Speakeasy to Merge with MegaPath + Covad

Speakeasy, which is owned by Best Buy, will combine its business with Covad Communications and MegaPath. The deal will merge Speakeasy' small business voice and data services with MegaPath's value-added services for distributed enterprises, and make them available over Covad's nationwide broadband network. The combination of Speakeasy+MegaPath+Covad will create a "managed services local exchange carrier" (MSLEC) able to provide a full range of IP...

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Akamai Acquires Velocitude for Mobile Optimization

Akamai Technologies has acquired Velocitude, a start-up based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is expected to further Akamai's strategic position in the mobile market -- adding mobile content transformation. Velocitude offers a mobile services optimization platform. The company's software-as-a-service mobile platform transforms PC-oriented websites into viewable mobile sites.Akamai said it intends to tranfer the...

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RAD Supplies Ethernet over SDH at World Cup

RAD Data Communications has supplied its RIC-E3 Fast Ethernet over E3 Network Termination Units (NTUs)to a major European carrier to transmit IP video coverage of the World Cup. The IP video broadcast to be transported over a legacy SDH network. The carrier will be maintaining two separate SDH connections between Africa and Europe, one active and one redundant, in order to guarantee transmission in the event of a network failure.The RICi-E3 NTU...

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Canada's EastLink Selects Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Router

EastLink, the Canadian cable operator serving parts of Atlantic Canada, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba and British Columbia, is deploying Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers as the broadband aggregation platform to deliver ultra-high-speed Internet access throughout its Atlantic Canada footprint. Initial deployment of the Cisco ASR 9000 will occur in the Atlantic regional centers, which serve EastLink customers in Nova Scotia,...

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Soonr Raises $4.5 Million for Cloud Service Platform

Soonr, a start-up based in Campbell, California, raised $4.5 million for its cloud services platform. Soonr's cloud applications address file access and backup needs of consumers and businesses. The service provides continuous protection and synchronization of critical files as well as collaboration tools. The fully-integrated cloud service delivery model is offered as both a direct and white label service. It works across carrier networks and...

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Quantenna's 4x4 MIMO Chipset Receives Wi-Fi Alliance Certification

Quantenna Communications' "Full-11n" 4x4 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Wi-Fi chipset has received the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED n and Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) designations from the Wi-Fi Alliance. Quantenna's QHS600 chipset is a member of Quantenna's growing family of Full-11n Wi-Fi solutions, which incorporate all specifications in the IEEE802.11n standard including 4x4 MIMO. The company's Full-11n chipsets also incorporate extensions to the IEEE802.11n...

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Amazon Web Services Simplifies Large Data Transfers

Amazon has released a new web service interface that enables easy management of large data transfers and migrations. The new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Import/Export accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport. The company claims that for large data sets, AWS Import/Export is often significantly faster than Internet transfer and more cost effective than upgrading network connectivity.h...

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ADTRAN Selected for FTTH and Broadband DLC in Oregon and Nevada

Reliance Connects (formerly known as Cascade Utilities Inc. in Oregon & Rio Virgin Telephone and Cablevision in Nevada) has selected ADTRAN's Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access and Aggregation Platform along with the Total Access 1124P Sealed DSLAMs and Total Access 300 Series ONTs for future FTTH deployments. The ADTRAN solutions will be used to extend broadband services to previously underserved rural areas and upgrade their existing legacy access network. http://www.adtran....

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WiMAX Forum Certifies First MIMO 2.3 GHz Mobile Products

The WiMAX Forum has certified the first two Mobile WiMAX products for the MIMO 2.3 GHz profile: base stations operating in the 2.3 GHz band from Huawei and Samsung.Tests of the newly certified products were conducted at WiMAX Forum testing labs in China and Korea. In addition to these labs, the ADT lab in Taiwan recently completed the construction of its 2.3 GHz test bed infrastructure and is ready to begin testing of submitted products. The completion...

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MultiService Forum Completes EPC Interoperability Testing

An Evolved Packet Core (EPC) interoperability event, conducted by The MSF (MultiService Forum) in March, verified interoperability between EPC elements from a variety of global vendors. The test environment utilized inter-operator interfaces between the Vodafone Centre for Test and Innovation in Düsseldorf and the China Mobile Research Institute in Beijing. Participants in this event included Alcatel-Lucent, Bridgewater Systems, Cisco/Starent,...

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