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Alvarion's Q1 Revenue Slides, Restructuring Announced

Citing WiMAX customer deployment delays, Alvarion reported Q1 2010 revenue of $51.9 million, a decrease of 13.8% from $60.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, and a decrease of 23.5% from $67.9 million in the first quarter of 2009. GAAP net loss in the first quarter of 2010 was ($4.9) million, or ($0.08) per share, compared to a net loss of ($1.3) million, or ($0.02) per share in Q4 2009. GAAP net loss in the first quarter of 2009 was ($0.8) million, or ($0.01) per share."Q1 results were within the range of our guidance and, as expected, reflect...

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NTT America Announces U.S. Enterprise Cloud based on OpSource

NTT America has introduced an enterprise-grade, multi-tenant public cloud solution to its customers in the U.S. market. The solution leverages OpSource's cloud capabilities, the NTT Communications' Global IP Network and NTT America's highly secure data center infrastructure.The NTT America Cloud is an extension of the company's suite of virtualization services based on the VMware virtualization platform. This provides enterprises with the ability to rapidly build, deploy and manage their own networks and servers in a highly secure environment....

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Crossbeam and Check Point Expand Strategic Partnership

Crossbeam Systems has expanded its strategic agreement with Check Point Software Technologies to offer its Security Gateway Software Blades and VSX virtualized security gateway platform with Crossbeam's X-Series security platform. By delivering it through Check Point's global channel network, customers can more easily purchase a unified solution complete with premium support. Crossbeam and Check Point are delivering fully integrated network security solutions to the large-enterprise and service-provider markets. http://www.crossbeam....

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Texas' Big Bend Telephone Upgrades with Occam

Big Bend Telephone Company, an independent operator headquartered in Alpine, Texas, has deployed Occam Networks' BLC 6000 MSAP to transition from copper to fiber broadband services over a single network infrastructure. Big Bend Telephone covers a territory larger than the state of Rhode Island, serving its customers with a mix of access network technologies. Using GigE and GPON technologies from the BLC 6000, Big Bend provides high-speed access to anchor institutions including rural health clinics, a local university, and regional Homeland Security...

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IBM WebSphere Taps into Akamai Cloud

Akamai Technologies and IBM announced an alliance that ties the IBM WebShere software into Akamai's Web application acceleration services and global edge delivery platform. As both companies focus on cloud computing, including virtualization and distributed caching, this combined solution will provide customers elastic scalability of applications from the end user to the edge of the enterprise and all the way into the data center. As a result, customer can realize key benefits such as consistent response times even in the face of peak load demands,...

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Sonus Networks Posts Q1 Revenue of $62 Million

Sonus Networks reported Q1 revenue of $62.4 million, compared to $68.7 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 and $41.0 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2009. The company's net loss on a GAAP basis for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 was $0.1 million, or $0.00 per share, compared to net income of $10.3 million, or $0.04 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, and a net loss of $16.2 million, or $0.06 per share, for the first quarter of fiscal 2009. http://www.sonusnet....

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Ixia Tests IEEE 1588v2 and Synch-E For Mobile Backhaul

Ixia introduced an end-to-end testing solution for converged mobile backhaul networks -- from the radio base station to the mobile packet core. The test suite now include measurement for conformance validation, interoperability, precision and performance of devices and networks used for mobile backhaul, including IEEE 1588v2 and ITU-T Sync-E-based time synchronization standards. These two new timing protocol standards enable mobile voice traffic to be carried over Ethernet backhaul link while maintaining network synchronization.Ixia said its new...

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Cotendo Raises $12 Million for Site Acceleration

Cotendo, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, secured $12 million in new venture funding for its site acceleration service. Cotendo's CDN and Site Acceleration Suite includes high-performance acceleration of dynamic and static content, intelligent load balancing, performance monitoring, real-time reporting, etc.The company's proprietary software acts as a "pump" to speed the delivery of small objects on website. This approach accelerates...

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Extreme Networks Develops Ethernet Service Engineering

Leveraging intellectual property acquired from Soapstone Networks, Extreme Networks introduced new service engineering capabilities that push the boundaries of what is possible with point-and-click provisioning systems. The company's new Ridgeline Service Advisor management software aims to advance a carrier's service support from simple, reactive circuit monitoring to a more proactive service management approach. The goal is to accelerate the provisioning...

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BLADE Debuts Top-of-Rack FCoE Switch

BLADE Network Technologies introduced a Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) top-of-rack switch. BLADE's RackSwitch G8124, which is a 24-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch, now includes new lossless CEE enhancements with BLADEOS 6.3 for high-performance IP storage and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) at no extra charge. BLADE's RackSwitch G8124 is also the first to break the $500 per 10 Gigabit Ethernet port barrier for a CEE-capable switch.BLADE said...

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