Dell enters emerging connected vehicles segment

@DellTechnologies has announced it has joined the Automotive Edge Computing Consortium ( #AECC) to advance the emerging connected- and self-driving vehicles segment. The focus is on managing automotive #bigdata in smarter ways. The car is a huge, potential ‘ #datacenter’ with the future state ability to collect and share information from a huge range of sources. This links to safety, performance metrics, improved #geolocation, and the basis of #selfdrivingvehicles. It is of these reasons, which link to considerable future sales, that technology companies are becoming involved. The value of connected car data, and the new business models that emerge from it, could be worth $1.5 trillion a year by 2030, according to McKinsey. Dell’s contribution to the AECC will help to evolve network architectures and computing infrastructures, designed to to make managing automotive big data more efficient. These developments are important to ensure connected cars drive intelligently. For this to happen, over the next 5-10 years, cars need to be equipped with fast Internet access, artificial intelligence and big data analytics. It is anticipated that by 2025, connected vehicles will generate $150 billion in annual revenue, grow to 100 million vehicles globally, and as a result transmit over 100 petabytes of data to the cloud per month. As part of this future model, vehicles will need to connect to both data centre clouds and various public clouds through edge compute and networks to facilitate the transfer of large amounts of data in real time. Dell Technologies will prepare architectures for next-gen mobile networks and the cloud, designed to work with automobiles. According to John Roese, President and CTO at Dell EMC: “We will see acceleration and AI in the car become more mainstream to meet the complexity of connected car workloads. But carefully designed and efficient compute and storage in the car will be critical to maximize power usage for driving distance, not IT overhead.” He adds that; “Data structures will be simplified with a semantically rich data management framework, and active archiving. In this new world code and data, software updates and high-resolution maps will require a new approach, one that will leverage cloud-native, microservices, dynamic policy allocation and formal methods for software assurance and security.” This is necessary since: “We will see autonomous vehicles becoming a new breed of mobile computing platform.” By joining the AECC scheme, Dell Technologies will work with companies like Intel, Ericsson, Toyota and others.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/business/dell-enters-emerging-connected-vehicles-segment/article/518812

Telstra transmission network hits 400Gbps

@Ericsson has announced achieving speeds of #400Gbps across @Telstra 's transmission network in Melbourne in partnership with telecommunications equipment and software provider @Ciena. The demonstration, which made use of 61.5GHz spectrum, constituted the highest ever spectral efficiency per fibre pair in a live setting of 30.4Tbps. The previous record was 25.6Tbps, according to the companies. Telstra deployed Ciena's WaveLogic Ai modem technology on the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, which is managed and controlled by Ciena's software-defined platform Liquid Spectrum and Blue Planet Manage Control Plan (MCP) domain controller. Ericsson then provided the end-to-end supply, installation, and integration of upgraded optical equipment into the transmission network, as well as managing the deployment of technology for the 400Gbps demonstration. "Telstra has deployed the industry's first fully programmable coherent modem in the world developed by Ciena. It offers up to three times data capacity and enables up to 60 percent reduction in power per bit compared to the modem technology currently deployed in the Telstra network," the companies explained.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/telstra-transmission-network-hits-400gbps/

Pluribus Sees Validation in Ericsson Cloud Deployments

@Ericsson ’s recent deal with @Swisscom in launching a #cloud platform for the Swiss telecommunication operator involved network components from @PluribusNetworks. According to @StevenShalita, vice president of marketing and business development at Pluribus, those components are vital to the deployment.

As a quick recap, Ericsson last week made good on a previously announced deal with Swisscom to launch a cloud-based enterprise service. That platform was described as a full-stack cloud deployment that takes advantage of software-defined networking (#SDN) and network functions virtualization ( #NFV).

The platform details included use of Ericsson’s #CloudManager, #CloudExecution Environment, #CloudSDN, #Hyperscale Datacenter System (HDS) 8000, and professional services.

Daniel Staub, head of Swisscom’s Joint Mobile Group, in a statement said that it will target businesses tied to 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT).

“Our first service is now live, servicing the small and medium enterprise market, and we will continue to work closely with Ericsson to onboard other services in the immediate future,” Staub said in a statement.

