Cradlepoint announced that it has acquired Pertino, a privately held Silicon Valley company that pioneered the use of software-defined networking (SDN) to deliver cloud-based networks-as-a-service for enterprise and small-to-medium business (SMB) customers. The move enables Cradlepoint to leverage Pertino’s cloud platform to bring the benefits of SDN to 4G LTE, broadband and MPLS wide-area networks (WANs) for SMB, enterprise, government and carrier organizations.

Arqiva announced the signature of a multi-year commitment with Eutelsat Communications for a 15th transponder at the 28° East video neighbourhood to serve the UK DTH (Direct-to-Home) broadcasting market. This additional transponder underpins Arqiva’s strategy to support the significant growth in HD channels operating on the Sky and Freesat platforms in the UK. The combination of Arqiva’s award-winning teleports and Eutelsat’s non-pre-emptible capacity has led to three channels signing up to the new all-HD platform, including Record TV HD, and Daystar Television, that Arqiva services via RUM’s Media Service.

Allot Communications announced today together with Nokia Networks, that Swisscom is deploying Allot Cloud Access Optimization. The solution is designed to assure application Quality of Service (QoS) and improve user productivity by overcoming the performance degradation challenges associated with cloud data centers and application delivery.

According to the Dell’Oro Group, passive optical networking (PON) equipment sales accelerated in 3Q15, growing even faster than the previous quarter. Looking at 3Q15 vs. the year-ago quarter, sales from Calix, Huawei, Technicolor and ZTE had growth rates ranging from 20 percent year-to-year or 60 percent year-to-year.