Hawaiian Telcom announces that it has partnered with NEC, and others, to deliver a 20Tb/s 15,000km long cable system. This will link the continental US to Hawaii, and then onwards…
NTT buys Virtela, orchestrating network growth
Virtela are being acquired by NTT Communications, the ICT portion of NTT . This acquisition will help NTT Com grow their network infrastructure, currently based around Juniper T-series routers. The…
Vodafone to sell Verizon stake
The BBC placed an article on their news website yesterday (2 September 2013). This said that Vodafone sells Verizon stake for $130bn. This equates to £84bn. Shareholders will get £54bn…
ExtremeTech: Researchers create fiber network that operates at 99.7% speed of light, smashes speed and latency records
ExtremeTech reports that researchers at the University of Southampton have achieved a breakthrough in reducing latency of data transmissions. The new fiber has a number of other benefits as well.…
Arctic Fibre partners with Quintillion for Alaskan segment
https://alaska-native-news.com/arctic-fibre-and-quintillion-join-forces-to-bring-high-speed-internet-access-to-northern-alaska-and-bering-sea-7068
All change on the mobile front: LiMo becomes Tizen, Meego no more.
The LiMo and Linux Foundations have announced Tizen, a new operating platform for internet connected devices and phones. “LiMo Foundation views Tizen as a well-timed step change which unites major…
End-of-Life: Riverbed announces EOL for Shark Appliance Kits
Following on from the acquisition of CACE Technologies, Riverbed is announcing the withdrawal of the Shark Appliance Kits (software and network card) that allowed users to create their own appliances.…
End-of-Life: Riverbed announces End-of-Life for Steelhead Mobile Controller
Riverbed has announced the End-of-Life for it's first Steelhead Mobile Controller 8500, replacing it with the SMC8650, or the SMC-VE virtualised platform. The SMC8650 supports 40 concurrent licenses, up from…