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By cableunion, May 15, 2012 11:55 am

Telecommunications vendor, ADVA?(News – Alert) Optical Networking, has successfully implemented new OpenFlow technology that can dynamically control wavelength-switched optical networks.

Based on the FSP 3000, an optical transport solution from ADVA Optical Networking?(News – Alert), this breakthrough was developed as part of the OFELIA project, which provides researchers with a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) testbed for experimenting with new applications using a Web-services approach.

The updated OpenFlow technology uses one common OpenFlow control for both the packet and the optical layer, resulting in more effective and efficient network solutions.

“SDN presents a tremendous opportunity for customers to streamline and automate network infrastructure and operations,” said Christoph Glingener, CTO at ADVA Optical Networking. “While server and storage virtualization have been widely adopted, network virtualization is still in its infancy. SDN closes this gap by offering programmable network control, better scalability and faster adaption to virtual machine mobility.”

“We have proven that SDN can seamlessly extend into the optical domain and enables network virtualization across multiple layersm he added. “The OpenFlow approach extends our existing SDN solution employing our RAYcontrol control plane.”

ADVA Optical Networking used the SDN facility at the University of Essex in the U.K., which includes packet switches and application servers, dynamically connected by optical lightpaths. Users can access the facility directly by way of G?ANT, a high-bandwidth backbone which interconnects national research and education networks across Europe.

“It has been exciting developing this OpenFlow solution with the team at ADVA Optical Networking,” said Professor Dimitra Simeonidou, head of the High Performance Networks Group at the University of Essex. “Together we have built an SDN testbed with packet and wavelength switches under a common OpenFlow control. This is something that has never been done before. Researchers can now obtain slices of network infrastructure to program their own virtual multi-layer networks.?They can use optical switching alongside packet switching to adapt bandwidth, latency and power consumption to their application needs.”

ADVA Optical Networking also unveiled its new Syncjack suite in April, designed to deliver precise timing synchronization and testing solutions to the wireless telecommunications market. Meanwhile, ADVA Optical Networking launched a high speed, city-wide network in Cape Town, South Africa.

Edited by Braden Becker

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By admin, May 15, 2012 11:54 am

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Nuremberg – Leoni, the leading provider of cables and cable systems to the automotive sector and other industries, has made a successful start into 2012: the Company increased its consolidated sales by about 6 percent year on year in the first three months, to the new quarterly high of EUR 969.1 million (previous year: EUR 910.7 million). The automotive and capital goods industries as well as, from a regional perspective, the BRIC countries were again key growth drivers. Consolidation for the first time of the South Korean wiring systems manufacturer Daekyeung, taken over in full at the beginning of January 2012, added EUR 27.4 million to the total amount of business. Group-wide, Leoni raised its earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) by nearly 53 percent to EUR 93.7 million (previous year: EUR 61.4 million). This figure includes a non-recurring addition of EUR 29.5 million from the sale of subsidiary Leoni Studer Hard AG. Adjusted for this item, EBIT improved by about 5 percent. Consolidated net income rose from EUR 36.6 million to EUR 64.6 million.

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By cableunion, May 15, 2012 7:20 am

The high-tech corridor at S?o Paulo is set to become bigger with Terremark expanding the Network Access Point?(News – Alert) (NAP) do Brazil, a massive and diverse carrier-neutral data center that is home to one of the most important Internet exchange points in Latin America.

By increasing its data center footprint and investment in Brazil, which is generally regarded as the IT hub in Latin America, Terremark, a Verizon?(News – Alert) Company, is attempting to fulfill its global strategy of extending the reach of its advanced IT solutions throughout the world, said company officials.

“We have experienced outstanding success and growth in Latin America, which is a clear testament of our unique proposition and our commitment to help enterprises across every industry transform their business through the adoption of the Enterprise Cloud,” said Nelson Fonseca, president at Terremark, in a press release.

NAP do Brazil, in the Alphaville area of S?o Paulo, will house 150,000 servers?in a connected, secure and redundant ecosystem and when combined with the recently expanded NAP of the Americas-Columbia facilities, Terremark will collectively offer more than 90,000 square feet of raised data center floor space in Latin America.

The expansion of Terremark’s operations in Brazil stems from increased customer demands for a world-class data center that has high security standards in place including ISO 27001 certification and capable of offering its customers a comprehensive portfolio of services.

“Our goal is to provide growing local and multinational enterprises with a secure, highly available hosting environment for their mission-critical applications,” said Hugo Zanon, head of the operations in Brazil.

Related news reports Terremark helping Direct Insite, a provider of e-invoicing solutions for accounts payable and accounts receivable automation, to improve application speed and responsiveness, and gain scalability, mission-critical availability and global bandwidth via its suite of IT infrastructure solutions.

Edited by Brooke Neuman

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By cableunion, May 15, 2012 4:06 am

Data center and colocation centers offer power, cooling and physical security for server, storage and networking equipment. ???

