Sun Unveils its Latest Energy-Efficient Datacenter

Sun Microsystems opened its latest energy-efficient datacenter in Broomfield, Colorado. datacenter. The facility incorporates the latest in Sun's portfolio of energy-efficient systems and expertise, including new datacenter design and power and cooling technologies. Sun estimates it will save more than $1 million in electricity costs and 11,000 metric tons of CO2 per year in Broomfield, helping the company reduce its carbon footprint by 6 percent...

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Deutsche Telekom ICSS Launches CDN with Edgecast

Deutsche Telekom's international wholesale division (ICSS) is launching a content delivery network (CDN) service in partnership with EdgeCast Networks. The new service, which delivers both live and on-demand media, is targeted at premium video, audio and content publishers, gaming companies, advertisers or service or hosting provider."The combination of Deutsche Telekom's powerful global network and EdgeCast's cutting edge content delivery technology offers a tremendous value proposition to publishers" says James Segil, President of EdgeCast Networks,...

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Wintegra and PMC-Sierra Team on T1/E1 Transport over Carrier Ethernet

Wintegra introduced its first platform dedicated to Carrier Transport applications that include essential support for the emulation of up to 336 T1/E1 circuits with independent clock domains. Wintegra's new Multi-Service Access Platform includes PMC-Sierra's PM8310 TEMUX 336 framer solution plus its own UFE3 and WinPath2 access processor. The fast deployment of Carrier Ethernet and MPLS networks requires means of transporting SONET and SDH data using pseudo-wires. Wintegra said this can be achieved in two ways, either using one pseudo-wire for...

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T-Mobile USA Teams with Meru for FMC

T-Mobile USA is teaming up with Meru Networks to offer fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) to enterprise customers using unlicensed mobile access (UMA) technology. The solution lets users of T-Mobile GSM/GPRS devices roam between outdoor cellular infrastructures and indoor Wi-Fi networks without interruption to the call. T-Mobile has also joined Meru's WINS (Wireless Interoperability and Network Solutions) Partner Program, and the two companies have...

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ZyXEL Wins Powerline Contract with Chunghwa Telecom

ZyXEL Communications has won the procurement tender of Chunghwa Telecom's Digital Home project. Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) serves over 12.7 million fixed lines throughout Taiwan and connects 4.3 million broadband access customers. ZyXEL has been a frequent winner of CHT's Central Office and Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) tenders including a recent 480,000 port VDSL2 tender. Chunghwa Telecom's MOD (Media-on-Demand) is expected to reach 1.2 to 1.4 million users early next year -- surpassing its first million customers in 2008. Every MOD customer receives...

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Nigeria's ECAS Selects DragonWave for IP Backhaul

ECAS Telecommunications & Systems Ltd., which serves an array of leading network operators, service providers, enterprises, governments and state agencies in Nigeria, has selected DragonWave's the Horizon Compact for IP backhaul of WiMAX, 3.5G, Evolution Data Only (EVDO) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) services in Nigeria. The Horizon Compact -- a single, 9-inch-square all outdoor unit integrating all traditional indoor and outdoor backhaul...

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Motorola to Include Starent's Platform in its LTE Portfolio

Motorola will resell Starent Networks' multimedia core networking solutions as part of the Motorola LTE (Long Term Evolution)/SAE (System Architecture Evolution) portfolio. The Starent Networks products fulfill the functional requirements defined in the SAE or Evolved Packet Core (EPC) standards. The companies said Starent's solutions help smooth migration to LTE for both CDMA 1X/DO-A and GSM/UMTS operators. Mobile operators are looking for solutions...

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Sprint Nextel to Cut 8,000 Jobs

Sprint Nextel will eliminate approximately 8,000 jobs this quarter, a move that is expected to reduce internal and external labor costs by approximately $1.2 billion on an annualized basis. The reduction total includes approximately 850 positions expected to be eliminated under a voluntary separation plan started late last year. The company expects to recognize a charge in excess of $300 million in the first quarter of 2009 for severance and related costs associated with the reduction. Sprint will also suspend its 401(k) match for 2009, extend...

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Ikanos Supplies Gateway Processors and VDSL2 Chipsets in Taiwan

Ikanos Communications' high-performance processors and VDSL2 chipsets have been qualified by Chunghwa Telecom for mass deployment in its next generation network. The Ikanos chipsets will be incorporated into residential gateways supplied by TECOM Co. Ltd. and IP DSLAMs that enable the Chunghwa Telecom's Multimedia-on-Demand (MOD) triple play services across Taiwan. Specifically, Chunghwa Telecom has qualified for use residential gateways that incorporate...

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Reliance Globalcom Extends Ethernet-based FinancialConnect!

Reliance Globalcom has extended its Ethernet-based financial extranet FinancialConnect! to the multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) Chi-X Europe, NASDAQ OMX Europe and BATS Europe. Reliance Globalcom's secure extranet FinancialConnect! provides clients of the MTFs with high-speed, low-latency connectivity to real-time quote and trade information for the pan-European equities market. The Ethernet-based service is delivered of the company's global, fiber-based network. Reliance Globalcom has provided Ethernet connectivity services to BATS electronic...

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Google: Spam levels are up by 156% since November 2008

According to Google and its Postini Message Security network, the volume of global spam traffic has risen by 156% since November 2008, when a large source of the world's spam, the McColo network, was taken offline. Some other trends, noted in the Google blog entry:Spam volume peaked in April 2008Spam has not yet recovered to its November 2008 but may do so soonDuring the second half of 2008, virus volume increased six-fold from the first half of the year. http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/01/2008-year-in-spam.h...

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Senate Approves Delay in DTV Transition to June 12

The U.S. Senate voted to approve a delay to push back the mandatory transition to digital TV from February 17 to June 12. The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee is expected to consider a similar bill later this week. http://www.senate....

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TI reports Q4 Results, Cuts Jobs by 12%

Texas Instruments reported Q4 2008 revenue of $2.49 billion, net income of $107 million and earnings per share (EPS) of $0.08. These financial results include restructuring charges of $0.13 per share. Without the charges, EPS would have been $0.21, considerably better than the company's mid-quarter expectations. TI also announced that it will cut its employment level by 12% through 1800 layoffs and 1600 voluntary retirements and departures. Charges...

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