud than for the growth rate of the Telco Cloud,” Bolan added.

https://www.delloro.com/news/public-cloud-5g-workloads-to-grow-at-88-percent-cagr-4-6-billion-over-five-years/

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Fastly names Todd Nightingale as CEO

Fastly, which operates a global edge cloud platform, appointed Todd Nightingale as the company’s next CEO, effective September 1, 2022. Nightingale will succeed Joshua Bixby, who, as previously announced, will step down as CEO and from Fastly’s Board of Directors. Bixby will remain with Fastly as an advisor.

Nightingale joins Fastly from Cisco, where he currently leads business strategy and development efforts for Cisco's multi-billion dollar networking portfolio as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Networking and Cloud. Previously, Nightingale was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Meraki business. 

"Fastly is extraordinary at the things that make us unique, including our incredibly powerful programmable edge cloud, innovative performance-focused product and engineering, and our unmatched support of customers as they build the next generation of globally performant, secure and reliable applications," said Artur Bergman, Fastly’s Founder, Chief Architect and Executive Chairperson. "I'm confident in Todd's ability to lead the company with the rigor and energy needed to elevate Fastly to its next level of extraordinary technology and product growth, including a strong go-to-market motion and operational strengths."

Fastly searches for a new CEO

Wednesday, May 04, 2022  Fastly, People  

 Fastly's Board of Directors has initiated a search to identify the next CEO to replace Joshua Bixby, who will step down as CEO and from the Fastly Board of Directors once the transition is complete.“I am incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished during my time at Fastly. We’ve expanded our platform to capture current and future growth and built a world-class leadership team that can confidently take us into the future,” said Joshua Bixby,...

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Fastly's global CDN suffers configuration error

Tuesday, June 08, 2021  CDN, Fastly, Outage  

 Fastly, which operates a global content delivery network, experienced service configuration issue that triggered disruptions across its POPs worldwide. Service disruptions continued for about three hours, impacting traffic from top websites such as CNN, NYTimes, Amazon, Reddit, and others.According to the company's website, the incident affected: Asia/Pacific (Auckland (AKL), Brisbane (BNE), Dubai (FJR), Hong Kong (HKG), Melbourne (MEL), Osaka...

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Verizon upgrades its core network for 400G with Juniper's PTX series

Verizon is refreshing its core network with Juniper Networks' PTX series routers supporting 400G interfaces. 

Verizon said the new equipment is half the size of the existing equipment, reducing space requirements in core facilities and driving down both power usage per GB and cost per GB to operate. In addition, the new equipment offers an advanced level of automation, allowing for automated interfaces with other network systems.

Verizon also highlighted the redesign of its network architecture to spread the equipment out to additional facilities across geographies, building in an additional level of redundancy with the ability to reroute traffic onto a greater number of fiber routes when needed. 

“Our fiber network is the largely invisible foundation that is a key driving force behind providing the scalability and reliability our customers need and expect,” said Kyle Malady. “This new packet core will provide the reliability and capacity we need today, but more importantly will be able to scale to meet the forecasted future demands that will result from the incredible capabilities of our robust 5G network, the platform for 21st century innovation.”

In June of this year, Verizon announced that data traffic on its 5G Ultra Wideband network had already increased 249%, and it expects exponentially higher increases as more customers adopt the new technology and begin to experience the robust capabilities and performance of 5G Ultra Wideband. The new optical core, which is being built to meet customers’ growing demands through 2032, is upgradeable to future 800 Gbps and 1 Tbps per port optical technology, allowing Verizon to manage 230 Tbps of data at any given time.

https://www.verizon.com/about/news/verizon-quadruples-capacity-fiber-network-core

• Juniper’s PTX10000 line is optimized for scale-up and scale-out architectures, supporting future 800G and boasting system capacity of up to 230.4 Tbps. The PTX10000 line is powered by Juniper’s current generation Express4 silicon and upgradeable to the coming Express5 silicon. The PTX also features native 400G inline MACsec encryption. Three configurable PTX10000 models have been announced: PTX10004 (4-slot), PTX10008 (8-slot), PTX10016 (16-slot).

