Riverbed Enhances Central Management Console

Riverbed Technology released the latest version of its Central Management Console (v5.0) featuring enhancements for deploying, configuring, and managing its Steelhead appliances, while providing visibility into the underlying performance of applications running across the WAN. Specifically, the enhancements provide network administrators with hierarchical structuring of Steelhead appliances, new policy-based configuration, role-based administration...

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SingTel and Partners to Bid on Next Gen Broadband Net

Axia NetMedia (30%), Singapore Telecommunications (30%), Singapore Press Holdings (25%) and SP Telecommunications Pte Ltd (15%) have formed a consortium to jointly bid on Singapore's Next Generation National Broadband Network - Network Company (NetCo), as defined by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). The new OpenNet consortium, as it is known, proposes an open fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network. The open nature of the network...

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Indonesia's Telkomsel Selects Nokia Siemens Networks for Core Mobile Softswitch

Indonesia's Telkomsel will upgrade its mobile core to Release 4 architecture with Nokia Siemens Networks' MSC Server System mobile softswitch solution. Under the three-year frame work agreement, Nokia Siemens Networks will deploy the latest generation softswitch in across Indonesia. NSN will also provide network planning, implementation as well as consulting and system integration. The company describes the project as one of the biggest softswitch...

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Libya Telecom Selects Alcatel-Lucent for WiMAX

Libya Telecom and Technology, the national Internet Service Provider in Libya, selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy the first commercial WIMAX network based on the 802.16e-2005 standard in the country. Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will provide a complete WiMAX infrastructure solution, including the radio access network, microwave backhaul and IP routers and will deploy around 120 sites in a first phase. The new network will support VoIP and...

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Motorola Enhances CherryPicker for MPEG2/4 Ad Insertion

Motorola released the latest software enhancement for its CherryPicker Application Platform (CAP-1000). In addition to MPEG-4 Rate Shaping, the CAP-1000 now offers MPEG-2 rate shaping, ad insertion and statistical multiplexing. The platform supports both standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) video, all in a dense single rack unit device. The Motorola CAP-1000 v2.0 supports hundreds of simultaneous video streams, with near instantaneous failover redundancy capability.http://www.motorola....

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Ruckus Wireless Sues NETGEAR and Rayspan over Wi-Fi Antennas

Ruckus Wireless, has filed suit in the U.S. Court for the Northern District of California against NETGEAR and Rayspan Corporation for patent infringement. Ruckus Wireless alleges that in the development of the NETGEAR RangeMax WPN 824v3 wireless router, NETGEAR and Rayspan infringed two Wi-Fi patents which are fundamental to intelligent and adaptable Wi-Fi antenna arrays. Ruckus said it has over 70 patents granted or pending worldwide in the area of intelligent antenna or wireless technology innovation.Ruckus also noted that in January 2005 it...

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Concord Hospital Deploys Juniper Application Acceleration and Security Platforms

Concord Hospital, a regional medical center with the second busiest acute care hospital in the state of New Hampshire, has deployed Juniper Networks' WX application acceleration platform, Secure Services Gateway (SSG) firewall/VPN appliances with Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Secure Access (SA) 4000 SSL VPN to increase the performance of business-critical applications by 40 to 50%. The network also ensures secure wireless VoIP communications in its emergency department, and provides secure remote network access for employees using a standard...

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Sun Offers OpenSolaris over Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Sun Microsystems will begin offering its OpenSolaris Operating System (OS) on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a Web service that provides resizeable compute capacity in the cloud. Amazon's EC2 allows customers to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use. Sun will also provide premium technical support for its MySQL database running on Linux and Amazon EC2.The companies said a select group...

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iamba Networks Secures $7 Million for GPON Silicon

iamba Networks, a start-up based in Cupertino, California with R&D in Israel, raised $7 million in new venture funding for its GPON silicon. iamba's product portfolio consists of multicore SoCs for GPON ONT units and OLT blades. Investing firms in this round include iamba's investors from previous rounds, Pitango Venture Capital, Cedar Fund, Giza Venture Fund and Kreos Capital. http://www.iamba.comIn January 2008, iamba Networks released its...

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T-Mobile Launches UMTS/HSDPA in NYC

T-Mobile USA has launched its UMTS/HSDPA network in New York City. The 3G network rollout will continue across major metropolitan markets through the year. By year's end, T-Mobile expects its high-speed data network will be available in those cities where a majority of its subscribers currently use data services.T-Mobile currently offers multiple phones that are able to operate on the UMTS network. In the coming months, T-Mobile plans to offer its...

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Qwest to Offer Verizon Wireless Service

Qwest Communications announced a 5-year agreement to market and sell Verizon Wireless service beginning this summer. Financial terms of the agreement are not being disclosed. Under the deal, Qwest customers will have access to the full line of Verizon Wireless handsets, smartphones and BlackBerry devices, as well as high-speed broadband wireless services for e-mail, Internet access and multimedia services. Qwest said its residential customers will...

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