LSI To Purchase AMCC 3ware RAID Adapter Business

LSI Corporation has agreed to acquire the assets and certain associated intellectual property of the 3ware RAID adapter business of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) for approximately $20 million in cash. 3ware products include SAS and SATA RAID adapters designed to offer cost-effective, high-performance, high-capacity storage solutions for a broad range of applications. 3ware adapters are sold to end users through a worldwide network...

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Tata Teams with Dimension Data on Cisco TelePresence Services

Tata Communications and Dimension Data, the $4.5-billion specialist IT services and solutions provider, have signed an agreement to support the Cisco Systems Telepresence suite of products on a worldwide basis.Dimension Data is one of a few Cisco partners with TelePresence Global Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) status, giving it the skills to sell, design, install, and support Cisco Telepresence in 47 countries. In addition, Dimension Data will...

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Level 3 Announces $220 Million Tranche B Term Loan

Level 3 Communications' Financing division announced commitments from lenders to increase the borrowings under its existing $1.4 billion senior secured credit facility through the creation of a $220 million Tranche B Term Loan.Level 3 Financing will amend and restate its existing senior secured credit facility to include a new $220 million Tranche B Term Loan, which will mature along with the original $1.4 billion term loan on March 13, 2014. Interest...

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Seagate Develops Next-Gen Hard Drives for Digital Video Surveillance

Seagate introduced its SV35.5 Series hard drives for digital video surveillance systems. The Seagate SV35.5 hard drive is built for 24x7 use and offers reliability, performance, capacity, acoustics and power consumption features for the growing video surveillance market.Notably, the hard drive is performance-tuned for 140 MB/s sustained sequential data rates and ATA-7 streaming commands for high-speed transfers, enhanced caching capabilities and...

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Sprint Launches Two New Marketing Campaigns

In two new advertising campaigns, Sprint asks wireless users timely questions and provides the answers. "For the Now Network" campaign they ask, how many people are updating their status on a social networking site during a business meeting from their mobile phone? How many people are responding to an e-mail on their mobile phone? Or how many accidentally hit 'reply all?" And for the value-focused campaign, Sprint wants to know, how will people...

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Vitesse's Gigabit PHY Extends Battery Life for Ethernet Modems

Vitesse Semiconductor unveiled a new small form factor version of its SimpliPHY VSC8641, an IEEE 802.3 compliant Gigabit Ethernet PHY transceiver. The new device is aimed at space conscious consumer electronic designs. It features built-in advanced energy management, cable diagnostic and self-correction features, enabling designers to more efficiently tackle next-generation network deployment in power-sensitive applications such as cable modems...

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Orange Business Services Upgrades AsiaPac Network

Orange Business Services announced a series of enhancement to its next-generation converged IP network in Asia Pacific. Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan, key APAC backbone countries for Orange, are being transformed to a 2.5 Gbps 'ring" while India and Australia are connected by multiple 622 Mbps links. Trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe links have also been upgraded to Gbps levels. Domestic networks in key countries, including India, will reach Gbps level...

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BridgeWave Supplies Gigabit Radios for NJ Hospital

New Jersey-based Holy Name Hospital deployed multiple gigabit wireless links from BridgeWave Communications to extend connectivity to campus buildings. The wireless links deliver uninterrupted gigabit connectivity, even during inclement weather.For this deployment, Holy Name Hospital needed to bring two essential buildings onto the Hospital's LAN, and had previously deployed different low frequency unlicensed wireless technologies. The 2.4 GHz links and subsequently, 5.8 GHz links, provided connectivity, however over time, the reliability of the...

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