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GPON Impact On Last Mile VOD Infrastructure

GPON Wireline Innovation Challenge: Last mile bandwidth limitations have been a constant bottleneck limiting end user content consumption Solution: GPON  (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) provides multi-gigabit wireline connectivity to homes and businesses, efficiently, inexpensively and cost-effectively over the last mile

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Cool Startup: Teclo Networks

Teclo Networks, based in Zurich Switzerland is a five year old startup offering TCP Network Accelerator Appliances for Mobile Operators. The company was founded by Jane Walerud, a Standard Alumni, who worked at Telia and Ericsson, and Sean Hinde, an

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Weekly Intelligence Digest – March 16, 2015

Significant Developments of the Week 1. Distil Networks Investigates Bots and Behaviors Distil Networks, a leader in the bot mitigation field, conducts a study on CAPTCHAs and their effects on user behavioral patterns. Distil used a U.S history and politics

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Nuts and Bolts of Netflix’s CDN Infrastructure

Dave Temkin, Netflix Director of Global Networks recently presented the nuts and bolts of Netflix’s CDN Infrastructure. The presentation was feature packed, and he provided the audience with lots of interesting details. For those companies interested in building a global

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Weekly Intelligence Digest – March 9, 2015

Significant Developments for Week of 3/9/15 1. Akamai Addresses DNS Growth with Xerocole Acquisition Akamai Technologies announces their acquisition of Xerocole, a recurrent DNS company.  With Xerocole, Akamai hopes to accelerate DNS platform growth. The acquisition of Xerocole also promises

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Akamai Puts The Entire CDN Ecosystem On Notice

During the 2015 Investor Relations Summit, Akamai presented many interesting data points to its audience. Some of the data points were financial in nature, and others emphasized “new features, products, and services” across its various segments, including Media, Security, Network

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Akamai Moves to Make $5B a Reality in 2020

Akamai has been busy in Q1 of 2015. First, they made a strategic investment in Saguna Networks. Next, they announced a plan to hire 1,000 employees this year. Thereafter, Akamai acquired Xerocole, a start-up offering an innovative DNS platform to

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Weekly Intelligence Digest- March 2, 2015

Significant Developments for Week of March 2, 2015  1. Aryaka Gets Ready to Grow with new CFO Kelly Hicks In preparation for upcoming expansion, Aryaka Networks appoints a new Chief Financial Officer, Kelly Hicks.  Hicks has over 25 years of

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Battle of the Last Mile: Google vs AT&T and Verizon

The Internet Giants (Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon) have been on a rampage investing in middle mile infrastructure, more specifically dark fiber, submarine cable systems, and to some degree, spectrum for a while now . The two primary reasons: 1)

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