Juniper scales edge and core with next gen Trio and Express ASICs

Tuesday, January 25, 2022  Core, Edge, Juniper, Silicon  

Juniper Networks is pushing ahead with its next generation Trio and Express ASICs for cloud and Service Provider networks.The 5th generation Express ASIC, which powers Juniper's PTX Series core routers, increases forwarding performance with pipeline and memory capabilities for scaling, filtering, telemetry and sampling operations. It offers 45% power efficiency improvement over the 4th generation introduced in 2020. The...

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Sparkle deploys Juniper PTX Series Routers for 400G

Monday, February 28, 2022  Juniper  

Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, has deployed Juniper’s 400G PTX Series Routers.Juniper says 400G optical transceiver modules deliver a lower cost-per-bit by delivering the same bandwidth in less physical space. A 400G-capable network is a key step for Tier-1 providers like Sparkle, who are grappling with relentless traffic growth.“The 400G platform from Juniper will be a key tool in our...

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Cirion spins out of Latin American operations from Lumen

Cirion, previously the Latin American operations of Lumen Technologies, officially launched as an independent company with approximately 86,000 kms of fiber, an extensive subsea cable network, and data centers in major economic centers across Central and South America.

Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, acquired the Cirion assets for US$2.7 billion. 

Lumen acquired the Latin American business in 2011 when it acquired the business of Global Crossing.

Cirion and Lumen plan to maintain a strategic partnership covering reciprocal reselling and network agreements that leverage each other’s extensive fiber footprints, data centers, and other network assets. 

All of Lumen’s LATAM employees and employees in the United States who are part of the LATAM organization, including its current leadership team, transferred to Cirion as part of the transaction.

“We believe technology is key to our digital future and know what it takes to drive industry change. We are confident that we have the right people, partners, and resources to bring fast, reliable, and exceptional services to our customers,” said Facundo Castro, CEO of Cirion. “We are very enthusiastic about the opportunities that lay ahead and look forward to positioning ourselves as the technological partner of choice for Latin America’s most relevant industries.”

“Closing this transaction marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Cirion as the company continues to expand its fiber and data center network across its already strong footprint in Latin America,” said Stonepeak Managing Director and Co-Head of Communications Andrew Thomas. “We are excited to partner with Cirion’s team and apply our experience as active investors in global digital infrastructure to drive sustainable long-term growth.”

"This divestiture is an important step in achieving Lumen's strategic goals as we sharpen our focus on key strategic assets while also providing our LATAM employees and customers an opportunity for continued growth," said Jeff Storey, Lumen President and CEO. "This transaction also positions our Lumen Platform for long term growth, allowing Lumen to invest in a strategic mix of assets and alliances that allows us to deliver what our customers want anywhere in the world."

https://ciriontechnologies.com

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Video: Cirion's Principal Network Architect on Service Automation

 

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Cirion, the new spin-out international carrier that was previously the Latin American operations of Lumen Technologies, is engaged with MEF and other global operators, to automate its service activation. 

Jorge Brites, Principal Network Architect at Cirion, discusses service automation and MEF LSO APIs.

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Reliance Jio becomes India's biggest spectrum holder

Reliance Jio was the largest purchaser in the auction of 5G spectrum conducted by the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, over the past week.

Jio confirmed that it acquired spectrum in the 700MHz, 800MHz, 1800MHz, 3300MHz and 26GHz bands. The company said it will use equipment made in India for its 5G rollout.

Jio's total cost of acquiring the technology agnostic spectrum for a period of 20 years is Rs. 88,078 crore. As per terms of the spectrum auction, the spectrum payments have to be made over 20 equated annual instalments, with interest computed at 7.2% per annum. 

Through this acquisition, Jio’s total owned spectrum footprint has increased significantly to 26,772 MHz (uplink + downlink), which is the highest in India:

• Sub-GHz: Jio has the highest amount of sub-GHz spectrum with at least 2X10 MHz contiguous spectrum in both 700 MHz and 800 MHz bands across each of the 22 circles.
• Mid-band: Jio is the only operator which has at least 2X10 MHz in 1800 MHz band (with 2X20 MHz in six key circles), 40 MHz in 2300 MHz band and 100 MHz in 3300 MHz band across all the 22 circles.
• mmWave: In addition, Jio also has right to use 1,000 MHz in the millimetre wave band (26 GHz) in each of the 22 circles which will be crucial to enable enterprise use cases as well as provide high-quality streaming services.

