3Com Reports Quarterly Revenue of $346 Million, up 6.5% YoY

3Com reported quarterly revenue of $345.9 million, compared to revenue of $324.7 million in the corresponding period in fiscal year 2009, a 6.5 percent increase. All regions delivered double-digit revenue growth over the same fiscal year 2009 quarter, except China. Total revenue in our China based operations was down 1.3 percent from the same prior year period, primarily the result of a 77.9 percent decline in sales to Huawei, which were $12.4 million...

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Mformation Teams with Amdocs on Mobile Device Customer Care

Mformation Technologies, which supplies advanced mobile device management (MDM) solutions to wireless operators, has entered into a partnership with Amdocs to deliver mobile device support that is integrated with Amdocs CES customer management solutions. This enables customer-care organizations within mobile operators to have full real-time device visibility and access to critical subscriber and device information from one central customer care...

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Telefónica Spain to Implement 42 HSPA+ with NSN

Telefónica Spain has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to upgrade its 3G radio network to HSPA+, in preparation for the next generation of mobile communications. The three-year project will enable Telefónica Spain to increase data download speeds from 7.2 Mbps to 42 Mbps. The project will use Nokia Siemens Networks' LTE-ready Flexi Base Stations. In addition, Nokia Siemens Networks will provide its NetAct network management system to efficiently monitor,...

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XO Picks NSN's Optical Transport for 40G Network

XO Communications is deploying Nokia Siemens Networks' hiT 7300 DWDM 40 Gbps platform to provide a high-capacity, cost-efficient and scalable transport system. NSN said its platform was chosen for its high degree of modularity and because it is based on a common hardware platform, which saves staff training time and OPEX, and reduces the number of spare parts needed to be stocked. Financial terms were not disclosed.In addition to the hiT 7300, Nokia...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom Added 568,000 FTTx Subscribers in 2009

Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom recorded a strong growth in FTTx subscriptions in 2009, with 568,000 net additions bringing its total to 1.64 million subscribers. ADSL subscribers decreased by 575,000 to 2.67 million. By the end of 2009, the number of ADSL and FTTx subscriptions with a service speed greater than 8 Mbps reached 2.0 million, representing 46.8% of total broadband subscribers, compared to 36.9% at the end of 2008.In the mobile domain, as of...

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IBM to Build Cyber Security System for the U.S. FAA

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected IBM for an R&D project aimed at protecting the nation's civilian aviation system from the ever-growing threat of cyber attacks. IBM researchers and cyber security experts will design and build a prototype security system capable of scaling to accommodate the FAA's high-speed networks.IBM said its prototype system will go beyond traditional security approaches of encryption, firewalls, intrusion-detection devices and anti-virus software. Not only will the flexible model be designed...

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RadiSys Boosts its Convedia Software Media Server

RadiSys has enhanced its Convedia Software Media Server with the addition of co-residency capabilities, broader platform support and new media processing features. The company said the advent of multi-core CPU platforms has enabled software media to become an increasingly viable alternative for even the largest carrier-class IP media processing deployments. With the addition of co-residency, Original Equipment Manufacturers that want to offer an integrated all-in-one product or network appliance, can integrate the Convedia Software Media Server...

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Aruba Networks Extends Virtual Branch Office into the Cloud

Aruba Networks has extended its Virtual Branch Networking (VBN) architecture with new capabilities for moving application acceleration and content security services away from costly branch appliances and into the cloud. The company's VBN strategy, which was first rolled out in May 2009, uses low-cost wireless access point CPE to connect remote users and branch locations with enterprise applications and network policies. The low-cost devices create...

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Qwest Rolls out Managed Security and Mgt Service with IBM

Qwest Communications has launched two new managed services that leverage technology from IBM: Qwest iQ Managed Security Service (MSS) and Qwest iQ Network Management Service (NMS). Highlights include:Qwest iQ Managed Security Service -- an outsourced service that reduces the costs and complexities associated with managing security needs, while mitigating the impact of liability and security threats from malware, SPAM e-mail, unauthorized network...

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CIAN Selects Fujitsu FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet ONP

The Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN) has selected the Fujitsu FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet Optical Networking Platform (Packet ONP) for its optical communications testing facility.CIAN, a premier engineering research center, is comprised of member universities working together to broadly enhance technology in optical communications. Their telecommunications industry research is designed to create transformative technologies for optical access...

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"Digital Due Process" Alliance Seeks Privacy Assurance for Cloud Services

Major Internet players, including Amazon.com, AOL, AT&T, Google, Intel, Microsoft, SalesForce.com and others, have formed an industry initiative aimed at updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of the United States so as to assure the privacy of cloud-based services.Specifically, the "Digital Due Process" alliance said it wants to modernize ECPA in four ways:Better protect your data stored online: The government must first get...

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