Virgin Media is testing in Cambridgeshire, UK, an 8Gb/s cable service to a small subset of subscribers. (Currently, the trial supports eight households, but can extend to 50 over time).…
IBM supports Juniper with $325mn of Watson Services Platform
IBM has released information on a deal worth $325mn with networking equipment manufacturer Juniper Networks. This deploys IBM's Service Platform with Watson for a 7 year period into Juniper's environment.…
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…
Silver Peak gains $90mn funding from TCV
Silver Peak announced yesterday that is receiving an extra $90mn in funding. This comes from new investor TCV, which is now the largest investor in the company. TCV in the…
CoherentLight blog writer founds thirteen-ten nanometre networks Ltd
Press Release: Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, UK. 1st June 2018 The writer of the CoherentLight blog, John S. Dixon, has founded a company to provide access to high-quality relevant knowledge…
OpenContrail becomes Tungsten Fabric
The Linux Foundation has recently obtained the OpenContrail source from Juniper. Having fully transitioned OpenContrail into the Linux Foundation, it is now rebranded as Tungsten Fabric. This move may appear…
Zscaler makes initial trades on Nasdaq
Zscaler has opened for trading on the Nasdaq exchange. Founded in 2007, it makes it's IPO eleven years later, as the first major technology offering of 2018. The Nasdaq exchange…
BT Launch Ultrafast Broadband @ 152Mbps and 314Mbps
For those of you lucky enough to be able to get your ADSL connection over copper, rather than damp string, BT is now offering higher speeds, up to 314Mb/s. This…