The $5.3 billion transaction combines tw telecom's metro networks and Level 3's backbone
Investment strengthens advertising business systems portfolio in key market segments and accelerates development of next-generation advertising management platforms.
The Chinese social pioneer is getting into the enterprise cloud business.
PLUMgrid announces availability of its Open Networking Suite (ONS) version 2.0 with expanded support for OpenStack distributions and network functions.
Becomes world's number three smartphone maker.
Announces first toolsets to 'fully unify' access of multiple OTT streaming video services into an integrated program guide.
UK broadband provider chooses headend solution from Harmonic to help deliver its IPTV services.
Second patent for delivery of video content from multiple platforms to subscribers.
Michigan-based operator of fixed and mobile wireless Internet access service goes shopping with Sandvine.
EBITDA up 1% and earnings per share up 15% at UK incumbent.
CNSG to join new WOW! business partner alliance program.
Within the last 12 months the HbbTV Association has achieved membership growth of 25%.
Tibco software will be included in Ericsson's portfolio of OSS/BSS software and consulting services.
Starter kits include switch hardware and SDN software necessary for small lab PoCs and production deployments up to two racks.
Alcatel-Lucent awarded bids for its ground-breaking IP core router by China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile.
CenturyLink today announced an upgrade of its core IP network using Alcatel-Lucent's 7950 XRS core routers.
New IZO offer includes public Internet connections with greater security and predictability, as well as private and dedicated cloud connections.
Mobile operator will use OSS tool to identify optimum locations for engineering investments and resource allocation.
Irish incumbent enters the next stage of its access network evolution and plans trials for high-speed rural broadband services.
Tele2 and cloud services specialist Cubic Telecom have struck a strategic partnership to provide global M2M/IoT solutions to companies in the PC OEM and automotive sectors.
Frontier follows up its launch of 1-Gig in Durham, N.C., by announcing 1-Gig service in a number of Oregon cities.
Rohde & Schwarz stable amid restrained economic conditions.
Rohde & Schwarz presents test setup for mm-wave applications at the 5G Global Summit in South Korea.
Insight Venture Partners leads what Mirantis says is the largest ever Series B financing round in open source history.
Italian network services provider chooses Net Insight's transport solution for media, IP and broadcast networks.
ZTE's VoLTE technology delivers faster connection time and high-quality voice and video calls in Hong Kong.
Earthlink will use Bandwidth's national emergency service network to manage the 911 routing for its business and residential broadband customers.
Revenues are up 13% year-on-year to euro 3.3 billion and gross margins improve further as the 'new' Nokia continues its financial recovery.
NetVanta 56660 integrates Layer 2 and Layer 3 capabilities in a single box for service providers' enterprise Carrier Ethernet accounts.
Vantage teams with transport network operator Zayo to provide cloud connections to its data centers.
Leading women in technology will gather at 7th Annual Rocky Mountain WICT Tech It Out conference.
Sales Force Europe will help optical circuit switch vendor tap into service provider and data center opportunities in Europe.
Expands applications beyond FTTH Gigabit broadband service aggregation to include business Ethernet and small cell backhaul markets.
Q3 revenues down 3.1% due to low DVD volumes in the quarter.
Expects to make direct purchases worth US$4.08 billion in Europe by 2015.
New agreement enables Openet to resell OpenCloud's products.
TeliaSonera International Carrier strengthens connectivity in Western Africa.
Crosstel Call Routing Management System chosen by seventh-largest cable operator in US.
Per Lindgren becomes SVP, strategy and business development, while Martin Karlsson is named new CTO.
Ooyalao plans to expand into video advertising market.
Digital media veteran Jay Samit gets top job.
Switch customers gain access to CenturyLink's global hosting portfolio and data center footprint.
Multi-vendor network management provider and test solution company team to offer remote automated testing of end-to-end Carrier Ethernet services.
Latest release adds enterprise features such as storage policies, a new data processing service that provisions Hadoop and Spark, and lays foundation for OpenStack to be platform for NFV.
New position created for Ronan Kelly at optical vendor.
Vendor achieves single carrier 400G wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) signal transmission over 3000km.
