China's Ministry of Railways Deploys Juniper's ISG

China's Ministry of Railways is protecting its nationwide communications infrastructure, encompassing the Ministry's headquarters and 18 bureaux, with the Juniper Networks Integrated Security Gateway (ISG) 2000 firewall/VPN with integrated Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP). The Juniper Networks ISG 2000 is a high-performance integrated security gateway that provides firewall and IPSec VPN performance for Internet applications and multimedia content. It supports security zones and offers various virtualization capabilities. The Ministry...

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NetXen Debuts Upgradeable QuadG/10G Architecture

NetXen, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, released its third generation NX3031 silicon and Intelligent NIC boards for volume blade and rack server platforms migrating to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE). NetXen NX3031 chips and boards are specifically designed to address both current and future go-to-market needs of volume server OEMs. The company has previously announced HP and IBM as major customers.NetXen said its NetXen's NX3031-based...

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Bookham Demos 40G Tunable Transmitter

Bookham has demonstrated its 40 Gbps ODQPSK tunable transmitter capability to its Tier 1 customers. The company said its tunable transmitter assembly (TTA) will meet price points that enable cost-effective deployment of 40Gbps transmission in metro networks. The TTA has been demonstrated in the Bookham Caswell, UK, facility using cascaded DWDM nodes to reproduce real network conditions, and will be sampled into customer premises next month.The Bookham 40 Gbps portfolio of products utilizes the Optical Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying...

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Verizon Business Offers NAC for Enterprise Security

Verizon Business is using its worldwide professional and managed service capabilities to help customers deploy and manage Network Access Control (NAC). The technology helps boost network security by allowing only authorized users and compliant devices to access a company's extended network. With intelligence residing in the network, NAC checks endpoints across all access methods, including local area and wide area networks, wireless connectivity,...

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AT&T Earns Primary Carrier Status at Boeing

The Boeing Company has selected AT&T to be its primary telecommunications provider. The contract , which is valued at more than $400 million over five years, calls for AT&T to provide advanced network and wireless services to help Boeing enhance its business processes and increase productivity. AT&T will consolidate existing, disparate telecommunications networks into one ubiquitous, Internet Protocol (IP)-enabled voice and data network...

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GSA Migrates from IPv4 to IPv6 with Level 3

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has migrated its IPv4 network, to IPv6 with the help of Level 3 Communications. GSA is the first civilian agency to be in compliance with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandate to utilize the next generation IPv6 network."Due to the size and scale of the Level 3 network, our company has been a leader in the development, adoption and deployment of new standards, and we intend to follow a similar path with regard to IPv6," said Edward Morche, general manager of Level 3's Federal segment....

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British Prime Minister's Office to Use Brightcove for Video Distribution

Te British Prime Minster's Office will use Brightcove's online video platform to increase the availability of video content through the official government website, http://number10.gov.uk/. As part of this initiative 10 Downing Street will also launch a new website channel, Number10TV, which will provide public access to exclusive video of the Prime Minster's speeches, press conferences, media appearances, and news archives.http://www.brightcove....

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Cisco Completes Acquisition of Pure Networks

Cisco completed its acquisition of Pure Networks, a Seattle-based start-up specializing in home networking-management software. The deal was valued at approximately $120 million.Cisco said the acquisition provides it with a fully integrated line of home-networking-management solutions that will also serve as the foundation for the development of new multimedia-enabled applications, tools and capabilities for consumers to use in an increasingly "connected...

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Ericsson Backs "Enlightened Bangladesh" Wireless Project

Ericsson is launching a pilot project called "Enlightened Bangladesh" to demonstrate how to improve productivity and quality of life in the country with the use of high-speed internet services through 3G/HSPA technology. Bangladesh currently has an estimated 43 million mobile subscribers. The pioneering project, called Alokito Bangladesh (Enlightened Bangladesh), will demonstrate high-speed internet access and a range of advanced services - including...

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Tektronix Joins LSTI for Trial Testing in LTE Mobile Broadband Systems

Tektronix Communications announced its participation in the Long Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution (LTE/SAE) Trial Initiative (LSTI), a global, collaborative technology trial initiative focused on accelerating the availability of commercial and interoperable next generation LTE mobile broadband systems. The LSTI brings together major telecom equipment vendors and operators to drive the development of next-generation, high-performance, mobile broadband networks and 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) LTE and SAE technologies.Tektronix'...

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Bezeq Awards Expansion Order to Veraz

Bezeq, the leading domestic, international telecommunications provider in Israel, awarded an expansion order to Veraz Networks for continued migration of voice traffic off its legacy TDM tandem network and onto an IP backbone. The order builds upon an existing deployment of Veraz's ControlSwitch and the I-Gate 4000 family of media gateways. Financial terms were not disclosed.Bezeq initially deployed Veraz's ControlSwitch to support local number portability (LNP) and mobile number portability (MNP) services. Now, Bezeq will expand the use of...

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