Sigma Designs Acquires CopperGate

Sigma Designs completed its previously-announced acquisition of CopperGate Communications. Under the deal, which was first announced in October, Sigma has acquired all of the outstanding share capital of CopperGate for a cash payment of approximately $116 million and the issuance to CopperGate shareholders of an aggregate of approximately 3.9 million shares of Sigma common stock. Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, Sigma also assumed outstanding unvested options held by CopperGate employees and agreed to make an additional cash payment...

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BT Revenue Falls 3%, Further Cost Savings Planned

BT reported quarterly revenue of 5,122 million pounds, down 3%, or 6% excluding foreign exchange movements and acquisitions. Adjusted EBITDA was 1,436 million pounds, up 2% reflecting progress in all lines of business. The company upgraded its financial outlook for 2009/10 -- it now expects revenues to decline by 3-4% annually compared to previous guidance of 4-5%. BT now forecasts capital spending to be $2.6 billion pounds compared to an earlier...

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Lockheed Martin Forms Cyber Security Technology Alliance

Lockheed Martin has established a new cyber security technology alliance in partnership with APC by Schneider Electric, CA, Cisco, Dell, EMC Corporation and its RSA security division, HP, Intel, Juniper Networks, McAfee, Microsoft, NetApp, Symantec and VMware.The alliance members have agreed to collaborate on solutions that can help provide early threat detection, protection, and multi-layer autonomic self-healing capabilities to solve customers' hard problems and meet future challenges.The technology partners will be engaged in customer-focused...

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Bell Canada Adds Wireless and Video Subscribers

BCE reported quarterly revenue and EBITDA growth in line with its increased financial guidance; healthy free cash flow; an increase in net earnings applicable to common shares to $558 million, or $0.72 per share, this quarter compared to $248 million, or $0.31 per share, in Q3 2008; and strong wireless and video net subscriber activations. Bell's operating revenues increased by 1.2% this quarter, to $3,788 million, as higher product revenues from...

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Qualcomm Pushes Gigahertz Processing to Smartphones

Qualcomm began sampling a new smartphone chipset family that pushes gigahertz processing performance, enabling smartphone multimedia performance.The MSM7x30 family of chipsets, which includes the MSM7230 solution for HSPA+ networks and MSM7630 solution with multi-mode HSPA+/EV-DO Rev. B and SV-DO support, promises optimal data throughput and powerful multimedia functionality. The 7x30 has the same market-leading Scorpion CPU as previously commercialized in the Snapdragon QSD8x50 chipset. The 7x30 uses an 800 MHz to 1 GHz custom superscalar CPU...

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Qualcomm Samples Dual-carrier HSPA+ and Multi-Mode 3G/LTE Chips

Qualcomm is sampling the industry's first chipsets for dual-carrier HSPA+ and multi-mode 3G/LTE. Qualcomm's MDM8220 dual-carrier HSPA+ solution, based on the 3GPP Release 8 standard, provides peak downlink data rates of up to 42 Mbps and 11 Mbps on the uplink, allowing carriers to upgrade their existing infrastructure equipment to achieve significantly higher bandwidths. Its dual-carrier technology doubles networks' bandwidth from 5 MHz to 10 MHz...

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AT&T to Provide Wireless Data for United Road Services

AT&T was awarded a five-year, $2.6 million contract to provide wireless data services and applications to United Road Services, which operates nearly 1,100 tractor-trailer trucks across the U.S. Using a custom application and AT&T's 3G network, United Road's entire fleet will be able to directly connect and view daily business processes and measure its efficiency. United Road will also have access to AT&T's mobility billing platform....

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Deutsche Telekom Appoints Alcatel-Lucent Exec as CTO

Deutsche Telekom appointed Olivier Baujard as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In this function he we be in charge of technology for the entire DT Group and report directly to Hamid Akhavan, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Board Member of Deutsche Telekom.Prior to joining Deutsche Telekom, Olivier Baujard worked for Alcatel-Lucent in Paris since 1988. He was Chief Technology Officer at Alcatel from 2005-2008. As of 2008, he additionally took over the role as chairman and CEO at Alcatel-Lucent France. http://www.telekom....

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Vodafone and Chunghwa Telecom Announce Partnership

Vodafone and Chunghwa Telecom, the leading telecom operator in Taiwan, signed a non-equity Partner Market agreement to provide customers with high quality communications services and enhanced roaming arrangements. Under the deal, Chunghwa has exclusive access to a range of products, services and devices from Vodafone in Taiwan. Chunghwa will also be able to draw on Vodafone's experience in supply chain management, technology development, the acquisition...

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Vietnam's VMS MobiFone Picks NSN for 3G Upgrade

Vietnam's VMS MobiFone has awarded contracts to Nokia Siemens Networks to modernize its network to 3G. The upgrade covers the packet switched core network and the IP backbone. Nokia Siemens Networks will design and maintain the network using its remote delivery capabilities, and upgrade the operator's existing radio access network to 3G using it energy-efficient Flexi Multiradio Base Station. In addition, Nokia Siemens Networks' multi-technology...

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Fujitsu's FLASHWAVE 7120 Deployed for SCinet WAN

Fujitsu Network Communications' FLASHWAVE 7120 wavelength services access platform will be deployed to support the SCinet Wide Area Network (WAN) at the upcoming SC09 conference, which focuses on high-performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis. The FLASHWAVE 7120 system is a combination access WDM and intelligent edge service delivery platform. Two FLASHWAVE 7120 nodes will be located at local Oregon Points of Presence (POPs) to transmit data to the SCinet WAN network at the Oregon Convention Center. A third node will be on...

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Zhone Supplies Access Platform for Etisalat's GPON Rollout in UAE

Etisalat has selected Zhone's new MXK intelligent terabit access concentrator for its major FTTx network expansion in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Etisalat's plans include GPON installations to provide broadband and a full suite of consumer voice and enhanced video services to its residential subscribers. The company will also use GPON on the MXK platform to provide a suite of sophisticated services, including advanced call processing and ultra...

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Europe's Interoute Reports Rapid Growth

Interoute Communications, which operates a pan-European fiber network, announced EBITDA of €22.7m for the first six months of 2009, a 155% increase over 2008. Despite the deep recession that has seen a decline in growth for many operators in the telecommunications industry, Interoute has increased its revenues by eleven per cent during January to June 2009 to report €129m. Commenting on the results Gareth Williams, Interoute CEO, said, "We are particularly proud to have taken Interoute to operational profitability during this global recession at...

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Hurricane Electric Establishes POP in Equinix Tokyo, Zurich

Hurricane Electric, which offers colocation facilities operates an IPv6 backbone, will extend its points-of-presence to additional Equinix International Business Exchange data centers outside of the United States. The expansion to Equinix's Toyko-2 (TY2), Hong Kong-1 (HK1) and Zurich-1 (ZH1) centers will enable Hurricane Electric to improve fault tolerance, load balancing and congestion management infrastructure capabilities for the delivery of next-generation IP access services. It will also enable Equinix customers to directly exchange IP traffic,...

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Meru Networks Expands Executive Team

Meru Networks announced the appointment of Ram Appalaraju as senior vice president of marketing and Glenn Cross as senior vice president of worldwide sales.Ram Appalaraju comes to Meru from Isilon Systems where he was vice president of marketing. Appalaraju has also held vice president positions at Azul Systems and Hewlett Packard. Most recently Glenn Cross was senior vice president of global sales for Secure Computing, which was acquired by McAffee in 2008. At Secure Computing, Cross managed the global sales force and revamped the field marketing...

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