Sign an MOU for joint research on 5G technology to conduct related tests and service development.
Regional operator to offer Internet, voice, data and cloud services to businesses in Annapolis and other communities in Anne Arundel County.
Carrier uses BTI 7800 Series to interconnect data centers in Hong Kong and Tokyo at 200G per slot.
AT&T will support the new Google Nexus phablet.
Largest US integrator of television programming to colleges and universities brings Philo on board.
Adds complementary product categories and channels to address growing Internet of Things and automotive opportunities.
Tier 1 EMEA operator chooses Redknee for real-time billing and charging virtualization.
Global study reveals that the vast majority of 18-30 year olds feel in control of their personal online data.
New facility focused on cloud platform development and innovation.
Brocade collaborates with VMware to support The New IP and advance adoption of the software-defined data center and network virtualization.
Amdocs puts more network cloud offerings on the table.
QuickStart Hybrid offering will enable the rollout of OTT services and a DTT channel line-up.
When using the AT&T Passport app, customers can enjoy unlimited WiFi access at participating hotspots in select countries, including the UK, France, Germany, Japan and Mexico.
New cloud recorder allows customers to view personally recorded content on connected devices.
Ericsson successfully demonstrates proof of concept of NFV with NTT Docomo.
Demonstration in Dusseldorf virtualizes the connectivity network and integrates it into a bandwidth-allocation application.
Docomo trials NFV using multi-vendor virtualization systems.
Coriant unveils its SDN and NFV capabilities plus a live service trial with a Tier 1 operator in Asia.
NetScout Systems has agreed to acquire the Communications business of Danaher Corp., including Tektronix Communications, Arbor Networks, and certain parts of Fluke Networks, in a deal valued at $2.6 billion.
Iliad kills its plan to acquire T-Mobile US after its improved bid was rejected.
Cellwize SON deployed by Telefonica UK to enhance mobile network performance and quality of service for UK subscribers.
Network transformation will benefit a country with 275 mobile subscribers for every landline with an economy that relies on fast, dependable, high-capacity mobile broadband access.
Vendor will build 10,556km submarine cable from Boca Raton, Fla. to Brazil, backed by Google and others.
Starhub launches new virtual mobile number service based on fonYou's carrier grade OMT-9000 service platform.
Alcatel-Lucent teams up with South Korea's KT to accelerate the shift to NFV.
China Mobile and Deutsche Telekom have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture for the connected cars market.
The separation will increase focus and strategic flexibility for both the Security and Information Management businesses.
Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom and TIM Brasil join the Coriant club.
AxonPulse complements current passive visibility solutions by simulating customer network activity and measuring their experience.
NEC to build Hong Kong extension to the Asia-Africa-Europe 1 submarine cable system.
Dedicated facility gives Alcatel-Lucent customers hands-on experience with advanced technologies to create new services and virtualized network functions.
Speed achieved over a fully managed core Flexgrid optical network.
Michael Xu appointed CEO of Pacnet's equity joint venture in China, Pacnet Business Solutions (PBS), with immediate effect.
Trans-Pacific submarine cable consortium will deploy vendor's GeoMesh platform.
More than 99% of Comcast shareholders voting supported Comcast's proposal to issue 2.875 shares of Comcast Class A common stock for every one share of Time Warner Cable common stock.
NTT updates its Enterprise Cloud customer portal to include on-demand cloud-connected Internet and VPN circuits so customers can order or change their connected circuit bandwidth.
Cyan's Blue Planet SDN orchestration system can now enable management of major Cisco and Juniper routers.
SaaS provider is first win for Dell open networking solution with Cumulus network operating system.
Company looking to demonstrate high-performance network hardware and software can be bought separately.
The European hosting provider is using SDN to deliver OpenStack cloud services.
Arris Whole Home Solution Mobile delivers a differentiated mobile device video subscriber experience that integrates with Cincinnati Bell's existing back-office systems.
AT&T and Blue Jeans Network will offer on-demand video collaboration services to AT&T's business customers.
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Express routes offer assurances of greater bandwidth and lower latency between several metro markets in the Western US.
