2013 is Darwinian tipping point year for telecoms industry: "Evolve or die!" according to IDATE research

Leading European think tank sees key to success lies in strong strategic relationships with other industry players such as content delivery providers.

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Wearable tech will drive the rise of the ‘human cloud’ of personal data

Rackspace Hosting has announced findings of an in-depth study into the use of wearable technology and its impact on consumers and businesses. The research finds that, although only 18 per cent of UK and US respondents have actually used wearable technology, 82 per cent of those users in America and 71 per cent in Britain believe that these cloud-powered devices have enhanced their lives.

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DANTE and Infinera deliver 2 Tb/s capacity in less than 12 minutes

Infinera and DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) have announced what is said to be the fastest known provisioning of multi-Terabit capacity across a live network. Infinera and DANTE were able to install and activate 2 Terabits per second (Tb/s) of long haul super-channel optical capacity and provision a 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) service over the GÉANT production network all in less than 12 minutes from plugging in the first line card.

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New Panduit White Paper – ‘Light into Money –The Future of Fibre Optics in the Data Centre...
Extreme Networks and Aerohive Networks have entered into a definitive agreement under which Extreme...
EU Scientists are harnessing next generation lasers to create light-speed broadband...
The first transoceanic cable to achieve 1/2 Petabit per second capacity, and also the first to...
NEC Corporation has contributed to a video transmission test utilizing 5G conducted in November...
Enhanced mobile broadband and fixed wireless access among the early use cases.
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Technical Discussion: High Performance IP Replication

Why is it so challenging to achieve high performance IP Replication over distance between data centers? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of achieving high performance IP replication over distance, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally and test results comparing IP storage replication workloads showing you the level of performance you can achieve with Brocade's solution.

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