Taiwan's Chunghwa Continues ADSL-to-FTTx Migration

Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom was serving 4.3 million broadband subscribers as of March 31, 2010. There were 1.74 million FTTx subscribers, accounting for 40.4% of Chunghwa's total broadband subscriber base. This compares to 1.64 million FTTx subscribers at the end of the last quarter (Dec 2009). By the end of the first quarter 2010, the number of ADSL and FTTx subscribers with a service speed greater than 8 Mbps reached 2.1 million, representing...

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Two Minute Video: Dispersion Compensation at 40 and 100 Gbps

Presented by Dr. Adell Asseh, Proximionhttp://www.proximion....

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Motorola Achieves 80 Mbps Downlinks in TD-LTE Field Trials with China's MIIT

Motorola has completed the Phase I TD-LTE field trials with China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). This over-the-air (OTA) TD-LTE trial included key functionality, performance and mobility test cases in a multi-sector, multi-site environment that lays a solid foundation for large scale TD-LTE deployment.Motorola noted the following achievements for the trial:High performance with downlink throughput up to 80 MbpsSuccessful...

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Ericsson Outlines TCO2 Framework for Energy Efficiency

Two-thirds of all CO2e emissions associated with network equipment during its lifetime are attributed to its operation, according to a recently published whitepaper from Ericsson.To help operators who are being challenged to respond to growing carbon emissions concerns, volatile fuel prices and potential added costs such as carbon taxes, Ericsson is now offering a TCO2 approach that measures carbon emissions and uses the total-cost-of-ownership methodology....

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Motorola and Opticon Announce Cross Licensing Agreement

Motorola announced a cross license agreement settling all outstanding intellectual property disputes between the two companies and their subsidiaries, including Motorola's subsidiary, Symbol Technologies.Under the cross license agreement, Opticon has taken a royalty bearing license to Motorola's patents in the fields of laser based barcode scanning, imaging based barcode scanning and mobile computing. The specific terms of the settlement are confidential. http://www.motorola....

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Cisco Wins Major Contract with Emirates

The Emirates Group a three-year contract for the purchase of Cisco network support and optimization services to be financed by Cisco Capital in the UAE. Emirates Group has selected Cisco Gold partner Gulf Business Machines (GBM), a leading IT solutions provider in the Middle East fulfilling the IT requirements of local, regional and international organizations in the GCC, to purchase Cisco services and work closely with Cisco to deliver these services...

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China Telecom's Mobile Base Continues Fast Growth as Wireline Declines

China Telecom continues to ramp-up its mobile subscriber base, ending Q1 2010 with 65,450,000 mobile subscribers up by 9.36 million for the quarter. The average mobile service revenue per user per month (ARPU) for the first quarter primarily remained stable, while the average mobile minutes of usage per user per month (MOU) has slightly increased, as compared to that for the full year of last year.However, due to this intensified mobile substitution...

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Microsemi Releases Energy Efficient Power-over-Ethernet

Microsemi introduced highly efficient, single port Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) midspans, featuring lowest power consumption in both no-load and load conditions. Microsemi's new single port midspans offer compact, fully IEEE 802.3af compliant solutions for remotely powering wireless LAN access points, IP security cameras, VoIP phones, access control systems and other low port density installations. The new midspans enable delivery of both data and...

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ADVA Posts Q1 Revenue of EUR 63 Million, up 11% YoY

ADVA Optical Networking reported Q1 2010 revenues of EUR 63.2 million -- above guidance of between EUR 57 million and EUR 62 million -- and up 10.9% compared to a year earlier and up 6.0% compared to the preceding quarter. The IFRS net income amounted to EUR 2.4 million in Q1 2010, after a net loss of EUR 0.5 million in Q1 2009. "We are very pleased with our Q1 2010 revenues of EUR 63.2 million, which exceed guidance and are nicely up 6.0% vs. the previous quarter and 10.9% vs. Q1 2009. This development is largely based on strong Ethernet access...

