North Yorkshire County Council are working with Arqiva to improve mobile phone coverage in #notspots. A #notspot is an area of no mobile coverage. These are prevalent in rugged environments,…
Silver Peak adds executives
Silver Peak Systems have announced that they are bringing on new executive talent to accelerate their growth strategy. These three will help Silver-Peak take advantage of the growth in the…
Vertel uses Nuage SD-WAN to connect Australia
Australia's Vertel has partnered with Nokia's Nuage Networks division to deliver an SD-WAN service for Vertel's customers in July 2018. Vertel specialises in providing network services using next-generation wireless networks.…
Australia’s MetroNode acquired by Equinx in $792mn deal
Australia's MetroNode hosting company has been acquired by Equinix for $792mn. 100 % held by the Canadian Ontario Teachers Pension Plan currently, MetroNode was previously part of the NextGen Group.…
OpenContrail joins Linux Foundation
Juniper is moving their OpenContrail codebase to the Linux Foundation. OpenContrail is Juniper's open-source version of their Contrail SDN orchestrator. Provided as an open-source offering, OpenContrail doesn't have the support…
6Wind announces support for ARM to add to MIPS and x86
6Wind support for ARM devices as well as traditional x86 and MIPS processors with their press-release (6WIND Announces Arm® Processor Support for High Performance Networking). This expands the reach of…
Rackspace announces intent to acquire Datapipe
Rackspace announce their intent to acquire Datapipe. This will make Rackspace a global leader in multi-cloud managed services, as well as hosting and private cloud provision.
Viptela to accelerate Cisco’s intent vision.
Cisco have announced that they have completed Viptela's acquisition, with a press-release that indicates this fits within their intent-based networking strategy announced last week. As predicted, the value of the…