Sigma Designs Aligns Around Media Processing and Home Connectivity

Sigma Designs announced a major reorganization of the company around two strategic business groups -- the Media Processor Business Group and the Home Connectivity Business Group -- as well as a Worldwide Sales Group.The reorganization follows a number of strategic acquisitions, including the VXP video processing business, the Z-Wave home control/smart energy business, and most recently, the CopperGate entertainment networking business. Currently,...

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Teranetics Announces 40nm Quad 10GBASE-T PHY

Teranetics, a start-up based in San Jose, California, introduced its third generation of 10GBASE-T PHYs implemented in 40nm technology. The small form factor and low power dissipation of the 40nm chips enable 10 GigE copper connections in high-density data center switches. They also pave for 10 GigE LAN-on-motherboard servers.The Teranetics TN8044 is a quad-port 10GBASE-T PHY device designed for high-density, highly power efficient 10 GigE switches....

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Telenor to Deploy Telcordia Next Generation OSS

Telenor has selected Telcordia's Next Generation Operations Support Systems (NGOSS) to support the replacement and operation of its entire mobile broadband services infrastructure, spanning 2G, 3G/UMTS and 4G/LTE technologies in Norway. The program is Telenor's largest-ever upgrade of its mobile network.In November 2009, Telenor announced a six-year program to replace its entire mobile services infrastructure in Norway with equipment provided by Huawei and Starent Networks. http://www.telcordia.com http://www.telenor....

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Savvis Offers Latency Monitoring Tools for Financial Customers

Savvis will begin providing enhanced latency and connectivity monitoring capabilities for its financial services clients across the globe. Specifically, Savvis will be able to proactively monitor, troubleshoot and maintain the high-performance and low-latency of exchange and liquidity venue connectivity within its data centers and its integrated global network. As part of this effort, Savvis will be taking advantage of Corvil's latency management...

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HP Launches its Networking Portfolio

Following its recent acquisition of 3Com, HP unveiled its edge-to-core networking portfolio that combines key elements of the HP ProCurve and 3Com line, along with TippingPoint security products. The portfolio is a cornerstone of the HP Converged Infrastructure strategy, which eliminates silos of servers, storage and networking to create virtual pools of resources designed to optimally run business services.HP Networking said its product line-up...

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New InfiniBand RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Spec for the Data Center

The InfiniBand Trade Association has released a new specification called RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), pronounced "Rocky", for bringing the power of the Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) I/O architecture to Ethernet-based business solutions. Products based on RoCE will reach the market during the coming year. RDMA and low latency clustering has dominated the high performance computing space. Low latency and RDMA capabilities in data center...

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PMC-Sierra Enables Wireless Backhaul with GigE over OTN

PMC-Sierra introduced a reference design for its HyPHY chipset that supports standards-based transport of Ethernet-based services over OTN. ITU-T G.709 Amendment 3 specifies direct mapping of Gigabit Ethernet (GE) to the OTN layer by defining a new container for the smallest Optical Data Unit (ODU), ODU0 (1.238 Gbit/s), ensuring complete timing transparency and bandwidth efficiency of Ethernet-based client signals. In conjunction with HyPHY's innovative support for timing synchronization over packet services, the reference design enables cost-optimized...

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Force10 Networks Readies 40 GbE for Data Centers

Force10 Networks plans to incorporate 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40 GbE) into its switch/router solutions for dynamic data centers. Initially, Force10 plans to incorporate 40 GbE into a 10 GbE top-of-rack access switch for converging Fibre Channel and Ethernet fabrics. The company's E-Series core switch/router is already 40/100 GbE-ready, and its C-Series of resilient chassis-based switches are 40 GbE-ready.Force10 anticipates that economic considerations...

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Fusion-io Raises $45 Million for Next Gen Flash Memory

Fusion-io, a start-up based in Salt Lake City, Utah, raised approximately $45 million in a Series C funding for its new flash-based solid-state memory.Fusion-io's solid-state storage technology aims to close the gap between processing power and storage needs at a lower cost than traditional disc-based storage. The company's ioDrive integrates with servers at the system bus and kernel level, creating a new Flash memory tier. It easily outperforms...

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Arista -- The Big Idea in Data Center Switching

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Arista Packs 384 L2/L3 10GbE ports in Data Center Switch

Arista Networks, a start-up based in Menlo Park, California, introduced its new flagship switching platform boasting 10 terabits per second of switching capacity and up to 384 wirespeed L2/L3 10GbE ports in one-quarter of a rack. The Arista 7500, which is designed for cloud computing, virtualization, and high-performance data centers, is five times faster and one-tenth the power draw per wirespeed port of other modular data center switches, according...

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