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ADTRAN and ADVA announced a merger focused on end-to-end fiber networking solutions for communications service provider, enterprise and government customers. The deal combines ADTRAN’s market presence in fiber access, fiber extension and subscriber connectivity solutions with ADVA’s position in metro wavelength division multiplexing, data center interconnect, business ethernet and network synchronization solutions. The new company, […]
Rakuten Group has acquired Altiostar Networks at a total valuation of US$1 billion. Altiostar’s 4G and 5G open virtual Radio Access Network (Open vRAN) solutions are being used by Rakuten Mobile in its new 5G network in Japan. Altiostar’s suite of Open vRAN network functions are running on the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP), which is […]
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching an industry collaboration with Intel to expand access to domestic manufacturing capabilities for custom chips for defense systems. DARPA’s Structured Array Hardware for Automatically Realized Applications (SAHARA) program is partnership with Intel and academic researchers from University of Florida, University of Maryland, and Texas A&M […]
Openreach has activated its first live subscriber with the ADTRAN SDX series fibre access platform and the Mosaic Cloud network automation platform. This announcement comes as Openreach continues its record build rates for its Full Fibre broadband programme. With Openreach engineers now delivering faster, more reliable connectivity to 42,000 homes and businesses every week. ADTRAN […]
AT&T has selected Amdocs’cloud-native Openet 5G solution to monetize services over its 5G network. The 5G monetization solution is certified to run on AWS and Microsoft Azure. Financial terms were not disclosed. Amdocs said its solution supports AT&T’s strategy to take full advantage of its 5G network by quickly launching new services to market such […]
The Open Eye Consortium (Open Eye MSA) announced two new specifications targeted for 53Gbps per lane applications: SR4 for 100 meters reach over a multi-mode fiber and LR for 10 kilometers reach over a single-mode fiber. The new specs target 53Gbps SFP28 Long-Reach (LR) and 200Gbps QSFP Short-Reach (SR) optical module designs for next generation […]
Nokia will supply its fiber solutions to Openreach to help meet its target of bringing ultra-fast and reliable broadband access to 20 million homes across the UK by the mid-to-late 2020s. Nokia will provide GPON and XGS-PON technologies to expand Openreach’s fiber-rich network to reach 4.5 million premises by the end of March 2021. The […]
Altiostar confirmed that its O-RAN Alliance-compliant multi-vendor massive-multi-input, multi-output (mMIMO) 5G solution is in now in testing with with NEC Corporation and Rakuten Mobile. Specifically, Altiostar is integrating the O-RAN distributed unit (O-DU) functionality of its virtual radio access network (vRAN) software with NEC’s O-RAN Radio Unit (O-RU) using fully compliant control, user, synchronization and […]
BT Group officially transferred 31,000 employees to Openreach, the final step in establishing Openreach as a legally separate business. “This is an on ongoing process, and success requires continued commitment to the right behaviours, as well as transparency on how the arrangements are working in practice. We are committed to working with the regulator and […]
Cumulus Networks announced support for switching platforms powered by the new Broadcom Trident 3 (TD3) ASIC. Key capabilities: Simplified EVPN operations: built-in simplicity on different technological layers, thus reducing human errors and downtime. Scale and robustness in data and control plane: The EVPN solution on Trident 3 supports VXLAN routing/tunneling in a single pass at […]
ADVA Optical Networking reports that it is now working with nine customers on trials of the Facebook-designed Voyager solution, including Tier 1 service providers and large enterprises. The open optical packet transport system is being tested in a range of proof of concept (POC) installations. ADVA said the over the last nine months, Voyager has […]
Openreach, the wholly owned and independently governed division of the BT Group, appointed Sir Brendan Barber and Edward Astle as independent members of a newly formed Board to oversee strategy, investment and service delivery at the UK’s leading digital infrastructure company. The company said that establishing the new Board is central to governance reforms that […]
Facebook outlined its plan for Open Packet DWDM for metro and long-haul fiber optic transport networks. The idea is to “enable a clean separation of software and hardware” based on open specifications. Facebook had already developed a new “white box” transponder and routing platform called Voyager based on Open Packet DWDM, which it will contribute […]
Netronome announced the addition of Express Virtio (XVIO) technology to its Agilio Server Networking Platform. The XVIO technology brings to the standard Virtio drivers available in many Guest OS’s the level of performance of SR-IOV solutions but maintains full VM mobility. The advanced XVIO technology is based on and builds upon industry standard and open […]
A survey of the OpenStack user base has found that cost savings is primary motivation for deploying the technology. The survey was conducted by the OpenStack Foundation. Some key findings: Seventy-two percent of OpenStack users cite cost savings as their No. 1 business driver. The Net Promoter Score (NPS) for OpenStack deployments—an indicator of user […]
AT&T is adding Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation security platform to its catalog of virtual network functions (VNFs) available to global business customers on-demand. AT&T FlexWare, formerly called AT&T Network Functions on Demand, is available globally through the AT&T Network on Demand platform. AT&T FlexWare now offers two device form factors, a small device that can […]
The OPNFV Project announced its third platform release: Colorado. OPNFV Colorado brings advances to accelerate the development of NFV applications and services through key feature enhancements across security, IPv6, Service Function Chaining (SFC), testing, VPN capabilities, and support for multiple hardware architectures. “Colorado represents a more robust version of OPNFV’s previous Brahmaputra platform,” said Heather […]
AT&T, which recently announced plans to contribute its Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy (ECOMP) platform to open source, announced that Orange is now planning to test the platform for creating and managing its own software-defined network. Orange is the first telecom company to join AT&T’s ECOMP effort. The carriers have agreed to collaborate on […]