In a bid to save in costs and decrease the high risk of data loss, Rio Networks is set to complete its 12,500-square-foot data center and colocation facility in Roseburg, OR.

According to a press release, the data center will start working in October 2012. The company has developed this data center to offer support high tech startup companies in Oregon. This center will offer cloud-based infrastructure and a business incubator in the same facility.

A portion of the Umpqua Business Center will get tenants managed cloud services including IT services, voice, data, Web, SaaS?(News – Alert) applications, end point security and network monitoring from Rio Networks.

“Businesses located in the Umpqua Business Center who take advantage of Rio’s managed services will be able to focus their time and financial resources on developing the core value of their business rather than managing their technology,” said Mark Bilton-Smith, President of Rio Networks. “Special financing will allow tenants to forego the upfront capital investment commonly required to start-up a technology business.”

“This is truly a game-changing concept for Oregon start-up companies coming to the business incubator.” Bilton-Smith added. “In a time when small business financing is difficult to receive, we are proud to offer a world-class facility and technology infrastructure that creates a competitive advantage for otherwise under-capitalized businesses.”

The the Umpqua Business Center will be located on the second floor of the data center, offering a unique blend of office space, business collaboration and technology infrastructure all under one roof.

The location not only offers immunity and legal protection, but the advantages of being in a HUBZone (Historically Underprivileged Business Zone).

Edited by Braden Becker

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By cableunion, May 14, 2012 11:54 pm

SPS acquires Jones Communications this week, Calix joins the Broadband Initiatives Program and Nortech Systems?(News – Alert) improves its Camera Link Line.

Strategic Products and Services (SPS) announced it acquired Jones Communications. The acquisition will combine quality customer service with technical expertise for services around the country. Jones was known as a leading cable and communications provider across Texas for the last 25 years. The company specialized in Nortel?(News – Alert) skills and competencies.

Calix announced it was chose to complete five broadband stimulus projects. The United States government is looking to improve broadband connections in rural areas with the Broadband Initiatives Program, using stimulus money to give rural companies and residents a boost. Calix?(News – Alert) projects will support $35 million of this program.

Nortech Systems announced that its Intercon 1 division introduced the MIL-DTL-38999, a circular connection option for Intercon’s Camera Link Line. The connector is designed for environmental applications and isolates the camera from the computer it is connected to.

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By cableunion, May 14, 2012 7:46 pm

QLogic is a company that provides Fiber Channel Adapters in the field of storage networking. The company’s products offer native Fiber Channel performance. They also provide dual-port, line-rate, and 16-gigabit Fiber Channel throughput at extremely low CPU usage with complete hardware offloads. This extreme performance gets rid of potential I/O bottlenecks in the modern day powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers.

Recently, research from Dell’?(News – Alert)Oro Group stated that QLogic has recorded global market share gains in Fiber Channel adapters for the first quarter of the calendar year, 2012. The report stated that QLogic has held more than half of the total revenue share for the quarter.

QLogic market products are mostly used by IT professionals in Global 2000 corporate data centers, where virtualization-dominated IT landscapes and enterprise I/O performance is important. Fiber Channel adapters from QLogic provide various technology improvements that facilitate storage administrators in huge companies to ensure complete business continuity, the company stated in a press release.

“These latest share gains confirm the market preference for QLogic Fiber Channel Adapters as customers around the globe continue to trust QLogic’s solutions to power their mission-critical storage networks,” said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing of Host Solutions Group, QLogic. “With the world’s largest installed base of Fiber Channel adapters, QLogic continues to deliver Fiber Channel solutions that leverage our unique, widely adopted software stack and make it easy for customers to migrate seamlessly to next-generation platforms.”

Recently, the company announced that that two of its adapters have been tested and certified as fully interoperable with Dell?Force10 S-Series S4810 ultra low-latency 10/40 GbE Top-of-Rack (ToR) switches. These two adapters are the 8200 Series 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) converged network adapters (CNAs) and the 3200 Series 10GbE network adapters. On a shared 10Gb Ethernet link, the 8200 Series Converged Network Adapters support concurrent LAN (TCP/IP) and SAN (FCoE, iSCSI) traffic.

Edited by Brooke Neuman

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By cableunion, May 12, 2012 5:22 am

Primus Telecommunications?(News – Alert) Group Inc. (PTGi), one of Australia’s largest telecommunications carriers, recently announced Primus Australia will join NBN Co. as the lead partner in the latter’s UNI-V Enhancement Program, an NBN’s initiative to test and strengthen the development of the UNI-V feature.

Primus Australia will use its expertise in recommending steps that NBN should take to test UNI-V enhancements. The company will also be responsible for monitoring the SIP level testing and electrical interface testing, and providing reports to NBN which specify test success or issues.

“Our objective in working with NBN Co is to ensure our customers get an equal or better quality voice connection while transitioning from copper to fiber,” said Primus CEO Tom Mazerski. “It will enable us to fully utilize the UNI-V port connecting all phones in the home or business to offer our True Fibre Voice(TM) product to all NBN consumer and business fiber customers.”

