Vyatta Releases Open Source Routing Solution

Vyatta, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, released its open source routing solution running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. The 1U rack-mounted package serves as a mid-range access router, delivering two gigabits of throughput at a fraction of the cost of typical enterprise routers. For users interested in a software-only solution, a freely downloadable version of the OFR is available from the Vyatta web site, as well as software subscriptions which include maintenance, upgrades, and software support services. "For too long the networking giants...

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Sigma Designs Develop Ultra Wideband (UWB) Chips for Home Networking

Sigma Designs announced the formation of its Wireless Products Division with an initial focus on Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology and products targeted for high definition audio/video streaming between consumer products. Sigma's new Wireless Products Division was largely formed around acquired elements of Blue7 Communications, a start-up company focused on the development of UWB semiconductor products for the consumer electronics market. The new Wireless Products Division is headed by Hung Nguyen, Vice President & General Manager, also the founder...

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Broadlight Releases GPON PHY Chip for Lower Cost Deployments

BroadLight announced commercial availability of a new GPON PHY (GPHY) ASIC aimed at lower-cost ONTs. The new device (BL2901) integrates the GPON ONT transceiver's functions of PMD, control and diagnostic functions into a single ASIC. Together with BroadLight's BL2000 ONT System on Chip (SoC), makers of GPON ONTs can now eliminate the traditional costly transceiver module and replace it with lower cost Bidirectional (BiDi) or Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) optical devices. "ONT cost is the number one feature in the PON market and the BL2901 will...

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Juniper Expands UTM Appliance Line

Juniper Networks added three new appliance lines to its Secure Services Gateway (SSG) portfolio.The new SSG 5, SSG 20 and SSG 140, which collectively bring nine new SSG models, combine firewall/virtual private networking (FW/VPN) and routing with a set of Unified Threat Management (UTM) security features to protect traffic as it flows in and out of the branch office. The SSG 5, and SSG 20 are targeted at small branch offices and telecommuter environments while the SSG 140 is suited for medium-sized branch offices, and stand alone businesses.The...

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Force10 Awarded Two Patents for 100 Gigabit Ethernet-Ready Backplane

Force10 Networks was awarded two patents for its 100 Gigabit Ethernet-ready backplane, which has been tested at up to five Terabits per second, delivering 330 Gbps to each slot. The company said both patents protect the unique design of its TeraScale E-Series backplane, which employs a low noise power distribution and high speed signal routing in a common backplane. While today's typical high performance backplanes support traces that can only reach 6.25 Gbps, the Force10 backplane traces can scale up to 25 Gbps across multiple layers. Additionally,...

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O2 Germany Chooses Spirent for GSM/UMTS & HSDPA Testing

O2 Germany has chosen SwissQual's "Diversity" platform to conduct GSM/UMTS & HSDPA wireless benchmarking. The Diversity platform allows network operators to continuously test the quality of service, as well as benchmark their network's performance against those of their competitors. Unlike other platforms, Diversity provides simultaneous, end-to-end testing for voice, data and video.SwissQual, which was acquired by Spirent Communications in January of 2006.Spirent said the contract marks a significant step in its growth in the wireless mar...

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3Com Debuts New SMB Unified Switch

3Com introduced its latest, convergence-ready, "Unified Switch" for organizations with 5 to 250 users. The 3Com Unified Switch combines wired and wireless functionality. Key features include:Full, Layer 2 line rate gigabit speeds with zero packet loss across all 24 ports;Full 802.3af Power over Ethernet support available on each of its 24 ports;Auto-voice VLAN capability;802.1X authentication;Wireless WPA2 security and AES encryption;Rogue wireless access point detection and mitigation;Wireless fast roaming and automatic load balancing across...

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BelAir Raises $21.4 Million for Mobile Broadband Mesh

BelAir Networks, a start-up based in Kanata, Ontario, raised $21.4 million in venture funding for its mobile wireless broadband mesh network solutions.BelAir said it has landed top-tier customers in each of its target markets -- municipal, cable, and cellular. The company recently won competitive bids for citywide wireless networks in Minneapolis, City of London, UK and Toronto, Canada.BelAir Networks' product portfolio supports Wi-Fi, 4.9 GHz Public...

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Mintera Raises $10 Million for 40 Gbps Optical Systems

Mintera, a start-up based in Acton, Mass., raised $10 million in venture funding for its 40 Gbps optical transmission systems.Mintera offers optical transport sub-systems for metro-core, regional, long-haul and ultra long-haul optical networks. The company said it will use the financing to complete the commercial launch of its new, 40 Gbps product platform, the MI 40000XS. This new platform, based on the emerging ATCA 300 standard, enables 40 Gbps...

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Alloptic Developing 10G EPON OLT

Alloptic disclosed details of its forthcoming 10 Gigabit capable Ethernet-based Passive Optical Network (10G EPON) system. Supporting both 10G EPON and IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile, the Edge 10 provides industry leading bandwidth with per-flow based Quality of Service (QoS). Alloptic said its "Edge 10" will be a modular, redundant OLT chassis featuring an 800 Gbps backplane, advanced packet processing and per flow QoS, 8 port GE-PON and 2 port 10G EPON line cards and multiport 10 GE uplink cards.Alloptic plans to begin shipping the Edge...

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Nominum Announces Free Diagnostic Tools to Measure DNS Performance

Nominum is offering free diagnostic tools to deliver accurate performance metrics of Domain Name Services (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) services. These include:DNSPerf measures Authoritative Domain Name services and is designed to simulate network conditions by "self-pacing" the query load. Caching services performance and workload profile differ significantly from Authoritative Domain services; therefore a different tool is needed. ResPerf is designed specifically to simulate Caching Domain Name services. To test a caching...

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Nokia Licenses Trimble's Global Navigation Satellite System Patents

Nokia signed a cooperative licensing deal on Trimble's Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) patents related to designated wireless products and services involving location technologies, such as GPS, assisted GPS or Galileo. The licensing agreement is exclusive to Nokia for the wireless consumer product and service domain and includes sublicensing rights. In return, Trimble receives a non-exclusive license to Nokia's location-based patents for use in Trimble's commercial products and services. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed."We...

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AboveNet Sells Data Centers in NYC and No. Virginia

AboveNet sold its interests in three data center facilities located in New York City and Northern Virginia to Digital Realty Trust for $40,075,000."From a strategic perspective, this transaction is consistent with the continuing evolution of AboveNet as a company with a laser focus on fiber-based connectivity solutions. This includes our new data center to data center service, dcXchange, that delivers high performance connections between prime data center locations in both these markets. This transaction allows us to continue investing in our customers...

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Marvell Trims Q3 Fiscal 2007 Guidance

Marvell Technology Group trimmed its financial guidance, saying that it now anticipates that its net revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2007 will be down approximately 10% from the $574.0 million of net revenue reported for second quarter of fiscal 2007.The anticipated decline in net revenue is largely due to lower than expected demand from a number of the company's hard disk drive customers. The company cited weaker than normal seasonal shipments in the personal computer market as well as excess inventory held by some of significant storage...

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