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Faced with a competitive threat from cloud providers, UK-based Hutchinson Networks decided to become one.

MAREA 'will be the highest-capacity subsea cable ever to cross the Atlantic,' Microsoft says.

Names AWS as its 'preferred public cloud infrastructure provider' in a four-year deal.

Cisco says it's committed to open source, which it sees as essential to making the Internet more robust for business applications.

Some of the high points from this year's Leading Lights awards dinner at the Hotel Ella in Austin, Texas.

New cloud-based service moves enterprise security perimeter into the network, eliminating perimeter gear and protecting data anywhere.

Goal is to eliminate 'all the manual handoffs that get in the way of the body of work,' says a Brocade executive, describing the product based on technology Brocade acquired with StackStorm this year.

The company is introducing a hyper-converged server for SMBs and desktop virtualization server for midsized enterprises.

Vendor introduces a cloud-based telephone product and services in the Meraki line, as a step in its transformation to a cloud company.

WiC congratulates the winners of our inaugural Leading Lights awards: Cisco's Yvette Kanouff, Zayo Group's Sandi Mays and startup Grid4C.

Find out which companies landed this year's Leading Lights awards.

Network operator investing heavily in subsea and overland fiber to capture enterprise, web-scale and media content business in region.

Gamma Communications Managing Director David Macfarlane believes the unified communications (UC) market has reached a tipping point.

I've got my travel coffee-making set already packed for the long trip from London to Austin, Texas: Here's a whole host of reasons why I should see you there.

Google Home and Allo feature Google's virtual assistant technology.

Looks to solve the business problems that drive network operators to white boxes.

SAP HANA database apps support Microsoft's Azure cloud.

New service lets communications service providers stop buying hardware and lets Metaswitch operate their voice clouds.

Amazon debuts a programmable version of its Dash button, to give developers a taste of running IoT devices in the cloud.

Seven vendor finalists demonstrate SDN's broad potential.

Operators say SDN gives them benefits of cost savings, customer control and flexibility on their networks.

While security is of course important, enterprises are clamoring for private connections to public clouds primarily because they need predictable performance.

Andrew Edison, Level 3's senior VP of sales, EMEA region, talks about the drivers of growth in the unified communications services market.

Cloud connections, a wireless Field Area Network and global cloud UC solution are our top three enterprise Leading Lights.

EdgeConneX's Portland facility unites fiber interconnections with Megaport's SDN-based interconnection fabric for new cloud ecosystem.

Matt Finnie, CTO at international operator Interoute, explains how NFV has made life easier in terms of logistics.

New services from AT&T and Global Capacity enable SMBs to do more, especially in moving apps to the cloud.

Four service providers delivered on the promise of helping customers connect to hybrid clouds.

A series of eight acquisitions helped build a global powerhouse that now needs a global profile for its cloud connection capability.

Incremental network change is simple, but doesn't achieve business transformation.

Network monitoring tools cannot provide the reliability the industry needs, say enterprise network operators.

Company formerly known as IIX now introduces software platform that automates and makes easier private connections to hybrid clouds.

The Open Compute Project and the shift to SDN and NFV is driving a complete change in the architecture of telecom data centers and infrastructure.

Lester completes the tutorial for a new virtual reality application that allows him to work from home.

New protected wavelength services and greater diversity in West Coast fiber routes mark the opening of International Telecom Week in Chicago.

ADVA has further developed the virtual switch technology it brought on board with the acquisition of Overture and is ready to pitch it into commercial NFV environments following an independent evaluation of the technology.

The two companies will provide development tools and apps for iPhone, iPad and SAP's HANA cloud software.

Ford is using Pivotal cloud software and services to extend into offering mobile services for transportation.

Huawei's Cloud Managed Network is designed to provide wireless and wired network planning and management for SMBs, midmarket and large enterprises with branch offices, as well as IoT.

AT&T and Verizon are vying for the status of biggest OpenStack champion, a stunning reversal for the open source software and a sign of things to come.

Cloud-based orchestration service lets IT managers automate infrastructure operation in public clouds, private clouds and data centers.