The CloudEthernet Forum (CEF) and MEF have created the Open Cloud Project, which includes a proof of concept test lab facility.

The CloudEthernet Forum (CEF) is aiming to define cloud Ethernet service specifications based around five fundamentals.

New solutions are designed to support mobility initiatives for businesses of all sizes.

Extreme to demonstrate software-defined architecture coupled with new networking products from the mobile campus to the data center.

New Spirent Velocity offers a virtual lab environment for rapid development and validation of SDN/NFV technologies and deployments.

Node offers distributed and/or centralized traffic intelligence for big data environments.

Ericsson named a network supplier and managed services provider for Telenor in Myanmar.

New joint anti-DDoS service aimed at Russian enterprise customers.

Neo Telecoms uses Adva's FSP 150 to roll out 'IPTB' offering in Paris.

Orange Business Services to unify communications and develop collaboration between 20,000 users for tobacco giant.

Telecom Italia chooses BroadSoft to power the communication services of its new Nuvola It Comunicazione Integrata service.

Antrim, Bridgend, Burnley, Coleraine, Leigh, Livingston, Macclesfield, Newtownabbey, Nuneaton, Pontypool, Sittingbourne, and Tamworth now covered by EE 4G.

Spirent Landslide used to model user behavior and data traffic patterns to determine impact on the core network.

Orange Business Services signs agreement with SIA for mobile point-of-sale payment solution in Europe.

Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile sign comprehensive frame agreement that includes IP networking and 4G TD-LTE technology, paving way for future NFV and cloud-based services.

Tiscali picks Metaswitch's Clearwater Core and Perimeta SBC to power Indoona app.

MVNO Tuenti Móvil uses Tweakker's API platform to support growth.

Farooq Azam to oversee NSN operations and lead business growth in the country.

Diameter solution enhances BT's Global IP Exchange interconnectivity service.

GTS Central Europe (GTS) has introduced capabilities in its network designed to protect enterprise customer networks from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

As a result of the transaction, eAccess will become an indirect subsidiary of SoftBank, which owns both eAccess and Yahoo Japan.

100G optical service already available throughout Lightpath's footprint for recurring monthly fee.

White paper identifies testing procedures and maintenance strategies to optimize the performance and lifespan of DC power system batteries in critical infrastructure environments.

Initiative to assist local government leaders in planning smart cities for growing urban populations.

Scott St. John named as new senior vice president of sales for the company's Optical Communications Systems (OCS) division.

International SOS selects Orange Business Services to transform its global emergency response infrastructure.

Openet and OpenCloud launch joint solution for real-time charging, rating and service control of voice, messaging, and data services.

Redknee software intended to enable railway network operators to deliver better operational support and increased reliability of the GSM-R network.

Teleste has started shipments of the Teleste ACE8, the first DOCSIS 3.1 node on the market.

Mobile payments project will kick off in the state of São Paulo and will later be expanded to other parts of the country.

Telenor Broadcast divests Conax to Kudelski Group for NOK1.5 billion.

Strong improvement in gross margin in carrier network operations as ZTE focuses on innovation to capitalize on acceleration in global 4G deployments.

House intelligence leadership introduces legislation to end NSA bulk telephone metadata program while preserving counter-terrorism capability.

NimbeLink's Skywire pre-certified embedded modems, which are based on the Telit xE910 family of modules, allow designers to incorporate cellular connectivity into their solutions.

DT uses Ravello to develop and test software faster in its Hosted Business Solutions (HBS) division.

Brazilian 4G broadband provider deploys Qwilt's video caching for fast-growing network.

New transmitter system lowers space requirements and reduces power consumption.

Industry veteran Warga replaces TWC's Mike LaJoie.

Society for Broadband Professionals reveals the winners of its 2014 Technological Innovation Awards.

Increased demand fuels plans for more than 180,000 square feet of additional space, new data centers in Minneapolis, Phoenix, and Toronto.

SCC's siriOSS PSA version 8.0 achieves Oracle Database Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).

Vendor fills out Nexus 9000 product line with 16-slot and 4-slot chassis; celebrates fifth anniversary of UCS platform.

New deal includes FTS's Leap Billing licensing expansion, extended support contract, and major hardware upgrade.

Aims to enhance data center scalability and accelerate introduction of NFV.

Transmode introduces high-density family of 10G 'Hex' units supporting 96x 10G at 5W per transponder.

Interoute grows EBITDA by 16% for the second consecutive year.

Provider of energy-efficient geolocation technology for mobile devices comes under Yandex wing.

Yogesh Malik, previously at Uninor, appointed as Group CTO.

Bridge Technologies claims objective methodology makes its QoE more accurate than subjective rivals.

CommScope raises sales and earnings guidance to reflect strengthening wireless business.

Michael Malone calls it a day after 20 years.

Michael Brown appointed interim CEO, replacing Steve Bennett.

