Ofidium Raises Funding for 100 Gbps OFDM

Ofidium, a start-up based in Melbourne, Australia, secured A$6 million Series A and outlined plans to commercialize its unique optical OFDM technology capable of 100 Gbps transmissions. The venture funding came from Starfish Ventures. Ofidium said its patented optical OFDM technology, which was pioneered by Professors Jean Armstrong and Arthur Lowery of Monash University, provides highly cost-efficient capacity growth for new optical fiber, and dramatic performance improvements for existing network infrastructure. OFDM is the dominant technology...

Read More

France Telecom Posts EUR 53.5 billion in 2008 Revenue, 182.3 Million Accesses

France Telecom Group reported EUR 53.5 billion in 2008 revenue, a 2.9% growth for the year on a comparable basis. However, growth in Q4 slowed to 1.7% on the deteriorating economic conditions. Looking ahead to the rest of the year, France Telecom believes growth in its revenues should, as in 2008, be greater than the average GDP (gross domestic product) trend within the Group's footprint.As of the beginning of 2009, the total number of customers...

Read More

Codenomicon Identifies XML Vulnerability and Robustness Issues

Codenomicon, which specializes in protocol robustness and security test solutions, has introduced an XML testing product the identifies security weaknesses in products that leverage XML technology.Codenomicon's XML solution pro-actively diagnoses currently unknown-vulnerabilities, as opposed to screening for already known-vulnerabilities which are much less valuable to a hostile third party. Codenomicon said that vendors of XML-based products have had little opportunity to find and fix the unknown-vulnerabilities which can lead to security issues...

Read More

Dell'Oro: Cisco Losing Routing Market Share

The worldwide demand for service provider routers declined in the fourth quarter of 2008, the second consecutive quarter of contraction, according to a newly published report by Dell'Oro Group. The report highlights the performance of the major manufacturers of service provider routers, the critical technology used in the Internet infrastructure."Cisco's router sales have contracted faster than most of the other competitors, and their market share has taken a hit," said Shin Umeda, Vice President at Dell'Oro Group. "Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper, Huawei,...

Read More

Tundra Semiconductor Reports Results within Guidance

Tundra Semiconductor reported revenue of $14.6 million for its third quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended February 1, 2009. The figure was comprised of $14.1 million in product revenue and $0.5 million in services revenue. The Communications market segment generated $8.0 million in the third quarter and the Computing/Storage market segment generated $6.1 million. Tundra said the its products business performed beyond its expectations in the quarter and was positively impacted by foreign exchange. Design Services revenue was significantly lower...

Read More

YouTube Surpasses 100 Million U.S. Viewers

U.S. Internet users viewed 14.8 billion online videos during January 2009, representing an increase of 4 percent versus December 2008, according to comScore. YouTube led the growth charge, accounting for 91 percent of the incremental gain in the number of videos viewed versus December, as it surpassed 100 million viewers for the first time.In January, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with 6.4 billion videos viewed (43...

Read More

Orange Outlines 2012 Transformational Strategy

Building on its NExT strategy launched in 2005 to transform itself into an integrated communications services provider, France-Telecom unveiled a new "Orange 2012" strategy to compete in a rapidly changing market and uncertain macroeconomic conditions.The Orange 2012 initiatives are focused around three priorities:Simplifying the customer experience -- helping customers address the profusion of technologies and provide accessible services to as...

Read More

Hutchison Reaches 12 Million Mobile Users, Growth in Indonesia

Driven by the strong growth in total customer base and increased revenue contributions from established operations in Hong Kong and Israel, Hutchison Telecommunications reported an increase of over 16% in total turnover to approximately HK$24 billion and an increase of 16.8% in EBITDA to HK$6,138 million. EBITDA margin for the full year 2008 trended up slightly to 25.9% while operating profit, on a like-for-like basis and after excluding several...

Read More

Deutsche Telekom Selects ECI Telecom for NGF Project

Deutsche Telekom has selected ECI Telecom to participate in its Next-Generation Factory (NGF) initiative for PSTN -- all IP substitution. The NGF project will upgrade DT's network from circuit-switched to IP-based, improving performance and reducing network complexity. It will also simplify the carrier's network architecture, integrate the several platforms being used now, and provide the flexibility necessary for new services through common service capabilities. Specifically, ECI will be supplying DT its Hi-FOCuST MSAN (Multi-Service Access...

Read More

Ixia Scales VoIP Testing to One Million Concurrent Endpoints

Ixia's has scaled its IxLoad Voice testing platform to emulate 1 million SIP- and RTP-based endpoints per chassis -- five times the capacity of its nearest competing product. IxLoad tests VoIP network components, including IP-based PBXs, softswitches, call managers, session border controllers, and media gateways, using scenarios involving multiple voice protocols, complex calling sequences, and triple-play mixes of voice, video and data traffic....

Read More

Indonesia's Telkomsel Picks Ericsson

Ericsson was awarded a three-year frame agreement with Indonesia's leading mobile operator, Telekomunikasi Selular Indonesia (Telkomsel), to supply, deploy and integrate GSM/EDGE and WCDMA/HSPA radio access networks (RAN) in Indonesia. Ericsson has been a key supplier to Telkomsel since 1995 and was recently selected to supply Telkomsel's combined (2G and 3G) circuit core network using mobile softswitch technology.http://www.ericsson....

Read More

Verizon New Standards and Energy-Measurement Guide for Infrastructure

Verizon has established a website that outlines its efforts to conserve energy in the communications network.In remarks prepared for the Broadband Forum, a worldwide organization that promotes broadband issues and energy efficiency and conservation in broadband technologies, Chuck Graff, Verizon's director of corporate and network technology, said the initiatives include implementing strict standards governing the energy efficiency of new network equipment ordered by the company; making greater use of fuel cells; and testing geothermal heating...

Read More