Mindspeed Debuts 6.5 Gbps Signal Conditioning Family

Mindspeed Technologies announced the first four devices in a new family of low-power cable and backplane equalizers, also commonly known as signal conditioners. Mindspeed's new four, eight and 12-channel signal conditioners operate at speeds up to 6.5 Gbps and support PCI Express, SAS, SATA, Infiniband, SONET and XAUI. The M21030 and the M21451 are four channel signal conditioners that feature the first adaptive equalizers to perform at speeds up...

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Alcatel-Lucent's Smart DSL Targets Line Stability

Alcatel-Lucent announced "Smart DSL" technology for allowing network operators to guarantee DSL line stability at higher bit rates than traditional methods.Smart DSL technology, which leverages Alcatel-Lucent's Artificial Noise and Virtual Noise (ANVN) innovations, can be integrated in the market-leading DSL Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) family and the Alcatel-Lucent 5530 Network Analyzer (NA). The Smart DSL technology uses artificial or virtual noise to mask noise and results in increased bandwidths for high-bit rate service delivery....

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ICANN Adds IPv6 addresses to 13 Root Server Networks

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has added IPv6 addresses for six of the world's 13 root server networks (A, F, H, J, K, M) to the appropriate files and databases. The move allows for the possibility of fuller IPv6 usage of the Domain Name System (DNS). Previously, those using IPv6 had needed to retain the older IPv4 addressing system in order to be able to use domain names."Today's addition of IPv6 addresses for the...

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CloudShield Packs its DPI Into IBM BladeCenter

CloudShield Technologies is working with IBM to develop the first carrier-class Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) solution for the IBM BladeCenter family. The collaboration will provide CloudShield's DPI solution to IBM's growing telecommunications BladeCenter customer base. In addition, CloudShield has joined the Blade.org ecosystem, a collaborative organization and developer community whose goals are to expand and provide leadership to the blade server market.http://www.cloudshield.comhttp://ibm.com/telecom/syst...

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Freescale to Acquire SigmaTel for $110 Million

Freescale Semiconductor agreed to acquire SigmaTel, a provider of analog intensive, mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for the digital multimedia market, for approximately $110 million in cash. SigmaTel's target market segments include portable media players, printers and digital televisions. For the fourth quarter of 2007, SigmaTel generated revenues of $33.2 million with a GAAP net loss of $4.0 million or $0.11 per share. http://www.freescale.comhttp://www.sigmatel....

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EANTC Organizes Public Mobile Backhaul Interoperability Showcase

The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC), in collaboration with both the IP/MPLS Forum and the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), will present a public multi-vendor Mobile Backhaul Interoperability showcase at three upcoming industry events: the MPLS and Ethernet World Congress in Paris, 5-8 February, 2008, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 11-14 February, 2008, and the CTIA Wireless Show in Las Vegas, 1-3 April, 2008. Fifteen vendors have...

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Juniper Joins Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance

Juniper Networks has joined the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance, a global initiative made up of leading mobile operators to accelerate the delivery of the next generation of high-performance mobile broadband networks.The NGMN Alliance was created to provide a vision for technology evolution beyond 3G for the competitive delivery of broadband wireless services. The purpose is to establish clear performance targets, fundamental recommendations...

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Huawei Completes Upgrade of China Mobile LD Network

Huawei Technologies has completed an upgrade to China Mobile's Long-distance network that that significantly improves voice quality and transmission resource efficiency. Financial terms were not disclosed.In 2004, Huawei began working with China Mobile to deploy mobile softswitches for use as long-distance transit exchanges. That network is now carries 80% of all domestic long-distance traffic. With the extension of China Mobile's All-IP strategy...

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Alcatel-Lucent Introduces IP Management Appliance

Alcatel-Lucent introduced its VitalQIP Appliance Manager (AM), providing the functionality of its VitalQIP DNS/DHCP and IPAM solution in a new form factor designed for enterprise workgroup applications and for managed services providers (MSPs).Alcatel-Lucent said the rapid spread of VoIP solutions, the need for improved network security and the prospect of transitioning to IPv6 are driving the demand for advanced IP management capabilities enterprise wide, including at the workgroup.The new VitalQIP AM enables enterprises to efficiently configure,...

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Cisco Launches Talent-Development Strategy for India

Cisco will launch a series of educational programs aimed at expanding India's capacity to train, employ and retain highly qualified networking and systems engineers. By establishing partnerships and opening testing facilities, Cisco aims to expand India's networking workforce capacity to 360,000 engineers in the next five years, a six-fold increase over present employment levels.In concert with these new partnerships, Cisco is also announcing a major push toward increasing access to its examination facilities through its primary test-delivery partner,...

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Qualcomm Names General Manager for MediaFLO Technologies

Qualcomm appointed Neville Meijers as the new senior vice president and general manager for MediaFLO Technologies, where he will lead all functional groups -- including Business Development, Engineering, Marketing, Partner Relations, Product Management and Program Management.Meijers joins Qualcomm from Discovery Communications where he recently served as executive vice president of Discovery Communications' Antenna Audio, a world leader in audio and multimedia. He has held senior executive positions in the areas of corporate strategy and business...

