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CEO Gita Salden leaves BNG Bank per end of May 2024

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Friday, February 16, 2024

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Feb. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Gita Salden, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at BNG Bank, will leave the bank as per the end of May 2024 to join the board of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) as per 1 June.

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  • THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Feb. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Gita Salden, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at BNG Bank, will leave the bank as per the end of May 2024 to join the board of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) as per 1 June.
  • The Supervisory Board of BNG Bank has initiated the recruitment process for a new CEO.
  • Gita Salden (1968) has been the CEO of BNG Bank since 2018.
  • Salden: 'BNG Bank is a bank with a heart.

AiDash Raises $50 Million to Safeguard Critical Infrastructure From Climate Change-related Threats

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

AiDash , an enterprise SaaS company making critical infrastructure industries climate-resilient and more sustainable with satellites and AI, today announced that it received $50 million in funding, bringing the total raised to date to $83 million.

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  • AiDash , an enterprise SaaS company making critical infrastructure industries climate-resilient and more sustainable with satellites and AI, today announced that it received $50 million in funding, bringing the total raised to date to $83 million.
  • Funds will be used to fuel growth as AiDash anticipates nearly doubling its team of 300 over the next two years.
  • “Our aging infrastructure is breaking under the strain of environmental change, putting lives at risk,” said Abhishek Singh, Co-founder and CEO of AiDash.
  • To learn more about all the ways in which AiDash is supporting climate resiliency and sustainability, please visit www.aidash.com .

Telco Cloud Infrastructure Software Market to Grow to $27 Billion in 2027 as Telcos' Cloud-Native Journeys Accelerate, Says IDC

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

IDC forecasts worldwide revenue for telco cloud infrastructure software, including virtual network functions (VNFs), cloud-native network functions (CNFs), and network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI), across four market subsegments (core transport, mobile infrastructure, mobile backhaul, access networks and virtual CPE), will grow from $12.9 billion in 2022 to $27.3 billion in 2027.

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  • IDC forecasts worldwide revenue for telco cloud infrastructure software, including virtual network functions (VNFs), cloud-native network functions (CNFs), and network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI), across four market subsegments (core transport, mobile infrastructure, mobile backhaul, access networks and virtual CPE), will grow from $12.9 billion in 2022 to $27.3 billion in 2027.
  • In making this year's forecast, IDC has accounted for the recent emergence and growing initiative to deploy cloud-native, container-based telco workloads across the telco cloud.
  • The IDC report, Worldwide Telco Cloud Infrastructure Software (NFVI, VNF, and CNF) Forecast, 2022-2027 (IDC #US50087723), presents the worldwide market forecast for the telco cloud infrastructure software (VNF/CNF and NFVI) for the 2022–2027 period.
  • The report also provides a market overview, including drivers and challenges for communications service providers and advice for technology suppliers.

RtBrick Partners with Radisys to Deliver Turnkey Disaggregated IP Networks

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

RtBrick today announced that it is partnering with Radisys® Corporation to offer telcos solutions to build IP networks based on open, disaggregated, ‘cloud-native’ architecture.

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  • RtBrick today announced that it is partnering with Radisys® Corporation to offer telcos solutions to build IP networks based on open, disaggregated, ‘cloud-native’ architecture.
  • The partnership will enable operators to adopt RtBrick’s disaggregated IP routing software as part of an end-to-end integrated networking solution from Radisys that includes core and access technologies, support and OSS/BSS integration.
  • The Radisys Connect Modular Broadband software solution is based on open, disaggregated and cloud-native components.
  • “Partnering with RtBrick will allow Radisys to offer an integrated and complete disaggregated broadband solution to our customers.

Harmonic Extends Lead in Virtualized Broadband

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that its virtualized cOS™ broadband platform, previously known as CableOS®, now offers a rich array of next-generation capabilities that further extend its unique market-leading position. These capabilities include unified DOCSIS 4.0, BoostD 3.1, simplified timing synchronization for DAA, hitless software upgrades, integrated Profile Management Application (PMA) intelligence, and significantly reduced data center power consumption.

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  • "Harmonic innovation is driven by our commitment to empowering broadband service providers with practical solutions that accelerate their networks for the 10G-powered future and beyond," said Nimrod Ben-Natan, senior vice president and general manager, broadband business at Harmonic.
  • Harmonic continues its commitment to sustainability with the consistent density and performance improvements made to the cOS platform over seven generations of commercial off-the-shelf servers.
  • Harmonic, known for inventing the industry's first virtualized core software almost a decade ago, revolutionized the cable broadband industry with its cOS platform.
  • Harmonic will showcase the market-leading cOS broadband platform and versatile family of network edge devices at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, Oct. 17-19 in booth 915.