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Ixia Posts Revenue of $62 Million

Ixia reported total revenue for Q1 2010 of $62.0 million, an increase of 67 percent over $37.1 million reported for the 2009 first quarter and an increase of 11 percent over the $56.1 million reported for the immediately preceding quarter. Revenue for the 2010 first quarter includes $10.1 million attributable to IxN2X sales following the acquisition of Agilent Technologies' N2X Data Network Testing Product line on October 30, 2009 and $9.1 million related to sales of our IxCatapult products following the acquisition of Catapult Communications in...

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France Telecom Q1 Revenues Down 2.7%, FTTH Rollout Planned for 2H

The France Telecom Group reported Q1 2010 revenues of 10.96 billion euros, down 2.7% compared to a year earlier. Excluding the impact of regulatory measures, the company said its decrease would have been 0.3%. EBITDA was 3.76 billion euros, a margin of 34.3%, down 1 point on a comparable basis."The Group again proved its ability to maintain its performance in terms of revenues and profitability against the backdrop of an economic and regulatory...

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Amsterdam Internet Exchange Deploys MRV's LambdaDriver

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), one of the world's largest public Internet exchanges, is deploying MRV Communications' LambdaDriver DWDM equipment.AMS-IX recently moved to a MPLS/VPLS setup to continue to grow beyond the limitations of a pure layer 2 platform, for which larger switches or switches with 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports were not available on the market yet. "Meanwhile, in a few months we will move to a double density blade allowing...

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Amazon Expands its Cloud Services for Asia Pacific

Amazon.com has expanded its cloud computing services for the Asia-Pacific region. Businesses with customers based in Asia can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud. Prior to today, the AWS platform has been available from datacenters in the U.S. and Europe. The first AWS Asia Pacific Region is located in Singapore.Amazon cited several examples of companies using...

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Cisco Highlights its Progress in Cloud Services

Cisco highlighted its progress so far in cloud-based networking services. The company currently operates more than 30 global data centers and claims to have delivered more than seven consecutive years of near 100 percent uptime for its customers. Cisco said its traffic to its cloud security solutions continue to grow rapidly. Every day, these services are currently handling 2.8 billion reputation look-ups, 2.5 billion Web requests and the detection...

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Occam Posts Q1 Revenue of $22 Million

Occam Networks reported Q1 2010 revenue of $22.3 million, compared with $21.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2009 and with $19.4 million for the first quarter of 2009. Gross margin for the first quarter of 2010 was $9.8 million, or 44% of revenue, compared with $8.9 million, or 40% of revenue for the fourth quarter of 2009. Gross margin for the first quarter of 2009 was $8.2 million, or 42% of revenue. There was a GAAP net loss of $610,000 or a net loss of $0.03 per basic share."This quarter marked the shipment of several important new products,"...

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NetLogic and TSMC Collaborate on 28nm Process Tech

NetLogic Microsystems will adopt Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC's) NEXSYS 28HP (28nm high performance) semiconductor process node for its next-generation knowledge-based processors, multi-core processors and 10/40/100Gigabit PHY. As an early development partner, NetLogic Microsystems is using TSMC's 28nm node to raise the networking infrastructure performance bar. NetLogic has development underway for multiple product lines...

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Motorola Posts a Profit on Q1 Sales of $5.0 Billion

Motorola reported sales of $5.0 billion in the first quarter of 2010. The GAAP earnings in the first quarter of 2010 were $69 million, or $0.03 per share, which compares to a GAAP loss from continuing operations of $291 million, or $0.13 per share, in Q1 2009. During the quarter, the company generated positive operating cash flow of $485 million and ended the quarter with a total cash position of $8.5 billion."We continue to execute on our business...

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Sonus Networks Enhances its NBS-9000 Network Border Switch

Sonus Networks announced significant enhancements to its existing NBS-9000, offered as a software upgrade on its proven GSX platform. The enhancements to the NBS-9000 include:Improved Access SBC Functionality: improved security features to monitor and maintain SLAs with individual devices - especially useful in an access SBC environment. In addition, there is increased support for industry standards like SIPConnect and SIP-B that enables NBS-9000 to accommodate diverse SIP implementations from a wide variety of clients, devices and SIP servers....

