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As Ethernet turns 40, some seek to take it to the cloud

Thu, 05/23/2013 - 10:33
As Ethernet marks its 40th birthday this week, some of those celebrating will also be looking ahead to yet another use for the nearly ubiquitous technology: the cloud.
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EU probe could could slow European vendors supplying tech for China's 4G deployment

Tue, 05/21/2013 - 01:55
The European Union may be trying to protect its telecom equipment industry with its recent threat to investigate China over networking equipment imports. But the move could end up hurting the chances of Western vendors intent on supplying technology to China's upcoming 4G services launch, according to analysts.
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Corning taps into optical fiber for better indoor wireless

Mon, 05/20/2013 - 07:34
Bringing wireless indoors, which was once just a matter of antennas carrying a few cellular bands so people could get phone calls, has grown far more complex and demanding in the age of Wi-Fi, multiple radio bands and more powerful antennas.
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40 years ago, Ethernet's fathers were the startup kids

Mon, 05/20/2013 - 07:02
Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today.
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Cisco cites data-center, wireless for quarterly revenue increase

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 18:15
Data-center and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the U.S. and developing countries but reported continuing weakness in Southern Europe.
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Networks in 2020: More traffic, less energy

Mon, 05/13/2013 - 04:10
Networks could use far less energy by 2020 even though they'll be carrying much more traffic, an industry group says.
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Facebook plans to design an open-source switch

Wed, 05/08/2013 - 15:57
As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.
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VMware: Faster app provisioning makes SDN a keeper

Wed, 05/08/2013 - 15:33
Software defined networking (SDN) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise largely because it will save enterprises time in deploying new applications, predicted Martin Casado, chief architect of networking at VMware.
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How to keep your network in tip-top health

Mon, 05/06/2013 - 08:16
Using any one of the six netword management suites in this review will help diagnose and cure network ills
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A telecom landmark gets wired for the cloud

Fri, 05/03/2013 - 19:16
The Pacific Bell tower in San Francisco, the high-rise headquarters of the phone company through eight decades and several name changes, was a monument to copper.
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Google wants Austin to keep competition going for fiberhood status

Fri, 05/03/2013 - 09:29
Ever since Google announced that Austin, Texas, would become the second fiber city in the U.S. last month, residents there have been given few details on how the tech company will select the first neighborhood to get the gigabit-speed Internet and TV package.
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Clarifying the role of software-defined networking northbound APIs

Thu, 05/02/2013 - 18:26
With software-defined networking the control of the network is pried out of the data handling devices and centralized on a controller that uses a common protocol, OpenFlow, to direct the switches on the southbound side. That much has been established. But what of the oft-mentioned northbound APIs that will let applications tell the controller what they need from the network? What kind of progress is the Open Networking Foundation making on that front? Network World Editor in Chief John Dix put the question to Robert Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch Networks and head of the ONF's Architecture and Framework Working Group, which is responsible for multiple things, including the creation of these northbound APIs.
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Dish exec says Sprint network update project must be based in U.S.

Thu, 05/02/2013 - 01:26
Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen said Wednesday that his is an American company, and the modernization of the Sprint Nextel network will have to be done from the U.S. with operations control in the country, and English speaking staff.
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Obama nominates Wheeler as new FCC chairman

Wed, 05/01/2013 - 14:19
U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated telecom trade group veteran Tom Wheeler to be the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
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Microsoft previews Skype for Outlook.com

Tue, 04/30/2013 - 05:02
Microsoft is rolling out a preview version of Skype for Outlook.com, allowing users to make calls and send instant messages from within the webmail service using a browser plugin.
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Verizon posts gains on mobile, Fios growth in Q1

Thu, 04/18/2013 - 08:11
Verizon Communications reported an increase in revenue and a double-digit spike in net income for the first quarter of 2013, compared to a year earlier, driven largely by gains in mobile customers and in revenue from its Fios service.
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Popular home routers contain critical security vulnerabilities

Thu, 04/18/2013 - 01:26
Thirteen popular home and small office routers contain security problems that could allow a hacker to snoop or modify network traffic, according to new research.
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Google plans to set up gigabit-speed fiber in Provo, Utah

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 23:41
Google is acquiring iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city of Provo, Utah, as part of a plan to introduce its high-speed broadband network called Google Fiber there.
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Big-data science requires SDN, Internet2 chief says

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 19:44
Software-defined networking in universities today is like the early Internet decades ago, and big-data researchers in genomics and other fields already need it for their next set of discoveries, according to the head of Internet2.
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