IP Infusion Adds Tunneling for Coexisting IPv4 and IPv6 Networks

IP Infusion has expanded its portfolio of IPv6 software with new tunneling technologies that enable the coexistence of IPv4 and IPv6 networks.


The IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling solution, which is being released as ZebOS Rapid Deployment, forwards IPv6 traffic though IPv4 networks and is based on 6rd (IPv6 rapid deployment) specifications which are published as a Request for Comments (RFC) by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).


The proposed IETF 6rd solution utilizes stateless IPv6 in IPv4 encapsulation in order to transit IPv4-only network infrastructure, and can achieve high scalability by leveraging stateless tunneling technology. IP Infusion's ZebOS Rapid Deployment also provides an accounting function which manages user traffic for enabling Internet services, and a filtering function which differentiates users--both important functions in order for carriers to deploy a new IPv6 service by using 6rd.


BBIX Inc. currently provides an Internet exchange service in Japan and plans to launch an IPv6 roaming service for other Internet service providers based on IP Infusion's ZebOS Rapid Deployment.
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Google Apps Marketplace Opens for Cloud Services

A new Google Apps Marketplace officially opened for business. The site allows Google Apps customers to discover, deploy and manage cloud applications that integrate with Google Apps.


Google currently has over 2 million companies using its Google Apps service. The new Marketplace initially has about 50 companies are selling applications across a range of businesses. These include:

Intuit Online Payroll: allows small business owners a new way to efficiently run payroll, pay taxes and let employees check paystubs all within one integrated online office environment.

Manymoon: a free work and project management application that helps teams to organize and share information including tasks, projects, documents, status updates and links with co-workers, customers and partners.

Professional Services Connect (PS Connect): a new cloud-based offering coming soon from Appirio that pulls contextually relevant information on people, projects, customers and transactions from a user's domain and surfaces it directly inside a Gmail message so services professionals can make more informed, real-time decisions.

JIRA Studio: a hosted software development suite from Atlassian that enables software developers to flow naturally between Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and other design and development tools in order to better track and manage project issues and workflow.

myERP.com : a free online business suite for streamlining CRM, Sales, Projects, Purchasing, Inventory, Accounting. Fully integrated with Google Apps, Gmail and Calendar.http://googleblog.blogspot.com/http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/home

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SiBEAM Raises $36.5 Million for 60 GHz Chips for WirelessHD

SiBEAM, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $36.5 million in Series D funding for its 60 GHz CMOS chipsets for WirelessHD applications. The company's second generation 60 GHz wireless high definition chipsets are targeting the mainstream consumer electronics marketplace, as well as fund future projects for personal computing and mobile devices.


The second generation of SiBEAM's WirelessHD chipsets, which were brought into mass production earlier this year, support advanced features including 3D, HDCP and DTCP content protection that can be designed into A/V receivers, home theater-in-a-box systems, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, media center PCs, and consumer laptops.


The new funding was led by Foundation Capital. All of SiBEAM's original investors contributed to this round including U.S. Ventures Partners (USVP) and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), joined by new partners in SiBEAM's success, Lux Capital and Hatteras Funds. Best Buy Inc, and Cisco have also contributed strategic equity investments to support SiBEAM's growth.
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Dell'Oro: Mobile Infrastructure Market Continues Decline

Mobile infrastructure market revenues declined 13 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 to $10 billion, according to a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group. The report indicates the market contraction was a result of steep declines in the GSM market, which more than offset a nearly 50 percent growth of the WCDMA market.


Although the WCDMA and WiMAX markets are forecast to realize double-digit growth during 2010 and initial LTE revenue is expected in the second half of this year, the steep declines in the GSM and CDMA markets will result in 2010 total market revenue being flat with 2009.


"Although 3G spending by China Mobile and China Unicom, which drove the market in the first half of the year, came to a halt in the second half of last year, the massive growth in data traffic resulted in operators worldwide heavily investing in their 3G networks," commented Scott Siegler, Senior Analyst of Mobile Infrastructure research at Dell'Oro Group. "To keep pace with the strong demand, mobile data traffic is putting on their networks, operators are investing in both the expansion of their network footprints with new Node B deployments, as well as adding additional capacity to their existing footprint. We expect that growth in mobile data traffic will double in 2010 and forecast operators to deploy over 40 percent more Node B's this year," continued Siegler.
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AT&T's 100GigE Field Trial Tests Cisco CSR-3

AT&T has completed a live network environment field trial of 100 Gbps backbone network technology using the newly-announced Cisco CRS-3 core router, Opnext's 100 Gigabit CFP client side modules, and Ixia's "K2" 100 Gigabit traffic generator and analyzer.


AT&T said its trial demonstrated a single-carrier 100-Gigabit transmission with real-time coherent processing on a 900-kilometer deployed ultra long-haul transport link between Louisiana and Florida using Opnext optical equipment.


Highlights of the trial include:

• Successful single-carrier 100-Gigabit transmission with real-time coherent processing.


• Demonstration of 100-Gigabit Ethernet single-flow router capacity.


• Field demonstration of 100-Gigabit technology with a standards-compliant 100GBASE-LR4 single-mode MSA interface.


• Field demonstration of a 100-Gigabit traffic generator.

