Hammerhead Secures $30 Million for Layer 2.5 Aggregation

Hammerhead Systems, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, closed $30 million in Series C funding, for its traffic aggregation and switching platform. Hammerhead's HSX 6000 is a purpose-built Layer 2.5 Aggregation Switch that features MPLS Pseudowire technology. It provides dense Ethernet aggregation, Pseudowire termination, legacy Frame Relay and ATM support, and Service Interworking. It features a "Layer 2.5" edge aggregation approach...

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Siemens Supplies Real-Time IP System for USAF

Siemens Communications' HiPath 4000 Real-Time IP System will soon serve as the central dispatch and communication platform -- for emergency as well as routine communications -- at more than 100 U.S. Air Force command posts worldwide. Siemens and RS Information Systems Inc. (RSIS), a federal systems integrator and telecommunication services provider, are part of a nearly $10 million Northrop Grumman Corp. task order to upgrade communication and command and control systems at 26 Air Force posts, including 17 in the United States. The deployment...

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Korea Internet Data Center Installs Force10 10G Switches

Korea Internet Data Center (KIDC), a leading data center operator in Korea, has installed Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers. Through its extensive peering relationships, KIDC has built a network with the largest aggregate bandwidth in Korea. Leveraging that bandwidth, KIDC is building out a resilient, secure infrastructure with the Force10 TeraScale E1200. The high Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet densities of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series, enable KIDC to reduce network complexity as well as capital and operating expenses....

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Ciena Supplies Access Platform for Slovenia's VDSL Network

T-2, a Slovenian alternative service provider, has selected Ciena's CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform to provide multiservice aggregation and transport of telephone, Internet and television services delivered via VDSL.Ciena's CN 4200 is a multiservice transport and service aggregation platform that enables service-selectable migration to packet for networks transitioning from TDM. For new networks like T-2, which is using ITU G.709, the platform provides software-defined service ports.http://www.ciena....

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Entone and Verimatrix Partner on VOD Content Protection

Entone Technologies has integrated the Verimatrix Content Authority System (VCAS) into its StreamLiner network video recorder (NVR) for IPTV services. By integrating the VCAS software with Entone's StreamLiner video streaming technology, the companies are providing a digital rights management (DRM) and video on demand (VOD) solution that streamlines the process from content creation, processing, distribution and playout. Currently with most DRM systems, VOD content is distributed over a core network and stored at the operator's site on a stand-alone...

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Texas Instruments Debuts Carrier Infrastructure Platform

Texas Instruments introduced new DSP-based carrier infrastructure platform designed for fixed and mobile communications applications. The new systems on chip (SOC), which is example in the second half of 2006, will be capable of delivering multimedia/3G services, such as fixed-mobile-convergence, within an IP multimedia services (IMS) environment.TI's new carrier infrastructure platform is comprised of three elements -- silicon, software and reference designs that include evaluation modules. The silicon architecture expands on that of the company's...

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Virtela Offers Virtualized SSL VPN Integrated With Global MPLS Network

Virtela, a global network solutions provider, introduced a virtualized network-based SSL Virtual Private Network (VPN) service tightly coupled with a global MPLS network. Similar to Virtela's existing Managed SSL VPN Services, the new Virtela SMB SSL VPN service provides highly secure remote access to the corporate network from any Internet web browser without the need for a pre-installed client. Virtela provides expert design, implementation, 24x7 monitoring and management of the SSL VPN infrastructure.Virtela said the new virtualized design...

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Siemens Invests in G2 for Mobile Resource Management Chips

Siemens Venture Capital has made a strategic investment in G2 Microsystems, a start-up based in Oakland, California, that is developing chips for the Mobile Resource Management (MRM) market. Mobile resource management enables businesses to monitor, track and manage assets either within a facility or throughout a supply chain. G2 Microsystems is developing a range of ultra low-power, active MRM chips that leverage Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11). The company said its system-on-chip (SoC) solutions would provide the right balance of cost, power, functionality,...