As part of its architecture (pictured below), Ericsson notes that Pluribus provides the networking component to the HDS 8000 product. Shalita said Pluribus’ Netvisor OS and Adaptive Cloud Fabric architecture are also part of the picture.
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/pluribus-sees-validation-in-ericsson-cloud-deployments/2017/10/

Nexius Software-Focused Subsidiary Targets Cisco and Ericsson

#Nexius wants to use its expertise in network software to take on vendor heavyweights like #Cisco and #Ericsson. The company, which supplies telecommunications network deployment services, is launching a subsidiary called B.Yond to focus on software. B.Yond’s goal is to provide a more flexible, software-based approach to meet network demands.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/nexius-software-focused-b-yond-subsidiary-targets-cisco-and-ericsson/2017/05/

Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, and Nokia secure lion’s share of router and switch market

#Cisco is the most familiar company in the router and switch market with #Juniper and #Nokia trailing behind, according to a new piece of research from IHS Markit. IHS Markit conducted a switch and router vendor leadership survey in 2016 that shows how service providers select router and CES manufacturers, whose equipment they have installed, help them evaluate future purchases. The 15-page study features operator ratings of 11 vendors including, #Brocade, #Cisco, #Coriant, #ECI, #Ericsson, #Fujitsu, #Huawei, #Juniper, #NEC, #Nokia [including #AlcatelLucent ] and #ZTE on 9 criteria. The survey assesses service provider attitudes toward and perceptions of edge router, core router and CES manufacturers. In the study, Cisco was at the top of respondent edge/core router and CES manufacturer leadership scores. Along with Juniper, Huawei and Nokia (including Alcatel-Lucent), Cisco forms a top tier clearly separated by a wide margin from the other manufacturers. All these four manufacturers account for about 86% of worldwide revenue market share for routers and CES. Nokia topped among others, followed by Cisco and Juniper, when it came to product reliability and service and support. This was considered on an individual manufacturer selection criteria. For technology innovation and product roadmap, Cisco and Nokia ranked first and second, respectively. While for price-to-performance ratio, the Chinese vendors led with Huawei at number one position and ZTE at number two. Cisco, Juniper, Huawei and Nokia also led in other measures including unaided awareness, familiarity (or aided awareness), and equipment installed and under evaluation. Similarly, the vendors ranked at the top when survey respondents named leaders in next-gen routing technologies including 100GE, vRouter and IP DCI.

http://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/2017/jan/13/cisco-juniper-huawei-and-nokia-secure-lions-share-router-and-switch-market/

Software Defined Storage Market Players - EMC, IBM, HP, VMware , Avaya, 6Wind, Arista Networks, Brocade, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, HDS, Juniper Networks, NEC, NetApp, Plexxi

Software Defined Storage Market has been valued at US ~$4 billion in the year 2016. Exponentially growing data volume across enterprises need for cost optimization in data management and rise in the “software defined” concept are some of the key factor which is supporting the market of software defined software. It is expected to the market will grow at CAGR of ~27% during the forecast period and expected to reach market size of US ~$18 billion by the end of forecast period. North America is dominating the Software Defined Storage Market whereas Asia Pacific has emerged as fastest growing market.

#SoftwareDefinedStorage Market Players - #EMC , #IBM, #HP, #VMware , #Avaya, #6Wind, #Arista Networks, #Brocade, #Cisco, #Dell, #Ericsson, #HDS, #Juniper Networks, #NEC, #NetApp, #Plexxi

http://www.newsmaker.com.au/news/211756/software-defined-storage-market-players-emc-ibm-hp-vmware-avaya-6wind-arista-networks-brocade-cisco-dell-ericsson-hds-juniper-networks-nec-netapp-plexxi#.WHGNXHpMFnE