"This successful field trial is a key milestone in our ongoing effort to deliver the industry's most advanced and capable IP backbone network," said John Donovan, AT&T's Chief Technology Officer. "The AT&T IP backbone network today carries nearly 19 petabytes of traffic on an average business day, supporting our wireless, wired and enterprise customers' ever-growing demand for wireless and wired broadband applications. Research and development milestones like our 100-Gigabit trials help to ensure that the AT&T network is always ready to meet our customers' needs."http://www.att.com

• In October 2008, AT&T completed the transition of IP traffic to its next-generation, consolidated IP/MPLS backbone network. At the time, AT&T described its new full-mesh optical platform as the world's largest deployment to date of 40 Gbps transport. The company's entire U.S. ultra-long haul network -- more than 80,000 fiber-optic wavelength miles -- was transitioned to 40 Gbps technology, also known as OC-768. AT&T began turning up 40-gigabit service in volume in its network in the second half of 2006 after completing multiple field trials.

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Global Crossing to Upgrade Undersea Cables

Global Crossing is significantly expanding capacity on its Mid-Atlantic Crossing (MAC), South American Crossing (SAC) and Pan American Crossing (PAC) undersea fiber-optic cable. These overbuilds will enhance connectivity between Latin America, North America and Europe and will be rolled out over the next six months, with some segments ready for service as early as May 2010.
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Savvis Expands Cloud Services to Singapore

Savvis is expanding its Symphony Open cloud infrastructure services through its Singapore data center later this month. Savvis Symphony Open will be the second cloud solution available from its Singapore data center, complementing the portfolio of managed and virtualized hosting and network services that Savvis currently offers to enterprises and the public sector in Singapore. The new cloud service helps enterprise customer tackle underutilization of servers while providing the ability to scale up capacity on demand.
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Metaswitch to Acquire AppTrigger for its Service Broker

Metaswitch Networks agreed to acquire AppTrigger, which supplies Service Broker solutions for carriers, for an undisclosed sum. AppTrigger pioneered the Service Broker concept with its Ignite platform, which is today deployed in multiple tier one networks worldwide. Ignite can be rapidly deployed due to its unique support for a range of 17 pre-defined application interworking solutions from non-geographical number and local number portability (LNP) to wireless prepaid and network IVR.


AppTrigger's Service Broker will now be added to Metaswitch's VoIP/IMS infrastructure portfolio.


"Carriers are increasingly realizing that service brokers are key to their ability to safely and cost-effectively evolve their business models to IP," said Kevin DeNuccio, Metaswitch CEO. "AppTrigger has played an instrumental role in defining this market, delivering the most robust, feature rich solution, and demonstrating its ability to scale with deployments processing billions of calls per month. This technology not only expands the set of solutions we can deliver to our customers, but supports our global growth strategy particularly in the rapidly-evolving mobile application space."


Service Brokers, a network element that resides between the service layer and the converging network, are traditionally decoupled from the core switch and the service execution or service creation environment. Service Brokers efficiently manage service interaction and network orchestration with key features such as IM-SSF, SCIM, IN to IN Trigger Management, Protocol/Call Flow Management and Subscriber Data Management Interaction.


Bowen Advisors acted as financial advisors and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as legal advisors to AppTrigger. Metaswitch was advised by Shearman & Sterling LLP. Closure of the acquisition is subject to standard contractual conditions and expected by the end of the month.
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http://www.apptrigger.comAppTrigger's Ignite Service Broker delivers this "Any to Any" interworking for existing services and future application connectivity. In addition, AppTrigger features an "Ignite" Universal XML Toolkit that allows operators to easily configure network connectivity for services.


The Ignite Service Broker Predefined Portfolio of Interworking Solutions:

• Non-Geographical Number (NGN)


• Universal Access Number (UAN)


• Universal Personal Number (UPN)


• Reverse Charging


• Blacklist with PrePaid


• 800 Service/Freephone


• Local Number Portability (LNP)


• Calling Name (CNAM)


• Premium Rate


• Virtual Private Network (VPN)


• Televoting (Mass Calling)


• Wireless Prepaid


• Calling Card (credit based)


• Color Ring Back Tone or Caller Ring Back Tone (CRBT)


• Find Me/Follow Me


• Privacy Service


• Network IVR

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Cisco CRS-3 Scales to 322 Tbps using QuatumFlow Processors

Cisco unveiled its next generation core router designed for handling the expected traffic growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services through this decade.


The Cisco CRS-3 triples the capacity of its predecessor, the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, with up to 322 Terabits per second (Tbps) -- which is 12X of the capacity of its nearest competitor, according to the company. The CRS-3, which represents a $1 billion investment by Cisco, leverages the company's in-house developed QuatumFlow Processors. Several models of the CRS-3 will be offered, with commercial shipments expected later this year. Cisco will continue to offer the CRS-1 core router series.


The Cisco CRS-3 continues to feature the mid-plane design used in the Cisco CRS-1 with a three-stage switch fabric based on a Benes architecture.


Cisco said it is building tight linkages between the Cisco CRS-3, Cisco Nexus family and Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) to enable unified service delivery of cloud services. Several key innovations behind the CRS-3 platform:

• Network Positioning System (NPS) -- provides Layers 3 to 7 application information for best path to content, improving consumer and business experiences while reducing costs.



• Cloud virtual private network (VPN) for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) -- enables "pay-as-you-go" for compute, storage and network resources by automating Cisco CRS-3 and Cisco Nexus Inter-Data center connections for Cisco UCS.



• Cisco QuantumFlow Array Processor -- which unifies six chips to enable new levels of service capabilities and processing power.

AT&T recently tested the Cisco CRS-3 in a successful completion of a field trial of 100-Gbps backbone network technology, which took place in AT&T's live network between New Orleans and Miami.
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Dell'Oro: Mobility Infrastructure Market Remains Flat

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