New SD-WAN service by Mushroom Networks allows partners to customize WANs
Mushroom Networks, a privately held company based in San Diego, Calif., delivered a new spin on software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) on Tuesday, which enables service providers to tailor WANs to fit each customers'...
July marks the second half of the year, making it an ideal time to reflect upon what the journey through 2017 has been like and where it is going. With respect to virtualization, developers have played an increasingly important role in how companies deal...
Software-defined networking (SDN) holds great promise for the healthcare industry. Healthcare IT professionals are coaxed into updating hospital networks and data centers to protect patient data and support innovative medical applications. SDN can address these challenges. Here's a rundown of some of the different...
The AI deal stipulates smart transportation and smart surveillance initiatives
Chinese internet giant Baidu has signed an agreement with the government of Shanxi province to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into city management, Chinese press reported.
Under the terms of the agreement, Baidu will cooperate with Shanki...
NetBond relationship deepens the AT&T/Oracle relationship
AT&T now has 20 cloud providers participating in its NetBond for Cloud ecosystem, with the latest addition being Oracle's FastConnect cloud service.
NetBond allows AT&T customers to access cloud services from ecosystem partners with dedicated, secure connectivity and a promise...
The new IoT offering is part of the German software firm’s Leonardo digital innovation system
German software firm SAP has launched several new internet of things (IoT) solutions as part of the SAP Leonardo digital innovation system.
The company said that these new IoT solutions take...
Open Compute Project (OCP) is an initiative led by Facebook aimed at building an efficient computing infrastructure at the lowest possible cost
The origins of the project
The roots of the Open Compute Project trace back to 2009 when an exponential surge of people started using...
The purpose of CORD
Network providers must address numerous hurdles with the demand for greater bandwidth and additional services. In an effort to tackle these challenges, operators hope to benefit from the economies of commodity infrastructure and the agility of scalable services. For these reasons,...
Google's Android OS raises EU competitive concerns
Alphabet could be hit with another record fine from the European Union, this time for using its Android operating system to protect the market position of its applications and search engine on mobile devices by limiting device manufacturer's...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Ori Inbar, co-founder and CEO of augmentedreality.org, gave a keynote address titled “Superpowers to Change the Word: How Augmented Reality Helps Advance Humanity” at the 2017 Sensors Expo and Conference this week.
Augmented reality vs. virtual reality
AR and virtual reality (VR) are two...
Service providers embrace NFV
Network functions virtualization is spearheading a fundamental shift in the telecommunications industry. While still in its infancy, major service providers like AT&T, Verizon and Cisco are launching NFV deployments.
The goal of NFV is to take network functions typically reserved for proprietary...
A cultural environment
What is devops? First off, it's a lot more than a buzzword in the telecom industry. Despite the widespread attention devops has received, the concept lacks linguistic clarity. Numerous organizations have adopted the term with conflicting perceptions about what it actually means.
Originally...
The internet of things (IoT) is creating ripples in the marketplace of ideas, enabling billions of web-connected devices to exchange meaningful information without human intervention. It has the power to revolutionize how customers shop, companies conduct business and hospitals treat patients. To ensure these...
The telecom industry is undergoing a major shift with the migration from voice and data services to an encompassing set of networking tools. Accompanying this shift is a need for greater agility and flexibility. Open source software is indispensable to a faster, more malleable...
Software-defined networking (SDN) is making big waves in the telecom networking spaces. Like any budding technology, SDN will take time to develop. Nevertheless, SDN applications are being deployed by major service providers including Amazon, Cisco, Facebook, Microsoft and NTT, to name just a few.
What...
SDN explained
Data centers, carriers and enterprise centers are becoming increasingly complex in a world that demands greater agility. Existing networks are not designed to be dynamic, making it difficult for them to respond to change. In an effort to address shifts in traffic flows...
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) launched its software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) Service Portfolio with coverage spanning more than 190 countries. The debut marks a milestone for NTT Com, making it the first provider to deploy a worldwide SD-WAN services.
SD-WAN is a way to...
Network functions virtualization (NFV) is making big waves in the telecom industry, but the shift lacks proper oversight. Consequently, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) defined management and orchestration (MANO) as the architectural framework for overseeing the surge of network functions flooding virtual devices.
At...
Keysight acquisition presents a new path for Ixia
Almost three years after Bethany Mayer took the helm at Ixia, the company has been acquired by Keysight Technologies. The $1.6 billion transaction closed in April, and now the former Ixia CEO will be using her experience...
Demo on T-Mobile US' network focuses on IoT; Sprint, Rogers RCS interconnect went live on June 1
Rich Communications Services messaging adoption appears to be picking up speed. Sprint and Rogers recently enabled the first North American cross-carrier RCS interconnection, while messaging platform provider OpenMarket and...
AT&T to pick up Vyatta assets from Brocade
AT&T is picking up Brocade's Vyatta network operating system and software solutions amid the sale of Brocade to Broadcom, to further its network virtualization efforts as well as its product offerings.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed....
Verizon's offering leverages Ericsson technologies
Drawing an already-close partner even closer, Ericsson will be deploying Verizon's managed Software Defined Wide Area Network service for its corporate IT, including virtualized security services and managed enterprise Radio Access Network solutions.
Ericsson's own technology underpins Verizon's offerings. In February, Verizon agreed...
Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has been described variously as a threat to humanity, a boon to economies, and many other things in between. All valuable technologies solve a pertinent problem. Until recently AI and its favorite children, machine learning and predictive analytics, have...
Survey shows interest in SD-WAN market
The software-defined Wide Area Network market is poised for 200% growth in the next 12 months, according to a new report from Cato Networks.
In a survey of more than 350 IT professionals, Cato found that nearly a third of...
