Partnership tackles video conferencing costs

Juniper Networks and Polycom are joining forces to help drive down the cost and complexity of delivering video conferencing services, reports eWeek.

Juniper and Polycom plan to create a solution that will take advantage of technology from both companies that will enable service providers to offer video services over a converged network, a move that will help reduce capital and operational costs around video conferencing and telepresence.

Essentially, service providers will be able to do in a single converged network what is now done in an overlay network model that has different avenues for voice, data and video, according to officials with both companies.

Storage vendor NetApp has signed application delivery specialist F5 Networks to its Alliance Partner Programme, states Computing.co.uk.

F5 joins the programme as an Advantage Alliance Partner and will collaborate with the vendor to develop unified application and data delivery solutions for the data centre.

Through the partnership, F5 will benefit from access to NetApp's software development kits, technical support and marketing tools.

The download speed offered by Swedish operator TeliaSonera's LTE (long-term evolution) network never exceeded 12Mbps when tested by market research company Northstream, a far cry from the "up to 50Mbps" promised on the provider's Web site, says PC World.

In December, TeliaSonera became the first operator in the world to offer commercial LTE services, in the central parts of Stockholm and Oslo.

Northstream used a Samsung Electronics modem and the broadband-measuring site Bredbandskollen to conduct the test. While Northstream found the download speed disappointing, the service's upload speed of 5Mbps proved impressive.