Analog Devices Posts Revenue of $644.3 Million

Analog Devices announced quarterly revenue of $644.3 million, an increase of approximately 4% compared to the same period one year ago and a decrease of approximately 3% compared to the immediately prior quarter. Net income under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) was $138.4 million, or 21.5% of sales, and diluted earnings per share (EPS) was $0.39. For its full fiscal year ended October 28, 2006, revenue was $2.57 billion, an increase of approximately 8% compared to fiscal 2005."Revenue from consumer customers grew 13% in the fourth...

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BT Outlines New Wholesale Broadband Pricing

BT announced plans to reduce its wholesale broadband pricing, offering service providers a cost effective alternative to Local Loop Unbundling (LLU). The new pricing structure is intended to come into effect from May 2007 - at which point BT believes the UK will have achieved 1.5 million LLU lines -- and will be implemented in two stages. The unveiling of the proposals will enable service providers to plan ahead.BT said that from May 2007, service providers will see the rental charge for the most highly used wholesale broadband product -- BT...

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AT&T Introduces Optical Mesh Service

AT&T introduced an Optical Mesh Service that allows customers to build and self-administer their own SONET network. The service, which is available now in 220 locations nationwide, permits enterprise and wholesale customers to reallocate bandwidth as needed by increasing or decreasing capacity in real time. Customers can provision additional network capacity with rates up to OC48 via AT&T's customer portal, AT&T BusinessDirect.The service...

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TI Samples Low-Cost, DSP-based Digital Media Processors

Texas Instruments is now sampling four new digital signal processor (DSP)-based digital media processors priced as low as $9.95. The four new processors, which are the first DSP-only devices for DaVinci technology, provide greater processing power at a lower price point. Target applications include automotive vision, video security and video telephony.TI said Moore's Law combined with improvements to the DSP core and the addition of a video processing subsystem (VPSS), allow the new processors to offer improved video performance of up to H.264...

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Chelsio Debuts 10Gb Ethernet Adapters

Chelsio Communications announced 10Gb Ethernet adapter cards that enable the convergence of storage, clustering, and server networking applications onto a single unified fabric.Chelsio said its new adapters, which are powered by the company's new Terminator 3 (T3) ASIC announced in September, enable 10Gb Ethernet to replace disparate fabric technologies such as Fibre Channel and InfiniBand in a wide range of applications, including Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Filers, Storage Area Network (SAN) Arrays, Server Adapters, High Performance Cluster...

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Motorola to Acquire Netopia for $208 Million

Motorola agreed to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Netopia, a supplier of broadband customer premise equipment (CPE), for approximately $208 million in cash, or about $7.00 per share. The acquisition enables Motorola to further address the global broadband DSL opportunity.Netopia will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motorola and will be integrated into Motorola's Connected Home Solutions business. Motorola said it intends to maintain...

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TiVo Unveils Broadband Video Delivery Approach

TiVo unveiled its broadband video distribution strategy including a means to download content from the Web and view it on a TV. Key elements of TiVo's broadband strategy include:Unified Search -- a service launching next year whereby consumers can search across broadcast, cable and broadband content sources through an approach that integrates all video for access, menuing, searching, recording, and viewing. All content sources can be accessed in...

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Cable & Wireless Deploys Alcatel's High-end Router

Cable & Wireless is deploying the Alcatel 7750 Service Router and 5620 Service Aware Manager in its next generation IP/MPLS network. As part of this "NGN" project, Cable & Wireless will deploy 200-250 nodes over a two-to-three year period. Financial terms were not disclosed.<>Alcatel said its IP solution offers Cable & Wireless the quality of service required to assign priorities to traffic; the highest levels of reliability to assure non-stop service delivery; and, the massive scalability and superior performance management...

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Cisco to Acquire Greenfield Networks for Metro Ethernet Silicon

Cisco agreed to acquire Greenfield Networks, a start-up offering Metro Ethernet silicon, for an undisclosed sum.Greenfield offers a merchant silicon solution that combines low-cost Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and features such as full IPv6 routing, MPLS switching, scalable packet buffering, and scalable MAC, route and classification tables. Greenfield's "Packetry" family, which is aimed at metro edge deployments, supports service provider features including MPLS switching, stacked VLANs, Layer 2 VPN (martini and VPLS), Layer 3 VPN (RFC 2547bis)...

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Cisco Announces Deal with Oakland A's

Cisco announced a deal with the Oakland Athletics (A's) to build a baseball stadium in Fremont, California. Highlights of the deal include:Cisco will purchase the naming rights to the ballpark. This 30-year deal is valued at $4 million annually, with the potential for annual increases based on inflation. This naming rights agreement is transferable at any time. Separate to this agreement, Cisco will sell its 143-acre parcel of land in Fremont to the A's. The land is intended to become the future site of Cisco Field and a surrounding Baseball Village...

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