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BT to Deliver Cyber Security Services for icare

BT has signed a contract to deploy a cloud-based SIEM service strong links and investments into the New South Wales region.”
for icare, a regional provider of insurance and care services to James Hennah, BT’s director of security for Asia, Middle East and
the businesses, people and communities of New South Wales, Africa, said: “Supporting customers in 180 countries, including
Australia. By selecting BT, icare will benefit from market-leading some of the world’s largest financial service providers, we have
cyber security capabilities to protect its customer data and a unique insight into cybercrime. We know that an attack can
enable secure business operations. The solution has been happen anytime, and our CloudSIEM solution will help icare
designed to be scaleable and flexible to minimize icare’s risk contextualize every relevant event with external intelligence. With
exposure as business requirements change and security threats our service, icare gets a real-time picture of what is happening on
evolve. BT’s CloudSIEM service combines an Amazon Web its network, enabling it to spot anomalies so security analysts can
Services-based enterprise SIEM platform with integrated threat investigate and respond to threats.”
monitoring, investigation, response and intelligence services.
BT will deliver a 24x7 managed service and work collaboratively
with icare to effectively complement its internal cyber security
operations team. The service will be primarily delivered from BT’s
Australian Security Operation Centre (SOC), which expanded in
2017 and forms part of BT’s global network of 15 SOCs. Frances
Bouzo, Chief Information Security Officer, icare, said: “The cyber
security services BT is providing will help support the strategic
transformation of our security infrastructure. The increased
visibility, responsiveness and alignment with our internal security
operations team provided by BT will enable us to proactively
detect and counter security threats, and ultimately protect the
critical data that our customers entrust us with. We’re delighted
to be working with a company that provides all the benefits of
a global presence across the security ecosystem, coupled with

Cisco Demonstrates 26.4Tbps on MAREA

Transatlantic Subsea Cable

Cisco announced the successful testing Network operators do not have unlimited back to Bilbao) showing that 18.5Tbps
of its NCS 1004 platform over MAREA, the bandwidth so spectral efficiency is the could be deployed for double the distance,
6,600 km subsea cable system connecting most important measurement in subsea also with plenty of system margin,” said Bill
the United States to southern Europe deployments. Spectral efficiency refers Gartner, Senior Vice President and General
(Virginia Beach, Virginia to Bilbao, Spain). to the rate that can be transmitted over a Manager, Optical Systems and Optics,
The test was to demonstrate the ability to given bandwidth and is a measure of how Cisco. Cisco NCS 1004 has been designed
provide increased transatlantic bandwidth efficiently a limited frequency spectrum to maximize wavelength and fiber capacity
as well as simulate transpacific distances is utilized by the physical layer. Spectral with a minimum space and power footprint.
via loopback on one end of the cable. efficiency of a communication link can be At 2RU, the system supports up to 4.8Tbps
Leveraging the flexibility of the NCS 1004, enhanced by packing more information, of client and 4.8Tbps of trunk traffic. Cisco
several channel capacity combinations bits, in a single transmission. Thus, NCS1004 delivers multi-haul coherent
were tested to maximize the performance maximum capacity of 26.4Tbps can be DWDM transport capabilities with agility,
and spectral efficiency on the cable. For achieved on MAREA cable deploying the programmability, and simplicity of use.
the Virginia to Bilbao trial, 400G error-free NCS 1004 with margin. In the same way, the The Cisco NCS 2000 working with the NCS
performance was demonstrated; channels transatlantic loopback scenario reached 1004 delivers agility, programmability, and
with record spectral efficiency of 6.445 up to 18.9Tbps. “We demonstrated that massive scale for ultra-long-haul, subsea,
b/s/Hz were achieved, while 4.52b/s/ 24.7Tbps could be used on MAREA with metro, and enterprise optical networks.
Hz spectral efficiency was tested on the plenty of margin. We also tested in full
looped back scenario of over 13,200km. loopback mode (Bilbao to Virginia and

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