Verizon Taps McAfee for Security-as-a-Service to Businesses

Verizon Business is launching a new Security-as-a-Service offering to help medium-sized businesses deal with growing cybersecurity threats. The offering, an integrated security suite from McAfee, provides five-way protection against cyberthreats for a monthly per-user fee. The five-way protection guards against network, endpoint, Web, data and e-mail security threats.Verizon Business' new security suite consists of two solutions for mid-market customers...

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TI's Quad-Radio Packs Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and FM

Texas Instruments (TI) demonstrated a single-chip solution that integrates WLAN 802.11n, GPS, FM transmit/receive and Bluetooth technologies. The single chip, the 65-nanometer WiLink 7.0 solution reduces costs by 30 percent, reduces size by 50 percent and delivers superior coexistence performance as compared to existing solutions. Sampling is underway. http://www.ti....

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SAIC Completes Acquisition of CloudShield

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) completed its previously announced acquisition of CloudShield Technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.Founded in 2000, CloudShield's deep packet inspection (DPI) platform and applications enable customers to inspect, analyze and control all network traffic. CloudShield's IBM BladeCenter PN41 Blade scales from 20 Gbps for a single blade to 280 Gbps for a 14-blade chassis to greater than...

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GIPS Releases Video Chat with HD Voice for iPhone

Global IP Solutions introduced video chat technology for iPhone developers. The GIPS VideoEngine Mobile lets iPhone developers rapidly integrate high quality real-time video chat or multi-point video conferencing into iPhone apps while resolving the issues related to IP networks such as delay, jitter and echo."iPhone developers are at the forefront of cutting-edge mobile applications, and with such fierce competition, it's incredibly important to...

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Verizon Wireless Targets Location-Enabled Enterprise Services

Verizon Wireless has begun supporting a variety of third-party Location Based Services (LBS) applications for navigation, in-vehicle tracking and geo-fencing aimed at business users. The new service is especially relevant to organizations that rely on vehicles with mounted laptops such as public safety, delivery and maintenance workforces and others. The services are supported using select Mobile Broadband PC cards and USB modems with built-in...

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Ozmo Devices Hires New CEO -- Bill McLean

Ozmo Devices, a start-up developing low-power Wi-Fi Personal Area Network (Wi-Fi PAN) silicon and software, appointed Bill McLean as its new CEO. McLean was co-founder and CEO of GloNav, a fabless semiconductor company that manufactured GPS receivers for the cellular market. He successfully sold the company to NXP (part of ST Ericsson) for $110 million in 2008. Previously, Bill was President and CEO of Anadigm, a fabless semiconductor company producing...

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NETGEAR's Revenues Rise 36% YoY

NETGEAR reported Q4 2009 revenue of $218.8 million, as compared to $161.4 million for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008, and as compared to $171.1 million in the third quarter ended September 27, 2009. Net income, computed in accordance with GAAP, for the fourth quarter of 2009 was $7.9 million, or $0.22 per diluted share. This compared to GAAP net loss of $7.3 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2008, and to GAAP...

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France Télécom and Alcatel-Lucent Share R&D Resources

France Télécom--Orange and Alcatel-Lucent announced an R&D partnership aimed at spurring open innovation in the Brittany and Loire regions. The Arc Bretagne Atlantique (ABA) program complements the Images et Réseaux (Images and Networks) cluster. The goal is to develop the competitiveness of local small and medium enterprises (SMEs).Alcatel-Lucent will make available the expertise of its sites in Lannion, Rennes and Orvault, near Nantes, and eventually in Brest. France Télécom-Orange will make available the expertise of its sites in Lannion...

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Cisco and TANDBERG Outline Roadmap Prior to Merger

Despite their planned merger not yet being completed, Cisco and TANDBERG outlined their strategy to integrate their respective product portfolios once the deal is done. The companies anticipate regulatory approval in the first half of calendar year 2010.The common, open architecture will extend features such as One Button to Push and Continuous Presence, and unified communications integration. The companies will form a new Cisco TelePresence Technology...

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Cisco Forecasts 39X Mobile Data Growth by 2014

Globally, mobile data traffic will double every year through 2014, increasing 39 times between 2009 and 2014, according to its newly published Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast.The study looked at current mobile data growth trends and the continued penetration of smartphones, along with predicted traffic demands from new categories of mobile devices, such as eReaders, portable video players, navigation units,...

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Cisco Tunes ASR 5000 for the Evolved Packet Core

Cisco has rebranded and enhanced Starent Networks' IP-based mobile core as the Cisco ASR 5000. Cisco said its mobile Internet network architecture will help service providers deliver subscriber services across any wireless access, including 2G/3G/4G --- from cell site to packet core to data center. The ASR 5000 now forms the centerpiece of the Cisco mobile Internet network architecture, providing subscriber management from the mobile core. The...

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Vitesse Unleashes its Jaguar Carrier Ethernet Chips

Vitesse Semiconductor introduced its "Jaguar" family of Ethernet devices designed specifically for Carrier Ethernet. Vitesse's new architecture offers an optimized feature set for transitioning TDM circuit-switched networks to Ethernet. networks. Specifically, the Jaguar family implements service features such as full IEEE-1588 functionality and OAM (Operations, Administration, and Maintenance). Ethernet timing support for mobile backhaul is...

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Vitesse Posts Revenue of $41.7 Million

Vitesse Semiconductor reported revenues of $41.7 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, compared with $49.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2009. The company recorded a net loss of $33.9 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2010 compared with a net loss of $190.0 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2009. "First quarter revenue was up 6% compared to the previous quarter, reflecting improved market conditions. Our core revenue, consisting of Carrier and Enterprise products, in the first quarter increased approximately...

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Google Adds Social Networking to Gmail, Smartphones

Google began rolling out its "Buzz" social networking features to Gmail and to smartphones, including Android phones and the iPhone. Support for Blackberry and Windows Mobile will be added later. Google Buzz builds a social network from contacts already in Gmail, enabling updated sharing of photos, videos and links. For mobile users, it also adds geo-location information.http://www.google.com/b...

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NTT Boosts Japan-U.S. Backbone to 300 Gbps

NTT Communications has boosted the backbone capacity of its Global IP Network between the United States and Japan to 300 Gbps. The company said growing use of broadband and the rising popularity of video content has created a huge demand for trans-Pacific connectivity. When it launched its Global IP Network in 1997, the company relied on a 45 Mbps link to support international Internet access for Japanese ISPs. In 2000, the acquisition of Verio and its Tier-1 IP backbone enabled NTT Com to dramatically raise its U.S.-Japan bandwidth to 1 Gbps....

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