WiMAX Forum Launches New Open Retail Initiative

The WiMAX Forum kicked off an Open Retail Initiative aimed at increasing the global availability of WiMAX devices, while reducing the technical and capital overhead by WiMAX network operators to test products on their network. The new certification program seeks to drive the proliferation of WiMAX consumer devices, sold direct or through retail channels that can be activated with ease by the consumer over the air (OTA) on the network of any participating...

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CENX and Interxion Partner on Carrier Ethernet Exchange

Interxion and CENX will jointly launch a pan-European Carrier Neutral Ethernet Exchange service. The CENX-Interxion service will be available in Interxion's London data centre in June 2010 with expansions being planned for other locations including, amongst others, Amsterdam and Paris.CENX noted that its Carrier Ethernet marketplace provides access to over 5 million Ethernet end user locations served by more than ten service providers, including...

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AT&T to Offer Video Publishing from iStreamPlanet

Enhancements to AT&T's Digital Media Solutions announced this week include the ability to dynamically adapt video delivery for a better viewing on various devices. AT&T Digital Media Solutions supports Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5, allowing customers to take advantage of adaptive bit rate streaming technology, which dynamically adjusts video delivery for an optimized viewing experience for the end user.In addition, AT&T announced an agreement with iStreamPlanet to expand the range services supporting video creation and publishing....

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AT&T to Deploy HD-SDI Switching to Distribute Contribution Video

AT&T confirmed plans to deploy a standards-based High Definition-SDI video transport and switching network capability for the professional broadcast marketplace. The new capability combines AT&T's SONET optical network with next-generation video transport technology based on JPEG2000 compression standards. It will support HD-SDI at rates between 75Mb and 400Mb along with SD-SDI at 24Mb to 150Mb. Following a successful pilot program in January,...

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4Home Raises $7 Million for Connected Home Software

4Home, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $6.8 million in Series-B financing for its connected home software.The company is known primarily for its work in pioneering connected home services, which include energy management, home control and monitoring, media management, and home health. "4Home's revenue grew by 300% in the past year and we more than doubled our workforce in the same period. As a result of this growth we'll be relocating...

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3Crowd Raises $6 million for Cloud Mgt Tools

3Crowd Technologies, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, raised $6.62 million in Series A financing for its crowd-sourcing method of leveraging multiple content delivery networks (CDNs). 3Crowd has developed a series of management tools that give enterprises greater controls over content delivery and other cloud services, enabling them to use multiple services at once and thereby command new pricing and performance dynamics. 3Crowd's flagship...

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Continuous Computing Optimizes for LTE EPC and Femtocell Gateway Efficiency

Continuous Computing announced that its Trillium Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) FastPath software has achieved a 10X performance improvement over generic user-space SCTP implementations. Trillium SCTP FastPath leverages the 6WINDGate packet processing software suite from 6WIND and its optimized performance is delivered via the FlexPacket ATCA-PP50 Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) blade from Continuous Computing featuring dual NetLogic Microsystems...

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Halstad Selects Calix in Broadband Stimulus Build

Halstad Telephone Company (HTC) selected the Calix Unified Access portfolio to bring 100 Mbps services to thousands of homes and businesses in communities it serves across Minnesota and North Dakota. Halstad will leverage $11.7 million in Broadband Stimulus funds to implement and deploy its network. Plans call for IPTV services, residential and business data services, fiber-fed mobile backhaul services, and VOIP to previously underserved and unserved communities. Calix will supply its E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) for both AE and...

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Voltaire Adds Virtualized Data Center Mgt to GigE Fabrics

Voltaire introduced new Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) software that orchestrates physical and virtual switches over high-performance Ethernet switching fabrics, thereby delivering guaranteed levels of service per application. By using an application-centric, real-time approach, UFM enables data center operators to monitor and manage the entire fabric, maximize fabric resource utilization and enforce security and isolation policies. The software can...

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Crossbeam Systems Signs European Partners

Crossbeam Systems has signed a number of European partners for its next-generation security platforms. These include Corpus Solutions in the Czech Republic, Integralis in the United Kingdom, Pan Dacom in Germany and Unitronics in Spain.http://www.crossbeam.comhttp...

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Alcatel-Lucent Unveils "Optism" Mobile Advertising

Alcatel-Lucent is entering the mobile advertising space with a hosted service that matches advertising inventory with targeted mobile audiences. The new Alcatel-Lucent "Optism" solution is designed to help mobile operators rapidly introduce an opt-in program that delivers SMS and MMS ads from leading global brands to specific mobile users. Alcatel-Lucent will broker relationships between mobile operators and advertisers, greatly simplifying the...

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