EdgeCast Raises $6 Million for CDN

EdgeCast Networks, a start-up based in Los Angeles, has secured $6 million in Series B financing for its rich-media content delivery network (CDN). The new funds will be used to expand EdgeCast's international reach, scale the network for additional capacity, enhance features, and further develop the company's sales and marketing operations. EdgeCast said its global content delivery network is designed for high-performance speed, massive audiences and flash crowds. The company claims significant performance improvements and substantial cost savings...

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Juniper Introduces Partner Solution Developer Platform

Juniper Networks introduced a Partner Solution Development Platform (PSDP) that enables customers and partners to develop specialized applications using JUNOS software. The PSDP offers a software development kit (SDK) with intelligent and secure interfaces to JUNOS routing and service functions. Juniper said these tools will provide customers and partners with greater choice and control in designing, developing and deploying specialized applications such as event-optimized routing, customized bandwidth management, advanced security services and...

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ARM Announces Processor Licensing Agreement With PMC-Sierra

PMC-Sierra has licensed the high-performance ARM Cortex-A8 processor and ARM11 MPCore multicore processor for a broad range of designs, including devices for Passive Optical Networks (PON) and ASIC devices.The ARM Cortex-A8 processor scales in speed from 600 MHz to more than 1GHz. The ARM11 MPCore multicore processor provides a scalable solution that can be configured to contain between one and four processors, delivering over 3000 Dhrystone MIPS of aggregate performance. The ARM11 MPCore multicore processor also provides software portability across...

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Alcatel-Lucent to Build out MetroPCS' AWS Network in 7 Cities

MetroPCS Wireless awarded a contract extension to Alcatel-Lucent to include, among other things, CDMA2000 mobile networking solutions to build out MetroPCS' AWS spectrum in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Detroit, Dallas and Los Angeles. Currently, MetroPCS offers PCS service in the Miami, Orlando, Sarasota, Tampa, Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento metropolitan areas.Alcatel-Lucent will continue to provide to MetroPCS a range of base stations designed to fit a wide variety of deployment scenarios, both...

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Nokia Siemens Networks to Expand Packet Core for China Mobile

China Mobile Group Beijing Ltd. (CMBJ) has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to expand its General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) core network. The upgrade will benefit millions of additional visitors expected in Beijing during the Olympic games next August. Nokia Siemens Networks said the high user capacity of its packet core solution allows operators to handle a huge number of mobile consumers, even if they are using data services heavily. One part of the solution, the Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN), combines support for 2G and 3G networks dynamically...

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Nextlink Selects Ericsson's Microwave Backhaul Solution

Nextlink, a subsidiary of XO Holdings, announced an agreement to use Ericsson's microwave radio transmission solutions and professional services to support the build out of mobile backhaul networks in the United States. Specifically, Nextlink will deploy Ericsson's MINI-LINK Traffic Node microwave transmission platform as it deploys services for its wholesale mobile wireless and wireline communications service provider customers. The agreement also...

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Verizon Business Adds IP Trunking Capabilities

Verizon Business introduced new IP Trunking capabilities providing its enterprise customers with on-demand sharing of unused trunk capacity, more platforms for IP PBX (private branch exchange), a new path to VoIP through its Ethernet to Private IP access option, and automated rerouting of calls to maintain business continuity.Verizon VoIP Trunking services use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling to interoperate with either an IP or time division...

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Brasil Telecom Selects UTStarcom's RollingStream IPTV

UTStarcom announced its first IPTV win in Latin America. Brasil Telecom's Videon IPTV service is using UTStarcom's RollingStream end-to-end IPTV solution as its end-to-end technology platform. The solution is deployed for the carrier's new Videon video-on-demand (VOD) IPTV service in Brasilia with plans to expand the service to additional cities in the country's South and Midwest regions in the coming months. In addition to supporting the current...

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AT&T Upgrades Nationwide IP/MPLS Backbone to 40 Gbps

AT&T lit its first coast-to-coast, 40 Gbps over its IP/MPLS backbone. AT&T has deployed 40 Gbps (or OC-768) on more than 50,000 wavelength miles of its U.S. IP/MPLS backbone network to date, connecting major U.S. cities. The deployment includes 18,000 miles of recently enhanced optical ultralong haul routes capable of eventually carrying customer voice and data traffic at speeds up to 100 Gbps with minimized latency. By year's end, more than 40 percent of the IP traffic carried over the company's backbone network will ride on this new-generation...

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JDSU Unveils Fiber Dispersion Analyzer

JDSU introduced an Optical Dispersion Measurement (ODM) module for its T-BERD/MTS-6000 and T-BERD/MTS-8000. The module provides chromatic dispersion (CD), polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and Attenuation Profile test functions. These tests can help validate the fiber link's compatibility with high-speed CWDM/DWDM systems, including Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs). The performance of each individual function also makes the ODM module ideal for characterizing fiber at 40G and higher.JDSU said measuring CD, PMD and attenuation...

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Holland's Reggefiber Picks Cisco Ethernet FTTH (E- FTTH)

Reggefiber, a broadband operator in the Netherlands, has selected Cisco's Ethernet FTTH (E-FTTH) solution for an optical fiber rollout in three cities in the Netherlands. Financial terms were not disclosed.Reggefiber plans to deliver residential broadband at speeds of up to 100 Mbps initially and up to 1 Gbps in the future. Reggefiber's current planned projects will add approximately 100,000 to 200,000 households making its FTTH coverage the largest in The Netherlands. The company has recently started laying fiber in the city of Deventer. It will...

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AT&T Confirms Deployment of Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS-1)

AT&T has selected the Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS-1) as the core platform of its IP/MPLS backbone network supporting voice, video, data and mobility services to residential and business customers worldwide. Financial terms were not disclosed."We are extremely pleased that AT&T has selected the Cisco CRS-1 as the core of its multinational network supporting advanced IP services," said Tony Bates, senior vice president and general manager...

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Violin Memory and AMD Collaborate on Terabyte-Scale Server Memory

Violin Memory, a start-up based in Iselin, New Jersey, announced a technology alliance with AMD that will combine its memory appliances and the HyperTransport high-speed interconnect technology in order to meet the demands of ever-increasing dataset size and application performance. Violin Memory said that be leveraging HyperTransport technology it can cost-effectively extend server memory to the Terabytes range. Target applications could range...

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T-Mobile USA Adds Samsung Katalyst Phone to Hotspot@Home Service

T-Mobile USA has added the new Samsung "Katalyst" slider phone to its T-Mobile HotSpot @Home service. The Samsung Katalyst operates over a home Wi-Fi network and at nearly 8,500 T-Mobile HotSpot locations nationwide. When customers leave home or a T-Mobile HotSpot, their calls are passed onto T-Mobile's GSM network, and the same is true for passing calls from T-Mobile's network onto Wi-Fi networks. http://www.t-mobile.com http://www.samsungwireless.comT-Mobile USA launched its HotSpot@Home fixed-mobile-convergence (FMC) service in June 20...

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PMC-Sierra Announces Quad 8Gbit/s Fibre Channel Controller

PMC-Sierra introduced a new 8 Gbps Fibre Channel protocol controller (PM8032 Tachyon QE8) with double the performance and ports of existing products and aimed at a new class of networked storage systems that can handle the data consolidation necessitated by Web 2.0 applications and high-performance computing clusters.In addition to doubling the performance of existing Fibre Channel controllers, PMC-Sierra's Tachyon QE8 includes a number of advanced...

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