Vidyo, a start-up based in Hackensack, New Jersey, announced a $25 million Series C round of financing to support is personal telepresence solutions.
Vidyo enables multi-point videoconferences on desktop computers and room systems over the Internet and wireless networks Its patented VidyoRouter architecture delivers H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) that eliminates an MCU while delivering high error resilience and low latency.
The new funding brings the total amount of capital raised by the company to $63 million since its founding in 2005. All existing investors, Menlo Ventures, Rho Ventures, Seven-Rosen Funds and Star Ventures, participated in the round, which was led by Four Rivers Group.
http://www.vidyo.com
Vidyo enables multi-point videoconferences on desktop computers and room systems over the Internet and wireless networks Its patented VidyoRouter architecture delivers H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) that eliminates an MCU while delivering high error resilience and low latency.
The new funding brings the total amount of capital raised by the company to $63 million since its founding in 2005. All existing investors, Menlo Ventures, Rho Ventures, Seven-Rosen Funds and Star Ventures, participated in the round, which was led by Four Rivers Group.
http://www.vidyo.com
- Vidyo is headed by Ofer Shapiro (CEO and co-founder), who previously spent eight years at RADVISION where he was responsible for the development of the first IP video conferencing bridge and gatekeeper technology. Ofer was also a contributor and one of the editors of the H.323 standard. Vidyo's other co-founder is Dr. Alex Eleftheriadis (Chief Scientist), who was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He holds 12 patents, has served as the Editor of the MPEG-4 Systems specification, and is currently co-editor of the H.264 SVC Conformance specification.
demonstrated a range of technology advances at last month's Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) in San Diego, California, including higher-order modulation techniques, use of multi-stage algorithms and increased spectral efficiencies that enable the transmission of significantly higher bit rates over increasingly longer distances. The optical transmission technologies demonstrated by Bell Labs were presented in a series of juried research papers reviewed in rigorous evaluation process and accepted by the OFC program committee. Alcatel-Lucent highlighted the following items:
and ZTE have completed a TD-LTE indoor MIMO networking performance test in Beijing. The test yielded TD-LTE performance evaluation data on indoor single/dual path cell throughput. The testing also produced data for indoor multi-UE circumstances. Performance results were not disclosed.
said the goal of this experiment was to evaluate construction of indoor LTE distribution systems, including whether a two-path system can achieve significantly better performance than a single path system under different scenarios and user distributions. The testing found that, under diversified testing circumstances, a TD-LTE two-path indoor distribution system downlink throughput does show dramatic improvements compared with single path indoor distribution system. 
have enacted a reciprocal Wi-Fi roaming agreement that takes effect today. NTT Com HOTSPOT customers are able to use some 70 Boingo wireless local area network (WLAN) access points for data roaming in airports and other locations of the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, while Boingo retail customers visiting Japan gain access to NTT Com HOTSPOT WLAN access points, both beginning April 1. In Japan, Boingo retail customers can roam NTT Com's broad nationwide WLAN network covering hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, airports, train stations and even selected railcars on major business routes.
teamed up to deliver the Managed Data Vault - a new private cloud service that provides secure, quick and reliable daily backups, and fast recovery of enterprise information. The service will automatically transfer data from a client location to a specially designed off-site data center via Verizon's secure high-speed private network. IBM supplies backup infrastructure and management capabilities. The service is aimed at the financial, retail and health care services markets.
a new line of home WiFi routers aimed at simplifying the set-up of home networks. A USB thumb drive is provided to automate the configuration of the network. Valet also provides new levels of parental controls, as well as guest access. Pricing starts at $99.
reported sales revenue of CNY 149.1 billion (approx. US$21.82 billion) worldwide for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, with a 19% rise year on year. Net profit was CNY 18.3 billion, with a net profit margin of 12.2%; it had CNY 21.7 billion net cash flow from operating activities. The company held CNY 29.2 billion (approx US$427 billion) in cash as of December 31, 2009.