Shri Akash M Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Jio Infocomm issued the following statement:

“We have always believed that India will become a leading economic power in the world by adopting the power of breakthrough technologies. This was the vision and conviction that gave birth to Jio. The speed, scale and societal impact of Jio’s 4G rollout is unmatched anywhere in the world. Now, with a bigger ambition and stronger resolve, Jio is set to lead India’s march into the 5G era. We will celebrate ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ with a pan India 5G rollout. Jio is committed to offering world-class, affordable 5G and 5G-enabled services. We will provide services, platforms and solutions that will accelerate India’s digital revolution, especially in crucial sectors like Education, Healthcare, Agriculture, Manufacturing and e-Governance and make another proud contribution to Honourable Prime Minister’s DIGITAL INDIA MISSION.”

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New CXL 3.0 spec doubles the data rate to 64GTs

The CXL Consortium announced the release of the CXL 3.0 specification, doubling the data rate to 64GTs compared to the 2.0 generation.

The idea with CXL is to maintain memory coherency between the CPU memory space and memory on attached devices, allowing resource sharing.

“Modern datacenters require heterogenous and composable architectures to support compute intensive workloads for applications such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – and we continue to evolve CXL technology to meet industry requirements,” said Siamak Tavallaei, president, CXL Consortium. “Developed by our dedicated technical workgroup members, the CXL 3.0 specification will enable new usage models in composable disaggregated infrastructure.”

Highlights of the CXL 3.0 specification:

• Fabric capabilities
• Multi-headed and Fabric Attached Devices o Enhanced Fabric Management
• Composable disaggregated infrastructure
• Better scalability and improved resource utilization o Enhanced memory pooling
• Multi-level switching
• New enhanced coherency capabilities o Improved software capabilities
• Doubles the bandwidth to 64GTs
• Zero added latency over CXL 2.0
• Full backward compatibility with CXL 2.0, CXL 1.1, and CXL 1.0

Board members of the CXL Consortium included Alibaba, AMD, Arm, Cisco, Dell, Google, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Meta, Micron, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Samsung. 

https://www.computeexpresslink.org/download-the-specification

Marvell to acquire Tanzanite for Compute Express Link (CXL)

Monday, May 09, 2022  Data Centers, Marvell, Mergers And Acquisitions, Silicon, Start-Ups  

Marvell agreed to acquire privately-held Tanzanite Silicon Solutions, a start-up based in Milpitas, California that is developing advanced Compute Express Link (CXL) technologies. Terms of the all-cash transaction were not disclosed. Marvell said the future cloud data center will be built on fully disaggregated architecture utilizing CXL technology, requiring greater high-speed interconnectivity than ever combined with optimized compute, networking,...

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Rambus to acquire Hardent for semiconductor design team

Thursday, May 05, 2022  Rambus, Silicon  

Rambus agreed to acquire Hardent, a professional services company specializing in electronic product design and engineering. The company, which is based in Montreal, has 20 years of semiconductor experience in silicon design, verification, compression, and Error Correction Code (ECC). Financial terms were not disclosed.Rambus says the acquisition augments its team of engineers at Rambus and accelerates the development of CXL processing solutions...

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Video: CXL will completely transform server architecture

https://youtu.be/n6yIAwsrjo4
 

What is CXL and why is it the hot topic at this year's Flash Memory Summit?

Compute Express Link  (CXL) is an industry-supported Cache-Coherent Interconnect for processors, memory expansion and accelerators. Earlier this year, Marvell a rivately-held Tanzanite Silicon Solutions, a start-up based in Milpitas, California developing advanced CXL technologies. 

The big idea is to aggregate the vast amounts of memory that is currently stranded in servers across a data center into a common pool of composable memory.

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DigitalBridge form Xenith Infrastructure Group for HKG and Singapore

DigitalBridge Group and funds affiliated with Columbia Capital have formed Xenith Infrastructure Group, a new fiber platform serving hyperscalers, data center operators, carriers and enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region

Xenith IG’s initial assets comprise conduit and fiber assets in Singapore and Hong Kong, which it acquired from Superloop.

Xenith IG will be led by Clement Goh, who was appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective August 1, 2022. Mr. Goh brings more than 20 years of digital infrastructure and technology sector experience in the Asia-Pacific market to Xenith IG.

