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NTT DOCOMO announced plans to conduct experimental trials of emerging 5G technologies with leading vendors, including Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia and Samsung. The research program will look at the...

Amazon Web Services added its CloudFront content delivery network to its list of AWS Free Usage Tier benefits. AWS Free Usage Tier is the company's introductory program for customers to...

BT's open fibre network now passes more than 19 million homes and businesses, represting about two thirds of UK premises. BT originally said it would cover 19m premises with fibre...

CyrusOne is breaking ground on a second data center at its Phoenix Campus in Chandler, Arizona. The new building will have 60,000 square feet of white floor space at full...

Taiwan-based Accton Technology has joined the Open Compute Project and announced its plans to open source a design for a 10GbE top-of-rack switch and adapter to allow standard 19” rack...

In this video, Tom Edsall, CTO of the Insieme business unit at Cisco, introduces OpFlex, a new policy protocol designed to support physical and virtual switching infrastructure.  OpFlex provides an...

A coalition of leading Web companies published an open letter to the FCC asking commissioners to defend the principles of the Open Internet.  The letter comes in response to published...

Wind River announced a new performance benchmark for its accelerated virtual switch (vSwitch) integrated within Wind River Carrier Grade Communications Server, which is designed for network functions virtualization (NFV). Wind...

Dell reaffirmed its commitment to open, standards-based architectures on which to build public, private and hybrid clouds. Dell highlighted an enterprise-ready OpenStack-based private cloud solutions that it has co-engineered with...

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) opened the first ONIE certification lab. ONIE is an industry standard network boot loader for installing software on network switches. “With each...

Alcatel-Lucent completed an upgrade of the Apollo undersea cable system which links the UK and France to the United States for 100G channels and over 25 Tbps of total capacity....

CALIENT Technologies unveiled two new optical circuit switch subsystems aimed at data center, telecom or media networking applications. The new subsystems are based on CALIENT’s 320-port S320 Optical Circuit Switch...

Alestra has implemented Alcatel-Lucent 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) platform in its network in Mexico to support channel speeds of 400 Gigabits per second.  The 400G capability has already been...