Oracle announced its Virtual Networking open architecture for simplifying data centers using software-defined networking principles. With Oracle Virtual Networking, the company is promising "the industry's fastest data center fabric with...
Orange has extended its 4G network to 15 new markets across France, including 50 towns, as well as the 1st, 2nd, 8th and 9th districts of Paris. LTE in additional...
T-Mobile USA added 579,000 in the quarter to 34 million. This compares to a net loss of 349,000 branded customers in the fourth quarter of 2012. "These results display positive...
Cyan filed an S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering (IPO). Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities are joint book-running managers....
F5 Networks warned that revenue for its second quarter of fiscal 2013, ended March 31, are expected to be $350.2 million, below the company’s guidance of $370 million to $380...
Zerto, a start-up based in Herzelia, Israel, closed a $13 million round of Series C financing for its hypervisor-based, disaster recovery and replication software for virtualized environments. The Zerto Virtual...
Cisco will acquire privately held Ubiquisys, a developer of 3G and LTE small cell technologies, for $310 million in cash and retention-based incentives, Ubiquisys, which is headquartered in Swindon, U.K.,...
A redacted interview between Jim Carroll, Editor of Converge! Network Digest and Manish Gulyani, VP of Product Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent / Nuage Networks. Converge! Digest: How do you describe the Nuage...
OTEGLOBE, a leading international telecommunications provider in Greece and the Balkans, has deployed Infinera's DTN-X platform to upgrade its TransBalkan Network (TBN), which stretches from Greece to Germany across more...
TIM Brasil has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to deploy an LTE network layer on top of the operator’s existing 2G and 3G networks in the 2.6 GHz frequency band. Under...
SK Telecom announced the industry's first 802.11ac (5G WiFi) hotspot router. The product integrates Broadcom's BCM4708 and BCM4360, along with Broadcom's TurboQAM (256-QAM mode in 2.4 GHz) for faster throughputs....
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) awarded a multiple year competitive contract known as GSA Region 4 Integrated Telecommunications Services (GRITS) II to Level 3 Communications. The contract allows Level...
Forty years ago today, Martin Cooper placed the first public telephone call using a portable cellular phone. At the time, Cooper was general manager of Motorola's Communications Systems Division. He...
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