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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Parascale Secures $11.37 Million for Cloud Storage
Parascale, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, closed an $11.37 million Series A financing round for its cloud storage solutions for rich media content.Parascale has developed a new class of storage solutions designed to support the wave of content-intensive applications, including video-on-demand, digital document archiving, scientific data analysis, video surveillance and medical image remote diagnosis among others. The company's Parascale...
Dell'Oro: Set-top box Sales Decline in Q1
the worldwide set-top box market contracted 6 percent sequentially to $3.5 billion in the first quarter of this year, according to a newly published report from Dell'Oro Group. The market was up 9 percent, however, compared to the year-ago quarter. The quarter's sequential decline was due to double-digit percent drop in the satellite STB market, which reflected seasonal weakness.In 1Q08, HD shipments for the first time surpassed standard definition shipments as consumers are increasingly choosing HD services and service providers are deploying...
Alltel Wireless Rolls out EVDO Rev A
Alltel Wireless announced the launch of EVDO Revision A technology in its network. The company plans an initial rollout of Rev. A to 18 market areas and dozens of cities, including Charlotte, New Orleans, Phoenix and Tampa. Customers using Rev. A will experience average upload speeds of 500-800 Kbps with bursts up to 1.8 Mbps. Upload speeds on the company's existing broadband network average 50-70 Kbps, with bursts up to 144 Kbps. Download speeds...
City of Buffalo Deploys Crime Fighting Wireless Mesh
Police in the City of Buffalo, New York are using a wireless video surveillance system from Firetide and Avrio Group to fight crime. The first five arrests were made while the systems installation was still in progress. The suspects were caught on camera burglarizing a convenience store just ten hours after the police camera was installed nearby.In its initial request for bids, Buffalo requested:The ability to read license plates from 200 yards...
Juniper Expands its s J-Care Technical Services
Juniper Networks has expanded its J-Care program with a family of performance-enabling services that combine automation features with personalized, proactive services, made possible by the intelligence and automated capabilities of new Advanced Insight Solutions (AIS). J-Care Technical Services are designed to provide visibility into network assets, proactively identify potential device problems, help accelerate incidence resolution and ensure organizations can adapt and maintain a technical foundation for business agility to optimize the value...
Telenor Global Services selects Alcatel-Lucent for NGN
Telenor Global Services (TGS) has selected Alcatel-Lucent to provide an IP Next Generation Network (NGN) for their services worldwide. The solution purchased by Telenor is the Alcatel-Lucent NGN Class 4 / Peering Solution, which expands Class 4 services to IP Peering, thereby providing converged interconnect transit services for wholesale carriers. It involves the Alcatel-Lucent 5020 Media Gateway Controller-12, the Alcatel-Lucent 7510 Media Gateway,...
China Mobile Chooses Fujitsu's UNIX servers, Storage, Middleware
China Mobile Communications has selected Fujitsu's SPARC Enterprise UNIX servers, ETERNUS storage equipment, and PRIMECLUSTER middleware for its core information system, which is to be deployed in all 31 provinces, cities, and autonomous regions in mainland China. Financial terms were not disclosed.China Mobile Communications' core IT system encompasses its billing system, network management system, and other critical functions, with all systems...
NSN Introduces Multi-haul WDM Spanning Metro to Core
Nokia Siemens Networks introduced an integrated DWDM platform serving metro, core and ultra long-haul networks. The latest release of the hiT 7300 platform supports all reaches and transmission speeds at pay-as-you-grow economics. Specifically, the hiT 7300 comes with a rich multi-service and multi-reach feature set. The hiT 7300 supports both CWDM, DWDM or a mix of both on the same fiber. Transponder cards support traditional SONET/SDH, Ethernet...
AT&T Teams with Covisint and Microsoft on Nationwide Health-Information Exchange
AT&T, Covisint (a subsidiary of Compuware) and Microsoft announced a major eHealth initiative -- a nationwide information exchange -- to enhance the health care experience for patients and practitioners. AT&T Healthcare Community Online will offer managed services, applications and authentication services while promoting the widespread adoption of health-information technology by providing authorized doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, labs and patients with access to test results, prescription records, best practices and medical histories.AT&T...
Nokia to Acquire Plazes for Location Awareness
Nokia agreed to acquire Plazes AG, a start-up developing a location-aware social networking service, for an undisclosed sum. Plazes is a privately-owned company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. After closing, Plazes will become part of Nokia's Services & Software unit.Plazes is offering a context-aware social-activity service that people can use to plan, record, and share their social activities: why they are at a given...
In Memorium: Zenith's Carl G. Eilers, Father of Stereo FM and Stereo TV
Carl G. Eilers, considered the "Father of Stereo FM Radio and Stereo Television Sound," for pioneering work during his 50-year career at Zenith Electronics, has passed away at the age of 83. Over the years, Eilers had been granted 21 U.S. patents, and authored numerous technical papers and articles. Eilers joined Zenith in 1948 after receiving his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Through 1961, he worked on the world's first pay television system, Zenith Phonevision, earning key patents on subscription TV technologies....
T-Mobile USA Adds Nokia and Samsung Handsets to HotSpot @Home Service
T-Mobile USA announced the availability of the Nokia 6301 and Samsung SGH-t339 to the lineup of phones that support T-Mobile HotSpot @Home service, which provides unlimited, nationwide calling over any accessible Wi-Fi connection in addition to great in-home coverage. The red Samsung t339 is a Wi-Fi-enabled phone outfitted with stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera with video capture, a music player and instant messaging capability.The Nokia 6301...
