NEWS
ZTE Participates in EANTC’s Interoperability Test
advances in EVPN, SDN, and PCEP features. The test results
were released at the MPLS+SDN + NFV World Congress
2018 in Paris and show that ZTE data products feature
excellent interoperability and can provide the effective and
pragmatic SDN solution to address the traffic optimisation
and traffic scheduling demands in the operators’ existing
networks and data centres.
ZTE Corporation participated in the
interoperability test organised by
the European Advanced Networking
Test Centre
ZTE core routers, as well as SDN WAN controllers, including
ZXR10 T8000-18, ZXR10 M6000-18S, ZXR10 M6000-8S
PLUS, ZXR10 M6000-5S, ZXR10 M6000-3S and ZENIC
WAN Controller, participated in the test, successfully
connecting with equipment from multiple vendors in
EVPN, BGP-LS and PCEP.
Z “We highly appreciate ZTE’s active participation in many
of this year’s multi-vendor interoperability test areas,
specifically in SDN/PCEP/EVPN,” said Carsten Rossenhovel, Managing
Director at EANTC.
The multi-vendor interoperability test held by EANTC aims to
verify the capabilities of the vendors’ equipment in supporting the Hu Longbin, Vice President of Bearer Product Line sat ZTE, added: “In
the future, we will increase our R&D investment, aiming to lead the
transport network innovation, play an active part in the fields of high-
end router, SDN/NFV and provide our customers all around the world
with quality services.”
TE South Africa has revealed that ZTE Corporation, a major
international provider of telecommunications, enterprise
and consumer technology solutions for the mobile Internet, has
participated in the public multi-vendor interoperability test organised
by the European Advanced Networking Test Centre (EANTC).
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McAfee launches cloud security solution
for Microsoft Azure
M
cAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity
company, has extended its Cloud
Security Platform to consistently protect
Microsoft Azure. It will deliver the
industry’s most extensive solution to secure
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-
as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-
Service (SaaS). The solution addresses the
most critical enterprise security requirements
for Microsoft Azure and empowers customers
to build applications on the Microsoft Azure
cloud with the peace of mind that their
applications, underlying cloud infrastructure
and enterprise data are protected.
This announcement marks the introduction
of the first joint solution following
McAfee’s acquisition of Skyhigh Networks,
demonstrating the company’s commitment
to enhancing its Cloud Security portfolio,
which now includes McAfee Skyhigh Security
Cloud, McAfee Virtual Network Security
Platform (McAfee vNSP) and McAfee Cloud
Workload Security (McAfee CWS).
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Microsoft Azure is an important step to
fulfilling this mission for our customers.”
With new offerings under the McAfee Cloud
Security Platform, organisations can:
Rajiv Gupta from McAfee
“Moving applications, data and workloads
to the cloud exposes enterprises to new
threats and risks,” said Rajiv Gupta, Senior
Vice President of the cloud security business
unit at McAfee. “At the same time, the
adoption of cloud allows organisations to
transform their business. This is why we are
on a mission to make cloud the most secure
environment for business. The introduction
of McAfee Cloud Security Platform for
• Audit security configuration settings of
Microsoft Azure against best practices,
identify security and compliance gaps
and recommend specific actions to
reduce security risks
• Capture the complete audit trail of user
and administrator activity to accelerate
post-incident forensic investigations and
monitor the spread of advance threats
• Use data science and machine
learning to detect insider threats and
compromised accounts.
• Remove malware from traffic going
to, from, and within the Microsoft
Azure infrastructure
• Identify and prevent unauthorized
sensitive data from being stored in Azure
storage services, such as Blob Storage
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