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Penguin Computing Unveils New Artica 3200xlp Switch
October 1st, 2014
Penguin Computing bolstered the company’s product line of high performance network switches with the new Arctica 3200xlp. The company, exhibiting at Interop Conference & Expo, also announced broad availability of the previously introduced Arctica 4806xp open network switch. The ...
AMD Demonstrates First NFV Offering on 64-Bit AMD and ARM Technology
October 1st, 2014
AMD today demonstrated the first network function virtualization (NFV) solution on AMD’s 64-bit ARM-based SoC and announced that it is now sampling to AMD’s embedded customers. The NFV demonstration is powered by a 64-bit ARM-based AMD Embedded R-Series SoC, codenamed “Hierofalcon,” ...
OpenDaylight Project Announces Availability of Helium
September 29th, 2014
The OpenDaylight Project, a community-led and industry-supported open source platform to advance Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), announced that Helium, its second open source software release, is available for download. In the past year the networking industry has ...
Brocade Vyatta Controller Unveiled
September 24th, 2014
Brocade has introduced the Brocade Vyatta Controller as a keystone product in its Software-Defined Networking (SDN) portfolio and the next step toward delivering on the customer benefits of its open networking platform strategy. Commercially supported by Brocade, this SDN controller is ...
Cisco to Acquire Memoir Systems
September 18th, 2014
Cisco has announced that it intends to acquire privately held Memoir Systems, a company that develops semiconductor memory intellectual property (IP) and tools that enable ASIC vendors to build programmable network switches with increasing speeds. This acquisition will enable the ...
AppliedMicro and Acacia Announce Low-Power Offering for Cloud Networks
September 17th, 2014
AppliedMicro and Acacia Communications today announced interoperability between AppliedMicro's 100G(X12/X120), 200G(X24/X240) Smart PHY family OTN Processors and Acacia's AC100-CFP 100G PM-QPSK Coherent CFP module. Together, AppliedMicro and Acacia enable unprecedented density at the lowest power, dramatically improving total cost of ...
Emulex Delivering Ethernet Technology for New Skyhawk Adapters
September 17th, 2014
Emulex Corporation today announced that it is delivering its OneConnect (Skyhawk) Ethernet technology for the new Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) Open Compute Project (OCP) Networking (ON) 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet (40GbE) Skyhawk Ethernet adapters. The QCT ON Skyhawk Ethernet adapters ...
Fujitsu Develops WAN Acceleration Technology that can Adapt to Combined Communications Networks
September 16th, 2014
Fujitsu Laboratories Limited announced that it has developed technology for accelerating wide-area network (WAN) speeds, adapting to different characteristics such as packet loss and delay prevailing on communications networks, including mobile and international networks. The new technology was able ...
Emulex to Deliver Connectivity Offerings for New Fujitsu PRIMERGY Servers
September 9th, 2014
Emulex Corporation today announced it is delivering Ethernet and Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity solutions for the new Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX, TX, BX and CX rack, tower, blade, and scale-out servers. The new PRIMERGY servers, based on the new Intel Xeon ...
Orange Silicon Valley Utilizing IDT’s x86 Cluster and Interconnect Switches
September 5th, 2014
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) has announced that Orange Silicon Valley used IDT’s scalable x86 compute cluster and 20 Gbps RapidIO interconnect switches and bridges as the processing platform to execute high-performance analytics on real-world social media traffic during the ...