Huawei keeps rolling with 32% year-over-year revenue growth in 2016

#Huawei CEO says company aims to improve operating efficiency and cash flow generation across business units. Huawei expects 2016 revenues to reach 520 billion yuan ($74.8 billion), which would represent a 32% increase compared to the previous year, the company’s rotating CEO Eric Xu said in a message to the firm’s employees. In 2015, the vendor reported revenue of 395 billion yuan, which pushed the Chinese giant passed other key global competitors such as #Ericsson, #Nokia and #Cisco Systems in terms of global sales. “The year 2016 has seen a flock of black swans – both political and economic – sweep across the globe. Nevertheless, we have remained focused on our strategy and have patiently applied ourselves to making breakthroughs and creating real value for our customers,” the executive said. “In 2017, we will face even greater global political and economic uncertainties and the ICT industry will continue to transform. We must identify the challenges before us.” The executive said Huawei must sustain profitable growth and maintain healthy cash flow. “Huawei has realized double-digit revenue growth over the past few years. That said, there has not been much improvement in our operating efficiency and cash flow. Our general and administrative expenses have grown faster than our revenue and sales gross margin and our cash to revenue ratio is on the decline,” Xu said. Xu added that Huawei’s business units should make effort to increase operating efficiency and reduce general and administrative expenses. The executive also said the consumer business must stay focused on profit and must remain committed to building a high-end brand and establishing a well-functioning retail channel system. Huawei expects its consumer business to record 178 billion yuan in revenues in 2016, and expects smartphone shipments to have grown by approximately 29% to 139 million units.

http://www.rcrwireless.com/20170103/business/huawei-revenue-growth-tag23

CES Preview: Ericsson CTO Talks Fixed Wireless and the Evolution to Mobile 5G

Like a jeweler showcasing its diamond, representatives for the Swedish telecommunications company said #Ericsson is planning a massive display to highlight the many facets of 5G. In particular, Ericsson said it will focus on different use cases across a variety of industries and the new capabilities 5G will enable, honing in on six key areas including broadband, man-machine interfaces like virtual and augmented reality, critical services, sensor networks, machine-type communications, and remote devices. But while Ericsson’s CES display will look toward the future, Wireless Week reached out to CTO Glenn Laxdal ahead of the show to get his thoughts on where 5G technology stands today and how exactly it will progress to that hyper mobile vision of the future. Back in December, #Verizon told Wireless Week that it was working closely with Ericsson and a handful of other vendors on pre-commercial fixed wireless 5G trials slated to kick off this month. Though many people like to think of 5G as a mostly mobile technology, Laxdal explained there are a couple of reasons Ericsson’s clients – including companies like Verizon – are focusing on fixed wireless as the initial use case. It’s well known that the 3GPP standards for mobile 5G won’t be released for some time yet, but Laxdal said fixed wireless is possible because participants in the standards process can already see what the building blocks of 5G will be. Thus, he said, Ericsson can construct a solution around those foundations and start to deliver some components in a 2017 timeframe. Fixed wireless is a great vehicle to test those components because of the element of control it offers, Laxdal noted. “I think the lead use case is going to be fixed wireless access because that’s a very contained use case,” Laxdal said. “We can control the devices that are being used for fixed wireless access as well as the network and co-develop those together.” Additionally, Laxdal said the software Ericsson is developing for these early 5G components will be “completely upgradable” to the standards-based 5G system that will fully defined in the mid-2018 timeframe. Laxdal said the evolution of 5G devices will likely unfold in a manner similar to the roll out of 4G technology. That is, Laxdal said with 5G we will see fixed wireless devices becoming available first since they don’t have to handle all the capabilities required by mobile broadband. Those devices, he said, will be followed by the roll out of hotspot devices (which would perhaps be the first fully standards-compliant devices) in a late 2018 timeframe and eventually smartphones with 5G capabilities in the early 2019 timeframe. Once all of those pieces fall into line and the ecosystem includes a variety of devices that are able to “talk” 5G, Laxdal said the world will see a much broader deployment of the technology across the market. This, he said, will likely come in a 2019 or 2020 timeframe. “When you’re out in the 2021, 2022 timeframe, now you’ve got a fully standards-based 5G system and you’re starting to ramp smartphones,” Laxdal said. “That’s when we really see the significant volume of subscribers starting to take advantage of 5G.” According to the latest Ericsson Mobility report, the volume of 5G subscribers is expected to reach 150 million in 2021 before jumping to more than half a billion in 2022.

