Cisco receives antitrust clearance for pending BroadSoft purchase
Cisco recently finalized its acquisition of BroadSoft, thereby sealing the $1.9 billion deal. Paying $55 per share, Cisco aims for the investment to give its cloud strategy and collaboration portfolio a boost.
As part of the acquisition, originally...
Broadcom makes available open source software development kit
Broadcom recently announced the immediate availability of an open source software development kit (SDK), dubbed SDKLT, for Ethernet switch application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).
Based on the BCM56960 Tomahawk switch, the SDKLT provides a way to configure Ethernet switch...
Aryaka and Radware announce partnership
Global SD-WAN provider Aryaka and cyber security services provider Radware are teaming up to implement Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack detection and mitigation for its global enterprise services.
DDoS is a kind of attack that attempts to prevent a service from being delivered...
Red Hat to acquire CoreOS for $250 million
Red Hat announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire container management startup CoreOS for $250 million.
CoreOS was founded in 2013, concentrating on containerized software. The startup is recognized as a leader in the Kubernetes community....
Verizon follows AT&T in backing out of smartphone resale agreement with Huawei
U.S. government officials seem highly concerned about perceived security threats posed by Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei, which sells everything from radio access network equipment to smartphones.
In the latest, Bloomberg reports that Verizon...
We’ve been talking so much about artificial intelligence in wireless, but one thing we haven’t touched on is getting AI to synch with the way each of us think. Each of us is different. Some of us are positive thinkers and others are negative...
Qualcomm, Xiaomi, ZTE, Lenovo and others partner to bring 5G NR-compliant devices to market in 2019
China is a major market for mobile devices services and that the market opportunity for the next generation of mobile has led to the creation of a multi-company consortium,...
Beyond military applications
Commercial unmanned aerial vehicles, otherwise known as drones, are no longer bound to military applications. The potential applications of drones is significantly increasing as the components that makeup the technology become more lightweight and affordable. Below explores a handful of drone use...
Kaminario and Tech Data announce partnership
Storage software company Kaminario is transitioning from a hardware to software-centric business model as the company partners with Tech Data.
Under the agreement, Kaminario will focus on IP and software, while Tech Data provides supply chain, integration and product support...
Portworx and HPE deliver joint solution for stateful containers
Portworx and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently debuted a solution-based reference configuration, which enables enterprises to launch stateful container workloads with Kubernetes.
Containers are a lightweight form of virtualization, which break down monolithic applications into small chunks...
Mavenir delivers virtualized Media Breakout Controller (vMBC)
Software company Mavenir recently premiered its virtualized Media Breakout Controller (vMBC), which enables operators to host virtual routing, firewall and user plane data offload with white box routing.
Networks currently are under pressure to meet consumer demands for more...
Baudi deploys new Blockchain-as-a-Service platform
China’s search engine giant Baidu recently deployed a Blockchain as-a-Service (BaaS) called Baidu Trust.
Blockchain refers to a technology that enables users to make transactions online. The technology consists of records called blocks, which are strung together and secured using cryptography....
Aqua Comms to sell capacity services and raw spectrum for HAVFRUE cable system portion
Aqua Comms DAC, the operator of Ireland’s first subsea fibre-optic network interconnecting New York, Dublin and London, has been appointed system operator and landing party of a new undersea cable connecting...
ThousandEyes and Juniper team up on joint solution
Network intelligence company ThousandEyes is partnering with Juniper Networks to provide visibility into network performance and application delivery across hybrid wide area networks (WANs).
Enterprises that largely depend on the web often lack insight into their network performance,...
LG unveils ThinQ A.I., CLOi, service robots and OLED TVs at CES
Las Vegas, Nev. -- LG’s Chief Technologist I.P. Park broke into the company’s 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference with the introduction of its global artificial intelligence (A.I.) brand LG ThinQ. The...
Qualcomm highlights RF front end design at CES
In the ongoing discussion around 5G—the standard release, network infrastructure readiness, support for sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave frequencies—device compatibility is a major issue and challenge. With the 3GPP working toward a standalone 5G New Radio specification...
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich begins CES with keynote presentation
Las Vegas, Nev. -- Intel CEO Brian Krzanich kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week with a keynote presentation centered around drones, autonomous vehicles and quantum computing.
Krzanich began his keynote addressing a security glitch...
Huawei CEO discusses Mate Pro 10 smartphone
Las Vegas, Nev. -- CEO of Huawei’s consumer business group Richard Yu spent the better part of an hour boasting the features of the company’s new Mate Pro 10 smartphone during a keynote presentation at the 2018 Consumer...
There should be quite a bit of embarrassment at Apple in the last couple weeks since they admitted to the iPhone slowdown. But is there? I wrote about this problem several times in recent years. What happens next--as Apple pushes three new iPhone models-- now...
House and Senate intelligence officials reportedly involved in decision
According to a new report in the Wall Street Journal, AT&T has backed out of a deal with Huawei to sell the Chinese technology company's smartphones in the U.S. Unlocked Huawei devices are already available in...
Verizon and Fhoosh strengthen partnership
Cybersecurity software company Fhoosh announced it is collaborating with Verizon to boost the company’s Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) service with fast end-to-end data protection.
Verizon’s SDP secures the connectivity between customer protected applications and authorized endpoints. What makes the solution different,...
WhiteHat boosts SAST services portfolio
WhiteHat Security recently expanded its portfolio of static application security testing (SAST) services with the addition of Sentinel Source for Microservices, which is aimed at companies currently embracing microservices-based architecture.
Microservices architecture involves piecemealing large-scale monolithic code into isolated chambers known...
IBM report highlights service provider executives’ perspectives on blockchain
Although blockchain only recently made its way onto the telecom stage, communications service providers (CSP) executives are already expressing interest in the technology. That is at least the conclusion of a recent report by the IBM Institute...
Container security vendor premiers Twistlock 2.3
Container security company Twistlock announced the availability of Twistlock 2.3 with a focus on protecting container workloads. The debut marks the 12th release of the company’s main product with new features like cloud native firewall, app aware system call...
