255 terabits a second: New fiber speed record?

	Big Switch rolls out SDN starter kits | For big raises in IT, look to mobile, security, big data
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	255 terabits a second: New fiber speed record? Researchers from the University of Central Florida and Eindhoven University of Technology say that they've developed a new fiber optic medium that allows data to be sent and received at up to 255Tbits/s, a roughly twenty-fold increase over current fiber. Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More In this Issue Big Switch rolls out SDN starter kits For big raises in IT, look to mobile, security, big data IDG Contributor Network: Don't engineer a mess IDG Contributor Network: The promise of NFV for the enterprise Amazon takes aim at Microsoft's Active Directory with new service Nest to build out IoT with acquisition of Revolv's home hub engineering team FCC pushes TV spectrum auction to 2016 after legal challenge WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More Big Switch rolls out SDN starter kits SDN pioneer Big Switch Networks this week is expected to unveil “starter kits” designed for its Big Cloud Fabric product that began shipping in September amidst a stream of positive product reviews. The starter kits provide the hardware and software necessary for a simple lab proof of concept up to a full two-rack production network fabric ready for Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds, big data and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) projects. RELATED: Can SDN usher in better security? "While our largest customers are building pods for 16K [virtual machines], we realize that the majority of enterprise architects want to experiment with hyperscale networking on a small project first," said CEO Doug Murray. "These starter kits are intended to make that fast and easy."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More For big raises in IT, look to mobile, security, big data IT salaries will remain mostly stagnant in 2015, except for workers with highly coveted skill sets, according to a report tracking IT salaries and skills demand in the coming years.“When you look at the actual salaries, just speaking in general, what you see is a lot of highly paid positions. You don’t see a lot of big increases,” said Jack Cullen, president of IT staffing firm Modis, which presented this data in its 2015 IT salary guide. “Companies don’t want to pay exorbitant rates. However, when they have a particular niche that’s really hard to fill, they don’t want to lose the right talent.”While pay increases for some technology jobs may be modest, these raises will “certainly be better than the normal pay increases that we are seeing in the job market,” he said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More IDG Contributor Network: Don't engineer a mess We've all seen those pictures of data centers that look like a jungle, complete with overgrown multi-colored copper and fiber vines strewn about, like snakes hanging from tree branches.Or even worse, perhaps you've seen network diagrams that look more like the Pentagon's acquisition process than an efficient network design.For my inaugural post on this forum, I wanted to write about something that I hope characterizes all my future posts: the importance of simplicity and elegance in computer network design. I see this as a sort of first principle or axiom of network design. Whether your team racks servers, develops applications, or designs massive scale, globally distributed network architectures, this principle applies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More IDG Contributor Network: The promise of NFV for the enterprise We can try to explain what NFV is, we can talk about getting ahead of the trends all we want, and we can discuss the merits from a networking perspective until we are blue in the face. But what matters most to the board is how NFV will help improve the bottom line, or maybe even the top. Read More WEBCAST: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise University Surpasses Students' Digital Expectations The explosion of mobile device use is testing the limits of legacy networks everywhere. In this webcast you will learn how Abilene Christian University meets the mobile access demands of 4500 University students, and 250,000 connections per day. Learn More Amazon takes aim at Microsoft's Active Directory with new service Amazon Web Services wants to become a more central part of enterprise IT with the AWS Directory Service, which both competes and integrates with Microsoft's Active Directory. With the lure of easier management, Amazon hopes CIOs are willing to trust it with one of their most important applications, the directory. Amazon has been adding all the pieces organizations need to run a complete IT infrastructure in its datacenters, including servers, databases, desktops and now a directory. The directory is an important addition because of the central position it has. Virtually every organization uses a directory service such as Active Directory to allow computers to join domains; list and authenticate users; and to locate and connect to printers, as well as other network services including SQL Server databases, Amazon said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Nest to build out IoT with acquisition of Revolv's home hub engineering team The next step for the IoT in the home is enabling the devices to communicate with each other. Read More FCC pushes TV spectrum auction to 2016 after legal challenge Complexity and a court petition by broadcasters will introduce delays, FCC Chairman Wheeler said Read More
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