Canada's Mobilicity Outsources 3G Management to Ericsson

Ericsson announced a five-year managed network operations contract with Mobilicity (formerly Data & Audio Visual Enterprises Wireless -- (DAVE Wireless), a new carrier that will soon be entering the Canadian market. Mobilicity holds licenses which cover more than half of Canada's population in 10 of the 13 largest markets including Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa.Mobilicity previously selected Ericsson to design and build its...

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Tellabs Revenue Rises to $380 million, up 5% YoY

Tellabs reported Q1 2010 revenue of $380 million, up 5% from $362 million in the first quarter of 2009.On a GAAP basis, Tellabs earned 12 cents per diluted share in the first quarter of 2010, up from 2 centsper share in the first quarter of 2009. First-quarter 2010 GAAP net earnings were $45.9 million, comparedwith $6.5 million in the year-ago quarter. First-quarter 2010 GAAP net earnings include a $3.4 millionnet tax benefit.Tellabs' GAAP gross profit margin was 50.7% in the first quarter of 2010, compared with 44.2% in theyear-ago quarter. "By...

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Marvell Introduces Energy Efficient Gigabit Ethernet Silicon

Marvell introduced a new Gigabit Ethernet Switch Platform based on its Prestera family of packet processors and Alaska family of Gigabit transceivers and designed to drive down network Ethernet switch power consumption as much as 70 percent while significantly reducing systems cost. Specifically, the new Prestera 98DX3130 Ethernet switch and Alaska 88E1545 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver ICs reduce the energy bill for SMB/SMEs by using Marvell's advanced...

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Broadcom Hits Record Revenue of $1.46 Billion in Q1

Broadcom reported record revenue of $1.46 billion for Q1 2010. This represents an increase in net revenue of 8.9% compared with the $1.34 billion reported for the fourth quarter of 2009 and an increase of 71.3% compared with the $853 million reported for the first quarter of 2009. Net income (GAAP) for the first quarter of 2010 was $210 million, or $.40 per share (diluted), compared with GAAP net income of $59 million, or $.11 per share (diluted),...

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Xilinx Unveils ARM-Based Processing Architecture

Xilinx introduced a new Extensible Processing Platform architecture that leverages ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processors for embedded systems. The Xilinx Extensible Processing Platform presents a processor-centric design and development approach for achieving high compute and processing horsepower required to drive tasks involving high-speed access to real-time inputs, high-performance processing and complex digital signal processing."Today's embedded...

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Ixia offers Energy Efficiency Testing

Ixia has upgraded its iSimCity facility in Santa Clara, California to now provide green IT testing.The testing uses Ixia's IxGreen suite, which has recently been upgraded to include the Telecommunications Energy Efficiency Ratio (TEER) measurement defined by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). http://www.ixiacom.c...

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Conexant Posts Revenue of $62 Million

Conexant reported quarterly revenues of $61.9 million, exceeding the company's financial guidance. GAAP gross margins were 61.1 percent of revenues. GAAP operating expenses were $26.9 million. GAAP net income including discontinued operations was $10.9 million, or $0.15 per diluted share. "During the quarter we completed the financial restructuring of our company, which was one of our highest priorities," Scott Mercer, Conexant's chairman and chief executive officer said. http://www.conexant....

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Mellanox Launches InfiniBand-Ethernet-Fibre Channel Gateway

Mellanox Technologies launched its BridgeX BX5020, an InfiniBand to Ethernet and/or Fibre Channel gateway system in a 1 RU box. The BX5020, in conjunction with ConnectX-2 Adapters, enables Enterprise Data Centers, Cloud and High Performance Computing server clusters to share the same fabric for computing, networking and storage traffic. Mellanox said its new gateway enables InfiniBand's inherent bandwidth and latency performance, QoS, and scalability...

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ZTE Reports Q1 Revenue of US$1.94 Billion, up 14% YoY

ZTE Corporation reported Q1 2010 revenue of RMB 13.26 billion (about US$1.94 billion, up 13.6% from RMB 11.67 billion for the same period last year. The Group reported a net profit of RMB 109.86 million (US$16 million) in the three months ended 31 March 2010, up 39.68% from RMB 78.66 million in the same period last year.The company observed that investments in telecommunications equipment in the domestic market remained stable during the quarter,...

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FCC's Spectrum Task Force Gets Underway

The FCC announced the launch of the Spectrum Task Force under the National Broadband Plan. Julius Knapp, Chief of the Office of Engineering Technology, and Ruth Milkman, Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, will co-chair the cross-agency working group.The Task Force will include the Chiefs of the Enforcement, International, Media, and Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureaus, as well as the Chief of the Office of Strategic Planning...

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Netronome Clocks 200 Gbps of L2-L7 Network Flow Processing

Netronome unveiled its Network Flow Processing Platform, which combines its latest generation of network flow processors with Intel Xeon 5600 CPUs to deliver 200 Gbps of programmable L2-L7 networking performance in compact 1U and 2U form factors.Netronome's heterogeneous multicore processing architecture provides independent layers of workload-optimized packet, flow, security and application processing to dramatically increase network performance....

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Spirent and EANTC Test Cloud Computing Performance

Spirent Communications and the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) demonstrated a dynamic cloud computing test environment that benchmarks the performance, availability, security and scalability (PASS) of private, public and hybrid clouds.Some of the key findings of this test include:Cloud computing service providers are not equal. At different workloads, service providers show different performance levels.Traditional network SLAs have...

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Nokia Debuts N8 SmartPhone

Nokia unveiled its N8 Symbian ^3 smartphone, featuring a multi-touch screen, a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, and the ability to record and play HD-quality video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by plugging into their home theatre system. The Nokia N8 also offers multiple, personalizable homescreens which can be loaded with apps and widgets. Nokia said it is using a new 2D and 3D graphics architecture to deliver a faster and more...

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