Woodstock Wire: Voice + Data Network News

PR Newswire -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, announced today that it has joined The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council ("MassTLC") Tech Compact for Social...

Business Wire -- SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, is seeking nominations for its inaugural IT Pro Day Awards program, which is designed to celebrate the contributions IT professionals have made to...

Globe Newswire -- The South Carolina Office of Regulatory Staff (ORS) has partnered with Verizon to enable distance learning, for up to 150,000 K-12 students through discounted Internet access for students who have no Internet connectivity at home.

Globe Newswire -- Telecommunications - Verizon is the first US wireless network to secure 5G global roaming service Verizon is the first US wireless network to secure 5G global roaming service

Electronics -- eSilicon - As noted in Ford Tamer's blog post on "Bandwidth in the Age of COVID-19", currently, there is an explosion in network data and traffic, driven by concurrent and overlapping trends ranging from the proliferation of consumer applications with...

Enterprise -- Data Center Knowledge - The Grace Hopper system will be the first Google subsea route to Spain and one of the first new US-UK cables since 2003.

Enterprise -- ZDNet Blogs - The company reported​ non-GAAP net income of $134 million, or $2.18 per diluted share, on revenue of $586 million.

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - As businesses deepen their digital transformation to embrace remote work and online operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, significant challenges arise regarding technology automation and security. Network security company Infoblox Inc....

Enterprise -- SAP - Traditional networks were once the skeletal foundations of our IT infrastructures. Comprised primarily of hardware, these static networks required physical effort and manual intervention to make significant changes.

Innovations such as data center...

Enterprise -- Channelnomics - Is Your Customer DNS Ready for the Remote Work Reality?



The global pandemic has created a highly distributed, yet extremely vulnerable, remote working environment that's challenging channel partners to take action and drive...

Business Wire -- T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) ("T-Mobile") today announced the preliminary results of its highly successful, over-subscribed rights offering following the expiration of the subscription period at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on July 27, 2020 (the "expiration...

Business Wire -- F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended June 30, 2020. "Large enterprise customers are accelerating their digital transformations, increasing their digital engagement, and boosting capacity...

Business Wire -- Riverbed announced that it is adding new cloud-based offerings into its arsenal of Riverbed Application Acceleration Solutions for Microsoft apps.

Business Wire -- Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced the release of Cloudflare Workers(r) Unbound, offering a serverless platform for developers with unparalleled flexibility,...

Globe Newswire -- Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today announced it has been positioned as a Leader in The Forrester Wave(tm): Open, Programmable Switches For A Businesswide SDN, Q3 2020, a new report published by Forrester Research,...

Globe Newswire -- Technology - New FortiGate 80F is the Latest Expansion of Fortinet's Industry-leading SD-WAN Portfolio New FortiGate 80F is the Latest Expansion of Fortinet's Industry-leading SD-WAN Portfolio

Globe Newswire -- Technology - Mist AI brings insights and Self-Driving Network(tm) automation to optimize end-to-end user experiences and minimize IT costs across LAN, WLAN and WAN Mist AI brings insights and Self-Driving Network(tm) automation to optimize end-to-end...

Globe Newswire -- Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today reported preliminary financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2020 and provided its outlook for the three months ending September 30, 2020.

Aspencore -- EDN - Starting in the 1980s, the mobile industry has been upgrading the wireless technology at the rate of one new standard every decade. The first-generation (1G) cell phones launched in the '80s, although they were not referred to as 1G at the time,...

Tech -- TechCrunch - Apparently, the internet is still popular.

With the novel coronavirus marooning people at home for work and play, those "tubes" carrying our data back and forth have become ever more important to our livelihoods. Yet while we often as consumers...

Infosec -- Cloudflare - We launched Cloudflare Workers(r) in 2017 with the goal of building the development platform that we wished we had. We want to enable developers to build great software while Cloudflare manages the overhead of configuring and maintaining...

Media -- Dataweek - Running a smart environment on a Wi-Fi backbone requires a good Wi-Fi mesh system, with low latency, and reliable handover between Wi-Fi access points.

Business Wire -- NETGEAR, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTGR), a global networking company that delivers innovative networking and Internet connected products to consumers and businesses, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 28, 2020. Second quarter 2020...

Business Wire -- SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced a collaboration with Microsoft that will integrate Microsoft 365(tm) capabilities with SolarWinds(r) N-central(r) and RMM. This will deliver...

Life -- Phys.org - On July 16, 2020, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) payload was installed and integrated on the U.S. Department of Defense Space Test Program Satellite 6 (STPSat-6) in preparation for a 2021 launch. As an experimental payload,...

Tech -- The Verge - Alphabet's Loon division, which uses floating balloons to provide internet, has today launched its first commercial service in Kenya. In a blog post announcing the news, Loon's CEO Alastair Westgarth said that the 4G LTE service...