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Sierra Wireless Posts Revenue of $151 Million, M2M Sales187% YoY

Sierra Wireless reported Q1 2010 revenue of $151.3 million, an increase of 36% compared to $111.4 million in the first quarter of 2009 and an increase of 5% compared to $144.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2009. On a GAAP basis, net loss was $7.5 million, or loss per share of $0.24, compared to a net loss of $23.7 million, or loss per share of $0.76, in the first quarter of 2009. Growth was driven by an increase in Machine-to-Machine (M2M) revenue to $88.7 million, up 187% compared to $30.9 million in first quarter of 2009 and up 15% compared...

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Samsung and NSN Complete TD-LTE Data Call

Samsung and Nokia Siemens Networks announced the world's first TD-LTE data call. The demonstration, which was conducted at Nokia Siemens Networks' R&D Center in Hangzhou, China, used Nokia Siemens Networks' end to end TD-LTE network solution and Samsung's TD-LTE USB dongle.TD-LTE is the variant of LTE for unpaired spectrum expected to be deployed by operators such as China Mobile. http://www.nsn.com http://www.samsung....

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Comcast's Revenue Rises 3.8%, CAPEX Declines 20%

Comcast's overall revenue for Q1 2010 increased 3.8% to $9.2 billion, while Operating Cash Flow increased 3.5% to $3.6 billion. Earnings per Share (EPS) was $0.31, a 14.8% increase from the $0.27 reported in the first quarter of 2009.Capital Expenditures for the first quarter of 2010 declined 20.3% to $925 million, or 10.1% of total revenue, reflecting timing of equipment purchases and improved pricing, partially offset by growth in Comcast Business...

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Sprint Sees Improving Trends, Wireless Base at 48.1 Million

Sprint lost a total of 75,000 net subscribers in Q1 2010, however, the company recorded its best year-over-year improvement in post-paid gross subscriber additions and the highest prepaid gross subscriber additions in five years as it achieved the best total company net subscriber results since the third quarter of 2007. Net post-paid subscriber losses improved year-over-year as the company lost 670,000 fewer subscribers than in the first quarter...

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Corning's Telecom Sales Decline 10% to $364 Million

In its financial report for Q1 2010, Corning noted that telecommunications segment sales were $364 million, a sequential decline of 10% and in line with the company's previous expectations. Year-over-year sales declined 5% in the quarter. Despite the quarterly sales decline, the company saw improved profitability in this segment as it began realizing operational improvements from restructuring actions taken last year. Corning had a telecommunications restructuring charge in last year's fourth quarter.Corning also said that it anticipates its second-quarter...

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eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance Gets Underway

A new eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance has been established to drive innovations in multi-core parallel processing platforms and software development for next-generation enterprise,telecommunications and data center networks. The eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance said it will serves as a foundation upon which original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can more effectively and more efficiently develop high-performance networking equipment using industry-leading...

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Mexico's MetroNet Deploys Metro 10GE MPLS Ring with Orckit-Corrigent

MetroNet, which provides wholesale fiber optic service for telecommunications carriers in Mexico, has deployed a 10GE MPLS metro ring in Mexico using Orckit-Corrigent's CE+T solution. The recently deployed network upgrade enables MetroNet to bring 10G Ethernet with multilayer OAM and protection mechanisms to its "Carrier of Carriers" network. Financial terms were not disclosed.MetroNet is using Orckit-Corrigent's standard and interoperable Layer...

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ESnet Builds GMPLS Optical VPNs with Infinera

ESnet, the high-performance research network operated by the U.S. Department of Energy, is using Infinera's DTN platform to offer optical virtual private networks (OVPNs) to academic and government research institutes. OVPNs will be designed to enable ESnet users to manage their own virtual private network securely over the shared Infinera infrastructure. In addition, the network will be designed to enable OVPN users to dynamically provision circuits...

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Bell Labs Opens Eco-oriented Research Center in Australia

Alcatel-Lucent's research arm, Bell Labs, the University of Melbourne and the Victorian State Government are partnering to establish a research center in Melbourne, Australia that will be devoted to innovation in energy efficient networks and technologies. Specifically, the research will focus on the energy efficiency of network infrastructure elements. Both the University of Melbourne and Bell Labs are members of the GreenTouch initiative, a global,...

