GENBAND Bids for Nortel's Carrier VoIP and Application Business

GENBAND reached an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Nortel's Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions (CVAS) business for a purchase price of US$282 million, subject to balance sheet and other adjustments currently estimated at approximately US$100 million. The deal is a "stalking horse" arrangement subject to additional bids and requires U.S. and Canadian court approvals for bidding procedures, including a bid deadline and...

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China Mobile Added 4.6 Million Customers in Nov 2009

China Mobile added 4,579,000 customers in November 2009, giving it a total subscriber base of 518,045,000 as of the beginning of December 2009. This brought the total number of new subscribers to 60,795,000 for the first eleven months of 2009. http://www.chinamobileltd.com/http...

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China Mobile Vice Chairman Removed for Financial Irregularities

China Mobile Communications (CMC) announced that due to alleged serious financial irregularities, Mr. Zhang Chunjiang's position as positions as Secretary of the CPC Committee and Vice President of CMCC have been removed. The company's Board of Directors will consider removing him from his positions as Vice Chairman and executive director of the company as well. The announcement followed confirmation that the authorities are conduction an investigation...

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Ruckus Wireless Releases Performance Tool to Open Source

Ruckus Wireless has released its "Zap" wireless performance testing program to the Open Source Community.Originally developed by Ruckus engineers to characterize wireless behavior of real-time IP-based video streaming applications, Zap is a wireless performance measurement utility designed to determine wireless network signal performance accurately over time, space and frequency. The tool provides a statistical analysis that anticipates the performance...

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Quantcast Raises $27.5 Million for Digital Media

Quantcast, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $27.5 million in new capital to support rapid adoption of its Quantcast Media Program, which offers advertisers a standardized means to measure, organize, buy and sell real-time audiences. Cisco and prior investor Polaris Venture Partners co-led the round, increasing its ownership position in the company and previous investors Founders Fund and Revolution Ventures also participated."Digital technology...

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Marvell Targets eReaders, Smartbooks, Tablets, Smartphones, Smart Display Dongles

Marvell is launching new ARMADA processors -- including a 2 GHz processor that achieves PC-class performance at a fraction of the power consumption -- aimed at always-connected devices, including eReaders, Smartbooks, Dual Books, Tablets, Smartphones, Smart Display Dongles, Plug computers, home entertainment, and office productivity devices.Among the innovations that Marvell is showcasing at this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a new array of small form factor devices with various display outputs, such as HDMI, VGA, DVI, and Video Out....

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Procera Cites Major Carrier Orders

Procera Networks, a developer of Evolved Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) solutions providing traffic awareness, control and protection for complex networks, anticipates that revenue for the fourth quarter will be in the range of $9.1 million to $9.5 million, or 102% - 111% year-over-year growth. On its third quarter earnings call on November 5, 2009, Procera provided fourth quarter guidance for revenue growth over 100% year-over-year. The company also...

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2010 Industry Conferences Calendar

  International CES 07-Jan-10 to 10-Jan-10 Las Vegas NTCA Wireless 13-Jan-10 to 15-Jan-10 San Antonio ITEXPO East 2010 20-Jan-10 to 22-Jan-10 Miami Grid...

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