Mobile messaging firm secures $280M in financing led by Alibaba Group.

Sweden's Com Hem announced as first customer of fully integrated solution for cable operators.

New app platform intended to unify 4K and UHD with linear, OTT services.

Dune HD introduces its full line of IPTV/VoD/OTT devices at TV Connect 2014 show.

Entropic targets the Chinese market with its low-power MoCA 1.1 offering.

i2i completes submarine network upgrade spanning from India to Singapore using Ciena's converged packet optical and network management solutions.

Emcore introduces second-generation 2804 fiber optic transmitter for CATV applications.

Anite to advance virtual drive testing in Intel-led 4G-5G development project.

Voice and managed services provider One Source Networks will use AppNetta to give its customers application-layer monitoring

Vendor's Direct Detect technology helps operator of Midwest research and education network.

Germany-based Axiros to provide TR-069 device management to Liberty Global.

I wonder what's on the Sprout channel?

Digital Living Network Alliance releases CVP-2 guidelines for viewing subscription TV content on multiple home devices.

Taiwan Mobile selects NSN as sole supplier for its LTE-Advanced network.

Duo announce successful multi-vendor interworking tests of their Smart SFP products at EANTC's 2014 Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test in Berlin.

ZTE adds a MeBox and FunBox to its sandbox and lunchbox.

NSN, ChinaCache sign Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop next-generation mobile content delivery solutions with Liquid Applications.

Huawei, EANTC, and Ixia conduct industry's first 1Tbit/s line card test.

Board chooses Deb Ward, CEO of TSI, as its chair.

Belgian operator implements JDSU's SPIT platform across its Proximus mobile networks.

Silver Peak provides WAN optimization for Equinix performance hub.

Competitive provider Cbeyond enters marketing deal with Microsoft to take its cloud services to managed service providers, VARs, and SMBs.

Announces its intention to shift the focus of its offering in preparation for the advent of SDN/NFV.

Time Warner Cable Business Class named top cable company on Vertical Systems Group's Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard.

Acquires remaining 20% of Chile's largest cable operator.

Introduces Pravail Security Analytics for advanced threat detection, incident response and security forensics; releases results of EIU study into incident response preparedness.

White-label TViN solution enables operators and content owners to quickly upgrade their TV offering.

Etisalat Group signs network infrastructure sharing initiative with global mobile operators.

Helps TV service providers to address the growing consumer demand for high-quality TV Anywhere experiences across all devices.

Tollgrade's VBT acts as 'virtual broadband technician' to identify and resolve problems at customer premises.

Orders received from new customer in Russia and existing customer in South America.

SDN IPv6 app is first commercially available IPv6 solution with DevOps features, claims vendor.

Australian operator uses Cisco's global platform to build a cloud infrastructure.

Eagle Kingdom Technologies chooses Entropic's SoC for 'world's first' hybrid PowerPlug set-top box.

Optical equipment vendor reports a 10% increase in fourth quarter and full year revenues.

CoSwitched connects machines to the Internet using GSM connectivity in more than 20 countries.

Overture introduces 'industry's 'highest density' 10-gigabit optical Ethernet Access Device (EAD).

NEC delivers 100Gbbit/s transponder for optical transmission in Latin America through Internexa.

Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and Switzerland added to the 4G roaming roster.

Huawei announces successful completion of joint test on SDN-based IP and optical 'synergy' with Telefónica.

Transaction accelerates Vodafone's unified communications strategy in a key European market.

Vivendi's Supervisory Board says it has received two relevant offers for SFR and will now talk exclusively with ALtice, the owner of Numericable.

Amino introduces range of set-tops with home monitoring and control capabilities.

Sprint Prepaid expands on the 'As You Go' no-contract plan introduced last year with new pricing.

Customers can now simultaneously record eight shows.

Virgin Media, ONO, and Com Hem spread the TiVo experience.

Seventy percent of mobile network operators (MNOs) willing to outsource backhaul.

Aviat Networks signs expanded services contract with MTN Nigeria.

Plan to create a platform for knowledge exchange on mobile broadband-related telco security research with customers, business and research partners, and public authorities.

OE Solutions announces successful Initial Public Offering.

Ten startups launch into SprintMobile Health Accelerator powered by Techstars in Kansas City.

Adaptive Private Networking Aware monitoring joins enterprise WAN appliance family.

Canadian BSS vendor wins services contract with Tier 1 operator.

VeEX launches new test tool for FTTx/PON and metro fiber networks.

Calient and Packetcounter partner on new 40Gbit/s data center networking solution.

Vello Systems introduces 'Precision Application Networking' software to power new class of 1RU merchant optical switches for the cloud.

Startek, a business process outsourcing firm, turns to the AT&T cloud to speed service delivery.

UAE carrier using Sandvine analytics tools to gain insight into network usage and improve customer experience.

Coriant combines packet-optical networking platforms and a mobile edge router with applications, orchestration, and a controller to create a cloud-based optical services platform.