https://www.wirelessweek.com/article/2017/01/ces-preview-ericsson-cto-talks-fixed-wireless-and-evolution-mobile-5g

Huawei, Cisco, Nokia & Ericsson Join for NFV Testing

#Nokia, #Ericsson, #Cisco, and #Huawei today announced they have signed an #MoU to create the #NFV Interoperability Testing Initiative ( #NFVITI ). Ericsson and Cisco already have a broad-reaching partnership. But Nokia and Huawei are fierce competitors with each other as well as with Cisco and Ericsson. But apparently, service providers need these top telecom vendors to work together to test the interoperability of virtual network functions ( #VNF s) in multi-vendor environments.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/top-telecom-vendors-join-nfv-testing/2016/12/

Chinese giants give world another SDN and NFV platform

If you didn't think the world needed another Software Defined Networking ( #SDN ) project, bad luck: you've got one anyway: it's called #OpenO and hopes to put SDN and Network Function Virtualisation ( #NFV ) in the same yoke. If that sounds familiar, it's because #ATT also wants to lead the open source world into a combination SDN/NFV – but its project with the #Linux Foundation seems to be running late. AT&T's promise to release its #ECOMP – Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy platform – came in July. In fact, Open-O seems to be in much the same boat: it's announced its first release, but not yet published the code. It apparently involves seven discrete projects and #OpenStack, but beyond that, it's still vapourware. The China-driven project, under the umbrella of the #Linux Foundation, got its first public outing with #Huawei demonstrating Open-O Sun, its combined SDN/NFV orchestrator, at the Operations Transformation Forum in Wuzhen, China. Huawei says the project includes code from China Mobile and four other companies. The #YANG and Oasis' #TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) data models are supported, and Open-O includes components from #Canonical, #Raisecom and #RedHat, Huawei says. Open-O's members include #ChinaMobile, #ChinaTelecom, #HongKongTelecom (HKT), #Ericsson, #GigaSpaces, #Intel, and #ZTE. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/15/huawei_blows_more_vapour_into_the_orchestration_cloud/

Red Hat and Ericsson sign open source deal

#RedHat is well known as probably the most successful company built entirely on open-source software. Building a business on top of open source is a hard thing, especially so back in the early days of open source when no one had any real idea how the economics of a product that was free would translate into commercial success. But succeed it did, and Red Hat has created a huge business built entirely on offering services on top of open-source products.

The company's initial success was, of course, built around the corresponding wide uptake of the #Linux operating system. Linux services was what Red Hat built its base upon. But time, as they say, never stands still, and Red Hat has deftly jumped on board a huge number of other open-source initiatives to try and emulate its Linux success.

One initiative Red Hat has been “all in” with is OpenStack, the open-source cloud computing initiative created jointly by #Rackspace and #NASA. #OpenStack has grown from an esoteric little science project to a real thing with thousands of contributors, good examples of real-world production workloads, and a growing, if sometimes grudging, acceptance that it is here to stay.

Red Hat, for its part, is well aware that the success of an initiative such as OpenStack relies upon significant, sustainable and real case studies of adoption. It is also hugely predicated on key strategic partnerships. We see moves towards this today with the announcement that Red Hat is partnering with Ericsson to deliver a series of different open-source solutions, all designed to work together and tailored for specific use cases.
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3131628/open-source-tools/red-hat-and-ericsson-sign-open-source-deal.html

Why Cisco and Ericsson are Teaming up for Future Growth

#Cisco and #Ericsson, two giants in the telecommunications gear sector, have teamed up to generate $1 billion in revenue for each company by 2018. The two companies will co-develop products, align customer service and share patents in a partnership that’s unprecedented in the industry.

The alliance, announced Monday, is a sign both of consolidation and competition in the market for telecommunications equipment as rival #AlcatelLucent merges with #Nokia, but also a symptom of the merging of both computing and communications as more business is conducted in the so-called cloud. Both companies are stuck in a mature industry providing equipment that underlies the backbone of both the wired and wireless Internet. Back in 2009, Cisco  CSCO -0.95%  branched out in an attempt to provide servers for cloud computing, with limited success.

http://fortune.com/2015/11/09/why-cisco-ericsson/