Harmonic Advances Its Virtual Cable Access Technology
The company told investors it now has 400,000 cable modems operating in the field with its CableOS network virtualization technology. That’s an increase from 200,000 last quarter.
GE Wants to Ditch Its Digital Assets
GE Digital and its Predix IoT platform were once considered key to the future of the company and expected to generate $15 billion in software sales by 2020.
GSMA Announces Latest Event Updates for 2018 Mobile World Congress Americas, in Partnership with CTIA
The GSMA announced several additions to the Mobile World Congress Americas event line-up, including new speakers in the conference program, additional participating companies and exhibition experiences, and new programs and events.
SD-WAN Insights: Enabling Cloud POS Over Low-Speed Broadband
Achieving consistent point-of-sale transactions and cloud application performance over low-speed broadband can be challenging, but finding the right SD-WAN can alleviate some of these difficulties.
Awake Security CEO Jumped Ship at Cylance to Build a New Unicorn
Rahul Kashyap joins Awake from endpoint security company Cylance and says while endpoint has seen all the action over the past couple of years, “the network is where the opportunity lies.”
Turnium Using Mature SD-WAN Platform to Target Juniper, HPE Customers
The platform uses technology from Multapplied that is used in a white label form by Comcast, Rogers Communications in Canada, and Fusion Broadband in Australia.
ARM Strengthens Its IoT Portfolio With $600M Treasure Data Purchase
Its push into IoT is undoubtedly initiated by ARM’s parent company SoftBank, which is investing billions in technologies including IoT through its SoftBank Vision Fund.
IBM Trials Blockchain Platform With Barclays, Citi
The company also scored a $140 million digital banking deal with Thai bank Krungsri.
Digital Twins Start to Gain Foothold in Enterprise Monitoring, Management
Software AG recently released a digital twin framework based on its management and monitoring platform. But according to Gartner VP Marc Halpern while digital twin technology is at peak hype, it still has a while to go.
ZTE Slashes Q1 Bottom Line by $1B
That swing was attributed to the impact of being banned from purchasing U.S. components and $1.4 billion in total fines ZTE agreed to pay to the U.S. government to lift the ban.
Nokia Scores $3.5B 5G Contract With T-Mobile
The announcement comes just days after Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri admitted the company lost some of its Verizon business in certain markets.
Speedify Founders Got Tired of Battlefield Robots, So They Turned to SD-WAN
Business customers include news and entertainment companies, software developers, hardware providers, and network operators and mobile carriers.
Imperva Acquires Application Security Vendor Prevoty for $140M
Prevoty’s product uses runtime application self-protection (RASP), an emerging security technology that is built into an application and can detect and respond to attacks in real time.
Defense Department’s $10B Cloud Contract Is Up for Grabs
The contract could be worth $10 billion over 10 years. But Congress has expressed some concern over the size and duration of the deal.
AWS Cloud Dominance Bolstered With Robust Q2
Synergy Research Group said AWS is “in a league of its own” compared with its smaller segment rivals.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — July 27, 2018
Ericsson and Singtel set to launch Singapore 5G pilot this year; Dell EMC Unity gets an update; Teneo uses Riverbed tech for monitoring.
Juniper Grows Software Biz in Q2, Posts 8% Net Revenue Decline
Software revenue wasn’t enough to push the company back to year-over-year growth. It reported net revenue of $1.2 billion for the second quarter, an 8-percent drop compared to last year.
xRAN Forum Releases More Specs to Make Interoperable RAN Possible
The xRAN Forum is in the process of becoming part of the O-RAN Alliance. The merger was announced last February but is taking a long time to be formalized.
5G, Broadband to Drive $75B Optical Transport Spend, Dell’Oro Says
Most of that 5-year growth will come from an increased use of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) to support the extension of higher network speeds closer to end users.
Nation-States, Criminals Increasing Attacks on ERP Systems, DHS Warns
Threat researchers found a rise in attacks on widely-used enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications such as SAP and Oracle, which currently have a combined 9,000 known security vulnerabilities.