Archive for month: March, 2014

Savings from Optical LAN can cover an average teacher’s salary

Santa Fe, NM — Adopting advanced technology to prepare students for the future, Santa Fe Public Schools (SFPS) is deploying a new type of local area network (LAN) that uses fiber optics. Optical LAN provides gigabit speeds to students, teachers and classrooms to augment digital learning.

The SFPS Board of Education’s goal is to ensure efficient and effective IT systems and operations, utilizing state-of-the-art technology and infrastructure to support student achievement. The new Tellabs Optical LAN at Ramirez Thomas Elementary School represents a major step towards this goal.

In Phase I, during the 2013-2014 school year, SFPS deployed 1:1 devices for approximately 227 students at Ramirez Thomas Elementary School. Optical LAN enabled SFPS to deploy 8 drops per classroom, while saving enough money to cover an average teacher’s salary.

Following the success of Phase I, SFPS plans to deploy Optical LAN in 6 more schools by the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year.

Optical LAN is simple, secure, stable, scalable and sustainable. By simplifying the electronics and cabling, it streamlines installation, reduces maintenance needs, consolidates and centralizes LAN management. Optical LAN also eliminates the need for wiring closets and HVAC systems inside the school.

Ultimately, Optical LAN provides faster connections and saves the school district money. Since Optical LAN reaches much farther – 20 to 30 kilometers from its central hub, compared with only 100 meters for copper – additional schools can be served from one central hub.

IT Connect, a leading IT system integrator, installed Tellabs Optical LAN to deliver gigabit speeds to students and teachers at Ramirez Thomas Elementary School.

“Optical LAN requires fewer electronics and less cabling, compared with legacy copper-based LANs,” said Elias Bernardino, Executive Director of Information Technology for SFPS.  “It eliminates the need for telecommunication closets, enabling the school district to increase space for classroom. It reduces the electronics, power consumption, power backup, ventilation and air conditioning required. Optical LAN is easier to install and easier to maintain, too.”

Tellabs Optical LAN, using the Tellabs 120W Mini ONT and Tellabs 728GP ONT, provides scalability by supporting gigabit speeds, future technologies and network convergence over a fiber infrastructure, said Tom Ruvarac, Tellabs director-product management.

About Optical LAN — Purpose-built for high-capacity, high-performance LANs, Tellabs Optical LAN replaces conventional copper-based LANs. It simplifies network infrastructure and operations, getting the job done with fewer network elements by using passive optical networking technology. Tellabs Optical LAN can save up to 70% in the cost of ownership, lower energy consumption by up to 80% and reduce space needs by up to 90%.

Tellabs Optical LAN converges all of a building’s wired and wireless communications networks into one  ̶  handling Wi-Fi, data, voice, CATV, security, building automation networks and more. Optical LAN eliminates the need for future re-cabling and tightens security.

About Tellabs — Tellabs delivers technology that transforms the way the world communicates. Tellabs evolutionary passive Optical LAN empowers the building of a modern high performance LAN infrastructure that is simple, secure, stable, scalable, sustainable and costs less. http://www.tellabs.com

ITConnect, Inc. — IT Connect designs and deploys infrastructure configurations for all types of businesses, from start-ups to legacy migrations, offering business stability and management ease. IT Connect provides its data customers with the strategies, solutions, technologies and services that can help to maximize the network availability mandated by real-time networking and the operational costs containment or reduction that can result.

Santa Fe Public Schools — Located in Santa Fe, NM, Santa Fe Public Schools were established in 1896 and currently serves an area covering 1,016 miles in Northern New Mexico. SFPS provides a quality learning experience for about 14,000 K-12 students across 35 schools.

New transmitter system lowers space requirements and reduces power consumption to enable next-generation broadband services

SANTA CLARA, CA – March 24, 2014 – Aurora Networks, A Pace Company and a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced, next-generation Optical Transport and Access Network solutions for broadband networks that support the convergence of video, data and voice applications, today unveils its HT3300H Series Double-Density 1310 nm Transmitter System. The new system includes 1.2 GHz transmitters, offers high rack density and significantly reduces power consumption, making it the ideal solution for operators to meet the demands of DOCSIS® 3.1 specifications, HDTV and video on demand (VoD).

