BroadHop Releases its Policy Management for iPhone and Android

BroadHop released its SmartPhone Application Framework for the iPhone and Android OS. This allows mobile, policy-based applications to be bundled with a smartphone or downloaded by a subscriber from an app store. Once implemented, smartphones and service provider infrastructure can communicate, manage services, and initiate personalized, policy-based services in real time. For example, a service provider could develop an interactive, loyalty-oriented...

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Aricent and NetLogic Microsystems Collaborate on LTE eNodeB

Aricent and NetLogic Microsystems announced a collaboration aimed at enabling LTE capabilities on NetLogic Microsystems' XLS family of MIPS64-based multi-core, multi-threaded processors. The companies are working to create a pre-optimized, fully integrated solution for advanced LTE eNodeB platforms. Aricent offers equipment manufacturers pre-packaged software frameworks conforming to the latest 3GPP standards, along with a comprehensive set of product...

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Vodafone Reaches 341 million Mobiles, Sees Positive Trends

The Vodafone Group reported that its quarterly revenue increased by 8.4% to £44.5 billion for the fourth quarter of its 2010 fiscal year. Group service revenue increased by 8.9% to £41.7 billion. Q4 organic service revenue fell 0.2%, a second successive quarterly improvement. Group EBITDA was £14.7 billion, up 1.7%. The EBITDA margin declined in line with expectations. The results were driven by a strong performance from Verizon Wireless, which...

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Orange Business Builds Global MPLS VPN for Flowserve

Flowserve, the leading supplier of pumps and valves to the oil and chemical industries, has selected Orange Business Services to manage its global MPLS network under a multimillion dollar engagement. The network connects more than 250 Flowserve locations across six continents (56 countries total).The network supports Flowserve's critical Oracle and SAP applications at a significantly lower cost threshold, managed VoIP service, enhanced messaging...

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Sipera Raises $10 Million for UC Security

Sipera Systems raised $10 million in venture funding for its real-time Unified Communications (UC) enablement and security solutions.Sipera's "Borderless UC" architecture enables enterprise managers to safely extend UC over any network to any device, including office phones, home office phones, remote call center agents, video devices, soft-phones, collaboration tools, and smartphones. The company's portfolio includes its smartphone UC security...

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NorthScale Raises $10 Million for Memcached Web Software

NorthScale, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, secured $10 million in Series B funding for its Memcached "elastic data" infrastructure software. This new class of data management software -- elastic data infrastructure -- promises substantial cost, performance and scalability advantages over relational database technology, for the vast majority of data associated with modern web applications and cloud computing environments.NorthScale's...

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XO Communications Cites Challenging Market Dynamics

XO Communications reported Q1 2010 revenue of $369.5 million, a decrease of $8.3 million, or 2%,compared to the year-ago period. The company said the revenue drop was primarily from targeted price increases within its wholesale long-distance services, which were implemented to improve margins on selected routes."While existing market dynamics continue to be a challenge for the telecommunications industry as awhole, XO's continued focus on providing...

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ZyXEL Offers Dual-WAN, Multi-Service, Wireless VDSL2 Gateway

ZyXEL Communications is introducing a single gateway that supports copper, fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments. The P2812HNU, with dual-WAN, offers an integrated VDSL2 modem that enables service providers to support up to 100/50 Mbps over newer PTM networks -- along with ADSL2+ fallback to accommodate existing networks. The gateway also has a dedicated Gigabit Ethernet WAN port for FTTH deployments.ZyXEL's new gateway...

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Solarflare Samples 40nm quad-port 10GBASE-T PHY chip

Solarflare has begun sampling a 40nm quad-port 10GBASE-T PHY chip to large server and switch OEMs. Target applications include single and dual-port Ethernet server adapters, high-density LAN switch to server, LAN switch to switch, iSCSI based IP storage and test equipment designs. The device, which represents Solarflare's fourth generation, achieves 100 meter reach at one-third the power consumption of existing 10GBASE-T PHYs. The company said that...

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Cisco to Acquire MOTO -- a Design Consultancy

Cisco will acquire privately held MOTO Development Group, a design consulting firm that develops products and product strategies for the consumer industry. The San Francisco based company, which has about 35 consultants on staff, assisted with the development of the Flip video product family, which Cisco acquired last year. Cisco said MOTO's philosophy directly aligns with its own consumer device strategy. Financial terms were not disclosed. ...

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AT&T Wins $90 Million UC Contract with Shell

AT&T has won a 3-year, $90 million contract to provide an enterprise-wide unified communications (UC) service to support Shell's 150,000 users in more than 90 countries.The project is the largest UC technology deployment to date by AT&T for a single business customer. The service will provide Shell users with a suite of services to better enable inter-company and external collaboration, productivity and communications. The hosted and managed UC solution based upon Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 R2. The initial roll-out...

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AT&T Offers U-verse Quad-Play Bundle

AT&T today introduced new "Choice" consumer bundles that combine a quad-play of AT&T U-verse TV, U-verse High Speed Internet, U-verse Voice and wireless services. The Choice bundle, first introduced in March, let customers choose three services for their bundle -- and select home phone or wireless as their voice option. The new Choice quad-play bundles give U-verse consumers additional savings for choosing all four AT&T services.In addition...

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AT&T's Telepresence Footprint Reaches 75 Countries

AT&T's Telepresence footprint now reaches locations in a total of 75 countries and territories. Twelve countries were recently added to the list: Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Portugal, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Turkey, and Venezuela. The fully managed bundle includes AT&T customer premises equipment, installation, full monitoring and management of the application, remote help desk service, on-site...

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Juniper Outlines 3-2-1 Data Center Architecture, 10 GbE Switch

Juniper Networks outlined its new "3-2-1" data center network architecture aimed at improving latency, increasing density, boosting security, lowering power requirement and simplifying management. Juniper's plan is to leverage a "Virtual Chassis" fabric technology to reduce from three to two layers, and then collapse to one layer via Juniper's "Project Stratus" fabric in the future. Data centers typically have access, aggregation and core switching...

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