Jury Awards $368 million to Alcatel-Lucent in Patent Case vs. Microsoft

A jury in a U.S. District Court in San Diego has ordered Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent more than $368 million for infringing on two patents. The jury found that Microsoft's Tablet PC operating system infringed on an Alcatel-Lucent patent relating to the control of a computer through a stylus, and that some Microsoft programs infringed on an Alcatel-Lucent patent relating to an automated form entry system. The jury also determined that Dell infringed the stylus patent and owed Alcatel-Lucent $51,000. http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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Telstra Readies New Terabit-Capacity Cable Linking Australia-U.S.

Telstra is deploying a new 9,000 km submarine cable between Australia and the United States. The new cable, which will be landed at Tamarama Beach this week, can be scaled up to 1.28 Tbps, making it the largest ever built and owned by an Australian company. Alcatel-Lucent began laying the cable between Sydney and Hawaii earlier this year. Work will continue to lay the cable across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii, and the cable will be operational by end-2008. From Hawaii the cable will interconnect with the new Asia America Gateway cable and other...

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North American FTTH Connections Reach 3 Million

The Fiber-to-the-Home Council reported that 11.8 million homes in North America are now passed by fiber-optic cables and 10 million can now be connected, while nearly 3 million already have service on fiber all the way to the home. In total, about 10 percent of all North American homes are passed by fiber cables, with FTTH growth running at 97 percent annually.Verizon, the council said, leads the pace with more than 70 percent of the current total...

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Harris Stratex Networks Appoints Former Siemens Exec as CEO

Harris Stratex Networks, a supplier of wireless transmission systems, has appointed Harald J. Braun as its new president, CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. He succeeds Guy M. Campbell, who had previously announced his retirement effective June 27, 2008.Before joining Harris Stratex, Braun served as president and CEO of Siemens Networks and most recently as a senior executive in Nokia Siemens Networks North America. Prior to the NSN merger,...

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AT&T Appoints ex-Verisign Exec as CTO

AT&T announced the appointment of John Donovan to the position of chief technology officer (CTO), where he will oversee the company's global technology direction and innovation road map, including product development, network and engineering operations, AT&T Labs and the security and intellectual property organizations.Donovan previously was executive vice president of product, sales, marketing and operations at Verisign Inc., a diverse technology company that provides Internet infrastructure services. Before that, he was chairman and CEO...

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BT Names Ian Livingston to succeed Ben Verwaayen

BT has named Ian Livingston to succeed Ben Verwaayen as chief executive of BT Group on June 1st 2008. Livingston joined BT as group finance director in 2002. He took over as chief executive of BT Retail in 2005 and under his leadership BT Retail has returned to growth and sharply increased profitability. Livingston's current role will be filled by Gavin Patterson, currently group managing director of BT's consumer division. Verwaayen joined BT in...

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Solera Extends Network Visibility with Virtual Regeneration Tap

Solera Networks, a supplier of deep packet capture and stream-to-storage appliances, released a beta version of its free Solera V2P Tap application. This enables organizations deploying virtual machines to leverage their existing investments in network management and security tools by regenerating virtual network traffic, including intra-server virtual machine network traffic, to their existing physical security infrastructure to monitor and protect...

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Google App Engine Provides Developers Access to Google Infrastructure

Google released an application-hosting tool that developers can use to build scalable web apps on top of its infrastructure. The goal is to make it easier for web developers to build and scale applications, instead of focusing on system administration and maintenance. Google initially is limiting the App Engine to 10,000 developers. of whom will be restricted to the free quota of 500MB of storage and enough CPU and network bandwidth to sustain around 5 million page views per month for a typical app. Eventually, Google plans to charge developers...

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Juniper Introduces Next Gen SSL VPN Appliances

Juniper Networks introduced its next generation of Secure Access (SA) SSL VPN platforms -- the SA 2500, 4500 and 6500 appliances -- featuring higher performance, scalability and redundancy. SSL VPN appliances enable businesses to deliver anytime, anywhere access of corporate resources and applications to their remote and mobile employees, customers, and partners by using the universal security protocol found in all standard Web browsers. Juniper...

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Cisco Debuts Nexus 5000 Data Center-class Switches Supporting 10GigE, FCoE

Cisco unveiled its Nexus 5000 Series of data center-class switches, a major step towards the company's vision of a Unified Fabric for the Server Access Layer. In conjunction with the product announcement, Cisco announced that it had acquired the remaining 20% equity share it did not already hold in its subsidiary Nuova Systems, a start-up that developed the switch.The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch delivers line-rate, low-latency, 10 Gigabit Ethernet...

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