Quantenna Raises $14 Million for its 4X4 MIMO 802.11n Chipsets

Quantenna Communications, a start-up based in Fremont, California, raised $13.85 million in Series C funding for its 4X4 MIMO 802.11n chipsets designed for next gen home networking applications. Quantenna leverages dynamic digital beamforming to deliver very high-speed wireless coverage throughout the whole home for sharing high definition (HD) video and multimedia content between home gateways and TVs. Quantenna's silicon is targeted at devices...

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Qwest's Revenue Declines 7% YoY as Wireless Transition Gets Underway

Qwest Communications reported Q1 revenue in the quarter was $3.2 billion, a decline of 7 percent compared to $3.4 billion in the first quarter of 2008 and a decline of 4 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. In the quarter, net income was $206 million, an increase of 37 percent compared to $150 million for the first quarter of 2008. Earnings per share for the quarter were 12 cents, a 50 percent increase from the first quarter of 2008....

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LSI Posts Q1 Revenue of $482 Million, Down 27% YoY

LSI's first quarter 2009 revenues were $482 million, a 27% decrease year-over-year compared to $661 million reported in the first quarter of 2008, and down 21% sequentially compared to $610 million reported in the fourth quarter of 2008. First quarter 2009 GAAP net loss was $104 million or 16 cents per share, compared to first quarter 2008 GAAP net loss of $14 million or 2 cents per share. First quarter 2009 GAAP results compare to fourth quarter 2008 GAAP net loss of $606 million or 94 cents per share. First quarter 2009 GAAP net loss included...

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Extreme's BlackDiamond Ethernet Switches Gain RUS Certification

Extreme Networks' Ethernet solutions, including its BlackDiamond Ethernet transport switches and certain Summit Series Ethernet switches, are now listed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Telecommunications Program as acceptable for deployment by companies using USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) funding to build networks. http://www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/index.htmhttp://www.extremenetworks....

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Wisconsin's Vernon Telephone Deploys Extreme Carrier Ethernet Switches

Vernon Telephone Cooperative, an independent local exchange carrier servicing customers in southwestern Wisconsin, has selected Extreme Networks' Carrier Ethernet solutions, including its recently announced BlackDiamond 20808, to deliver Triple Play services to its 7,000 customers in nine rural communities. Specifically, Extreme Networks has provided Vernon Telephone Cooperative with BlackDiamond 20808 metro Ethernet transport switches for the core, as well as Summit X450 aggregation switches for the edge. Financial terms were not disclosed.h...

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CP Technologies Releases Portable 3G Wireless Router

CP Technologies introduced a portable 3G wireless router that lets the user share a UMTS, EV-DO, or HSDPA network with any Wi-Fi enabled device. The LevelOne MobileSpot Portable Wireless Hotspot (WBR-3800) provides CardBus slot for inserting a compatible broadband wireless data card. The Mac and PC compatible MobileSpot is 802.11b and 802.11g compliant and offers enhanced security features including WPA, WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK authentication with TKIP/AES...

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China Mobile Takes Stake in Taiwan's Far EasTone

China Mobile will acquire a 12% equity stake in Taiwan-based Far EasTone Telecommunications Co.. Specifically, China Mobile will acquire 444,341,020 new shares of Far EasTone, representing 12% of its enlarged issued share capital, for approximately NT$17.77 bn (approximately HK$4.08 bn) in total or NT$40.00 (approximately HK$9.17) per share. China Mobile and Far EasTone also agreed to cooperate closely in a number of areas, including procurement,...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom Sees 3.6% Revenue Decline

Citing the global economic condition and the increasing market competition, Chunghwa Telecom reported that total revenue for the first quarter of 2009 decreased by 3.6% year-over-year to NT$49.1 billion, of which 26.7% was from fixed-line services, 35.8% was from mobile services, 25.4% was from Internet and data services, and the remainder was mainly from handset sales from Chunghwa's subsidiary SENAO on a consolidated basis.For the mobile business,...

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ARRIS Reports Q1 Revenue of $254 Million

ARRIS expects Q1 2009 revenues of $253.5 million as compared to first quarter 2008 revenues of $273.5 million and as compared to fourth quarter 2008 revenues of $292.4 million. Non-GAAP net income in the first quarter 2009 was $0.18 per diluted share, as compared to the first quarter 2008 of $0.12 per diluted share and the fourth quarter 2008 of $0.25 per diluted share.Order backlog at the end of the first quarter 2009 was $155.0 million and the Company's book to bill ratio in the first quarter was approximately 1.16. This amount compares to order...

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Ixia Offers Testing for Virtualized Data Centers

Ixia announced its expansion into virtual network and virtualization testing. Legacy network resources are straight-forward to isolate, balance and test. However, new virtual infrastructure makes it extremely challenging to isolate the network functions and bottlenecks and data center managers need to evaluate system performance under load. Ixia said its new IxVM product enables data center managers to assess virtual infrastructure performance and capacity. IxVM builds on the company's library of layer 2-7 performance test tools that discover,...

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Sonus Joins Avaya DevConnect Program for SIP Trunks

Sonus Networks has joined the Avaya DevConnect program to accelerate the rapid deployment and use of SIP based IP business trunks. Avaya's program supports the development, compliance-testing and co-marketing of innovative solutions that are compatible with standards-based Avaya solutions. Sonus IP Business Trunks replace legacy TDM voice circuits, making it easier for carriers and enterprises to connect disparate locations, overlay new services and reduce operating costs by eliminating duplicate PRI circuits for voice and data. http://www.sonusnet.com...

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Verizon Business Launches De-Duplication Remote Backup for Corporate Networks

Verizon Business is launching a Remote Backup and Restore managed service for corporate servers and PCs -- without overburdening corporate networks. Using "de-duplication" technology, Verizon's new offering employs "variable block size" analysis, a specialized feature that automatically identifies new data for storage and greatly reduces the amount of data transmitted daily. This eliminates the backup of redundant data, reducing network bandwidth...

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NSN Launches High-Density hiT 7080 Optical Transmission Platform

Nokia Siemens Networks has launched version 4.2 of its hiT 7080 multi-service optical network platform. As a metro/core platform, the hiT 7080 is capable of supporting switching capacities of 40G low order and 340G high order as well as multiple interfaces including: Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and 10G Ethernet connections. In addition, the platform offers a high degree of automation as well as remote management features.With a higher port density than previous versions -- 16 versus eight -- the new hiT 7080 reduces the number of extra cards...

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Aricent and the IMS Forum Offer NGN Testing Resources

Aricent and the IMS Forum have teamed up to launch a new web resource to serve as industry-wide collaborative platform of comprehensive test cases for the validation of IMS and NGN equipment and services.The www.TestNGN.org site offers community-based, open repository for NGN testing that allows network equipment manufacturers and service providers to significantly reduce the time, complexity, and cost required to introduce next generation networks...

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