Standards based operator cloud demonstration at Network X
Friday, October 27, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
The CloudCO demonstration to be led by the Broadband Forum at this year’s Network X will show how network operators can unlock network efficiencies and new service delivery from a disaggregated and virtualized software-defined broadband network.
CloudCO’s service delivery automation focus is fundamental for operators to help reduce their operational costs...
API sprawl security concern predictions of 2021 from Volterra
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
As organizations continue to digitally transform business processes, they are increasingly transitioning from legacy applications to modern, cloud-native apps.
These intricate modern apps feature far more APIs than their predecessors including API sprawl.
Since these apps are built with extensive microservices, many of these APIs are deeply embedded and hidden. Th...
Samsung partners with Amdocs to accelerate 5G network deployment
Monday, September 9, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications and media companies, has announced multiple joint initiatives to accelerate communications service providers’ (CSP) journeys to open cloud networks that provide the freedom and agility necessary to innovate and better manage the delivery of 5G services to market, w...
Quali's CloudShell version 8 is now generally availability
Friday, April 28, 2017 by Austin Harris
OpenStack adoption in enterprises is becoming increasingly embraced as revenues grow at 35% CAGR, according to 451 Research. Adoption of OpenStack is increasing among organizations with over 1,000 employees both with on-premise and hosted OpenStack deployments. The 451 Research team predicts a growing number of use-cases across enterprise and service provider deployment...
Developing open source software defined standards
Thursday, February 16, 2017 by Austin Harris
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is announcing its new Open Innovation Pipeline made possible through the aligned operations of ONF and Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) as these two organizations finalize their pending merger.ON.Lab, with CORD and ONOS, successfully brought together operators, vendors and integrators to build solutions for carrier networks by leveraging...
As Apple's Encryption Deadline Looms, Openwave Mobility Launches SmartidM
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 by Austin Harris
Openwave Mobility has announced the launch of Smart Identity Manager (SmartidM) for mobile operators to effectively manage their subscribers’ data, and launch new services. SmartidM is part of the company’s Subscriber Data Management (SDM) portfolio of products. Use cases for SmartidM include centralized ID management for fraud prevention, delivering BingeOn...
How Software Defined Networking Is Changing App Development
Thursday, September 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Midokura is a global software innovator in network virtualization founded in 2010. The co-founders began their careers building distributed systems for the world’s preeminent e-commerce website: Amazon.com. Recognizing that companies around the world faced similar challenges and needed networking infrastructure not found in conventional networking, they applied th...
New SoftwareDefined Networking Consortium Established
Thursday, July 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, has created the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Consortium to enable one-stop shopping for controller and switch interoperability, conformance and benchmark testing. The primary goal of the SDN C...
LinuxCon Conference Delves Deep into Open Source, Containers and Virtualization
Thursday, July 7, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Linux Foundation is again hosting its annual LinuxCon conference which will be held on August 22 – 24 in Toronto, Canada offering the opportunity for developers, sys admins, architects and all types and levels of technical talent to gather together at one event for education, collaboration and problem-solving for the Linux platform.The event offers more than 100 ses...
AdaptiveMobile Adds SS7 Cat 3 Detection Capabilities to Mobile Threat Intelligence Platform
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
AdaptiveMobile has announced advanced SS7 “Cat 3” Signalling Protection detection capabilities to its Mobile Threat Intelligence Platform including Network Memory, Location Plausibility, and Remote Intercept. The Company’s advanced threat detection is based on continuous data and analysis with all rules validated with information from across five continents. Adapt...
Spirent Releases new SaaS Platform for Network and Cloud Testing
Monday, May 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
Spirent Communications has released a new platform, Spirent Temeva, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for network and cloud testing. The platform is offered in three web-based applications covering network traffic testing, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), infrastructure benchmarking, cloud performance and capacity planning.The new Temeva platform browser-ba...
Ciena Adds New DevOps Toolkit for Virtualized Services
Saturday, May 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
Ciena has added a new DevOps Toolkit to its Blue Planet network and service orchestration platform that helps companies with the creation and delivery of new on-demand, virtualized services within their SDN and NFV enabled networks.The DevOps Toolkit features a set of software development tools that can be utilized by network operators’ in-house personnel, and in collab...
A Deep Dive into Network Functions Virtualization and SoftwareDefined Networking
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently visited with Tim Diep, CA Technologies Director of SDN/NFV Product Management, to discuss how networks in the application economy need to transform through software defined networking and network functions virtualization.ADM: What is Software-Defined Networking/Network Functions Virtualization?Diep: Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a technology focused o...
NEC and Netcracker Launch New Agile Virtualization Platform and Practice
Monday, May 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology have teamed to launch a new Agile Virtualization Platform and Practice (AVP), which offers a set of tools, platforms and services for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).With the new AVP solution, NEC and Netcracker will help service providers move their operations, business processes and...
Xilinx Launches New Data Center Ecosystem Investment For Industrial IoT and More
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Xilinx has created a new Data Center Ecosystem Investment Program to be managed through its corporate venture arm, Xilinx Technology Ventures. Investments made through the program targets solutions for emerging workload applications such as machine learning, image and video processing, data analytics, storage data base acceleration, and network acceleration.Xilinx is a ...
New FD.io Open Source Project Offers IO Services Framework for Network and Storage Software
Sunday, February 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
The newly launched FD.io (“Fido”) initiative is an open source project to provide an IO services framework for the next wave of network and storage software. The project is also announcing the availability of its initial software and formation of a validation testing lab.A Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, early support for FD.io comes from founding members 6WIND,...
Container World Examines How Containers are Changing the Face of the Data Center
Monday, February 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Container World will take place next month at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California on February 16 – 18. The event provides education and insight into the cloud and container ecosystem, addressing the strategic implications of containers and the associated trends as they affect the cloud market.The event clarifies the business impact of container technology cu...
OpenCloud Connect Releases New Open Standards for Cloud Computing
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
OpenCloud Connect’s new OpenCloud Reference Architecture publication offers a 104 page overview of the organization’s vision for an open testing and iterative standards development program for cloud computing.OpenCloud Connect (OCC) is an industry organization of cloud service providers, network service providers, equipment manufacturers, system integrators and software...
The Linux Foundation Announces Guide to Building and Deploying to the Open Cloud
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 by Richard Harris
The 2015 “Guide to the Open Cloud: Open Cloud Projects Profiled” is The Linux Foundation’s second publication on the open cloud, which was first published in October 2013. The updated guide adds new projects and technology categories that have gained importance in the past year. The report covers well-known projects like Cloud Foundry, OpenStack, Docker and Xen Project,...
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