Netronome Introduces 10 Gigabit Flow Processing

Netronome Systems released its new line of 10 Gigabit network flow processors aimed at next generation network and security appliances. Such appliances must scale in processing capacity as enterprise networks grow from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps. They will also require greater intelligence, including security processing, application awareness and content inspection. Netronome's network flow processing solutions deliver high-performance packet processing...

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Motorola Adds B-3 Video Server for Adaptive Media Management

Motorola introduced its new B-3 Video Server, designed to address small- to medium-sized streaming sites. The new VOD server, which complements the Motorola B-1 solid-state on demand server, delivers premium support for video on demand (VOD), time-shifted TV, on demand ad insertion, network DVR (nDVR), and other advanced services. Available from early Q2 09, the B-3 scales from several hundred to more than 3,000 streams and can be configured as a standalone server with integrated content library, or as an edge server deployed alongside a B-1 ....

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Verizon Extends Enhanced Financing Options for Large-Business Customers

Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Verizon Business' corporate customers can receive accelerated, or "bonus," depreciation for certain equipment, including voice and data gear, ordered, invoiced and placed into service during 2009. Verizon Credit, Verizon's wholly owned financing subsidiary, will offer qualifying enterprises affordable and flexible financing terms and increased buying power as they look to accelerate their...

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Motorola Offers 4.9GHz Wireless Broadband for Government

Motorola has expanded its Wireless Broadband portfolio with a new Point-to-Point (PTP) 49600 series wireless Ethernet bridge and a Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) 49400 series wireless network access solution that operate in the 4.9 GHz licensed band. The high availability solution is designed to provide public safety agencies and local governments with reliable, robust and secure wireless connectivity. With the PTP 49600 solution, customers can replace costly leased lines while reducing their operating costs or establish ad-hoc connectivity for disaster...

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AT&T To Offer Wireless SmartMetering to Electric Utility Companies

AT&T plans to offer a residential SmartMetering machine to machine (M2M) service to electric utility companies. Specifically, AT&T will partner with SmartSynch, which already has smart grid solutions deployed at more than 100 utilities throughout North America. The solution offers a point-to-point configuration model in which each meter communicates directly with the utility over the AT&T wireless network.Smart grids combine "smart meters",...

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NetQuest Introduces Quad Port NIC for Traffic Off-Load and Processing

NetQuest introduced its Aspen network interface card (NIC) adapter designed to capture, inspect, and forwarded out-of-band SONET/SDH traffic at up to OC48/STM-16.As with all other NICs in the company's PINNICLE family of WAN/LAN NICs, Aspen is designed to optimize the performance of high-speed monitoring platforms by off-loading and pre-processing traffic for more efficient use by the host. Specifically, Aspen provides support for line speeds up...

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Tata to Manage SEACOM Cable Linking East Africa

Tata Communications has become an anchor tenant customer on the privately owned SEACOM cable system, enabling the company to provide fully integrated network services from South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya to its networks in Europe, Asia and India.Another subsidiary company, Tata Communications Transformation Services Limited (TCTS), has been awarded the network administration, operations and maintenance contract of the cable supporting...

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ChaCha Secures $12 Million and Reduces Costs

ChaCha, which offers a free SMS-based mobile search service, wit has closed an equity financing round of $12 million. These investments will provide ChaCha with the additional capital it needs to expand its local and national advertising sales activities, including a newly opened New York office. ChaCha's free mobile answers service leverages human guides to provide answers, for free, to any question, anytime, anywhere. Users don't need a Web-enabled...

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Zhone Renews Credit Facility With Silicon Valley Bank

Zhone Technologies has renewed its credit facility with Silicon Valley Bank. The facility provides working capital financing of up to $20.0 million to support borrowings and letters of credit. Zhone has renewed this facility every year since 2003 on substantially similar terms. http://www.zhone....

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OneChip Photonics Secures $19.5 Million for Integrated FTTH Transceiver

OneChip Photonics, a start-up based in Ottawa, has secured $19.5 million in venture capital financing for its high-performance optical transceivers -- based on monolithic Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) in Indium Phosphide (InP). The company says its breakthrough approach will remove the cost and performance barriers that have been impeding the ubiquitous deployment of FTTH. OneChip Photonics is taking a new approach with its breakthrough PIC...

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Altera Ships Industry's Highest Density Transceiver FPGAs

Altera announced silicon availability of the industry's highest density transceiver FPGA. As the second member of the Altera Stratix IV GX FPGA family to ship, the EP4SGX530 is 60 percent larger than the largest transceiver FPGA on the market. The device offers 530K logic elements (LEs), up to 48 transceivers operating at up to 8.5 Gbps, 20.3 Mbits of RAM and 1,040 embedded multipliers. Stratix IV GX devices target numerous applications in the communications,...

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Korea Exchange Deploys Ciena's Optical Service Delivery

The Korea Exchange (KRX) has deployed Ciena's optical service delivery platforms as part of its data center consolidation efforts. The solutions provide high-performance connectivity in KRX's data center architecture to ensure the delivery of time-sensitive applications and reliable business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) services, while reducing overall network bandwidth consumption. Financial terms were not disclosed.Ciena noted that its optical service delivery solutions use compression and dynamic bandwidth assignment to allow a variety...

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Symmetricom to Supply Timing for Next Gen GPS

Symmetricom has been awarded a contract from ITT Corporation Space Systems Division valued at a minimum of $4 million to supply timing for GPS IIIA, the next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Space System program. Under the award, Symmetricom will deliver its Model 9552 Ovenized Quartz Master Oscillators over three years, including developing, qualifying and delivering flight oscillators for the first two space vehicles.The Model 9552 is a high performance oven-controlled quartz crystal oscillator that produces a highly stable, low noise...

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Vitesse Introduces Transceiver for 10G FTTH

Vitesse Semiconductor introduced a 10 Gbps transceiver integrated circuit (IC) that supports both burst and continuous mode operation required for next-generation 10G-EPON Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) system deployments. The new VSC8479-01 supports both XFI and SFI module interfaces, making it suitable for XFP and SFP+ host applications. It is the first 10G transceiver to meet and exceed the 10G-EPON IEEE P802.3av/D3.0 Draft standard for burst-mode performance. In addition to 10G-EPON system applications, the VSC8479-01 supports data rates ranging...

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ClariPhy Launches Single-Chip CMOS CDR for 10 Gbps Impairments

ClariPhy Communications, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in high speed communications ICs, introduced its 10 Gbps clock and data recovery (CDR) integrated circuit (IC) with maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE). The all-digital single-chip CMOS IC provides electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) of impairments inherent to optical fiber.ClariPhy said MLSE (also referred to as maximum likelihood sequence detection or MLSD) is...

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Zeugma Closes $9 Million for its Service Delivery Router

Zeugma Systems, a start-up based in Vancouver, has closed approximately $9 million as a part of its Series C funding round. This round brings total funding to date to $50 million. The company's flagship Zeugma Services Node (ZSN) is a service delivery router (SDR) that enables service providers to rapidly prototype and launch revenue-generating services. The hardware platform integrates routing, subscriber, and service management in a single chassis...

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AirWalk Introduces 1xEV-DO Enterprise Femtocell

AirWalk Communications, a start-up based in Richardson, Texas, introduced its EdgePoint PRO compact enterprise femtocell.The unit acts as a cellular access point and plugs directly into an existing broadband connection to extend 3G CDMA services for voice and data. The 1xEV-DO EdgePoint PRO has a clustering feature that assures soft handoff between multiple units and the macro network. A single EdgePoint PRO supports up to 28 users with 200mW of...

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