Primus Australia offers a comprehensive range of high speed broadband, data, Internet, Web hosting and voice products, servicing both business and residential sectors. The Primus network provides nationwide coverage through its own backbone network with facilities in 66 cities across Australia. Primus operates its own fiber network in the five major capital cities, delivering a range of business direct-connect services including ISDN, frame relay, ATM, telephone line and broadband DSL, as well as telephone line and broadband DSL services direct to residential customers.

“We understand that there will be a number of people who only want a telephone service and that we need to offer quality telephone services while making the transition to fiber as easy and straightforward as possible,” said NBN COO Ralph Steffens. “By undertaking these tests we want to ensure it is easy for retail service providers to offer their customers the services they are familiar with using the equipment they already have.”

Primus recently released its fiscal results for the first quarter of 2012.

Edited by Braden Becker

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By cableunion, May 12, 2012 1:42 am

AiNet, a well-known player in the cloud computing, cloud storage and fiber network markets, announced a new service that calls for MicroMetering, which will provide all data center colocation customers with cost-savings, power redundancy and enhanced scalability.

Data center customers are often charged based on the capacity of the electricity they use. Metered power offers a cost savings up to 70 percent. Until now, metered power was only available for the largest colocations and wholesale customers, but AiNet MicroMetering will be available to all of its customers once it is fully deployed.

MicroMetering is already in effect at AiNet’s Laurle, Maryland and Meltsville Maryland data centers, and Washington DC, the region’s largest data center, is next on the list to receive the MicroMetering feature.

According to AiNet, Micrometering will offer all data center colocation customers the following benefits:

Cost Savings – AiNET MicroMetering reduces data center colocation power and circuit charges up to 70 percent compared to traditional service.

Pay for Usage, not Capacity – Now, just like the simple residential electricity billing customers are familiar with, data center colocation customers will only pay for the power they use, not the capacity of their power circuits. Customers pay for a minimum amount of power, and only more if they exceed that. The service makes power usage “burstable” – similar to Internet access in data centers.

Affordable Redundant Power – Data center colocation customers traditionally pay a premium for the extra protection of backup (A + B) power circuits that are often only slightly used. As MicroMetering links power pricing to actual usage rather than configuration, high-reliability redundant power configurations are now more affordable.

Build for Tomorrow’s Needs, Today – MicroMetering enables a new way of building data center infrastructure. From day one, customers can build for their eventual power capacity and density needs, but only pay according to their initial usage. The initial infrastructure can then accommodate growth and change over time. Customers can easily upgrade from low efficiency/density servers to newer high efficiency/performance servers over time without redesigning their data center space. This way, power use can grow with need, and efficiency/density can grow with technology.

Micrometering will help address concerns with the high energy consumption associated with the data center industry, and bring cost savings to the market making enterprise grade data center service accessible to small businesses.

Edited by Braden Becker

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By cableunion, May 11, 2012 8:40 pm

FortaTrust, a provider of dedicated and cloud computing services, has opened its latest data center in Doral, Florida, USA (FTNA5).

Officials with FortaTrust said that this Tier 4 Carrier Class data center formally housed the core infrastructure of AT&T?(News – Alert), provides close to 20,000 square feet of state of the art data center space, and is an immediate benefit to the clients of FortaTrust and their related services.

Highlighting some of the features of FTNA5, company officials said that it includes- Six separate external fiber optic vaults for redundant carrier connections; Direct access to AT&T, Level 3, PCCW?(News – Alert), FiberLight, FPL Fiberlight, Verizon, and Comcast; A FortaTrust owned and operated Fiber Optic redundant path ring to the Terremark NAP of the Americas, providing access to the vast variety of carriers with a lit presence at this NAP and full redundant underground multi-grid 1.5 megawatt electrical feeds among other things.

“As a result of the opening of FTNA5, we are able to expand our North American services, providing our customers with immediate access to the full suite of FortaTrust products and services. We now have access to even greater resources to build upon and improve our service level for customers desiring services in North America,” said Miguel Abood, brand manager, FortaTrust, in a statement.

Company officials pointed out that concurrently with the opening of FTNA5, FortaTrust is offering its customers a limited time co-location promotion exclusively for this location in Doral, Florida USA.

The specifics of this offer include-Half a rack of co-location space with 50Mbps of dedicated IP Transit and a dedicated server in FortaTrust’s Panama data center (FTPA2) for $300 per month and a full rack of co-location space with 100Mbps of dedicated IP Transit and two (2) dedicated servers in FortaTrust’s Panama data center (FTPA2) for $550 per month.

Abood said that this limited time promotion provides carrier grade co-location at unsurpassed prices with the ability geographic diversity for hot backup and/or load balancing purposes. We are not aware of any other entity providing this ability, especially at these prices.

Edited by Amanda Ciccatelli