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By cableunion, May 15, 2012 5:24 pm

Cologix recently announced that it has acquired Minnesota’s most connected data center, the Minnesota Gateway. The Minnesota Gateway?(News – Alert), which is situated in the carrier hotel at 511 11th Avenue South in Minneapolis, is one of the major network neutral interconnection and colocation providers in Minnesota.

The Minnesota Gateway is not only the top data center in Minnesota, but also the 16th largest metro market in the United States. The meet-me-room in the 511 building with its 70 networks, which is also unanimously considered as the place to colocate and connect in the region, is operated by the Minnesota Gateway. Cologix, which offers network neutral interconnection and colocation services, therefore stands to benefit from the acquisition.

In a release, Grant van Rooyen, president and CEO, Cologix said, “The Minnesota Gateway is one of the largest and fastest-growing carrier neutral interconnection and colocation businesses in the Midwest, and we are pleased to add this operation to the Cologix platform. The Minnesota Gateway team has created an outstanding base of customers, sound infrastructure, high touch local service and the region’s best connectivity, which align perfectly with the Cologix approach. We expect the Minnesota Gateway customers will value the benefits our broader platform offers, and we are equally confident our existing customers and prospects will be interested in the unique advantages of expanding their networks and colocation footprints to Minneapolis.”

More than 20,000 SQF are operated by the Minnesota Gateway in the extremely connected building in Minnesota, the 511 building. The data center offers a sturdy carrier ecosystem comprising of national, regional and local networks in the meet-me-room. Up-and-coming cloud, financial, education and government ecosystems are also supported by the facility. Carriers, ISPs and ASPs, and Minnesota Internet Cooperative Exchange can be directly accessible by more than 100 clients of the Minnesota Gateway.

Neutral data centers in Dallas, Minneapolis, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are managed by Cologix. The company now assists more than 550 clients and offers over 300 network choices for its clients following the acquisition of the Minnesota Gateway.

Edited by Brooke Neuman

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By admin, May 15, 2012 5:24 pm

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

FCI, a leading manufacturer of connectors and interconnect systems, has launched a new line of high-speed I/O cabling solutions. XLerate™ is available in bandwidths from 10Gb/s up to 120Gb/s, and FCI is the first and only supplier to offer the complete range of speeds in both copper and fiber optic options, making the product line an ideal fit for data center, high-performance computing, and switching applications.

“FCI’s XLerate I/O cabling solutions provide the highest bandwidth per port and the highest hardware faceplate port density,” said Rob Poort, general manager, optical solutions group, FCI. “We’re now the first and only supplier that can offer a complete and complementary portfolio of active optical cables and transceivers and passive copper elements.”
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The XLerate portfolio comprises copper and fiber optic solutions that deliver aggregated bandwidth ranging from 10Gb/s up to 120 Gb/s in various industry standard-compliant interfaces. The product line is cost-effective in that it simplifies the design process by providing a limited number of discrete components in the link; additionally, it allows installers, OEMs and VARs to go to one source for connectors, EMI cages, transceivers and optical and copper cable assemblies they require. The XLerate solutions support both Infiniband and Ethernet protocols.

XLerate cabling is plug-and-play, with active optical cables (AOC) providing a closed optical system for both worker safety as well as to protect the cable from dust contamination. The assemblies are 100 percent final tested, assembled in a clean room environment, provide optimum signal integrity and an aggregate bandwidth of up to 150 Gb/s.

Source: FCI

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By admin, May 15, 2012 1:47 pm

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

UK: Cable supplier Nexans has been handed a deal from Dong Energy to supply cables for the 389MW West of Duddon Sands project.

The order is for 122km of medium voltage submarine cable for the project, which is located in the Irish Sea. Installation is scheduled for Q3 2013.

West of Duddon Sands was signed off in June 2011 by Dong and Iberdrola subsidiary ScottishPower Renewables. The two companies agreed a 50/50 joint venture to build the project.

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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