Ericsson will expand and upgrade Airtel's network in 15 of India's 22 telecom circles. Under the deal, Ericsson will supply its 2G/2.5G radio base stations, circuit and packet core, microwave transmission and Intelligent Network. In addition, Ericsson will ensure that Bharti Airtel's core and transport network is 3G-ready in order to reduce time to market and enable the fast rollout of 3G services at a later date.
The acquisition includes the transfer of important GSM business with North American operators and further strengthens Ericsson's ability to serve North America's leading wireless operators. More than 350 employees from Nortel will be integrated in the Ericsson group over the coming months. The deal was first announced in November 2009.
which specializes in enterprise wireless LAN solutions, soared 28% in their first day of trading on Nasdaq (MERU). The company offered 4,386,784 common shares at a price to the public of $15.00 per share. Trading on Wednesday closed at $19.17.
The Sprint Free Guarantee gives any customer opening a new line of service the chance to try Sprint for 30 days. If a customer isn't completely satisfied, they can get reimbursed for the device purchase and activation fee, get the early termination fee waived, get a full refund for service plan monthly recurring charges incurred and get all associated taxes and Sprint surcharges associated with these charges waived. In addition, Sprint will waive the restocking fee for new customer exchanges as part of this policy.
All regions delivered double-digit revenue growth over the same fiscal year 2009 quarter, except China. Total revenue in our China based operations was down 1.3 percent from the same prior year period, primarily the result of a 77.9 percent decline in sales to Huawei, which were $12.4 million in the quarter. China direct sales were $165.9 million in the quarter, a 29.7 percent increase over the corresponding prior year period.
has entered into a partnership with Amdocs to deliver mobile device support that is integrated with Amdocs CES customer management solutions. This enables customer-care organizations within mobile operators to have full real-time device visibility and access to critical subscriber and device information from one central customer care console. With this combined solution, mobile device visibility and diagnostics is seamlessly integrated into the workflow of the Amdocs customer management solution.
has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to upgrade its 3G radio network to HSPA+, in preparation for the next generation of mobile communications. 
NSN said its platform was chosen for its high degree of modularity and because it is based on a common hardware platform, which saves staff training time and OPEX, and reduces the number of spare parts needed to be stocked. Financial terms were not disclosed.
By the end of 2009, the number of ADSL and FTTx subscriptions with a service speed greater than 8 Mbps reached 2.0 million, representing 46.8% of total broadband subscribers, compared to 36.9% at the end of 2008.
(HVE9100/HVD9100) with a new "super-low latency mode" that achieves a rating of 100 ms for 1080i 29.97 meda -- a new world-class result for low bit rate AVC/H.264 encoding, according to the company. This mode also supports audio compression, substantially reducing the delay perceivable in interactive video communication during live broadcasts and remote operation of fixed cameras.
SkyTerra is building two new satellites for a next generation ancillary terrestrial network, which will offer ubiquitous mobile + satellite communications across North America for public safety, homeland security, aviation, transportation and entertainment. Dual-Mode handsets would work on both 700 MHz public safety terrestrial networks and on satellites when terrestrial networks are unavailable or inaccessible. The first of two SkyTerra next-generation satellites is planned for launch this year.
began trading as an independent company on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker CW. Cable&Wireless Worldwide provides managed voice, data and IP-based services and applications to large corporates, multinational companies, governments, carrier customers and resellers across the UK and around the globe. It operates an extensive fibre network across the UK, as well as a multiservice NGN with connectivity to 153 countries. 
The iTest App Store adds new capabilities as well as eliminates the need to re-create test assets, increasing productivity and accelerating the overall time to market.
This will enables SMBs who are still using legacy TDM PBXs and Key-Systems to direct their outbound calls to mobile phones and landlines around the world through Skype. It will also allow them to receive inbound calls from Skype users.
