Cisco Reports Sales of $8.2 billion, Down 17% YoY

Cisco reported net sales of $8.2 billion for its third fiscal quarter ending April 25, down 17% year-over-over but ahead of market expectations. Net income (GAAP) was $1.3 billion or $0.23 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $1.8 billion or $0.30 per share. Cisco generated $2 billion in cash in the third quarter, resulting in total cash and investments of $33.6 billion."Cisco delivered solid financial performance despite a challenging global...

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Verizon Provides Its Managers With BlackBerry Access to Operations Systems

Using a new software program developed for BlackBerry smartphones, Verizon has begun providing its customer-service managers with anytime, anywhere access to the company's systems and records that support service delivery. The new program, called iSite, was developed by Verizon's information technology team in order to leverage the power of wireless communications in the management of telecommunications operations.The new software offers views of...

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Verizon Wireless Plans 700 MHz LTE Device Spec Web Conference

Verizon Wireless will host a web conference on May 13th to discuss 700 MHz C-Block LTE Device Specifications. The Web Conference will focus on specifications for wireless devices -- traditional and innovative -- that will run on the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network that Verizon Wireless is building to run on 700 MHz C-Block spectrum. Experts will answer questions and gather feedback from the development community, all with a goal of encouraging transparency, clarity and ease in designing devices to run on the open Verizon Wireless LTE network....

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Ixia and Force10 Build Largest 10 GE Switching Test

Ixia and Force10 Networks are planning the world's largest ever public demonstration of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) traffic switching at next week's Interop show in Las Vegas. Ixia's XM12 chassis and 280 IxYukon 10 GE test ports will be switched through Force10 ExaScale data center optimized core switch/routers - sending and receiving 5.6 terabits per second of traffic. Ixia's IxNetwork 5.40 release will be used to prepare and run the test. IxNetwork's next generation technology increases the scale and performance of Ixia's layer 2/3 testing and enables...

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Orange Business Supplies Telepresence for Zurich Financial

Orange Business Services is supplying telepresence capabilities for Zurich Financial Services to facilitate and to promote global meetings through advanced video conferencing, while significantly reducing travel costs. So far, Orange Business Services has provided seven rooms equipped with large screens and a seating capacity of up to 18 people each. The rooms are situated in Los Angeles, Schaumburg, New York, Mercer Island and Agoura Hills in the...

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Occam Networks Announces First-Quarter 2009 Results

Occam Networks reported Q1 revenue of $19.4 million, compared with revenue of $19.7 million for the same period a year ago, and revenue of $31.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2008.Gross margin for the first quarter was $8.2 million, or 42% of revenue, compared with $8.4 million, or 43% of revenue for the first quarter of 2008. There was a GAAP net loss of $3.0 million, or $0.15 per basic share."During the first quarter, we experienced a continuing slowdown in customer orders," said Bob Howard-Anderson, president and CEO of Occam. "This weakness...

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Towerstream Reports Strong Customer Installations in Q1

Towerstream, a WiMAX provider currently operating in nine U.S. metropolitan areas, reported that first quarter 2009 revenues increased 64% from the first quarter 2008 and increased 6% from the fourth quarter 2008. The company cited a record number of customer installations in first quarter 2009 and said six markets are now generating positive EBITDA and all nine markets collectively are generating positive EBITDA."Our first quarter results were impressive, especially considering the difficult economic environment," said Jeff Thompson, President...

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Wireless Gigabit Alliance Plans 60 GHz In-Home Networking

A new Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance has been formed with the aim of promoting a unified specification for 60 Gigahertz (GHz) wireless technologies that could be used for home multimedia networks. The goal is to allow consumer electronics to communicate without wires at gigabit speeds within a typical room using unlicensed spectrum.Backers of the WiGig Alliance include Atheros Communications, Broadcom, Dell, Intel, LG Electronics, Marvell International LTD., MediaTek, Microsoft, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, and Wilocity.The WiGig...

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Ericsson Supplies GPON in New Delhi

Ericsson has supplied an end-to-end fiber access solution, including its EDA 1500 GPON system, for a 3,000-unit residential complex near New Delhi, Residents are enjoying personalized IPTV in high-definition, video-on-demand and other advanced entertainment services. They can download data content at 100 Mbps and access Wi-Fi in the complex's common areas and gardens. Automated lighting, electricity bill payment and security services are also being made possible with Ericsson's high-speed fiber access solution. Ericsson's broadband access network...

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Utah's UTOPIA Offers 100 Mbps Symmetric Residential Internet

UTOPIA (Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency) has connected its first customer to a 100 Mbps symmetric residential Internet service. Service to the customer, who is located in Layton, Utah, is provided over the UTOPIA network by Idaho-based FuzeCore, one of the service providers on the network. FuzeCore's 100 Mbps service is available for $147.00 a month, and offers a dedicated 100 Mbps downstream and 100 Mbps upstream.The UTOPIA network,...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Boosts its NetAct Management

Nokia Siemens Networks is enhancing its NetAct operations support system (OSS) with end-to-end transport and IP management capability. The aim is to improve operational efficiency by enabling data sharing between different systems and processes across a service provider's whole network, including IP/MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, microwave, optical and access infrastructure.The enhancements to NetAct will also enable management of applications, such as configuration and point-and-click provisioning, that interact across various transport domains and the...

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NSN Partners with EMC on IP Management Solutions

Nokia Siemens Networks and EMC Corporation announced an alliance in advanced IP management for service providers. The co-developed solution promises end-to-end visibility and fault management for both MPLS VPN and IP routing protocol configurations in multi-technology and multi-vendor environments. The solution is based on the mobile network management of Nokia Siemens Networks' NetAct, which will be enhanced with IP domain visibility provided by...

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