New element adapters allow Blue Planet to automate, manage, and provision Ethernet services across Cisco ASR 901, ASR 903, ASR 9000, and ME 3600 platforms as well as Juniper MX960, MX480, and MX2010 platforms

PETALUMA, Calif - Wednesday, October 8th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cyan (NYSE:CYNI), a leading provider of SDN, NFV, and packet-optical solutions for network operators, today announced support for Cisco ASR 901, ASR 903, ASR 9000 and ME 3600 platforms, as well as the Juniper MX960, MX480, and MX2010 platforms in Cyan’s Blue Planet SDN Platform. The new Blue Planet functionality allows customers to automate, manage, inventory, and provision Ethernet services across networks built with these devices.

“Cyan’s Blue Planet SDN and NFV Platform has been used by customers for more than two years in multi-vendor environments,” said Michael Howard, principal, Infonetics Research. “A big goal of service providers for SDN a ... Read more »

Inventors of blue light-emitting diode honored for advancing the lighting industry

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CLEVELAND - Wednesday, October 8th 2014

"GE Lighting is thrilled to offer our congratulations to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for their outstanding contributions to science, which are being recognized with the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics,” said Maryrose Sylvester, GE Lighting President and CEO. "It is fitting that the Nobel committee chose to honor the groundbreaking work of these three scientists, who created blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Their successful efforts, when combined with the previous discoveries of red and green LEDs, has fundamentally changed the way we see the world in the 21st century. Their visionary work has helped to transform the lighting industry, and is also instrumental in the television and smartphone industries."

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CAMBRIDGE, England - Wednesday, October 8th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Electric Vehicles are on a roll, with the global market forecast for all hybrid and pure electric vehicles expected to exceed $533 billion in 2025. These are the new findings by analysts IDTechEx in their recently updated report “Electric Vehicle Forecasts, Trends and Opportunities 2015-2025”

The sales of the BMW i3 and Tesla Model S pure electric cars are rising rapidly, with Tesla holding back demand because it cannot produce enough for at least a year. Those are premium priced vehicles. The major problem with mainstream pure electric cars is price. However, Apple electronics contract assembler, Foxconn has just partnered with BAIC Motor Corp. in China to produce a sub-$15,000 pure electric car. In the race to introduce an 'affordable', $30,000 pure electric car with the range of 200-miles people demand, GM is betting it can out- compete Tesla which has chosen Neva ... Read more »