CounterPath Announces Job Cuts

Vancouver-based CounterPath Corporation announced a restructuring to lower its overall operating costs by approximately $4 million per year. The restructuring includes a reduction in 32% of headcount (approximately 45 employees and contractors) as well as other operational changes that are being implemented to increase the overall efficiency of the company's operations.CounterPath's product suite includes SIP-based softphones, server applications and Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solutions.http://www.counterpath....

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Woven Introduces Top-of-Rack 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Woven Systems, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, introduced a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) top-of-rack switch designed for data centers. The 24-port TRX 200 joins Woven's TRX 100, a 48-port Gigabit Ethernet switch with four 10 GE uplinks, giving customers greater flexibility in configuring either non-blocking or oversubscribed data center networks. Woven said its new TRX 200 sets a new price/performance standard at less than $500 per 10 GE port. The TRX 200 switch is a single rack unit high with 24 SFP+ 10 GE ports that can also function...

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Quantenna Leverages Adaptive Vector Mesh Routing for Better Wi-Fi

Quantenna, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, unveiled its line of 802.11n chipsets featuring 4x4 MIMO and transmit (Tx) beam forming technology for delivering guaranteed wireless bandwidth of up to 1 Gbps anywhere within a home.In Quantenna's design, a single home access point (AP) would communicate via multiple links to relay nodes plugged into electrical outlets throughout the home. Multiple paths would automatically be created and dynamically...

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XO Selects Ciena for Nationwide Ethernet Hubs

XO Communications has deployed Ciena's Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery Switches throughout its metropolitan networks as part of its new Ethernet Hub service, which provides a scalable way for domestic and international carriers to expand the reach of their Ethernet services in the United States.XO has approximately one million miles of metro fiber networks in major markets across the United States and serves 75 metropolitan markets. The new XO...

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Mintera Secures $8 Million Line of Credit

Mintera, a developer of high bit-rate optical transport systems, secured an $8 million revolving line of credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).The company said it is experiencing strong demand for its 40 Gbps Adaptive-DPSK DWDM modules worldwide. Adaptive-DPSK enables the transport of 40 Gbps signals across ultra-long haul distances through Reconfigurable Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs) with 50 GHz spaced signal wavelengths.http://www.mintera....

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AT&T Ships "Quicksilver" USB Modem for 3G/HSPA

AT&T has begun offering a new USB modem for providing access to its 3G/HSPA network. The new USBConnect Quicksilver from Option is the first USB mobile broadband device worldwide to use the Icera Livanto chipset. The device also supports international data roaming in more than 150 countries, with 3G available in more than 60 of those countries.AT&T said users on its U.S. 3G network should expect typical downlink 3G speeds between 700 Kbps...

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Motorola Debuts Krave Touchscreen Flip Phone for Verizon

Verizon Wireless and Motorola introduced the "Krave ZN4", featuring two layers of touch -- on the interactive clear flip outside and the full touch-screen inside -- and supporting V CAST Mobile TV, V CAST Video, V CAST Music with Rhapsody and VZ NavigatorSM services. Key features include:Visual Voice Maila touch-controlled 2.0 megapixel camera. An accelerometer detects the movement when the phone rotates and changes the display for portrait or...

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Atmel, Cisco and Swedish Institute Develop Open Source IPv6 Stack

Atmel , Cisco and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) released an open-source, IPv6-ready protocol stack that could be used to enable a wide array of network-connected devices, including those with severe power or memory constraints. For instance, the IPv6 stack could be used in "Smart" objects powered by sensors and actuators in building automation, industrial monitoring, smart cities and energy management.The open-source "uIPv6" stack...

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Siemens Delivers Mobile UC Client for Blackberry, Symbian and Windows

Siemens Enterprise Communications released its "OpenScape Mobility" suite supporting a variety of unified communications (UC) users regardless of their location. OpenScape Mobility brings together enterprise telephony, video, unified communications, wireless and fixed mobile convergence applications in a single solution based on the Siemens HiPath MobileConnect, HiPath Wireless, and the new OpenScape Enterprise Mobile Client.. The solution is part of the Siemens OpenScape Unified Communications Suite launched earlier this year.OpenScape Mobility...

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Fujitsu Releases IP-9500e MPEG-4 AVC Encoder

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, introduced an enhanced version of its IP-9500e MPEG-4 AVC encoder with new features for HD satellite news gathering (SNG) applications. The revision 3.1 firmware supports full HD video capture over DVB-ASI and IP. The IP-9500 delivers 300-millisecond total latency.http://www.fujitsu....

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One Minute Video: Who is Narus?

One Minute Video presented by Greg Oslan, Na...

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Microsoft Releases Silverlight 2

Microsoft released Silverlight 2, its solution for the creation and delivery of applications and media experiences through a Web browser. Microsoft said Silverlight adoption continues to grow rapidly, with penetration in some countries approaching 50 percent and a growing ecosystem that includes more than 150 partners and tens of thousands of applications. "We launched Silverlight just over a year ago, and already one in four consumers worldwide...

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Microsoft Previews Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2

Microsoft previewed key features in Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (R2), which is currently expected to be released in February 2009.Office Communications Server 2007 R2 aims to extend software-powered voice, particularly for remote and mobile workers; provide on-premise audioconferencing; and introduce new developer advances, including the ability to build communications-enabled business processes. Office Communications Server interoperates with legacy PBX and IP PBXs, allowing customers to transition to the new platform without undergoing...

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