Infosec -- Cloudflare - Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network. Because of the architecture of our backbone...

Infosec -- Cloudflare - 2020 has been a historic year that will forever be associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past six months, we have seen societies, businesses, and entire industries unsettled. The situation at Cloudflare has been no different. And...

Enterprise -- Microsoft Azure - Today we're announcing the preview of the new ability to deploy and run third-party Network Virtual Appliances such as SD-WAN natively within the Azure Virtual WAN hubs.



As enterprises increasingly adopt the cloud while reducing their...

Enterprise -- ChannelLife New Zealand - The deal will enable HPE to couple its Aruba Edge Services platform with Silver Peak's software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) platform.

PR Newswire -- Second quarter highlights Sales were SEK 55.6 (54.8) b. Sales adjusted for comparable units and currency were flat YoY. Gross margin excluding restructuring charges improved to 38.2% (36.7%), including the earlier communicated inventory write-down...

PR Newswire -- New Barracuda CloudGen WAN is the first secure global SD-WAN service built natively on Microsoft Azure. The new service is deployed directly from Azure, works out of the box with smart default configurations, and provides the...

Business Wire -- Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JCS) ("CSI" or the "Company"), an IoT intelligent edge products and services company, today announced that its recently acquired subsidiary Ecessa(r) Corporation completed a major upgrade to its SD-WAN product line...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - BlueJeans Events is getting a big upgrade to help enterprises navigate virtual events and monetize them.

Enterprise -- Storage Newsletter - Hewlett Packard Enterprise entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Silver Peak Systems, an SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) leader, in a transaction valued at $925 million. Silver Peak will be combined with HPE's...

Enterprise -- Network World News - AT&T has expanded its SD-WAN offerings with a worldwide service based on Cisco Secure SD-WAN technology, and it natively integrated providies threat protection across branch offices and hybrid clouds without compromising performance.AT&T's...

Aspencore -- IoT Times - Network giant Verizon and search behemoth Google have struck a deal earlier this week centered on leveraging Google's cloud AI solution.



Under the agreement, Verizon customers needing support will have a more streamlined digital experience...

Business Wire -- Riverbed "Future of Work" study finds business leaders worldwide are comfortable - but not fully prepared yet - for large scale shift to remote work.

Enterprise -- TechCentral.ie - Equinix plans to extend customer access to cloud service provider Alibaba Cloud through Platform Equinix. Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, will be extended in 17 metros globally, including...

Enterprise -- Silicon Republic - As little as a year ago, Chrystal Taylor didn't see herself becoming a head geek, she tells me. Having racked up nearly a decade in technology, she works at SolarWinds, a US software company that helps clients manage their networks,...

Enterprise -- ZDNet Blogs - One of the quickest and easiest ways to make use of the Globalstar network is to set up a private satellite Wi-Fi network using Sat-Fi2 portable satellite Wi-Fi hotspot. You turn it on, it connects to Globalstar's constellation of satellites,...

Business Wire -- NETGEAR(r), Inc. (NASDAQ:NTGR), the leading provider of networking products that power businesses both large and small, today announces the availability of GS716TP and GS716TPP, two new 16-port Gigabit Ethernet PoE+ Smart Managed Pro Switches with...

Business Wire -- SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today introduced Liz Beavers as the newest member of the company's Head Geek(tm) team and announced that Microsoft recognized Head Geek Thomas LaRock with his...

Globe Newswire -- Telecommunications - Verizon pilots Google Cloud Contact Center Artificial Intelligence to deliver more intuitive customer support through natural-language recognition, faster processing, and real-time customer service agent assistance Verizon pilots...

Enterprise -- Storage Newsletter - Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,693,784) developed by Ramalingam, Nirmal Kumar, Shukla, Amit, Sunnyvale, CA, and Adusumalli, Srilakshmi, San Jose, CA, for "fibre channel over ethernet, FCoE link...

Enterprise -- ChannelBuzz.ca - Webroot's improvements to DoH [DNS-over-HTTPS] will provide MSPs with the ability to tell customers that this is something that can significantly improve their privacy on the Internet.Webroot, an OpenText company, has enhanced their Webroot...

Enterprise -- TechCentral.ie - As enterprises try to accelerate their digital transformation efforts, network agility is more important than ever, and network automation can help by ensuring quick access to data, maintaining network performance and improving security....

Enterprise -- Network World News - Between the pandemic and the subsequent economic upheaval, these are challenging times for everyone. But the networking industry has some elements in its favor. Technologies such as Wi-Fi, VPNs, SD-WAN, videoconferencing and collaboration...

Enterprise -- Azure Updates - Today we are announcing the General Availability of multiple enhancements in Azure Virtual WAN, including hub-to-hub, custom routing and transit capabilities.

Globe Newswire -- Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today announced it was named a Leader by Gartner, Inc. in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Center and Cloud Networking for the third consecutive year. A complimentary copy of the full report is...