Cisco Unveils Nexus & Catalyst Products for Data Centers

Cisco unveiled a number of additions to its Nexus family of switches along with several enhancements to its Catalyst product line. These include:The new Cisco Nexus 7018 joins the Nexus 7000 Series with an 18-Slot Chassis that provides up to 16 I/O module slots supporting up to 512 10Gigabit Ethernet ports to meet the demands of the largest data center deployments. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series supports end-to-end data center connectivity, consolidating...

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ADC Supplies Broadcast Gear for Super Bowl

ADC's connectivity broadcast gear has been deployed in Corplex Inc.'s mobile HD production units, which will support the upcoming Super Bowl in Tampa Florida this week. Specifically, ADC's ProPatch Miniature (PPM) System is deployed in Corplex's Iridium and Zinc HD mobile production vehicles.ADC also announced that its InterReach Fusion in-building cellular solution has been deployed at Tampa's 65,000-seat Raymond James Stadium to support mobile...

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Yankee Group Predicts $1 Trillion Global Connectivity Market by 2012

Despite the overall turmoil in the global economy, the Yankee Group predicts that consumer demand for broadband connectivity experiences will drive a $1 trillion market worldwide in the next five years. Specifically, Yankee Group analysts believe the emergence of the Anywhere Consumer -- a consumer who's able to connect to personalized, interactive content, communities and commerce at any time from anywhere -- will be among the most significant global trends in the next decade. Yankee Group data reveals:The 3.9 billion network connections worldwide...

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Barracuda Acquires Yosemite Technologies for Backup Software

Barracuda Networks, which supplies email and Web security appliances, has acquired Yosemite Technologies, a provider of data backup and disaster recovery solutions. Barracuda has incorporated the Yosemite Backup technology in its Barracuda Backup Service providing complete Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft Windows state backup at no additional charge.In addition to the immediate availability of Barracuda Backup Service with Yosemite Backup, Barracuda Networks has also acquired the full Yosemite Technologies product portfolio, including...

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France's RTE Deploys ECI Telecom's Broadgate Platform

RTE, the electrical transport utility in France, has selected ECI Telecom for a multi-million dollar project to transport mission-critical applications in the carrier's high-voltage power environment. Specifically, ECI's BroadGate platform will contribute to support the RTE's nationwide utility network, Europe's largest, addressing the carrier's unique requirements for high quality of service and carrier-class capabilities in the provisioning of...

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BigBand Delivers 1 GHz Capabilities in BEQ6000 Edge QAM

BigBand Network introduced new capabilities for its BEQ 6000 Edge QAM platform for deep digital transport services delivery. The enhanced edge QAM supports the delivery of switched video (SDV), video on demand (VOD), and broadcast services and can be rapidly deployed in virtually any network frequency range.The enhanced BEQ6000 RF Module covers the entire RF frequency range from 54 MHz to 1GHz, enabling service providers to quickly leverage their extended RF spectrum for SDV, VOD, and broadcast services. To ensure maximum flexibility, the enhanced...

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PMC-Sierra Supplies 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip for HP Smart Array

PMC-Sierra is supplying its PM8011 SRC 8x6G 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (RoC) for the new high-performance Smart Array RAID controller cards from HP. The PMC-Sierra's SRC RoC enables the next-generation 6Gb/s SAS RAID platform to more than double the performance of existing RAID solutions. The device's RoCstar architecture efficiently interconnects all device subsystems, eliminating internal bottlenecks and resource contentions. PMC-Sierra said data center demands for higher computing power, networking bandwidth and support for virtualization applications...

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EMBARQ Selects Alcatel-Lucent for Multivendor Network Maintenance

EMBARQ has selected Alcatel-Lucent as the single point of contact for network maintenance, including Remote Technical Support (RTS) for most of EMBARQ's equipment across the company's 18-state serving area. Total implementation of the service should be completed in the first quarter of this year. Financial terms were not disclosed.Alcatel-Lucent's Multivendor Maintenance solution provides streamlined operations associated with managing different...

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Aricent Develops User Interface for Sprint

Aricent's global innovation arm frog design, along with its communications applications and mobile device practice, partnered closely with Sprint to integrate strategic planning, front-end design, software development and engineering into one concurrent end-to-end process that brought One Click to market in less than 10 months. The Brew-based interface provides a consistent user experience across a range of Sprint's consumer mobile phones.The customizable...

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CenturyTel and EMBARQ Shareholders Approve Merger

Shareholders of CenturyTel and EMBARQ approved all proposals related to the CenturyTel/EMBARQ merger.Combined, CenturyTel and EMBARQ will have an operating presence in 33 states, nearly eight million access lines, approximately two million broadband customers and more than 400,000 video subscribers, based on data as of Sept. 30, 2008. The merger, announced Oct. 27, 2008, is expected to close during the second quarter of 2009 after federal and state...

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Nokia to Acquire bit-side GmbH for Mobile Map Developers

Nokia has acquired bit-side GmbH, a privately owned Berlin-based professional services and software company with 39 employees. Nokia said the bit-side team will strengthen and accelerate its mobile development for Nokia Maps. http://www.nokia....

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Cisco and Dell to Partner on Data Center Solutions

Cisco and Dell have agreed to collaborate on next-generation data center infrastructure solutions. According to the agreement, Dell will add Cisco's Nexus 5020 switches that support both 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) to its Dell Power Edge server and Dell EqualLogic, PowerVault, and Dell/EMC storage solutions. The Cisco and Dell combined solutions offers a unified networking fabric that consolidates LAN, SAN and server cluster network environments into a single high speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric and supports protocols...

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Tellabs Posts Q4 Revenue of $408 Million, Down 13%

Tellabs reported Q4 2008 revenue of $408 million, down 13% from $469 million in the fourth quarter of 2007. For the year 2008, Tellabs revenue totaled $1.7 billion, down 10% from $1.9 billion in 2007. On a GAAP basis, Tellabs earned 3 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2008, up from 1 cent per share in the fourth quarter of 2007. GAAP earnings in the fourth quarter of 2008 were $13 million, up 103% from $6 million in the year-ago quarter. Fourth-quarter 2008 earnings were positively impacted by a tax benefit."Customers continued to choose...

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Cisco Debuts EnergyWise for Catalyst Switches

Cisco unveiled its EnergyWise technology for enabling Cisco Catalyst switches to play a key role in measuring, reporting and reducing electricity consumption across an entire organization, including IP-enabled devices such as phones, laptops and access points along with entire building systems such as lights, elevators, and air conditioning and heating.Cisco EnergyWise will roll out in three phases to improve IT and building system energy utilization:In...

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Bookham and Avanex to Merge

Bookham and Avanex, both leading suppliers of optical networking components, agreed to merge in an all- stock transaction. Avanex shareholders will receive 5.426 shares of Bookham common stock for every share of Avanex common stock and will own approximately 46.75% of the combined company.The combined company, which will offer an extensive portfolio of terminal and line products for the metro and long haul markets, will be led by Alain Couder who...

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Verizon Posts Strong Results, Q4 Revenue up 3.4%

Defying the general economic trends, Verizon Communications reported growing sales of broadband, wireless and strategic business services in the fourth quarter 2008. Strong customer and revenue growth contributed to 43 cents in diluted earnings per share (EPS) in the quarter, compared with 37 cents per share in the fourth quarter 2007. On an adjusted basis (non-GAAP), fourth-quarter 2008 EPS was 61 cents, compared with 62 cents in the fourth quarter...

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