Viatel invests in new infrastructure

Viatel, the Dublin headquartered pan-European full services telecommunications provider has announced investment in new services and infrastructure across five European countries. These enhancements to the network will be delivered in France (Marseille), Germany (Frankfurt), The Netherlands (Amsterdam), Italy (Milan) and Switzerland (Zurich) and will utilise Viatel’s existing 8,500 km high capacity fibre network infrastructure.

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A brief history of speed

From the horse-and-cart speeds of dial-up modems in the mid-90s, to FTTC in the mid-2010s, we've seen internet connectivity get exponentially faster over the last 20 years. As Datanet celebrates its 18th anniversary, MD Conleth McCallan takes a trip down memory lane, and a trip up the fast lane...

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Juniper Networks introduces a Junos oowered Open Compute Project switch

Juniper Networks has introduced Juniper Networks® OCX1100, said to be the first switch to combine Open Compute Project (OCP) hardware design with a carrier-class network operating system, Junos® OS. The new switch, which will be available the first quarter of 2015, provides customers who build large and massive scale data centers with an open, cost-effective, disaggregated switching platform.

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Avnet Technology Solutions UK appoints Tom Corrigan as Sales Director

Avnet Technology Solutions has announced that Tom Corrigan will join the Avnet Technology Solutions UK leadership team as sales director as from 1 January 2015. Corrigan currently heads up the open storage and Cisco business unit at Avnet UK.

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Swisscom has selected Ekinops to deliver a new virtualized network solution on uCPE (universal...
Will allow 4.2Gbps downlink speed for high-speed data communications.
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OSA 3230B Series delivers precise, resilient frequency source across legacy infrastructure and lays...
German-based network specialist vendor Allegro Packets integrated in Niagara Networks Open...
Inmarsat’s global ELERA network will enable Hiber to bring IoT solutions and services to more...
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