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Openreach, BT’s local access network business, has selected Ciena’s packet networking solutions to support the evolution of its Ethernet services. Openreach provides CPs with equal access to the wires and...

Broadnet, the leading Norwegian provider of fiber-based data communication, has signed a five-year network transformation agreement with Ericsson, extending a partnership started in 2006. Ericsson will supply IP routing, optical...

Global Cloud Xchange appointed Mark Simpson as President of North America. Simpson most recently served as CEO of SEACOM Ltd. where he was instrumental in transitioning the company into a...

by James E. Carroll The really exciting phase of cloud computing is just beginning, said Google's Distinguished Engineer Amin Vahdat, speaking at the 22nd Annual Symposium on High Speed Interconnects...

Nutanix, a start-up based in San Jose, California, announced a $140 million Series E funding round at over a $2 billion valuation. Nutanix offers a Virtual Computing Platform, which integrates...

VMWare's hybrid vCloud Air service will be available via AT&T's Netbond virtual private networking starting in the first half of 2015. AT&T NetBond is a highly secure private path between...

Riverbed Technology announced an enterprise-class, cloud data backup and recovery solution that protects workloads running in AWS by backing them up in secondary cloud locations. SteelStore for AWS, which is...

The Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP), which is a nonprofit corporation serving research and education organizations throughout the Pacific Rim, has activated a 100G connection for the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)...

The Packet Microwave equipment market grew 50 percent year-over-year in the second quarter of 2014, according to a newly published report by Dell'Oro Group.  Ceragon Networks was found to be...

Worldwide service provider router and switch revenue, including IP edge and core routers and carrier Ethernet switches (CES), is up 20% in 2Q14 over 1Q14, to $3.9 billion, according to...

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) will begin testing Transport Software Defined Networking (SDN) in several global carrier lab environments, including China Mobile, China Telecom,...

IBM's SoftLayer unit introduced hourly pricing for new bare metal servers that can deployed in under 30 minutes at its data centers in Dallas, San Jose, Washington D.C., London, Toronto,...

KDDI will invest US$270 million (28 billion yen) in building two new TELEHOUSE data centers in Tokyo and Osaka. The company cites a growing demand for data center space in...