Mr. Goh said, “I am honored to serve as Xenith IG’s CEO and look forward to working with the entire team to address the increased demand for reliable and high-performance fiber connectivity as digitalization continues to grow in this region. DigitalBridge and Columbia Capital are global leaders in building digital infrastructure businesses, and I am excited to partner with them to deliver dense and high-quality fiber networks serving the current and future requirements of our customers.”

“We believe Xenith IG is ideally positioned to capitalize on the significant growth of network demand observed in Asia-Pacific,” said Justin Chang, Managing Director and Head of Asia at DigitalBridge. “We are also thrilled to welcome Clement in his role as CEO. Clement brings a deep understanding of the connectivity and data center businesses in this region, and we look forward to working with him to grow the Xenith IG platform into a premier fiber infrastructure provider in this region.”

https://www.digitalbridge.com

https://www.xenithig.com

DigitalBridge appoints Tae Ahn as MD of Asia Capital Formation 

Tuesday, July 19, 2022  DigitalBridge, People  

DigitalBridge Group appointed Tae E. Ahn as Managing Director and Head of Asia Capital Formation at DigitalBridge Investment Management. Based in Singapore, he will work alongside DigitalBridge’s existing team with a focus on capital formation, coinvestment and client relationship management across Asia-Pacific.Prior to joining DigitalBridge, he served as Senior Client Relationship Manager and Head of Korea at global private markets firm Partners...

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DT to sell 51% stake in towers business to Digital Bridge and Brookfield

Wednesday, July 13, 2022  Deutsche Telekom, Digital Bridge, Germany, Towers  

Deutsche Telekom will sell 51 percent of GD Towers comprising its tower assets in Germany and Austria, to Digital Bridge and Brookfield at 17.5 billion euros enterprise value on a cash and debt free basis. With around 800 employees, GD Towers operates more than 40,000 sites in Germany and Austria and has a successful track record in delivering new sites for its anchor tenant Telekom Deutschland and securing revenues with third party customers....

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Semtech to acquire Sierra Wireless, bringing together LoRa + Cellular IoT

Semtech agreed to acquire Sierra Wireless, a leading supplier of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, for US$31 per share in an all-cash transaction representing a total enterprise value of approximately US$1.2 billion.

Semtech said the deal will significantly expand its addressable market and is expected to approximately double Semtech’s annual revenue and create a strong and diverse portfolio of connectivity solutions for the growing IoT market. 

Significantly, the merger brings together Semtech's LoRa with Sierra Wireless' cellular IoT to enable the digitization of the industrial world with a comprehensive chip-to-Cloud platform.

Semtech expects the combination of Sierra Wireless’ cellular capabilities across its modules, gateways and managed connectivity together with Semtech’s LoRa-enabled end nodes to create a uniquely differentiated IoT portfolio which will enable a plethora of new IoT use cases to be conceived.

“We believe the next era of technology growth is the full digitization of our industrial world – the Internet of Everything. Our vision is to build a simple, horizontal platform with the goal of accelerating this transformation and to bring about a smarter and more sustainable planet,” said Semtech president and chief executive officer, Mohan Maheswaran. “This exciting strategic acquisition of Sierra Wireless is a critical part of bringing this vision to life through the combination of cellular, LoRa and Cloud services. Together, with the world-class Sierra Wireless engineering team, we will be positioned to advance the market with multi-radio solutions that bring new chip-to-Cloud services to support customers and grow our business.”

“Over the last year, Sierra Wireless has taken decisive steps to profitably grow the business, and I am proud that the progress we have made has culminated in this exciting transaction. Together with Semtech, we will be able to extend the reach of IoT solutions by scaling, optimizing and ultimately delivering an even stronger product portfolio and service model to customers,” said Phil Brace, president and chief executive officer of Sierra Wireless. 

https://www.semtech.com

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Arista clocks its first billion dollar quarter, acquires Pluribus

Arista Networks reported Q2 revenue of $1.052 billion, an increase of 20.0% compared to the first quarter of 2022, and an increase of 48.7% from the second quarter of 2021. GAAP gross margin was 61.2%, compared to GAAP gross margin of 63.1% in the first quarter of 2022 and 64.2% in the second quarter of 2021.

Non-GAAP net income was $342.7 million, or $1.08 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $216.8 million, or $0.68 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2021.

Commenting on the company's financial results, Ita Brennan, Arista’s CFO said, “We are pleased with overall business momentum in the quarter with strong revenue growth driving significant EPS upside and demonstrating the inherent operational leverage of the business model.”