Cable operators need to be able to provide new, revenue-generating services in order to maintain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly evolving market. However, providing the increased bandwidth that is needed to support these services comes at the price of increased rack space and power consumption in operator headends and hubs. The high-density and compact design of the HT3300H series transmitters overcome these issues by minimizing rack space requirements and power consumption, increasing the available deployment options for cable operators.

Aurora Networks’ new system supports double the number of transmitters per 3RU chassis, compared to existing solutions, and provides for redundant power supplies. In addition, the HT3300H transmitters are available with dual RF inputs for combining separate broadcast and narrowcast inputs. Providing true hot-swap capabilities, the HT3300H series transmitters interface to the company’s BD31A4 Double-Density back plates, which support up to four transmitters.

What Aurora Networks Says

“Aurora Networks has been dedicated to providing solutions that fit cable operators’ unique capacity needs as they look to optimize their networks for next-generation broadband services,” said Gregory Heath, manager, headend products, Aurora Networks. “Aurora Networks developed the HT3300H Series Double-Density 1310 nm Transmitter System to help operators overcome space, power consumption and capacity hurdles, which they face as they increase the capacity of their networks.”

About Aurora Networks

Aurora Networks, A Pace Company, is a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced, next-generation Optical Transport and Access Network solutions for broadband networks that support the convergence of video, data and voice applications. Using its understanding of cable networks, the company delivers solutions such as its fiber deep architecture and digital return technology, to help solve critical network bandwidth capacity constraints. Aurora’s solutions offer best-in-class functionality, providing savings in power, space and operating expenses, whilst leveraging existing network investments. To learn more about Aurora Networks’ core solutions, please call 408-235-7000 or visit www.aurora.com or www.pace.com.

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Aurora Networks and the Aurora Networks logo are registered trademarks of Aurora Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries. DOCSIS is a mark of Cable Television Laboratories.

Infographic illustrates five steps for building a secure business container

(BERLIN/DENVER, 19 March 2014) Cortado, leading provider of enterprise mobility solutions, today releases an infographic that describes the steps to build a secure business container in iOS 7 and the recently released 7.1. More and more companies around the world are already using iOS either partly or primarily for business.

From the enterprise mobility expert Cortado’s point of view, two particular operating systems come into consideration for the secure use of mobile devices in companies. This includes Samsung’s Android with its two approaches, KNOX and SAFE, and Apple’s iOS.

In the “How to Build an iOS Business Container” infographic, Cortado provides recommendations to help companies increase security for iOS devices in five steps, without significantly restricting functionality for users.

“iOS 7 was an essential step toward secure enterprise mobility,” said Carsten Mickeleit, CEO of Cortado AG. “Despite everything, there is still uncertainty and a need for information. Our infographic should help close this knowledge gap.”

The infographic can be downloaded free from Cortado’s website and is free for editorial use – as are all the infographics found at www.cortado.com/infographics.

A free demo version of Cortado’s enterprise mobility solution, Cortado Corporate Server, which supports all iOS 7 and 7.1 business functions, is available at www.cortado.com/ccs7-demo.

This press release is available online and ready to download: www.cortado.com/press

About Cortado

Cortado – formerly ThinPrint – has delivered solutions for the modern working world since 1999. Enterprise mobility, printing, virtualization and BYOD are the main focus of the company. Cortado combines innovative devices such as smartphones and tablets with the customary requirements of office work, in teams and beyond space and system boundaries.

Easy for users, innovative, reliable, and with a high return on investment. These are the distinguishing features of Cortado products. No other company focuses so much on the issue of consumerization. By constantly evaluating feedback from users of its free cloud services available in all major app stores, Cortado continuously improves its products. These foundations allow Cortado to optimally implement an enterprise mobility strategy for businesses of all sizes.