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Verizon Launches Data Center Consulting Services

Verizon Business has begun offering new Data Center Consulting Services to help enterprise customers around the globe plan and implement effective data center strategies. Verizon Business' consultants will assist IT departments avoid the potential pitfalls associated with commonly overlooked requirements such as power for heating and cooling, adequate physical and logical security measures, business continuity planning, and the human and capital...

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Verizon Business Opens New Data Center in Hong Kong

Verizon Business has opened a second data center in Hong Kong to enhance its ability to deliver new cloud and data center services in the region while providing direct access to its global network. The new 3,000-square-meter facility, located in the iTech Tower in Tsuen Wan, will feature reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) technology and provide interconnections with the four main local carriers as well as with Verizon's global network, one of the fastest, most expansive and scalable IP networks in the world.Verizon operates...

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Ixia Scales 10GE Testing on IxN2X Platform

Ixia demonstrated its new NGY high-density 10GE load module running on its recently acquired IxN2X platform. This provides a high-density 10GE traffic generation solution with layer 2-7 packet generation, routing emulation, and application testing functionality. The new NGY 10GE hardware uses the same field-proven architecture as Ixia's legacy IxYukon load modules.Ixia said this combination of the N2X line and Ixia hardware reinforces its commitment...

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Aricent Implements Convergent Billing for Nepal Telecom

Nepal Telecom has awarded a three year systems integration contract to Aricent to provide Convergent Mediation and Convergent Interconnect Billing solutions that enable a wide range of next-generation communication services. Aricent will act as the primary systems integrator for Convergent Mediation and Interconnect solutions, offering supply, delivery, installation and commissioning for systems supporting both pre-paid and post-paid customers. ...

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Ikanos' CEO Resigns, Company Updates Financial Guidance

Michael Gulett has resigned as CEO and president and as a member of Ikanos Communications. Diosdado P. Banatao, the chairman of Ikanos' board of directors, has been appointed executive chairman and has assumed the role of interim president and CEO. Banatao has served as the company's Chairman of the board of directors since August 2009, and has served as a managing partner of Tallwood Venture Capital, a venture capital firm, since June 2000. Previously, Banatao served as executive chairman and interim CEO of SiRF Technologies Holdings and as...

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Canada's Mobilicity Outsources 3G Management to Ericsson

Ericsson announced a five-year managed network operations contract with Mobilicity (formerly Data & Audio Visual Enterprises Wireless -- (DAVE Wireless), a new carrier that will soon be entering the Canadian market. Mobilicity holds licenses which cover more than half of Canada's population in 10 of the 13 largest markets including Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa.Mobilicity previously selected Ericsson to design and build its...

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Tellabs Revenue Rises to $380 million, up 5% YoY

Tellabs reported Q1 2010 revenue of $380 million, up 5% from $362 million in the first quarter of 2009.On a GAAP basis, Tellabs earned 12 cents per diluted share in the first quarter of 2010, up from 2 centsper share in the first quarter of 2009. First-quarter 2010 GAAP net earnings were $45.9 million, comparedwith $6.5 million in the year-ago quarter. First-quarter 2010 GAAP net earnings include a $3.4 millionnet tax benefit.Tellabs' GAAP gross profit margin was 50.7% in the first quarter of 2010, compared with 44.2% in theyear-ago quarter. "By...

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Marvell Introduces Energy Efficient Gigabit Ethernet Silicon

Marvell introduced a new Gigabit Ethernet Switch Platform based on its Prestera family of packet processors and Alaska family of Gigabit transceivers and designed to drive down network Ethernet switch power consumption as much as 70 percent while significantly reducing systems cost. Specifically, the new Prestera 98DX3130 Ethernet switch and Alaska 88E1545 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver ICs reduce the energy bill for SMB/SMEs by using Marvell's advanced...