“In Q2 2022, we achieved our first billion-dollar revenue quarter, despite the challenges of an uncertain supply chain environment,” said Jayshree Ullal, President and CEO of Arista Networks. “This record milestone further validates the customer value of Arista’s differentiated cloud networking platforms, now adopted by many of the largest cloud and enterprise customers around the world.”

Arista also noted its acquisition of privately-held Pluribus Networks.  Financial terms were not disclosed. Pluribus, which was based in Palo Alto, California, developed software-defined cloud fabrics. Ericsson has been partnering with Pluribus Networks for the unified cloud network fabric of the Ericsson NFVI solution since 2016.  Pluribus has also been endorsed by NVIDIA for DPU-based networking.

Arista also noted on-going supply chain issues.

https://www.arista.com/en/company/news/press-release/15867-pr-20220801

• Over the years, Pluribus announced $145 million in venture funding over multiple rounds.

Pluribus nets $20 million to advance its distributed cloud networking

Thursday, October 07, 2021  Pluribus  

Pluribus Networks announced $20 million in new funding for its solutions for distributed cloud networking and SDN automation.Pluribus said it will use the financing to bolster R&D for multiple new product initiatives along with sales and marketing resources that will further accelerate the company’s penetration into the distributed cloud market, while supporting expansion into adjacent sectors.“With such pronounced momentum of cloud infrastructure...

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Video: Four Key Things to Know about Edge Data Center Networking

Monday, January 11, 2021  Edge, Pluribus  

The buildout of edge data centers will be one of the big investment trends for 2021. In this 3-minute clip, Mike Capuano, Chief Marketing Officer of Pluribus Networks, outlines 4 key things to know about edge data center networking.See video: https://youtu.be/rGEv052x0UkDownload our free 2020 Next-Gen Edge and Beyond Report here: http://ngi.how/edge-2...

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Pluribus scales up with its Adaptive Cloud Fabric

Wednesday, October 07, 2020  Pluribus  

Pluribus Networks introduced a number of architectural enhancements to its Adaptic Cloud Fabric to scale hybrid clouds and edge data centers to thousands of nodes.The Pluribus Adaptive Cloud Fabric, powered by the Netvisor ONE OS and open network switching hardware, leverages a controllerless SDN architecture that incorporates network automation, virtualization, secure segmentation, visibility and analytics.The company is introducing two complementary...

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Dell'Oro: Campus switch sales rise despite supply chain issues

Sunday, June 12, 2022  Dell’Oro, Research  

Worldwide sales of campus switch sales rose 7% in 1Q 2022, with growth across North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and China, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. North America accounted for more than half of the sales increase during the quarter.“Remarkably and despite ongoing supply challenges, 1Q 2022 marked the fourth consecutive quarter of high single-to-double-digit growth in the market,” said Sameh Boujelbene, Senior Director...

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Dell'Oro: Data center switch sales up 16% in 1Q 2022

Saturday, June 04, 2022  Data Centers, Dell’Oro, Research, Switching  

Global data center switch sales grew robustly in 1Q 2022, reaching the second-highest revenue ever captured in the market, just 2 percent below the record sales level achieved in the prior quarter. Arista, H3C, Juniper, Star-net Ruijie, and white box vendors captured most of the growth in the market, according to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group. Arista grew the fastest and was able to gain more than two points of revenue share during...

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Arista intros 7130 Series of low latency programmable switches

Thursday, June 02, 2022  Arista, Switching  

Arista Networks introduced ultra low latency, highly programmable 7130 Series switching systems designed for demanding in-network applications, such as financial trading. The Arista 7130 Series of low latency programmable switchesare powered by full-featured, programmable switching silicon and ultra low latency Layer 1 and highly scalable FPGAs. The expanded 7130 Series includes two new models that integrate full-featured L2/3 switching and...

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Comcast Business teams with Fortinet on SASE

Comcast Business today announced a strategic partnership with Fortinet to deliver enterprises a new set of secure access service edge (SASE), and security service edge (SSE) solutions.

The new Comcast Business offerings — delivered through Comcast Business Secure Gateways — give enterprises the option to choose from either SASE or SSE solutions backed by Fortinet’s security-driven networking technology and Equinix’s flexible cloud connection Equinix Fabric for a complete secure network service. 