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NEC and Intel to Develop Power Management IC for Mobile Internet Devices

NEC Electronics has teamed with Intel Corporation to develop a power management IC (PMIC) solution optimized for mobile Internet devices (MIDs). The highly integrated PMIC solution will combine power management, logic, audio and communications functions. The target application is the new generation of Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs).Initial samples of NEC Electronics' power management ICs are expected to be available in Q3 of 2008.http://www.am.necel.com/pmd/pmics.htmlhttp://www.intel....

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Verizon Business Launches Virtualization Service based on VMware

Verizon Business announced a virtualization service aimed at providing its enterprise customers with added flexibility, improved efficiencies and controlled IT costs. Virtualization allows business to consolidate multiple IT resources, such as operating systems and software applications, on a single server. The new Verizon Business managed virtualization service promises the same reliability as the traditional one-application-to-a-server model.Verizon...

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NTT America Announces Appointment of CTO

NTT America announced the appointment of Mr. Kazuhiro Gomi as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) effective immediately. Gomi was involved in various R&D projects at NTT and held senior positions at NTT Labs' central research organization in Japan prior to his assignment to lead the U.S. operations of NTT Communications' Global IP Network (GIN) business unit. Gomi is based in NTT America's New York headquarters and continues to head GIN business unit at NTT America in addition to this appointment.http://www.nttamerica....

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Ceragon Demonstrates PBB-TE over Microwave

Ceragon Networks will demonstrate PBB-TE (Provider Backbone Bridges -- Traffic Engineering) protection over an Adaptive Modulation packet microwave as part of the mobile backhaul interoperability event at the MPLS and Ethernet World Congress 2008, organized by EANTC and supported by the IP/MPLS Forum and the MEF in Paris, France, February 6-7, 2008.PBB-TE makes packet networks predictable, allowing operators to efficiently manage their packet network resources and maximize their performance, while ensuring the superb QoS needed for delay sensitive,...

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Data Connection and MetaSwitch Report Record 2007 Revenue of $102 Million

Data Connection (DCL) announced revenue of $101.8 million, with net earnings of $21.1 million, for its 2006/7 fiscal year. This represents a 54% increase on the previous year and marks the company's 26th year in business.DCL said this growth was fueled by its switching and applications solutions business, including its MetaSwitch Class 4/5 softswitch and MetaSphere service delivery platform (SDP) and application suite. Together, these two solutions represented three quarters of DCL's total revenues. Average deployment size grew with new installations...

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OPNET Posts Quarterly Revenue of $24.5 Million

OPNET Technologies reported revenues of $26 million for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2007,, compared to $24.5 million for the same quarter in the prior fiscal year. Earnings per share for the quarter were negative $0.06, compared to positive $0.14 for the same quarter in the prior fiscal year.Marc A. Cohen, OPNET's Chairman and CEO, stated, "We are very pleased with our fiscal Q3 sales results. We achieved record quarterly revenue of $26 million while increasing our deferred revenue sequentially by $4.5 million. Both our total revenue...

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MIT and Texas Instruments Develop Low Voltage Chipset

Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments (TI) are developing a new chip design for portable electronics that can be up to ten times more energy-efficient than present technology. The design will be presented at this week's International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco.TI said that while most current chips operate at around 1 volt, the new design works at just 0.3 volts. Operating this lower voltage requires reworking memory and logic circuits. One key, is placing a new a DC-to-DC converter -- which reduces the voltage...

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Co-Founder of Zhone Technologies Killed in Plane Crash

Jeanette Symons, a well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur and experienced pilot, died on Friday, 01-February-2008, when the Cessna Citation C525 that she was piloting crashed in storm in Maine. Also killed in the plane crash was Symons' ten-year old son. She leaves behind a seven-year old daughter, her parents and two brothers. News reports cite a mixture of sleet, freezing rain, and snow at the time of the accident.Ms. Symons was currently leading Industrious Kid, a start-up whose mission is to develop world class social networking destinations...

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Intel's Flash NAND Promises 5X Performance Boost, Targets USB 3.0

Intel and Micron Technology unveiled a jointly-developed high speed NAND flash memory technology that is five times faster than conventional NAND, reaching speeds up to 200 megabytes per second (MB/s) for reading data and 100 MB/s for writing data. The performance is achieved by leveraging the new ONFI 2.0 specification and a four-plane architecture with higher clock speeds. In comparison, conventional single level cell NAND is limited to 40 MB/s for reading data and less than 20 MB/s for writing data.The companies cited a number of advantages...

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NFL Network Leverages Signiant's Digital Media Distribution Solution

The NFL Network has deployed Signiant's digital media distribution technology to transfer game footage for broadcast on weekly highlight shows including the NFL Replay. The NFL broadcasts up to sixteen games per week, with each game averaging more than three hours in length. That adds up to nearly 50 hours of footage that needs to be reviewed, bookmarked, filed, retrieved and edited into NFL Replay, a 90-minute highlights program. Using Signiant, NFL Films footage from each game can be uploaded to a secure, shared, digital storage folder, where...

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