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Broadcom Hits Record Revenue of $1.46 Billion in Q1

Broadcom reported record revenue of $1.46 billion for Q1 2010. This represents an increase in net revenue of 8.9% compared with the $1.34 billion reported for the fourth quarter of 2009 and an increase of 71.3% compared with the $853 million reported for the first quarter of 2009. Net income (GAAP) for the first quarter of 2010 was $210 million, or $.40 per share (diluted), compared with GAAP net income of $59 million, or $.11 per share (diluted),...

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Xilinx Unveils ARM-Based Processing Architecture

Xilinx introduced a new Extensible Processing Platform architecture that leverages ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processors for embedded systems. The Xilinx Extensible Processing Platform presents a processor-centric design and development approach for achieving high compute and processing horsepower required to drive tasks involving high-speed access to real-time inputs, high-performance processing and complex digital signal processing."Today's embedded...

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Ixia offers Energy Efficiency Testing

Ixia has upgraded its iSimCity facility in Santa Clara, California to now provide green IT testing.The testing uses Ixia's IxGreen suite, which has recently been upgraded to include the Telecommunications Energy Efficiency Ratio (TEER) measurement defined by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). http://www.ixiacom.c...

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Conexant Posts Revenue of $62 Million

Conexant reported quarterly revenues of $61.9 million, exceeding the company's financial guidance. GAAP gross margins were 61.1 percent of revenues. GAAP operating expenses were $26.9 million. GAAP net income including discontinued operations was $10.9 million, or $0.15 per diluted share. "During the quarter we completed the financial restructuring of our company, which was one of our highest priorities," Scott Mercer, Conexant's chairman and chief executive officer said. http://www.conexant....

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Mellanox Launches InfiniBand-Ethernet-Fibre Channel Gateway

Mellanox Technologies launched its BridgeX BX5020, an InfiniBand to Ethernet and/or Fibre Channel gateway system in a 1 RU box. The BX5020, in conjunction with ConnectX-2 Adapters, enables Enterprise Data Centers, Cloud and High Performance Computing server clusters to share the same fabric for computing, networking and storage traffic. Mellanox said its new gateway enables InfiniBand's inherent bandwidth and latency performance, QoS, and scalability...

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ZTE Reports Q1 Revenue of US$1.94 Billion, up 14% YoY

ZTE Corporation reported Q1 2010 revenue of RMB 13.26 billion (about US$1.94 billion, up 13.6% from RMB 11.67 billion for the same period last year. The Group reported a net profit of RMB 109.86 million (US$16 million) in the three months ended 31 March 2010, up 39.68% from RMB 78.66 million in the same period last year.The company observed that investments in telecommunications equipment in the domestic market remained stable during the quarter,...

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FCC's Spectrum Task Force Gets Underway

The FCC announced the launch of the Spectrum Task Force under the National Broadband Plan. Julius Knapp, Chief of the Office of Engineering Technology, and Ruth Milkman, Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, will co-chair the cross-agency working group.The Task Force will include the Chiefs of the Enforcement, International, Media, and Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureaus, as well as the Chief of the Office of Strategic Planning...

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Netronome Clocks 200 Gbps of L2-L7 Network Flow Processing

Netronome unveiled its Network Flow Processing Platform, which combines its latest generation of network flow processors with Intel Xeon 5600 CPUs to deliver 200 Gbps of programmable L2-L7 networking performance in compact 1U and 2U form factors.Netronome's heterogeneous multicore processing architecture provides independent layers of workload-optimized packet, flow, security and application processing to dramatically increase network performance....

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Spirent and EANTC Test Cloud Computing Performance

Spirent Communications and the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) demonstrated a dynamic cloud computing test environment that benchmarks the performance, availability, security and scalability (PASS) of private, public and hybrid clouds.Some of the key findings of this test include:Cloud computing service providers are not equal. At different workloads, service providers show different performance levels.Traditional network SLAs have...

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Nokia Debuts N8 SmartPhone

Nokia unveiled its N8 Symbian ^3 smartphone, featuring a multi-touch screen, a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, and the ability to record and play HD-quality video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by plugging into their home theatre system. The Nokia N8 also offers multiple, personalizable homescreens which can be loaded with apps and widgets. Nokia said it is using a new 2D and 3D graphics architecture to deliver a faster and more...

