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The Open Networking Foundation (ONF)completed its third semi-annual PlugFest designed to drive interoperability, deployment, and commercialization of SDN and the OpenFlow protocol. The event, which was hosted earlier this month...

Cumulus Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, emerged from stealth to unveil its Linux operating system for data center networking. Cumulus Linux, which is already in large-scale commercial deployment...

Motorola Mobility’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group announced a collaboration agreement with eight top U.S. research universities to streamline new joint research projects and the development of fundamental new...

RAD introduced distributed Grandmaster functionality in its Service Assured Access solution for mobile backhaul networks. The company said distributed GM is an elegant solution for LTE compared to existing solutions...

Tektronix Communications has begun offering professional consulting services to help carriers optimize the rollout of LTE networks. Tektronix said LTE rollouts are complex due to the increase in traffic and...

VimpelCom has deployed NetCracker OSS for a single view of its fixed and mobile networks. The project was delivered as part of VimpleCom’s initiative, aimed at increasing operational efficiency through...

F5 Networks introduced a full-proxy network firewall for Service Providers that can be deployed as a hardware- or software-based solution. The S/Gi firewall, which is offered with F5’s BIG-IP Advanced...

Overture named Christopher Swan as senior vice president of Global Sales and Services, where he will be responsible for leading Overture’s worldwide sales force and overseeing customer solution delivery and...

Coriant introduced its Intelligent Optical Control (IOC) for optimizing the optical layer using Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology. Coriant is presenting the solution for the first time at this week's...

ADVA Optical Networking has added an IEEE 1588v2 mini-Grandmaster (miniGM) clock and Boundary Clock functionality to its FSP 150 family of mobile backhaul products. The new capabilities ensure precise frequency...

Transmode introduced an "iAccess" solution for delivering business Ethernet and mobile backhaul services. Transmode's iAccess solution combines a new compact low cost Network Interface Device (NID) with the company's iWDM-PON...

Openet, which specializes in real-time transaction management software and services (B/OSS), has acquired Forkstream, a start-up working on technology to define policies for routing mobile data streams within and between...

The Broadband Forum released new test plans aimed at accelerating G-PON deployments. The BroadbandSuite 6.2 release includes: IR-247: GPON ONU Conformance Test Plan (detailed version, available to members only) ATP-247:...