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Alcatel to OEM Stratex Wireless Platforms

Alcatel will resell a broad range of Stratex Networks Eclipse wireless transmission solutions as part of the Alcatel worldwide product portfolio. Under the terms the four-year agreement, Alcatel will license certain Eclipse software and products from Stratex Networks.Alcatel said the deal would make its Point-to-Point microwave portfolio even more complete and competitive, particularly in the high capacity mobile backhauling segment.Separately, Stratex announced the first commercial shipments of next-generation Eclipse products. The first products...

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Limelight Uses Quova for DRM Tied to Geolocation

Quova introduced its geolocation solution developed specifically for online digital rights compliance. The flagship customer for Quova Media is Limelight Networks, which operates a content delivery network for digital media. Limelight is incorporating Quova's technology into its content delivery network to offer customers of its two services, Limelight Content Edge and Limelight MediaEdge Streaming, the precise geographic location of online users in order to comply with content rights restrictions.Quova said its geolocation technology has already...

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Cavium Launches Single and Dual Core MIPS64-based OCTEON Processors

Cavium Networks unveiled ten new highly integrated single and dual core MIPS64 processors starting at under $20 price points and designed for next generation networking, wireless, control and storage applications. Cavium's OCTEON family of MIPS64 processors now scales from single core to sixteen cores. The OCTEON processor family is being designed into a wide array of networking equipment, including routers, switches, unified threat management (UTM) appliances, application- aware gateways, triple-play gateways, WLAN and 3G access and aggregation...

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Tektronix Introduces IPTV Video Quality Measurement

Tektronix introduced its "Spectra2|VQM" (Video Quality Measurement) monitoring solution for the diagnosis and analysis of streaming video transmitted over IP.Spectra2|VQM is a portable monitoring solution that helps identify the causes of poor digital image quality, such as packet loss, delay or data corruption in the IP transport network. It offers support for multiple-level QoS scores and video industry standard, non-proprietary Forward Error Correction (FEC) analysis.The Spectra2|VQM is a Windows-based software package that is part of the Tektronix...

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Atheros Posts Q4 Revenue of $53.1 Million - 7.7 Million Chipsets Shipped in Q4

Atheros Communications reported Q4 revenue of $53.1 million, up 16 percent from the $45.8 million reported in the third quarter and up 27 percent from the $41.7 million reported in the fourth quarter of 2004. Gross margins in the fourth quarter were 46.7 percent, above the company's target range of 43 to 45 percent and above 43.5 percent gross margins recorded in the third quarter. The company recorded fourth quarter net income (GAAP) of $13.1 million or $0.24 per diluted share. The company shipped a record 7.7 million Wi-Fi chipsets in the fourth...

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AudioCodes Reports Q4 Results

AudioCodes reported Q4 2005 revenue of $30.6 million, compared to $29.7 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2005 and $25.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2004. Fourth quarter revenues grew 3% sequentially and increased 21% compared to the fourth quarter of 2004. Net income for the fourth quarter of 2005 was $3.9 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, compared to net income of $3.5 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2005 and $2.6 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, for the corresponding period last y...

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Tut Systems to Expand IPTV Headend with MPEG-4 AVC at Iowa Network Services

Iowa Network Services (INS) is deploying Tut Systems' Astria content processor (CP) with MPEG-4 AVC encoding and transcoding solutions. Tut Systems' Astria CP platform today serves as the core video processing system for INS' 177 channel MPEG-2 digital headend currently serving 17 video service providers throughout the state of Iowa. The headend has the potential to serve more than 100 additional service providers. When deployed, the MPEG- 4 AVC headend from INS will yield better picture quality while significantly lowering the bandwidth required...

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Cavalier Telephone Acquires Elantic

Cavalier Telephone completed its acquisition of Elantic Telecom (formerly known as Dominion Telecom), which operates an 8,200 route mile fiber network connecting major cities on the Eastern portion of the United States. For the past 18 months, Cavalier has been providing management, engineering and operating support to Elantic through a management services agreement. The Elantic fiber network connects over 52 cities in a self-healing fiber ring design. The network reaches west from Chicago, and North thru New York, expands down the East coast...

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