WiChorus Announces Home Agent for WiMAX Networks

WiChorus, a start-up based in San Jose, California, introduced an intelligent Home Agent solution for providing secure mobile IP address management and subscriber-awareness across WiMAX and LTE networks. The new Home Agent, which represents an extension of the company's Intelligent Core solution, is designed to enable carriers to manage and monetize traffic on their networks. It works in conjunction with a Mobile IP Foreign Agent, such as an ASN...

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PMC-Sierra Introduces Controller-Based Encryption Chip Family

PMC-Sierra announced a new family of Tachyon storage protocol controllers featuring its "StorClad" encryption technology and capable of delivering 400,000 IOPS performance per channel. The new protocol controllers with integrated data encryption, the PM8031 QE8e+ for Fibre Channel and PM8002 SPCe 8x6G for SAS/SATA, enable storage OEMs to deliver high-performance secure storage solutions without introducing costly new components or equipment into...

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France Telecom's Viaccess Acquires Orca Interactive for IPTV Middleware Leader

Viaccess, a France Telecom subsidiary, agreed to acquire Orca Interactive Ltd., a provider of IPTV middleware and applications, for US$21.4 million.Viaccess is a leader in the field of content protection, with conditional access and DRM solutions delivered in over 30 countries. Viaccess claims over 1.2 million active subscribers are using its technology worldwide.http://www.orcainteractive.comhttp://www.viaccess.com/...

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CopperGate Adds Chief Scientist

CopperGate Communications announced the appointment of Dr. Ilan Reuven as its Chief Scientist Officer. He joins CopperGate from Comsys Communications and Signal Processing, a provider of digital baseband IP solutions for 3G cellular systems and WiMAX chipsets, where he served as Chief Scientist. Prior to that, he served as the Chief Scientist of Tioga Technologies, a pioneer in DSL IC development acquired by STMicroelectronics in 2002. Before Tioga, Dr. Reuven held various positions at Orckit Communications, a leading DSL equipment manufactur...

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Alcatel-Lucent to acquire ReachView for OSS Consulting

Alcatel-Lucent agreed to acquire ReachView Technologies, a consulting firm specializing in service assurance projects for North America carriers, for an undisclosed sum. With approximately 85 employees, ReachView Technologies has offices in Atlanta and Dallas. Upon completion the acquisition will enhance Alcatel-Lucent's current professional services consulting practice, specifically, OSS/BSS and software integration, enabling the company to deliver...

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LSI to Purchase Infineon Hard Drive Semiconductor Business

LSI will acquire the assets of the hard disk drive semiconductor (HDD) business of Infineon Technologies. The deal covers the assets and intellectual property of the Infineon HDD business, which includes product designs, related software, inventory and test equipment. LSI also will enter into additional agreements with Infineon, including intellectual property, design services, transition services, and supply agreements. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.lsi....

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Level 3's Kevin O'Hara to Step Down

Kevin O'Hara is stepping down as Level3 Communications' president and chief operating officer, effective immediately. The company also announced that Sunit Patel, the company's current chief financial officer, will continue in the role of CFO. The company has terminated its previously disclosed search for a new CFO. Jim Crowe continues as CEO of Level 3. Neil Hobbs, currently executive vice president, sales and network services, has been appointed to the newly created position of executive vice president, operations. Mr. Hobbs and Mr. Crowe will...

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WiSpry Targets RF Silicon, Adds DoCoMo as Investor

WiSpry, a start-up based in Irvine, California, closed an additional $7 million of Series B financing for its programmable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products. This brings the total of the Series B round to $18 million. WiSpry is developing highly-integrated, and cost-effective, programmable RF products for multi-band, multi-standard handsets including tunable antennas and, tunable impedance matching networks. The company integrates a patented tunable digital RF-MEMS capacitor devices in an industry standard RF-CMOS process flow, thereby...

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TI Trims Revenue and Earnings Forecast

Texas Instruments lowered its expected ranges for revenue and earnings per share (EPS) for Q1 2008. The new guidance:Total revenue between $3.21 billion and $3.35 billion, compared with the prior range of $3.27 billion to $3.55 billion;Semiconductor revenue between $3.14 billion and $3.26 billion, compared with the prior range of $3.20 billion to $3.46 billion; andEducation Technology revenue between $70 million and $90 million, unchanged from the prior range.EPS between $0.41 and $0.45, compared with the previous range of $0.43 to $0.49.http...

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Extreme Networks Announces Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) Solution

Extreme Networks announced the general availability of a Provider Backbone Bridging - Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) solution comprised of new software and hardware. The implementation spans from the edge of the network through the metro core. Key components include:Software: ExtremeXOS 12.1 software supports PBB-TE functionality as well as a PBB-TE to VPLS gateway capability that allows the inter-connection of PBB-TE tunnels to a VPLS core network....

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Global Crossing Expands IP VPN to Six Classes of Service

Global Crossing will offer six Classes of Service (CoS) -- up from three -- for its IP VPN service. The company said that by offering six Classes of Service it now gives customers the flexibility to prioritize time-sensitive applications, such as voice and video, differently from each other, while still maintaining overall priority over data applications such as e-mail. Current IP VPN customers will be upgraded from Basic, Enhanced and Premium service to Basic Plus, Enhanced Plus or Premium Plus service respectively, with no price increase.htt...

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Alcatel-Lucent's Wireless Network Guardian Offers 3G/4G Mgt

Alcatel-Lucent unveiled a mobile network management solution for tracking IP traffic across the many layers of 3G and emerging 4G networks. The Alcatel-Lucent 9900 Wireless Network Guardian (WNG), which was developed by Bell Labs, provides end-to-end, real-time visibility of how mobile data subscriptions and services are affecting the radio access data network. The Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG is composed of two network elements: a wireless network detector, for deployment in the data center, and a wireless network central, for deployment in a network...

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Huawei Supplies Nearly 40% of China Netcom's Optical Access

Huawei Technologies is to supply nearly 40% of China Netcom's optical access solutions making it the operator's largest partner in the optical field. Huawei said it received the largest share of a recent optical access contract at China Netcom from a field of a dozen bidding suppliers. Under the contract, Huawei will provide its SmartAX MA5600T optical access equipment. The platform has passed the EPON and GPON tests set by the China Ministry of Information Industry and Huawei is the only vendor in China that owns both EPON and GPON network access...

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