Taiwan-based Alpha Networks Posts Q4 Revenue of $155 Million

Taiwan-based Alpha Networks, a leading OEM/ODM network equipment supplier, reported Q4 2009 consolidated revenue of NT$4,927 million (US$154.9 million), an increase of 1.6% QoQ. Net income was NT$316 million, an increase of 38% QoQ, and EPS after tax was NT$0.68. Revenue by product categories was as follows: LAN/MAN accounts for 44%, Wireless at 32%, Broadbandplus VoIP at 12%, Digital Multimedia at 10%, and others at 2%. http://www.alphanetworks.comhttp...

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Canada's National Capital Commission Deploys BridgeWave's Gigabit Wireless

Canada's National Capital Commission (NCC) has selected BridgeWave's AR60-AES links to deliver high-capacity, secure connectivity in Ottawa, Ontario, the nation's capital.The NCC, which is a Canadian Crown corporation, administers federally owned lands and buildings in Ottawa. The NCC recently expanded and had to relocate some employees to a remote location which needed connectivity to support user's industrial and graphic design work. It was essential...

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Apparent Enhances Cloud Network Performance Management Service

Apparent Networks released a series of enhancements for PathView Cloud hosted network performance management service, including new features for VoIP assessments. The subscription-based PathView Cloud service monitors and measures the performance of end-to-end network paths --- including portions that traverse third-party networks.New features for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Network Assessment include:MSP Branding --- MSPs can custom-brand PathView Cloud's user interface and reports and deliver them as a service to their customers. ...

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AboveNet -- Revenue for Lit Services Surpass Dark Fiber

AboveNet reported revenue of $94.3 million, an increase of $4.5 million, or 5.0%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. Excluding contract termination revenue from the 2008 and 2009 fourth quarters, revenue would have been $81.1 million and $93.4 million, respectively, an increase of $12.3 million, or 15.2%.Domestic metro services revenue grew 27.6% to $25.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2009 from $19.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2008; domestic WAN services revenue increased 21.4% to $17.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2009 from $14.5...

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CA to Acquire Nimsoft for $350 Million

CA agreed to acquire privately-held Nimsoft, a provider of IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, in an all-cash transaction valued at $350 million.Nimsoft has developed monitoring and reporting solutions for public cloud and on-demand offerings like Google Apps for Business, The Rackspace Cloud, Amazon Web Services and EC2, Salesforce.com, as well as internal applications, databases, and physical and virtual server environments. ...

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Sprint Delivers M2M to Enable Usage-Based Insurance for Vehicles

Sprint is delivering an M2M service that monitors actual miles driven by a particular vehicle, and enabling insurance companies to set their coverage fee based on this data. This is known as Usage-based Insurance (UBI).Specifically, Sprint and Walsh Wireless released a certified solution developed to meet this unique and growing market - the Walsh Wireless Data Logger, powered exclusively by Sprint 3G Mobile Broadband.The companies said the UBI model...

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AT&T Adds First Electric Vehicles to Corporate Fleet

AT&T has added its first all-electric cargo truck, the Smith Newton, to its corporate fleet. AT&T operates more than 77,000 vehicles in its commercial fleet. The vehicle - recognized as the world's largest electric battery-powered truck - is now servicing St. Louis, Missouri. The zero-tailpipe-emission Smith Newton runs free of normal engine noise and vibration, and it stores electric energy through regenerative braking. In addition, AT&T has committed to be one of the first purchasers of the Ford Transit Connect Electric, the first...

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FCC: Broadband Plan to Include Equal Access for People with Disabilities

The FCC's upcoming National Broadband Plan, which will be released next week, includes many recommendations on how to expand the reach and depth of broadband's benefits to people with disabilities. With broadband technologies, "we have the opportunity to consider accessibility issues relatively early in the deployment process and enable people with disabilities to share fully in the benefits of broadband," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in...

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Dell'Oro: Packet Microwave Market Grew 40% in Q4 2010

Worldwide microwave transmission equipment revenues grew 9 percent in the fourth quarter 2009, with the packet microwave revenues growing 40 percent during the same period, according to a newly launched Microwave Transmission report from Dell'Oro Group. The new report tracks TDM, packet, and hybrid microwave equipment used primarily in mobile backhaul.The report indicates that the top 3 packet microwave vendors during the fourth quarter were Dragonwave (37 percent), Alcatel-Lucent (30 percent), and Bridgewave (9 percent)."Despite being the smallest...

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comScore Counts 42.7 million SmartPhone Users in U.S.

In the 3 month average ending in January, 234 million Americans were mobile subscribers ages 13 and older, according to a new report on key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry released by comScore.The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers age 13 and older, as well as popular activities and content...

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Dell'Oro: Packet Microwave Revenues Surge

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