Software-Defined Networking and Long-Term Roadmap Key Factors in Selecting Brocade SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwired) — 12/02/13 — Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) and the University of Florida today announced significant performance upgrades to the core network connecting the institution’s HiPerGator supercomputer and external research networks, such as Internet2. The deployment of Brocade® MLXe Core Routers with 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) blades and Brocade ICX® Switches enables the university’s faculty, students and […]
Read MoreRumors of Huawei’s departure from the US service provider market have been greatly exaggerated, and Bill Gerski is perhaps the greatest proof of that. Gerski, a former VP with the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) who also represented Dish Network LLC (Nasdaq: DISH) in sales to rural telcos, is a veteran of the rural telco market and is now aggressively taking Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. ‘s story there, believing the […]
Read MoreNetwork World – Ottawa, Canada — Avaya engineers are putting the final touches on a network capable of handling up to 54Tbps of traffic when the Winter Olympics opens on Feb. 7 in the Russian city of Sochi. Sochi itself is a sprawling city of 350,000 people located on the Black Sea. Archeologists have found human remains in the area that date back tens of thousands of years. Today, Sochi’s […]
Read MoreNetwork World Test Proves Virtual WAN Optimization Significantly Higher Value than Proprietary Hardware SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 20, 2013 – Silver Peak, the leader in accelerating data over distance, today announced that its WAN optimization software received top marks for performance and virtualization in Network World’s recent 7-vendor WAN optimization test.Silver Peak’s VX virtual WAN optimization products were tested alongside hardware products from Riverbed, Cisco and others. Based on the […]
Read MoreIDG News Service – With its new-found focus on IP networking and fast broadband access, Alcatel-Lucent is poised to take advantage of a worldwide explosion in mobile devices and the rush of service providers and operators to the cloud, company executives said at the networking vendor’s tech symposium this week. At the conference, ending Friday, Alcatel-Lucent executives fleshed out for analysts and media the strategy behind the “Shift” plan to […]
Read MoreCIO – During the dot-com boom many years ago, the then-called “New Economy” magazines boasted thick, 100-page folios chock-full of ads. At the Industry Standard, for example, there was a waiting list to buy advertising space. Magazine salespeople weren’t really selling at all; they were merely well-paid order-takers. Customers already had done their research and knew what they wanted. In this case, the business-to-business salesperson shared a lot in common […]
Read MoreAlso in today’s EMEA regional roundup: CityFibre to float; Voxsmart’s call-recording breakthrough; Mobistar begins 4G services. Jazztel plc , an alternative Spanish fixed-line operator best known for its consumer broadband services, is to deploy Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. routers to construct what the Chinese vendor claims is the first 400G IP backbone in Western Europe. The Huawei NE5000E 400G core router allows subcards to be removed and re-installed, and supports […]
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