Choosing a host infrastructure
The Infrastructure hosting market can feel overwhelming with the variety of technologies and platforms available. Generally speaking, however, infrastructure hosts fall into two categories: bare metal infrastructure and hypervisor-based infrastructure. To help determine which infrastructure host works best for your company,...
xRAN Forum recently released it's fronthaul specification
Virtualization of network infrastructure is part and parcel of the evolution for 5G. From the evolved packet core to the radio access network (RAN) operators and industry stakeholders are working to develop interoperability frameworks that will ensure the...
KDDI Europe selects Silver Peak’s Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution
KDDI Europe, a London-based subsidiary of KDDI Corporation, is adopting and providing Silver Peak’s SD-WAN solution to its enterprise customers.
KDDI Europe’s SD-WAN services will be powered by the Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution. It will provide KDDI Europe...
A growing community
The telecommunications industry and beyond is increasingly embracing open source software. Just this year, for example, the Linux Foundation established the LF Networking Fund (LFN) in an effort to host its many open source projects focused on developing an open telecom ecosystem...
MEF announces two new specifications for MEF 3.0 framework
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), a nonprofit international industry consortium, recently released two new specifications related to the MEF 3.0 framework. According to the organization, the specifications, dubbed Information Model (MEF 59) and Interface Profile Specification...
If it seems like you're hearing more about ransomware attacks, it's not just that more high-profile attacks -- like the recent takeover of some city government systems in Atlanta, Ga.-- are making the news. Ransomware attacks have increased significantly in the last couple of...
NetScout Systems becomes member of LFN
The Linux Foundation Networking Fund (LFN) continues to grow with NetScout Systems Inc. jumping on board as its newest member.
LFN was founded at the beginning of the year as a way to house the Linux Foundation's open source projects...
Leveraging machine learning for cybersecurity
Data breaches and cyber attacks have become harder to deter over the last few years. According to Cisco’s 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report, for example, the expanded volume of both legitimate and malicious encrypted traffic on the web has made it...
For service providers and enterprises, cloud adoption drives innovation
NEW YORK--Oracle Executive Vice President Bob Weiler stressed to attendees of the Oracle Industry Connect event that now is the time to move business processes to the cloud. "You have to go to the cloud," he...
Cisco aims to secure workloads across data centers and multi-cloud environments
Cisco announced it is combining Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Tetration, Stealthwatch and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) technologies into an integrated solution to protect data center workloads.
Cisco noted security challenges are growing alongside sophisticated cyber...
Apcela aims to improve machine learning with Enhanced Analytics Platform
Application delivery company Apcela is breaking into machine learning with the deployment of its Enhanced Analytics Platform (EAP). Accompanying the platform is a SD-WAN API, which extends Cisco’s SD-WAN solution with Elastic’s ElasticSearch, Logstash and...
IoTium announces availability of OT-Edge
Industrial IoT company IoTium introduced a new container-based platform, dubbed OT-Edge, which it claims is the first edge-cloud infrastructure solution built on remotely managed Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source platform, which has become the de facto standard of container orchestration....
Service providers can leverage network and acquisition to create new business models and revenue streams
NEW YORK--Citing World Economic Forum numbers, Douglas Suriano, senior vice president and general manager of Oracle Communications, said digital transformation represents a $10 trillion economic opportunity for service providers and...
Huawei announces DMM open source project
Huawei recently rolled out its new dual modes, multi-prococols, multi-instances (DMM) open source project with the aim of redesigning the protocol stack container in networking.
The company’s DMM is a Fast Data project and part of the Linux Foundation’s FD.io...
China Mobile to leverage Nokia equipment to build optical transport network
China Mobile has chosen Nokia to supply equipment for its regional optical transport network.
An optical transport network serves as a protocol for forwarding network messaging across optical fiber networks. It consists of a collection...
GitLab and Google work on automating container cluster deployments
GitLab is collaborating with Google Cloud to provide native integration into Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
GitLab said its native GKE integration will enable developers to automatically spin up a cluster to deploy applications in a few clicks....
Oracle AI, machine learning solutions mark move toward automation
The long view on telecommunications networking is automation of management and operational processes. This is highlighted with the advent of 5G, which is designed to provide connectivity for billions of new devices with a wide range...
NEC/Netcracker land deal with Etisalat
Etisalat has selected NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology as the primary solution provider for its multi-vendor telecom cloud program.
Etisalat is a Middle East communications provider headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It provides different 3G, 4G and fiber-to-the-home services....
Cisco issues patches to address software vulnerabilities
Cisco recently released patches for 34 vulnerabilities, including three critical remote code execution flaws, with the majority impacting its IOS and IOS XE networking software.
The security firm Embedi first discovered one of the more serious software flaws, dubbed...
Aryaka lands deal with China Mobile
Aryaka announced a partnership with China Mobile International (CMI) to deliver what the company claims to be the first compliant global SD-WAN service for international companies with locations in China, and Chinese companies with a global presence.
Under the agreement,...
Gluster Community announces Gluster 4.0
The Gluster Community recently premiered the latest version of the open source software scalable network filesystem, Gluster 4.0, with new features focused on container integration and storage management.
Gluster was founded in 2005 with the goal of simplifying storage using open...
JetStream Software unveils JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform
Cloud development company JetStream Software introduced a new cross-cloud data management platform, dubbed JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform, which aims to support workload migration, resource elasticity, and business continuity across multi-cloud and multi-data center infrastructures.
Established in 2016, JetStream Software is headquartered in San...
Lumina adds new features to Flow Manager product
Lumina Networks recently announced it has implemented new features in its Flow Manager product, which enables large network providers to start evolving their BGP/MPLS routers toward software-defined networking (SDN), according to the company.
Lumina rolled into the SDN market...
NVIDIA combining AI architecture with Arm machine learning platform
Two leaders in the machine learning/deep learning field have joined forces to push artificial intelligence (AI) into the quickly growing ecosystem of devices that comprise the internet of things (IoT). Announced during the recent GPU Technology...
