The Gig U project said late last week that it has received “dozens of favorable responses” to its request for information (RFI) seeking approaches for accelerating the deployment of ultra-high-speed networks to university communities around the country. (more…)
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Global Capacity sees strong growth in Ethernet ‘quotes’
When an exec from Global Capacity told Connected Planet earlier this year that the company was seeing a “dramatic increase” in Ethernet connections through its One Marketplace Access Exchange (CP: FiberLight deal helps validate Global Capacity business model),apparently he wasn’t kidding. The company announced that Ethernet quotes made through the exchange had doubled in volume this year and that Ethernet quotes are expected to account for 40% of quote demand in 2012, up from less than 1% at the beginning of this year. (more…)
Private buy-out next step as Tekelec chases new growth
Tekelec has been running as fast as it can away from its legacy TDM/signaling business, and Monday that path led it straight into the arms of a private equity buyout led by Siris Capital to the tune of $780 million. A handful of questions remain, however, including: Will the new owners split Tekelec into pieces? And, did the buyout price Tekelec below its value? (more…)
Traffix gets funding more LTE signaling push
We’ve been following the LTE/Diameter routing market a fair bit lately (CP: The LTE signaling challenge) and (CP: Just how big is the LTE Diameter routing market, anyway?), and today one of the early players in the market, Traffix Systems, announced first round funding to fuel its move deeper into this growing opportunity.
Ciena drives research, education momentum for 100G
Commercial carriers are racing headlong into 100 Gb/s optical transmission, driven by unceasing video and mobile bandwidth demands. But as is usually the case, more experimental deployments, including research, development and cutting edge trials (see today, CP: Infinera pushes limits on trans-Pacific transmission), are also helping to drive technology breakthroughs.
Today, Ciena detailed how two of the nation’s biggest research networks – the U.S Department of Energy’s Energy Sciencs Network and Internet 2 – completed the first transcontinental deployment of 100 Gb/s coherent technology (Briefing Room: Internet2, ESnet Complete First Transcontinental 100G Network Deployment) (more…)
IP Infusion: Software is the networking differentiator
As they say, when you build a hammer, everything looks like a nail. For IP Infusion, which provides a networking software stack to networking OEMs, that means the future of networking is…software. That’s the story the vendor is telling today as it rolls out a new release of its ZebOS platform (v7.9), with new capabilities targeting carrier hot-button areas including data center networking, mobile back-haul and carrier Ethernet. (more…)
Alcatel-Lucent taps Spirent for 400Gb/s test help
As Alcatel-Lucent moves into the core with its new FP3 chip, it is using Spirent’s high-speed test platform to test router modules built on the new silicon in real-world, high-scale scenarios. The FP3, introduced earlier this summer (CP: Alcatel-Lucent goes for raw router speed title with 400 Gb/s chip), is a milestone product for ALU, which is aiming to build on its recent success at the network edge and take on Cisco and Juniper in big core routers. (more…)
AlcaLu deal to boost service provider focus runs into trouble
Alcatel-Lucent’s planned $2 billion sell-off of its enterprise unit to a private equity firm has collapsed, according to media reports. Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal both cited sources saying talks with Permira, a European-based company, had stalled, though a possible deal for Genesys, ALU’s call-center unit, could still work out. (more…)
Could Genband’s VoIP heft make its ‘apps contest’ play more than show?
Genband may not be the first VoIP vendor to announce the winners of an “app contest” (Briefing Room: GENBAND Unveils 2011 GENFuzion Developer Challenge Winners),but its application story could be an important second prong – alongside its throw-out-your-aging-digital-switches transformation campaign – to help drive its business selling softswitches and related IP network elements. (more…)
The return of distance-based pricing (for wholesale ISPs)?
Remember when it cost more to call across the country than it did to call a neighboring state? Service providers have largely moved away from distance-based pricing. But several Georgia Tech researchers are arguing for the return of that pricing methodology—at least for some wholesale Internet service providers that sell transit services to smaller ISPs. (more…)