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Actelis Networks Names Vivek Ragavan as CEO

Actelis Networks named Vivek Ragavan as its new CEO and president. Ragavan has previously served as CEO at Atrica and Redback Networks. Other executive positions held by Ragavan include CEO of Siara Systems, president of the residential broadband group at ADC Telecommunications, and vice president of engineering at General Instrument.Tuvia Barlev, the long-standing CEO and president at Actelis, will remain active with the company as executive chairman of the board. Barlev co-founded Actelis Networks in 1998, along with current board director...

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Cyan Offers Multi-Layer Network Management with 3D Heat Maps

Cyan, a start-up offering multi-layer optical transport system, introduced new tools for improving network planning, operations, performance and revenue opportunities. CyMS Release 2.3 features three-dimensional "heat maps" which indicate changing network conditions before services are impacted. The three-dimensional representation indicates alarms, configuration-errors, congestion, and even capacity utilization.Cyan's multi-layer transport platforms...

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Tata Communications Opens Moscow POP

Tata Communications has expanded its global network with the opening of a local Moscow point of presence. Tata Communications owns and operates one of the world's largest private sub-sea cable networks, enabling it to reach over 1,600 wholesale customers, 10,000 enterprise customers and more than 600 mobile operators. Thisnow includes over 100 service providers in Russia and CIS that are serviced from the Moscow office. Multiple services from...

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ZTE Supplies IMS Core Network for China Mobile

China Mobile has selected ZTE to supply equipment for an IMS core network. The China Mobile's commercial IMS network will boast 1.4 million lines when it is completed over the next three months. The IMS network will enable China Mobile to quickly launch fixed/mobile convergence services, such as Converged Centrex, Converged One Number, Multimedia CRBT and Converged Conferencing. "This is a brand-new beginning of strategic cooperation in next generation...

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Accton Selects Xelerated for GigE Fiber Access Products

Taiwan-based Accton Technology Corp. has selected Xelerated's programmable Ethernet switching silicon for new ODM products aimed at the unified fiber access market.The two companies are bringing to market Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) access switches based on Xelerated's silicon and data plane software with Accton's system level product and production expertise. Xelerated and Accton are showcasing their first product, a Gigabit Ethernet fiber access switch at this week's Interop show in Las Vegas. The design provides a service density of 44...

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Ceragon Networks Report Sharp Revenue Rise for Mobile Backhaul

Ceragon Networks reported record Q1 2010 revenue of $59.7 million, up 36% from $43.9 million for the first quarter of 2009 and up 12% from $53.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2009. Net income (GAAP) was $3.0 million or $0.09 per basic share and $0.08 per diluted share, compared to net income of $0.2 million in the first quarter of 2009, or $0.01 per basic and diluted share.Ceragon supplies high-capacity, LTE/4G-ready wireless backhaul equipment.Geographic breakdown of revenue: EMEA -- 23%North America -- 21%Asia Pacific -- 53%Latin America...

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TI joins HomeGrid Forum's Board

Texas Instruments has joined the HomeGrid Forum board of directors to contribute to this worldwide standardization effort through the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU-T) G.hn organization. ITU-T recently commissioned G.hnem, a new project within G.hn, intended to address the home networking, electric vehicle communications and grid access aspects of energy management. G.hnem will look to learn from existing Low Frequency Narrowband OFDM (LF NB OFDM) technologies. "AMI, home networking and electric vehicle communications are critical...

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Extreme Networks Posts Revenue of $78 Million

Extreme Networks reported quarterly revenue of $78.2 million, which was in line with company guidance, and compares to revenue of $79.4 million in the previous quarter and $77.2 million in the third quarter of last year. Net income on a GAAP basis was $3.7 million or $0.04 per diluted share, which included a restructuring charge of $0.4 million and a charge of approximately $1.4 million related to stock based compensation. That compares to a net loss of $1.4 million or $0.02 per diluted share in the previous quarter, and a net loss of $2.2 million...

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Verizon: No Record of Traffic Blocking in U.S.