Cortado established itself internationally with ThinPrint, the leading printer virtualization technology, which is used in 116 countries by thousands of companies. Even the biggest customers of Citrix XenApp and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services rely on ThinPrint. Via a long-term OEM partnership, VMware integrates ThinPrint technology.

The advantages of printer virtualization will only increase, also for cloud providers and in networks with physical desktops. Results are significant cost savings, immensely reduced helpdesk requests and noticeably more satisfied employees.

Over 20,000 enterprise customers with 5 up to 150,000 employees, as well as hundreds of thousands of individual users worldwide rely on Cortado solutions. As an internationally operating company, and founder of the Cloud Printing Alliance, Cortado employs over 220 highly skilled employees at its headquarters in Berlin, Germany and in its branch offices in the United States, the UK, Australia, France and Japan. Cortado was a winner of the 2013 Great Place to Work® competition and is named as one of the “Best Employers in Berlin-Brandenburg 2013”.

 New cloud DVR recording and delivery enhancements add to company’s content delivery and origin acceleration solutions  

 London – March 18, 2014 – TV Connect Stand 73 – Edgeware, the technology leader in distributed video delivery, today announced enhancements to its Distributed Video Delivery Network (D-VDN) and Origin Acceleration solutions through the addition of its new Orbit Unified Server and Convoy Management Software. The latest versions include substantial ingest performance increases through enhanced clustering of recording servers and a new, optimized file system for much faster storage retrieval and management of adaptive bit rate (ABR) recordings.

Pay-TV consumers expect the ability to pause, start-over and record programs, but the cost of supplying and maintaining home digital video recorders (DVRs) is becoming prohibitive. Therefore, a new breed of services is emerging: Cloud DVR and Catchup TV. Rather than every user making his or her own recordings, copies are made in the network and streamed to the subscribers on demand. Expensive home DVR set top boxes are replaced with ‘thin’ software clients running on CI+ cards or even software apps on connected TVs or gaming consoles. To enable this, service providers’ content delivery networks (CDNs) and headends must be able to simultaneously and faultlessly record and deliver thousands of programs to millions of consumers.

Edgeware’s latest D-VDN Solution enables service providers to efficiently record directly onto the CDN. The Edgeware Origin Accelerator Solution enables optimized recording in centralized or distributed headends for delivery to alternative, third-party CDNs. Recordings in both solutions can now be load balanced across multiple Edgeware Orbit 3020 or 3080 servers with N+N redundancy, giving access to thousands of simultaneous recordings. As the same servers are also used for delivery, they can be deployed in a hierarchy to improve caching efficiency. For example, the last 48 hours of content can be recorded directly onto servers in distributed hubs, with the last seven days recorded in the headends to minimize cache misses. Older DVR recordings are off-loaded to low cost, network attached storage (NAS) archives.

As a single ABR recording can consists of multiple index files and many thousands of content files, writing and reading these at scale to low cost commodity NAS devices presents real performance challenge. Edgeware’s D-VDN and Origin Acceleration solutions now include a new file system that archives these recordings into single, large file making writing and retrieving much less processor intensive and producing much higher throughput.

“Cloud catchup and DVR services are emerging as the killer app for service providers with valuable live programming,” said Jon Haley, vice president, marketing and business development at Edgeware. “Recording and delivering these services efficiently requires a highly optimized solution such as those provided in our latest releases.”

Meet Edgeware at stand 73 at TV Connect in London, March 18-20, 2014 at stand 73.

About Edgeware

Edgeware is the technology leader in distributed video delivery networks, designed to allow operators to monetize video services such as video on demand (VOD), time shift TV and network Personal Video Recorder (nPVR), as well as offering wholesale Content Delivery Networking (CDN) management services. Edgeware provides the video delivery systems needed to offer video services across managed and unmanaged networks, with the ability to reach any screen, at any time, with any content. Edgeware is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with a U.S. office in Boxborough, Massachusetts.

For further information, please visit www.edgeware.tv.