This week marks the death of Sir Charles Kuen Kao, one of modern networking's pioneers. He died on Sunday 23 September 2018, aged 84. Born in Shanghai in 1933, Charles…
Marvell completes acquisition of Cavium
In a post last year, we covered how Marvell has designs on Cavium. The deal has now been completed, with Marvell announcing yesterday (6 July 2018) the deal's completion. “The…
1310nm.net announces First Customer Contract Start
Press Release: Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, UK. 2nd July 2018 Thirteen-ten nanometre networks Ltd (1310nm.net) are pleased to announce that today marks the start of delivery for their first customer…
Silver Peak gains $90mn funding from TCV
Silver Peak announced yesterday that is receiving an extra $90mn in funding. This comes from new investor TCV, which is now the largest investor in the company. TCV in the…
Microsoft acquires GitHub for $7.5bn
Microsoft has splashed out again. They have just acquired open-source source code management and sharing platform GitHub for $7.5bn. GitHub has a community of 28 million developers and hosts 85…
CoherentLight blog writer founds thirteen-ten nanometre networks Ltd
Press Release: Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, UK. 1st June 2018 The writer of the CoherentLight blog, John S. Dixon, has founded a company to provide access to high-quality relevant knowledge…
Telefonica expands Nuage solution with SDN for data centers
Spain's Telefonica Espana has selected Nokia's Nuage Networks to provide the SDN infrastructure for datacenter modernisation programme. This adds to the current SD-WAN deployment they made in 2017. (Nokia's Nuage…
Vertel uses Nuage SD-WAN to connect Australia
Australia's Vertel has partnered with Nokia's Nuage Networks division to deliver an SD-WAN service for Vertel's customers in July 2018. Vertel specialises in providing network services using next-generation wireless networks.…