In an FCC filing, Verizon argues that no new U.S. government regulations are needed to ensure an open Internet. Based on the public record of comments and testimony amassed by the FCC during its Open Internet regulatory proceeding, there is no evidence or pattern of blocking access to websites, anti-competitive discrimination, or any other harmful behavior by U.S. broadband Internet access providers.Verizon believes that no evidence has emerged...

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Brocade Tunes its Application Broker for Virtualized Data Centers

Brocade released new software for its Application Resource Broker that provides visibility into application performance across a data center and related network and virtual machine (VM) infrastructures. The goal it to help ensure application service level agreements (SLA) are met by dynamically allocating additional resources to service increases in application load. The Brocade Application Resource Broker offers monitoring, decision-making and...

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Allied Telesis Shows Stackable, Eco-Friendly Access Switches

Allied Telesis introduced its AT-8100 Series of stackable, access edge switches with energy-efficiency features.The AT-8100 Series combines advanced layer 2+ and basic layer 3 features with a range of connectivity options from copper to fiber. The switches support the latest security features required at the edge of the network and is designed to interoperate with Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP). Various models offer 24- and 48-port Fast...

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Allied Telesis Debuts Core SwitchBlade

Allied Telesis introduced its SwitchBlade 6000S Series family of multilayer switches for core networks. The chassis-based platform, which is designed for large enterprise and service-provider networks, provides the ability to scale to terabit switching capacity in a modular fashion. Separate modules are dedicated to both device management and packet processing. With this architecture, the packet forwarding engine is implemented in common switching...

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Netronome Accelerates L2-L7 Packet and Flow Processing

Netronome introduced its Network Flow Engine (NFE-3240) family of PCIe 2.0 acceleration cards for providing line-rate programmable L2-L7 packet and flow processing. The cards are designed for use by network and security appliances that require high performance and low latency, as well as highly-virtualized multicore servers. The NFE-3240 acceleration cards are powered by Netronome's 40 Gbps NFP-3240 network flow processor and are available with two...

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Two Minute Video -- Network Acceleration with Heterogeneous Multicore Processing

Presented by Daniel Proch, Netronome http://www.netronome....

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FCC Recommends Public Safety Network Leverage Commercial Rollouts

The FCC issued a detailed report recommending that the public safety network for first responders that is called for in the National Broadband Report be built alongside next gen commercial networks rather than as separate infrastructure. This approach would cost approximately $6.5 billion over 10 years, significantly less than the projected $15.7 billion in capital costs associated with building a stand-alone public safety network.In addition, the...

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FCC Establishes New Emergency Response Interoperability Center

The FCC has established a new Emergency Response Interoperability Center (ERIC) under the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) with the mission of promoting nationwide operability and interoperability inwireless broadband communications for America's first responders. Operating under the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB), ERIC will work closely with industry, commercial providers, manufacturers and standards setting...

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Ericsson's Q1: Network Sales Decline as Global Services Rises

Ericsson's Group sales in Q1 2010 declined 9% year-over-year with lower sales in Networks but with an increase of 3% year-over-year in Global Services. Sales for comparable units, adjusted for currency exchange rate effects and hedging, declined -16% year-over-year. Gross margin, excluding restructuring, improved year-over-year to 39% (36%) due to efficiency gains and product mix.Ericsson's share in earnings of joint ventures, before tax, amounted...

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SES-1 Successfully Launched from Kazakhstan

SES-1, a hybrid C- and Ku-band spacecraft that will provide coverage over the United States, was successfully roared into space on board a Proton Breeze M booster from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation and is owned an operated by SES WORLD SKIES. The spacecraft is poised to be the 42nd satellite in SES' global fleet.The spacecraft carries 24 active C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders of 36 MHz capacity each. Six of the channels in each band can be cross-strapped to the opposite band,...

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Equinix Opens Second IBX Data Center in Amsterdam

Equinix is ready to open its new Amsterdam (AM2) International Business Exchange (IBX) data center, which has been under development since November 2009. The first phase represents an expected investment of approximately $40.0 million and provides 480 cabinets equivalents. The second phase is targeted for completion during the third quarter of 2010 and is expected to provide an additional 520 cabinets equivalents. A third phase, to be timed to meet...

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