Metaswitch Appoints Kevin DeNuccio as CEO

Metaswitch Networks named Kevin DeNuccio as its new CEO, succeeding John Lazar who has been promoted to chairman.DeNuccio previously was CEO of Redback Networks (now Ericsson), where he oversaw the company's transformation into the fastest growing edge router vendor and subsequent acquisition for $2.1 billion. Previously, he was a senior vice president of Cisco, where he grew the worldwide service provider division from a $500 million, 500-person...

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CURRENT Group and Verizon Team on Smart Grid Service

Verizon is working with the CURRENT Group, which builds distributed sensing and monitoring systems for electrical utilities, to provide a real-time, IP-based solution for analysis communications between electric companies and sensors deployed on their networks. The two companies will leverage their core capabilities to deliver a joint smart grid solution. Verizon will provide the underlying wireless and IP network services, managed network and security...

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Juniper Previews New Core Silicon to Enable 4 Tbps Routers

Juniper Networks announced a new generation of silicon that will enable upgrades to existing T Series Core Routers to a full duplex slot capacity of 250 Gbps without service interruption. The new chipset lays the foundation for a total capacity of 4 Tbps in a single, half-rack system. Juniper's T Series systems are already capable of supporting true line-rate 100 GE interfaces. The new chipset will further enable the scaling of single chassis systems...

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Bell Canada's Q4 Revenue Grew 4.8%, FTTH Planned for Montreal, Toronto

BCE (Bell Canada's) operating revenues increased by 4.8% during Q4 2009 to $3,982 million, as higher revenues from the acquisitions of The Source and the remaining 50% of the equity of Virgin Mobile Canada (Virgin) not already owned by Bell and growth in TV and wireless data revenues more than offset declines in local and access, long distance, and wireline data revenues. For the full year, Bell's operating revenues were $15,020 million, an increase...

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AT&T Supports SlingPlayer's Mobile App on 3G

AT&T will support Sling Media's SlingPlayer Mobile app over its 3G network. Since mid December 2009, AT&T has been testing the app and has recently notified Sling Media -- as well as Apple - that the optimized app can run on its 3G network. The SlingPlayer Mobile app already is available for use today on AT&T's Wi-Fi network, the nation's largest with more than 20,000 hotspots.Sling Media is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar.http://developer.att.com...

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IBM to host Sierra Wireless Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Services

IBM will provide data center collocation facilities and services to Sierra Wireless to host a new services platform dedicated to its software as a service Machine-to-Machine offering. Sierra Wireless selected IBM and Rackforce to host the offering at the recently built GigaCenter in Kelowna, British Columbia. In 2008, Sierra Wireless deployed its first platform in France to service the European market. Now it is expanding to support its growth in North America and guarantee stable, secure and worldwide service coverage to its Machine-to-Machine...

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JDSU Adds 10 GigE Dual Test Features to T-BERD

JDSU introduced the Dual Module Carrier (DMC) for the T-BERD/MTS-8000 platform. This enables concurrent capture/decode and TCP WireSpeed testing on two 10 GigE ports. the T-BERD/MTS-8000 platform now encompasses 10M to 10 GigE, DS1/E1 to OC-192/STM-64, OTN, PDH, Next Generation SONET/SDH and Fibre Channel testing. In the typical CO and Tier 2/3 troubleshooting environment, two testers have traditionally been needed to troubleshoot both ends of a local circuit to determine that the network segment is properly passing traffic. Now, using a single...

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AT&T Issues "Open Call -- Apps For All!" Contest

AT&T has launched its the fifth annual "Open Call - Apps For All!" contest to be held at the CTIA Wireless convention in Las Vegas March 23-24. The contest is divided into four categories: Brew Mobile Platform (BMP), Android, Java & RIM, and an "Open" category reviewing applications and content of all platforms. AT&T will award a total of $40,000 in cash prizes, $10,000 to a winner in each of the four categories. The Open Call contest...

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Microsoft and the NSF Offer Cloud Capacity

Microsoft and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide free access to advanced cloud computing resources to qualified researchers and research groups selected through NSF's merit review process. Microsoft will provide cloud computing research projects identified by NSF with access to Windows Azure for a three-year period, along with a support team to help researchers quickly integrate cloud technology into their research. Projects will...

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U.S. House Passes Cybersecurity Act

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act by a vote of 422 to 5.H.R. 4061 reauthorizes several National Science Foundation (NSF) programs that aim to enhance cybersecurity. The bill would require agencies participating in the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program (NITRD) to develop, update, and implement a plan to guide the direction of federal cybersecurity and information assurance research and development. The bill also reauthorizes cybersecurity workforce and traineeship programs...

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IBM's New Data Center in N.C. Uses 50% Less Energy

IBM opened a new data center in North Carolina designed to support cloud computing. IBM calculates the new data center uses only half the energy required of a similar facility its size. The data center will ultimately total 100,000 square feet at IBM's Research Triangle Park (RTP) campus and is part of a $362 million investment by the corporation to build the new data center in North Carolina. IBM owns or operates more than 450 data centers worldwide....

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Alcatel-Lucent's Software Defined Radios for 2G, 3G, 4G/LTE

Alcatel-Lucent introduced a new radio module, based on software defined radio (SDR) technology, that gives mobile service providers the flexibility to support any mix of 2G GSM, 3G W-CDMA/HSPA+ and LTE services simultaneously. The converged radio module, called the MC-TRX, can be used to upgrade the 700,000 Alcatel-Lucent base stations already deployed by service providers worldwide.The new module, which is a key building block of Alcatel-Lucent's...

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