Comcast Business Secure Gateways provide a fully-hosted set of SASE or SSE services covering a broad range of security networking solutions for Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), Intrusion Prevention (IPS), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Comcast Business Secure Gateways are hosted across the United States at Equinix data centers, offering up to 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) of cloud connectivity for public, private, or hybrid cloud deployments. The Equinix Fabric™ enables support of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM and more than 200 SaaS providers.

“In today’s dynamic world, no two companies are alike and very few are the same as they were just two years ago,” said Amit Verma, Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Solutions, Comcast Business. “By expanding our relationship with Fortinet, we are offering our clients more choice and the flexibility to choose a solution that works for them – while providing some of the latest security solutions to help keep them ready for the day – today and tomorrow.”

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Video: Streamlining Secure Business Transactions with MEF LSO APIs

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Automation is the process of streamlining business interactions, explains Daniele Mancuso, SVP Chief Product Management, Sparkle, and Board Director of MEF. 

MEF has developed its Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) framework to promote this vision. The next step is to combine the LSO APIs with Blockchain.

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Video: Automation is the path to cloud-native network solutions

https://youtu.be/fbtvmPvQO0Q

Automation is key to enabling services across a global ecosystem of Service Providers, says Franck Morales, Vice President, Evolution Platform, Orange Business Services, and Director of MEF.

Here is a perspective on how this automation is developing within MEF and across the industry.

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Video: Blockchain and Smart Contracts for Billing and Settlement

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MEF has made tremendous progress with its LSO APIs, streamlining the transfer of information between parties. The next step is to leverage blockchain to define smart contracts, explains Daniel Bar-Lev, VP Strategic Programs, MEF.

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MaxLinear releases Panther III DPU Storage Accelerator

MaxLinear released its Panther III storage accelerator based on 16 nanometer (nm) DPU architecture and features a high throughput of 200Gbps and ultra-low single-pass transformation latency. 

MaxLinear says Panther III is aimed at new opportunities within the storage market, including all-flash-array and non-volatile memory express (NVMe) systems. It offers a 12:1 data reduction technology that intelligently offloads the CPU to open all tiers of storage to their full bandwidth potential with no CPU or software limitations. 

Panther III features:

• Faster NVMe access: Combining the NVMe SSD drives growth and Panther III 200Gbps throughput with ultra-low latency enable quicker access to larger datasets (big data), allowing higher performance data analysis to deliver better workload accuracy
• Lower Capital Storage Expenses (CAPEX): The exclusive patent-pending MaxHash provides independent hash block size and programmable offset to enhance deduplication hit rates resulting in improved effective storage capacity and $/GB savings
• Fast System Integration: Feature-rich software development kit (SDK) contains API, drivers, and source code for easy incorporation with end application software and software-defined storage (SDS)
• Meet Six 9’s reliability: The built-in end-to-end data protection via Real Time Verification (RTV) of all transforms, NVMe protection, and in-line CRCs/parity assures data integrity and eliminates data loss

“Panther III comes to market at a critical inflection point for enterprise storage appliances and hyperscale data center disaggregated computing storage systems,” said James Lougheed, Vice President of High Performance Analog and Accelerator products. “With the rise of higher speed NVMe SSD drive deployment, software data compression and reduction techniques are no longer viable architectures. Even existing hardware compression offload solutions lack the ability to scale. The release of Panther III elevates the product family into a class of its own, ready to address a data storage market that’s doubling its Zettabytes capacity every three years.”

http://www.maxlinear.com/panther

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Windstream Wholesale connects to DC BLOX data center

Windstream Wholesale connected to its second DC BLOX data center at 433 6th St. South in Birmingham, Alabama, which is the first multi-tenant data center in the state of Alabama to receive Uptime Institute’s Tier III Certification of Constructed Facility (TCCF). 

Windstream Wholesale is now taking orders at the location for diverse Wave Services, Ethernet Solutions, and Dedicated Internet Access.

“We are very excited for an additional DC BLOX facility to join our growing portfolio of on-net data centers,” said Joe Scattareggia, chief revenue officer of Windstream Wholesale. “DC BLOX is an outstanding provider of secure, reliable tier III data centers, and Windstream Wholesale is pleased to support its mission of meeting the local and regional needs of businesses in growing communities. We look forward to expanding this valuable partnership with additional DC BLOX locations in the future.”

 https://www.windstreamwholesale.com

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