Transaction accelerates entry into enterprise and infrastructure markets.
BT makes S3 Group its preferred supplier for test automation and monitoring.
Nokia Networks claims 'world's fastest' VoLTE implementation.
Televorgu deploys ADVA 100G core to connect Northern and Eastern European countries to Central Europe over a route running through the Baltic States and Poland.
Axel Fory becomes the new CEO of Keymile, with Roland Schweyer replacing him as CSO.
Lantiq announces EASY330 G.fast reference board, which it says is the industry's first residential gateway reference design built around G.fast.
Sckipio's new DP3000 G.fast DPU Chipset and CP1000 G.fast CPE Chipset deliver 1Gbit/s-last-mile-broadband access over existing copper wiring.
LTE Advanced FDD/TDD carrier aggregation achieved on commercial hardware and software for SingTel with data speeds up to 260 Mbit/s.
NNI will utilize Tata Communications' 116 points of presence (PoPs), extending Telstra's reach to Tier 2 and Tier 3 Indian cities such as Jaipur, Surat and Trichy.
FTS strengthens relationship with Belgian telecom provider.
As a member of the Intel Network Builders Program, NetNumber will accelerate NFV solution development and deployment in carrier networks.
Adds BTI SA-805 service access platform for high-capacity Ethernet access.
Michael Kurtzman joins thePlatform as vice president of sales for the Americas; Jouari Santiago named director of sales for Latin America.
Leading TV brand in China will use Hillcrest's patented motion software in its new line of Smart TVs.
Portal allows the company's carrier customers to price, submit and manage Windstream orders through a simple user interface.
Granite chooses to partner with Global Capacity for its Ethernet services and other data networking needs.
German giant to resell SugarCRM as hosted cloud service.
Vendor's iAccess product supports North Carolina telco's ambition for Carrier Ethernet 2.0 services.
More than 5,000 Tier 2 and Tier 3 communities gain access to One Marketplace and will sell local access as well.
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise will offer technology infrastructure, software and services for the 'New Style of IT', while HP Inc. will be the leading personal systems and printing company.
Mobile backhaul specialists capitalize on infrastructure investment with first enterprise-focused service.
Ericsson becomes sole vendor for eircoms radio access solutions for 4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution), 3G and 2G mobile technologies across Ireland.
Orange Business Services to provide wireless connectivity for Tesla cars in France.
Amdocs' percentage market share three times larger than second-placed vendor, says report.
Revenue for the quarter is expected to range from $162 million to $163 million.
Subscriptions and traffic still on the rise, while the net decrease in revenue continues.
Alcatel-Lucent carrier-grade Ethernet network being deployed by WOW! Business in 19 markets in Midwest and Southeast areas of US.
One existing customer and one new customer.
'Kinetic' initially launching to more than 50,000 homes in Lincoln, Neb.
New system delivers increased edge capacity to keep local traffic local.
Anite expands its data analytics and post-processing product offering.
Expansion will provide customers with 212 points of presence worldwide, including 42 across the US, Canada, South America and Latin America.
Patent to be awarded to FourthWall for network bandwidth management using traffic scheduling.
Companies will form joint venture to maximize value of Legendary's intellectual property and content worldwide.
Regional cable operator introduces simpler, easier-to-use managed hosted VoIP services.
Security specialist Wedge is joining the Metro Ethernet Forum and promoting its security-as-a-service strategy.
OpenWebRTC is a flexible cross-platform WebRTC client framework that can be used to build both native WebRTC apps and browser back-ends.
ViNOX intended to facilitate smooth evolution from CE 2.0 to SDN-based networks.
ETNO, the industry association representing the European Union's major telcos, has presented its 'Agenda For Europe.'
Companies are working to launch AT&T NetBond connection into AWS cloud by 2015.
Sprint doubles the data of AT&T promotion with Sprint Family Share Pack and Sprint Business Share offers.
Ericsson completes acquisition of Ambient, a smart grid communications provider.
Latest TiVo app for Android devices allows customers to stream live TV and recorded shows.
Funding from VantagePoint, Cross Head, and Pacific Venture Partners brings the total to over $20 million.