UAE operator partners with Procera to deliver enhanced customer experience and network optimization.

TelServ now able to directly supply and sell shared-cost numbers, DID numbers, toll-free numbers, and premium rate numbers in Switzerland.

Netvision deploys ADB VDSL gateway running Epicentro software for a multi-service hub that underpins the delivery of connected home services.

Digital gaming industry is changing like never before, according to a new Ericsson ConsumerLab report.

ADVA snaps up network synchronization specialist.

Alcatel-Lucent working with Indonesia's Telkom Akses to upgrade national broadband infrastructure with fiber network backbone.

New MSA defines 1550nm silicon photonics based QSFP optical transceiver for 100G data center networks on single-mode fiber (SMF) infrastructure.

Anritsu shows 400G super-channel test capability, along with signal integrity and 100G active optical cable solutions.

Long-time ADVA customer Colt chooses the vendor's 100G Core to add bandwidth for its UK enterprise business.

First co-chairs appointed to address programmability, security and automation.

New tools increase intelligence and management capabilities of photonic and OTN layers in packet optical networks.

Windstream will deploy the DTN-X in building its first national DWDM network.

DCN chooses Skitter TV's advanced digital video services platform to deliver next-generation TV services to customers across North Dakota.

Vahid Manian made senior vice president of global engineering and operations, Dr Michael Farese will assume the role of chief technology officer.

ProView 8000 IRD family simplifies migration to an IP infrastructure and launch of value-added services, says vendor.

Mobistar's cable TV service will be protected by Viaccess-Orca's Prime Sentinel smart-card-based CAS.

Fujitsu demonstrates optical components for 100G Metro Network at OFC 2014.

Orange Business regains top position from BT Global Services.

CoAdna introduces Optical Virtual Switching platform for Big Data and cloud service applications.

New client software solution can be distributed via multiple servers flexibly depending on capacity.

Number of subscribers to high-speed broadband in France increased 28% to 2.1 million in 2013.

GSMA and CEOs of mobile operators set out what they perceive as key success factors for an effective EU telecom single market.

Acquisition adds new data center to zColo portfolio.

RCN provides unlimited access to popular interactive TV apps.

Cablevision files an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court that details the company's legal position in the Aereo litigation.

Cisco provides CableLabs with core infrastructure and Videoscape components for new IPTV Innovations Lab in Colorado.

Thai cable/satellite operator chooses Nevion's live media transport solutions.

Services Application Module for 100G testing and pluggable 100G CFP4 LR4 module among highlights.

Fiscal first quarter revenues of $533.7 million was 17.8% higher than a year ago for the optical networking specialist.

Automated solutions address rollout and performance monitoring challenges introduced by large-scale small cell deployments.

VeEX launches a new field test and measurement system that enables users to buy, rent or lease-to-own features as needed and dynamically allocate them to those that need to use them.

At OFC 2014 in San Francisco, Fujitsu's components group will show a pluggable, multimode 100G active optical cable for close-range applications.

South Korean-based access equipment manufacturer appoints Alexander Chun as vice president of sales.

Hubs combine data center capability, network connectivity and cloud computing access

NTT combines with Verio to offer public cloud services in the US.

Latest version brings new features to protect VMware-based environments as enterprises move to a software-defined datacenter architecture.

Nokia Solutions and Networks implements its Serve atOnce Traffica for Tele2 Sweden to improve service experience.

Mavenir's RCS offering enables advanced multimedia services such as instant messaging, file transfer, voice calling, and videoconferencing through a single application installed on the phone.

Motive Network Analyzer and VDSL2 technology helping Telenor increase performance of next-generation access networks.

Network and cloud services provider expands North Carolina presence in response to customer demand

HP and NEC to deliver SDN-enabled open-standards networking solutions for enterprise customers.

Exponential-e becomes one of first European cloud service providers to attain CSA Star certification.

Remote peering solution allows smaller communications service providers to increase their network footprint.

Infinera unveils new super-channel FlexROADM, spectrum-switched optical network solution and flexible-grid super-channel capability – all aimed at increasing automation in multi-layer digital and optical transport networks.

Epsilon subsidiary Cataleya launches IP session border controller.

Alcatel-Lucent's Subscriber Data Manager supports Verizon network by centralizing multiple application databases.

Brocade announces support for OpenFlow 1.3 across its IP portfolio of routing and switching products.

NTT Communications is to offer Toshiba's datacenter and cloud computing services to its customers through its Enterprise Cloud virtual private cloud service.

Etisalat is deploying Alcatel-Lucent lightRadio FDD LTE equipment to expand its 4G coverage in the United Arab Emirates.

Software-defined networking (SDN) specialist Adara Networks is showing off its new AXIS Switch at the Open Networking Summit (ONS).

China Telecom tested Huawei's Transport SDN solution in Wuhan during January.