Comcast Grows 3.9% in 2009, Targets Project xfinity for 2010

Comcast's Q4 2009 revenue increased 2.9% to $9.1 billion and operating cash flow increased 1.1% to $3.4 billion, reflecting continued growth in its Cable division, partially offset by higher expenses in Programming and Corporate costs. Fourth quarter 2009 Operating Income increased 3.4% to $1.8 billion. Revenue increased 3.9% in 2009 to $35.8 billion, while Operating Cash Flow increased 4.4% to $13.7 billion and Operating Income increased 7.2% to...

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3Crowd Offers Crowd Sourced Load Balancing Among Competing CDNs

3Crowd Technologies, a start-up based in San Mateo, California announced a crowd-sourcing method of leveraging multiple content delivery networks (CDNs). For content owners with high customer service goals, 3Crowd offers a turnkey multi-cloud service strategy. Its two new services, CrowdMonitor and CrowdDirector, effectively convert multiple CDNs into a single cloud-service that can be monitored, managed and deployed as a single service.CrowdMonitor...

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Nokia Reports Fast Adoption of New Ovi Maps With Free Navigation

Since launching its new version of Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation on January 21, Nokia has delivered over 1.4 million downloads. The one million mark was reached just one week after the launch.The new Ovi Maps is a key part of Nokia's strategy to lead the market in mobile maps, navigation and location-based services. By leveraging its investment in NAVTEQ, the company hopes to quickly activate a massive user base to which it can offer...

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Lockheed Martin Awarded $31 Million for National Cyber Range

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $30.8 million contract for Phase II of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Cyber Range (NCR) program. DARPA's NCR is part of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, a major government-wide effort to increase the nation's defenses against electronic attack. In Phase I, DARPA and its industry team created initial conceptual designs, concepts of operation, and detailed engineering and system demonstration plans. In Phase II, DARPA will work with Lockheed Martin and the Johns Hopkins...

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Roamware Eliminates Roaming Voicemail Charges for European Operators

A new EU regulation that comes into effect on July 1, 2010 will prohibit operators from charging roaming customers for redirecting calls into voicemail while on a visiting network. The EU regulation aims to ensure that subscribers are not charged an additional fee for receiving voicemail messages while abroad. Subscribers are frequently charged for two international call legs for receiving voicemail in a different country as the call is first directed...

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Swisscom Monitors IMS Network with RADCOM's Omni-Q

Swisscom is using RADCOM's Omni-Q service assurance solution for monitoring its new IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) production network. RADCOM's gear has previously been used in Swisscom's IMS laboratory testing. In in the first phases of commercial IMS services, Swisscom has found a need for pro-active Tier 2 and 3 engineering troubleshooting. The IMS network consists of an Ericsson core and Broadsoft application servers. RADCOM's advanced QExpert business intelligence workflow reporting provides efficient and pro-active engineering and support....

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Gigamon Secures $22.8 Million for it Data Access Switch

Gigamon has raised $22.8 million from Highland Capital Partners in its first institutional financing to support its data access switching product line. The Gigamon platform provides data access span ports for monitoring complex and remote networks. The switch aggregates, filters and replicates customized data streams to all monitoring tools. The company said it has achieved greater than 55 percent year-over-year growth rate for each of the past four...

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MTS Allstream Selects Aviat to Support HSPA Rollout

Canada's MTS Allstream has selected Aviat Networks (formerly Harris Stratex Networks) for its HSPA rollout. Under the agreement, MTS Allstream will use Aviat Networks' Eclipse Packet Node HP300 solution to aid its migration to an all-IP architecture and launch its HSPA network in Manitoba.MTS Allstream will also deploy Aviat's ProVision Element Management System (NMS), which delivers advanced features for monitoring and controlling TDM and Ethernet...

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IBM to Acquire Initiate Systems for Data Integrity Software

IBM agreed to acquire Initiate Systems, a supplier of data integrity software for information sharing among healthcare and government organizations. Initiate's software speeds the adoption and exchange of electronic medical records.Initiate Systems is a privately held company based in Chicago, IL and marks the 30th acquisition IBM has made to advance its capabilities in information and analytics. Financial details were not disclosed.http://www.ibm....

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Alcatel-Lucent Expands Bell Labs in Ireland

Alcatel-Lucent announced an expansion of its Bell Labs facility in Dublin, Ireland. The program is supported by the Irish Government through IDA Ireland (Industrial Development Agency) and aims to enable the creation of more than 70 new high-caliber technology positions over the next five years. http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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Cisco Posts Sales of $9.8 billion, Net Income Beats Expectations

Cisco reported second quarter net sales of $9.8 billion, net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $1.9 billion or $0.32 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $2.3 billion or $0.40 per share."Our outstanding Q2 results exceeded our expectations and we believe they provide a clear indication that we are entering the second phase of the economic recovery. During the quarter we saw dramatic across the board acceleration...

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Broadcom Reports Record Quarterly Revenue of $1.343 billion

Broadcom reported net revenue for Q4 2009 was a record $1.343 billion, up 7.1% compared with the $1.254 billion for the Q3 2009 and an increase of 19.2% compared with the $1.127 billion for Q4 2008. Net income (GAAP) for Q4 2009 was $59.2 million, or $.11 per share (diluted), compared with GAAP net income of $84.6 million, or $.16 per share (diluted), for Q3 2009, and GAAP net loss of $159.2 million, or $.32 net loss per share (basic and diluted),...

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Broadcom Debuts 10GbE Converged-NIC

Broadcom introduced its next generation single-chip, dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) converged network interface controller (C-NIC) for server LAN-on-motherboard (LOM), add-in network card and storage adapter applications. The Broadcom BCM57712 enables bi-directional 10 Gbps line rates on two ports, resulting in a total throughput of 40 Gbps. Broadcom calculates storage performance of over one million IOPS (input/output operations per second)...

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Broadcom Releases Power 40nm 10GBASE-T PHYs

Broadcom has begun sampling low power 10GBASE-T transceivers produced in 40 nanometer (nm) process technology. The new Broadcom family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) physical layer (PHY) transceivers support IEEE 802.3 10GBASE-T operation over 100 meters of shielded or unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable, and RJ45 connectors and are available in either a dual port or quad port configuration. Broadcom said its advanced 40nm process technology and power-savings design techniques have lowered the operating power below 4 watts per port, significantly...

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Broadcom to Acquire Teknovus for EPON Silicon

Broadcom will acquire Teknovus, a leading supplier of Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) chipsets and software for approximately $123 million in cash.Teknovus offers silicon for EPON at 1G, 2.5G and 10G speeds. It offers both Central Office (OLT) and the Customer Premises (ONU) solutions. The company claims its products are deployed by more than 35 service providers around the world. The companies note that EPON represents approximately 94%...

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