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Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that a leading Chinese Internet and mobile solution provider Qihoo 360 Technology has built a powerful new data center based on the Juniper Networks® QFabric™ architecture. Specifically, the company has deployed a QFX3000-G QFabric System* – designed for large enterprises, service providers and cloud data center environments – to support its expansion into new web-based services including search and cloud offerings.

Qihoo 360 Technology currently supports more that 435 million users with its PC-based security solutions, 120 million mobile security users and 272 million users of its secure web browser — almost all of whom are in China.

Juniper Networks Inc

October 1, 2012
Lightwave Staff

Huawei says that its 100-Gbps network technology currently supports a total combined link length of more than 50,000 km. The links represent a combination of customers that includes more than 40 carriers in over 30 countries.

The company says the customers are in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia Pacific – which, of course, implies that it has yet to announce a customer in North America. Salient deployments include what Huawei touts as “the world's most extensive 100G network” deployment by Russia’s Rostelecom and the first pan-European 100G WDM network for KPN in the Netherlands (see "KPN International deploys Huawei’s coherent 100-Gbps WDM system").

Furthermore, Huawei says that Ovum has named it the current 100G market share leader, with 39% of the market. Huawei attributes its success to its supply chain and technical expertise, particularly in SD-FEC/HD-FEC  and Optical Transport Network (OTN) technologies. In fact, Ovum ranks Huawei on top in WDM/OTN, 40G, 100G, and global optical network equipment sales as of Q2 2012.

"To create long-term value for our customers, Huawei is committed to understanding customer needs, delivering technological innovation, and optimizing the industry ecosystem. Huawei's transport network will continue to surpass customer expectations," said Jack Wang, president of the Huawei Transport Network Product Line.

ECI Telecom says that Romanian cable operator RCS & RDS will deploy ECI’s Apollo Optimized Multi-Layer Transport (OMLT) platforms to support 100-Gbps transmission.

The OMLT deployment will upgrade a 700-km route from Oradea to Bucharest. The RCS & RDS network per-channel capacity will grow from 10 Gbps to the 100-Gbps figure to connect core routers along the route. ECI Telecom’s LightSoft Network Management System will provide oversight.

RCS & RDS serves more than 4 million subscribers, making it the largest Romanian cable and Internet provider. It will use its upgraded capabilities to support its offering of quad-play services (voice, data, video, and mobile). The operator has been an ECI Telecom customer for more than 10 years (see, for example, "ECI tapped to expand Romania cable operator's Eastern European network").

"The ability to implement 100G in our current network is a confirmation of our continuous effort to invest in cutting-edge communications solutions,” commented Valentin Popoviciu, development manager, RCS & RDS. “For more than 10 years, ECI has been an innovative and experienced strategic partner that helped us provide our customers with exceptional services. The move to 100G will enable RCS & RDS to better meet the needs of its customer base by quickly reacting to current and future bandwidth demands and reliably offering the highest capacity services available on the market today, as well as the ability to approach new markets."

"With minimal changes to its existing infrastructure, RCS & RDS increased tenfold the available bandwidth to its customers. This new 100G network enables the company to remain competitive and offer the latest next-generation services and applications to its customers, without major investments in capex or opex," added Yoav Gazelle, head of sales & marketing for Europe & Americas, ECI Telecom.

Cisco says that it has signed a contract worth up to $38 million over five years to supply Multi-Protocol Layer Switching (MPLS) on Cisco routers and firewalls to support NBN Co's National Connectivity Network (NCN). The NCN is part of the Australian National Broadband Network (NBN) effort.

The NCN will help activate and assure services as homes and businesses connect onto the NBN. The Cisco equipment will serve in depot, aggregation nodes, and other “key locations” to support the Operations Support System (OSS) and Business Support System (BSS) platforms, signaling, and timing. Cisco says it will begin work on the five-year project immediately.

"We are pleased to extend our relationship with Cisco as a supplier of data center infrastructure to include the supply of a high-performing, highly secure network foundation composed of switches, routers and firewalls to support our NCN," said NBN Co's executive general manager of network architecture and technology, Tony Cross.

"This equipment will enable communication between NBN Co's centralized operational staff and IT systems with the fiber, fixed wireless, and satellite equipment situated at various locations across Australia. The remote control of this equipment, via the NCN, will allow new services to be activated and faults to be diagnosed and repaired quickly and efficiently across Australia," Cross added.

This is the second aspect of the NBN that will involve Cisco. A consortium led by the company was awarded the contract to provide NBN Co with a data center platform. The consortium includes EMC and VMware.