Luxtera Introduces 40 Gbps CMOS Photonics Device for Infiniband

Luxtera, a start-up based in Carlsbad, California, introduced its 40 Gigabit optical active cable (OAC) for High Performance Computing InfiniBand and 40G proprietary rack to rack interconnect applications. The new "Blazar" CMOS Photonics product, which combines the benefits of optical modules and copper cables, connects to a system via a QSFP MSA-compliant connector cage. The electrical interface is SFP+ compliant which enables it to support data rates of one to 10.5 gigabits per transport lane for a total throughput of up to 42 gigabits per second....

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Warburg Pincus Invests $245 million in Integra Telecom, a Western CLEC

Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm, will invest at least $245 million in Integra Telecom, which provides voice, data and Internet communications to business and carrier customers in eight Western U.S. states, Integra Telecom will continue to operate as a privately held company and will not raise any primary equity in this transaction.Integra Telecom, which operates in Arizona, California, Idaho, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah and...

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Redback Builds Momentum in Multi-Service Edge Routing

Redback Networks announced several deployment milestones:Redback SmartEdge multi-service edge routers are delivering triple-play services to 15+ million broadband subscribers in China. Specifically, for China Telecom and China Netcom, Redback has deployed more than 1,000 broadband routing platforms in 22 of China's 32 provinces since 2005. Redback also is at the center of the largest IPTV deployments in China. Its IPTV customers include provincial...

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Juniper Names Robyn Denholm as CFO

Juniper Networks named Robyn M. Denholm to the position of chief financial officer (CFO). She previously served at Sun Microsystems as senior vice president, Corporate Strategic Planning. http://www.juniper....

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SyncVoice Raises $11.6 Million for Unified Mgt. Software, Changes Name to Communicado

SyncVoice Communications, a start-up based in Costa Mesa, California, raised $11.6 million in Series B financing for its solutions for managing converged voice/data communications. The company's "VXTracker" software product line is used by more than 400 customers. The company also announced a new corporate name -- Communicado -- reflecting its value of extending beyond telephony to improving performance of all types of real-time collaborative communications across converged networks, including voice, video and live conferencing.The new funding...

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VMware Soars in IPO

Shares in VMware (NYSE: VMW) soared 76% in its first day of trading to close at $51. The Palo Alto, California based company specializes in virtualization software. http://www.vmware....

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GTL and Navini Sign Partnership for Deploying WiMAX Networks

Navini Networks signed a Value Added Services (VAS) agreement with GTL Limited, a network services provider based in India. Navini has an R&D center in Bangalore and offices in Bangalore and New Delhi. http://www.navini.com/http://www.gtllimited.c...

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Wisair Builds Executive Team -- UWB Silicon

Wisair, a provider of Ultra Wideband (UWB) and Wireless USB (WUSB) chipset solutions, named Ziv Azmanov as vice president of marketing and Tal Keren-zvi as the Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) vice president. Azmanov previously was vice president of marketing at Octalica Inc., which was recently acquired by Broadcom. Before Octalica, he was manager of the Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) business line at Texas Instruments. Keren-zvi previously was manager of all worldwide wireless PAN programs at Texas Instruments. In this role, he led...

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AT&T Wins $9.8 Million Project with U.S. Army Fort Bliss

AT&T was awarded a contract worth up to $9.8 million to develop a customer premise data network at Fort Bliss, Texas, for the U.S. Army. The project includes design, engineering, furnishing, installation, securing and testing outside plant cable and data-networking equipment for the Fort Bliss data network. The contract was awarded to AT&T by the U.S. Army Project Manager Defense Communications and Army Switched Systems (PM DCASS) through...

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AT&T Offers Storage Over SONET

AT&T announced a new capability that allows businesses to access a storage area network directly over Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) rings without the need for additional interface equipment. Until now, businesses with SONET rings had few choices if they wanted to operate a storage network; they could upgrade their existing SONET configuration or build a separate storage area network. AT&T said its new storage-over-SONET interfaces to...

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Verizon Wireless Unveils Expanded National Test Lab

Verizon Wireless opened an expanded test lab that is four times the original size and provides new areas for rigorous hands-on testing, evaluation of new applications and technologies, and confidential collaboration with manufacturers and software vendors. Verizon Wireless said the facility in Bedminster, New Jersey, serves as a product and applications incubator. The lab will be used for testing everything from handset durability and voice call quality to data throughput, camera phone picture resolution and on-demand multimedia services. Verizon...

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Rebtel Rolls Out Facebook Application

Rebtel introduced an application for Facebook users to create local numbers for global friends across their Facebook network direct from the Facebook site. The application allows users to add a "Reb me!" box onto their profile so friends can instantly create a local number for them. New users receive 10 minutes of credit with which to try the Rebtel service, and another five minutes each time a friend they've invited adds the application and makes...

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