Tilera Raises $25 Million for Multicore Processors

Tilera, a start-up based in San Jose, California, closed a $25 million series-C round of investment financing for its multicore silicon. The round was oversubscribed and included funds from three new strategic investors: Broadcom, Quanta Computer and NTT Financing Corp. This brings the total venture capital investment in Tilera to $64 million. Tilera's processors are based on its "iMesh" architecture that scales to hundreds of RISC-based cores...

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GlobeNet Upgrades Undersea Cable to Brazil

GlobeNet, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oi (formerly Brasil Telecom), completed the upgrade of the 22,000 kilometer submarine cable system linking the United States with Latin America. In addition to the submarine sections, Alcatel-Lucent upgraded the landing points in Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza (Brazil), Maiquet�a (Venezuela), St.David's (Bermuda), Boca Raton and Tuckerton, Fla. In Rio de Janeiro, the submarine network integrates with the terrestrial...

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Navajo Tribal Utility Plans LTE Trial

The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) is planning an LTE trial using 700 MHz spectrum to bring broadband services to population centers throughout the 27,000 square miles of the Navajo nation.NTUA is pursuing funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for a $46M grant that includes a 530 mile of fiber optic deployment and a 57-site LTE deployment.NTUA has selected ZTE to supply...

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KDDI Selects ADVA FSP 3000 Optical Platform

Japan's KDDI has deployed the ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000 Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) platform for delivery of its high-availability enterprise "Managed WDM Service". KDDI's "Managed WDM Service", which is being offered in the Kanto area in Japan, provides 1- and 10 Gbps Ethernet and 1- and 2 Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces. Several enterprises have already selected this service, and the services have been deployed and implemented. http://www.advaoptical....

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Verizon Completes 100G Field Trial with Juniper, NEC, Finisar

Verizon completed a field trial of 100 Gbps optical transmission technology in partnership with Juniper Networks, NEC and Finisar.The test, which occurred on February 25, transmitted data over a 1,520-kilometer optically amplified section of the Verizon network in the north Dallas area. The trial demonstrated end-to-end traffic flow, including live video traffic, through a 100G interface on the Juniper T1600 Core Router to the NEC SpectralWave DWDM...

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Tokyo Stock Exchange's arrownet Deploys Juniper

The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has deployed low-latency, ultra-reliable, high-capacity network powered by Juniper Networks' M Series Multiservice Edge Routers and Junos operating system. Project "arrownet" is TSE's next-generation securities trading system, paving its way to becoming a Universal Exchange for securities, options and derivatives trading. Financial terms were not disclosed.TSE selected Juniper Networks M320 and M120 Multiservice Edge Routers to form the core and access layers of the new network. The arrownet MPLS network is designed...

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IEEE Marks 30th Anniversary of 802 Standards Committee

The IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC) is celebrating its 30th anniversary as an active standards development organization. The IEEE 802 LMSC was created in March of 1980 to bring together forward thinking technology leaders to develop interoperable network standards for computers and office equipment. The IEEE 802 committee has continued to develop leading innovations for local and metropolitan area networks for copper, fiber optic media,...

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Magor Debuts Single Screen, Single Camera 1080p Video Collaboration

Magor Communications, a start-up based in Ottawa, introduced a single screen, single camera high definition (HD) 1080p video conferencing and collaboration system that forms part its Magor TeleCollaboration HDWorkPlace family. Magor's system offers advanced data collaboration capabilities in a peer-to-peer 1080p high definition video conferencing experience. Its technology leverages video scaling principles based on segmentation and adaptation to...

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Mindspeed Debuts Optical Chipsets for Linking Base Stations to Radio Heads

Mindspeed Technologies announced a high-performance, low-power physical media device (PMD) chipset that includes all necessary components required for CPRI-based optical transceivers for connecting 3G/4G wireless base station servers to one or more remote radio heads (RRHs) over optical fiber. Mindspeed said its new PMD chipsets support the latest CPRI V4.1 2009-02-18 specification and are optimized for 4.915 Gbps and 6.144 Gbps operation with lower...

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Ciena to Sell $250 Million in Convertible Senior Notes Due 2015

Ciena intends to sell approximately $250 million in aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2015 in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers. Ciena intends to use approximately $243.8 million of the net proceeds of this offering to replace its existing contractual obligation to issue $239 million in 6% senior convertible notes due 2017 as part of the aggregate purchase price for its pending acquisition of the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business. http:...

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Savvis Appoints New CEO

SAVVIS has appointed company board chair and interim CEO James E. Ousley to serve as its permanent CEO. Prior to assuming the role of interim CEO in January 2010, Jim Ousley had served as non-executive chairman of Savvis since May 2006 and as a director since April 2002. In 2001, he was a founder of Vytek Wireless Corporation and was president, CEO and a director until 2004. In addition, Ousley previously served as CEO and president of Syntegra,...

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Verizon Wireless' LTE Trials Show Peak Speeds of 40-50Mbps, Average of 5-12 Mbps

Verizon Wireless' LTE network field trials, which are currently running in Boston and Seattle, indicate the network is capable of peak download speeds of 40 to 50 Mbps and peak upload speeds of 20 to 25 Mbps. These speeds are significantly faster than Verizon Wireless and other wireless providers' current or promised 3G network speeds.The trials in Boston and Seattle have been running since August 2009. Successful data calls involved streaming video,...

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