Flexibility, Agility, and Host of New Network Features Delivered by Latest Broadband Forum Specification

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Thursday, May 25, 2023

More stable networks, greater interoperability, and cost savings for operators will become possible thanks to the latest technical report published today by Broadband Forum .

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  • More stable networks, greater interoperability, and cost savings for operators will become possible thanks to the latest technical report published today by Broadband Forum .
  • The User Plane carries network traffic and enforces policies such as Quality of Service (QoS).
  • “The latest release of the TR-459 standard will continue to drive standards-based interoperability between vendors, with Broadband Forum simplifying network transformation and ensuring more agility and flexibility for broadband operators,” said Craig Thomas, Vice President Strategic Marketing and Business Development at Broadband Forum.
  • Broadband Forum members showcased the important capabilities enabled by TR-459 Issue 2 as part of the CloudCO Demonstration at Network X 2022.

Dynamic and Flexible On-Demand Connectivity Will Level-Up Operators’ Revenue Streams

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Monday, April 17, 2023

The project will deliver flexible on-demand connectivity that detects traffic changes and automatically scales to preserve the user experience, bringing benefits to both the service provider and their customers.

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  • The project will deliver flexible on-demand connectivity that detects traffic changes and automatically scales to preserve the user experience, bringing benefits to both the service provider and their customers.
  • Essentially, this provides operators with a load balancing and service selection capability right at the ingress to the broadband network.
  • This will allow operators to better utilize network assets, save energy, and ensure their networks can run more efficiently.
  • The ability to treat subscribers individually allows operators to use different network paths for subscribers with varying service offerings.

Casa Systems Achieves Breakthrough 1TBps on its Cloud-Native Virtual Broadband Network Gateway

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Casa Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CASA), today announced it achieved a significant milestone demonstrating 1+ TBps of throughput on its cloud-native Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG) / 5G Access Gateway Function (AGF) on a single server, powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Casa Systems’ Axyom™ vBNG Router/AGF delivers the performance, scaling, and flexibility needed to address the greater diversity of broadband demands, enabling service providers to offer services at the edge that meet their performance standards and to expand into markets with new services cost-effectively.

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  • As demand for wireline and wireless broadband continues to accelerate, service providers need high-performance solutions that can deliver services and a quality experience at the network edge.
  • Traditional chassis based BNG solutions are monolithic and lack the scalability, agility, resiliency, and flexibility to deliver services at the network edge.
  • Casa Systems was the first to deploy a disaggregated and distributed BNG and Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) in production.
  • With control and user plane functions compliant with Broadband Forum’s TR-459 standards, Casa Systems gives service providers the ability to transform their networks with open architecture and hardware freedom.

UfiSpace Collaborating Across Industries to Accelerate Open 5G Networks

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Monday, February 27, 2023

At MWC Barcelona 2023, UfiSpace will be at the Taiwan Pavilion where their booth will include open transport solutions for Private 5G networks based on Open RAN architecture, OpenZR+ enabled mobile backhaul, and XR Optics enabled point to multipoint aggregation.

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  • At MWC Barcelona 2023, UfiSpace will be at the Taiwan Pavilion where their booth will include open transport solutions for Private 5G networks based on Open RAN architecture, OpenZR+ enabled mobile backhaul, and XR Optics enabled point to multipoint aggregation.
  • "Since the initiation of our O-RAN technology team in 2019, we have continued to innovate and expand our end-to-end 5G solutions with Open RAN architecture.
  • We are glad to showcase part of our Private 5G offering along with UfiSpace," said CY Feng, BG6 General Manager of Pegatron Corporation.
  • "UfiSpace is a trusted partner and technical innovator providing open networking solutions to a fast-paced marketplace.

RtBrick Supports a Hardened Open Switch from Edgecore

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

RtBrick today announced it has added support for the CSR440 switch from Edgecore.

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  • RtBrick today announced it has added support for the CSR440 switch from Edgecore.
  • “Combined with RtBrick’s routing software, Edgecore‘s open networking platforms provide much greater flexibility than conventional routing systems,” said Heimdall Siao, President of Edgecore.
  • “Adding support for a new open switch like the Edgecore CSR440 is another example of the amount of options carriers now have when they choose to build disaggregated networks,” said Pravin S. Bhandarkar, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at RtBrick.
  • To learn more about RtBrick’s pioneering approach to networking and the latest features of its open routing software, visit rtbrick.com .