One Minute Video: Evolved Packet Core

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One Minute Video: Application-assured Business VPNs

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One Minute Video: Stepping Up Ethernet

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One Minute Video: Beamforming

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Alcatel-Lucent's LGS Wins Prime Contractor Spot on GSA's Alliant Contract

LGS, the subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent dedicated to serving the U.S. government community, has won a prime contractor spot on the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Alliant Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC). LGS was one of 59 companies selected to compete for projects under the Alliant contract, which has a ceiling of US$50 billion.As a government-wide acquisition contract, Alliant offers a way for both civilian and Department of Defense agencies worldwide to purchase all components of integrated Information Technology (IT) solutions...

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Hurricane Electric Interconnects with 400+ IPv6 Networks

Hurricane Electric, which provides colocation and IPv6 Internet backbone services, announced that its network now connects with over 400 IPv6 networks. The company said it has quickly surpassed its Q3 2008 IPv6 peering milestone, increasing its number of connected networks by 33%. "It's only a matter of time before IPv4 address space runs out completely," said Mike Leber, president of Hurricane Electric. "We're doing our part to ensure the smooth transition to the inevitable IPv6 Internet."In addition to their network growth, Hurricane Electric...

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Solera Networks Raises $7 Million for Network Forensics

Solera Networks, a start-up based in Utah, has raised an additional $7 million in Series B venture funding for its network forensics software solutions.Solera Networks has made significant advancements in high-speed network forensics solutions for both virtual and physical networks, including technology to capture, index, search, and replay all network traffic. Solera Networks' flagship product is the DS Series, a line of high-performance network forensics appliances, including software-only virtual appliances that capture, record, search and archive...

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Orange Business Services Partners with Indonesia's PT Telekomunikasi

Orange Business Services and PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (TELKOM), Indonesia's leading telecommunications and network services provider, announced a partnership to provide advanced network services including IP VPN to Indonesian and multinational enterprises in the country. At the same time, Orange also appointed TELKOM as a distributor of its global network services to meet the needs of TELKOM customers who are expanding in international markets."As the principal provider of telecommunications services in Indonesia, TELKOM is focused on expanding...

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Xilinx Announces Restructuring, Job Cuts

Xilinx expects to reduce its global workforce by up to 200 positions, or 6%, resulting in a pre-tax charge of approximately $11 to $13 million in the June quarter primarily related to severance pay expenses. Additionally, Xilinx is implementing other short-term cost savings including executive salary reductions and a broad-based employee salary freeze. Over the longer term, the company expects to implement further supply chain efficiencies. This is expected to result in changes to the structure and location of certain global operations, which...

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Tellabs Partners with KGP Logistics

Tellabs is partnering with supply chain specialist KGP Logistics to increase solution availability to Independent Operating Companies (IOCs) in North America. Tellabs said this partnership enables it to focus on what it does best: creating innovative technology solutions to help service providers succeed. IOCs provide telephone, Internet, business, wireless and other telecom services in defined rural and suburban areas.KGP plans combine the Tellabs 1000 Multiservice Access Platform with a full range of equipment sourcing, logistics, deployment...

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Deutsche Telekom's "Rain of Flowers" Marketing Campaign

Deutsche Telekom is covering the Berlin television tower at Alexanderplatz with the "longest love message in the world" as part of a new "Rain of Flowers" marketing campaign."With its brand promise 'Life is for sharing', Deutsche Telekom wants to help those who want to share special moments with others," explained Hans-Christian Schwingen, Head of Brand Strategy and Marketing Communication.During the FIFA World Cup in 2006, DT transformed the sphere...

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Alcatel-Lucent Launches Web Services Gateway Release 3.0

Alcatel-Lucent announced Release 3.0 of its OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway (WSG), a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) appliance that lets enterprises and service providers deliver an open and secure Web services environment for their customers' business-to-business transactions and Web 2.0 services. Protected by the Web Services Gateway, a service provider could allow an entertainment company, for example, to provide its movie schedule information...

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Alcatel-Lucent Releases New OmniSwitch OS

Alcatel-Lucent released a new version of its OmniSwitch OS with various security enhancements. The Alcatel-Lucent Operating System 6.3.4 release expands the OmniSwitches security features set enabling: The network to evaluate and enforce endpoint device health: With the CyberGatekeeper Host Integrity Check agent now integrated into the OmniSwitch, it will restrict end-user access to remediation servers only.The creation of easily defined "user profiles" mapped to network and security policies: This allows an IT manager to set user profiles based...

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Telefónica and Nokia Partner to Mobilize Education in Latin America

Telefónica and Nokia have signed a strategic agreement to bring educational content to remote schools in Latin America through the use of mobile technology. The agreement will help expand the current scope of Telefónica Foundation's "Proniño" and "Educared" social programs. The first implementation is planned for Chile, where Telefonica's mobile broadband and Nokia's mobile software will enable isolated schools to have access to high quality educational...

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Verizon Business 2009 Data Breach Study Finds Significant Rise in Targeted Attacks

More electronic records were breached in 2008 than the previous four years combined, fueled by a targeting of the financial services industry and a strong involvement of organized crime, according to the "2009 Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report" (DBIR) released this week.This second annual study -- based on data analyzed from Verizon Business' actual caseload comprising 285 million compromised records from 90 confirmed breaches --...

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Crossbeam Unveils 4th Gen Processing Blades for its Security Platform

Crossbeam Systems introduced its fourth-generation application and network processing blades for its X-Series Next Generation Security Platform aimed at carrier and large enterprise networks. The X-Series platform delivers deep packet processing at "real world" rates of 40 Gbps with low-latency, enabling high-touch security services. Processors on the new blades provide more than double the performance of the previous generation, enabling further...

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