Solarflare Ships its Dual-port 10GBASE-T

Solarflare Communications has begun shipping its latest dual-port 10GBASE-T server adapter based on its 65 nm SFT9001 transceiver. The company also confirmed that it has multiple design wins underway for its upcoming 40 nm SFT9104 transceiver, which enables higher-density switches and adapters, and possesses a latency specification and a thermal footprint competitive with SFP+.


Solarflare's SFN5121T 10GBASE-T dual-port server adapter, announced in June, operates at less than 13 watts, which is less than half the power of competitive offerings, according to the company. It delivers triple speed Ethernet: 100Mbps, 1000Mbps and 10Gbps Ethernet for broad compatibility with the installed base of Ethernet. It also offers hardware-assisted virtualization, supports the emerging PCI SIG SR-IOV (single-root IO virtualization) standard, and accelerates guest applications in VMware, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper V environments.
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California Launches Nation's Largest Telehealth Network

The California Telehealth Network (CTN), which will be the largest dedicated telehealth network in the country, made its official launch. The network will connect devices in medical facilities from all corners of the state. The project aims to expand health care access while providing significant security and performance improvements over existing telehealth networks, including the ability for time-sensitive or emergency transmissions to receive top priority.


Led by the University of California system, the California Telehealth Network (CTN) is a partnership of organizations throughout the state established in 2007 as part of a $22 million pilot project from the Federal Communications Commission.


Earlier this year, AT&T was selected to build a secure, medical-grade telecommunications system for the project. AT&T's tasks for the project include establishing new, or upgrading existing, telemedicine connections, especially in rural communities throughout the state. The nearly $30 million project will increase bandwidth capacity for telecommunications so that clinics, hospitals or other provider sites will have direct, peer-to-peer connectivity to all network members, plus connections to a wide range of external networks and services.


As part of this official, the first two remote sites have been activated -- the Oroville Hospital in Orville and CommuniCare Health Center in West Sacramento. CTN aims to connect over 800 sites within its first three years.
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Procera Cites More University Customers for DPI Platform

Procera Networks, which supplies an Evolved Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) platform for providing traffic awareness, control and protection for complex networks, reported new customer wins with 31 universities in the second quarter of 2010. These new university customers include Bowling Green University, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Keene State University and Union University in the US, along with Chosun University in Korea, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Austria, and UCSJ - University College Sealand in Denmark.


Procera said universities share a common need to accurately manage and control their network traffic in order to maximize the utilization and the life-time of the network. They deploy PacketLogic to prioritize critical applications, limit bandwidth for recreational use during peak hours, and gain granular insight into network activity for forensics, allowing better use of the network and early identification and isolation of potential threats and misbehavior.
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Congressional Leaders Warn Against Google/Verizon Pact

Paid prioritization of traffic, such as outlined in the Google/Verizon agreement announced last week, would close the open Internet, warned four Congressional in an open letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.


The letter, signed by Representatives Edward Markey, Anna Eschoo, Mike Doyle and Jay Inslee, argues that the FCC must push ahead to resolve the current proceedings on broadband regulation and Net Neutrality. The following fundamental principles are stated:


1. The FCC must have oversight authority for broadband access services.


2. Paid prioritization would close the open Internet, and therefore a commonsense, nondiscrimination requirement without loopholes is essential for an efficient marketplace where businesses and consumers -- not carriers -- decide the winners and loser in the Internet ecosystem.


3. Wired and wireless services should have a common regulatory framework and rules.


4. Broad "managed service: exceptions would swallow open Internet rules.


Representative Anna G. Eshoo stated: "In my Silicon Valley district there are people building the next generation of internet breakthroughs. We cannot undermine their success by 'cable-izing' the Internet. That's why my colleagues and I remain steadfast in our commitment to net neutrality. The reactions to the legislative proposal from Google and Verizon demonstrate that it is not nearly strong enough to meet this standard."http://markey.house.gov/docs/08-16-2010_letter_to_chairman_genachowski.pdfhttp://markey.house.gov/"In my Silicon Valley district there are people building the next generation of internet breakthroughs. We cannot undermine their success by 'cable-izing' the Internet. That’s why my colleagues and I remain steadfast in our commitment to net neutrality. The reactions to the legislative proposal from Google and Verizon demonstrate that it is not nearly strong enough to meet this standard."

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Force10 Powers Los Alamos National Lab, Germany's Forschungszentrum Juelich

Force10 Networks' Ethernet switch/router solutions are powering two of the world's top five most powerful supercomputers, according to the most recent Top500.org list. The third-ranked supercomputer worldwide, Roadrunner, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Germany's Forschungszentrum Juelich, ranked fifth, both deploy the Force10 E-Series switch/router to provide dynamic connectivity to the supercomputer's high-speed Ethernet networks.


In Germany, Force10's platforms provide 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) interconnect functionality to Europe's fastest supercomputer, Jugene, at Germany's Forschungszentrum Juelich facility where the Force10 E-Series E1200 with more than 200 10 GbE ports is deployed.
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EXFO Adds Tunable DPSK Testing to its 40G/43G Solution

EXFO has added a tunable DPSK testing capability on its 40G/43G Transport Blazer modules, enabling field engineers to verify the individual line-side channels of 40G DPSK DWDM networks. The solution is complemented by OTN Intrusive Through mode capability for monitoring individual DWDM channels at ROADM sites.
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Korea's CJ HelloVision Picks Arris for DOCSIS 3.0

CJ HelloVision, a Korean cable operators, has purchased ARRIS C4 CMTS' to deploy DOCSIS 3.0 High Speed Data and VoIP service to its customers. CJ HelloVision is a part of the CJ group of companies, and serves nearly three million cable homes.
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Global Crossing Signs Railcar Provider for EtherSphere

TTX, which is North America's leading provider of railcars and related freight car management services, is using Global Crossing's new EtherSphere service to support its data center back-ups and for business operations at seven U.S. locations. TTX also purchased Global Crossing's IP VPN Service and Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) service.


Global Crossing has interconnected TTX Company's data center to its MPLS backbone, replacing circuits from multiple providers and by converging access to Global Crossing's private and public IP backbone.


"By using our EtherSphere service, TTX Company is able to access a high-speed connection from its data center directly to our IP VPN and DIA backbone, replacing a key circuit from its previous provider," said Neil Barua, Global Crossing's managing director for North America. "This met their business goals to improve network efficiency and reduce cost."


Global Crossing's EtherSphere services are part of the company's Ethernet WAN transport portfolio of services and include EtherSphere Multipoint-to-Multipoint, EtherSphere Point-to-Multipoint and EtherSphere Point-to-Point solutions. The services are available today to enterprise and wholesale customers in North America, Europe and Latin America.
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Motorola Completes TD-LTE Lab Trial

Motorola has passed China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) 2.3 GHz full feature set lab trial with a 100 percent pass rate. The tests measured key TD-LTE functionalities; radio frequency (RF) performance; operation, administration and management (OAM) capabilities; interface conformity; hardware readiness and backhaul capability.


The TD-LTE lab trial utilized Motorola's latest commercial LTE hardware platform, including its TD-LTE capable 4Tx/8Rx radio head and Motorola's fourth-generation, LTE-Advanced-capable WBR 700 LTE baseband. Motorola's TD-LTE 4Tx/8Rx radio head supports advanced multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) schemes, including multi-user (MU) MIMO and beam-forming to provide unprecedented capability and coverage for TD-LTE operators, while the WBR 700 offers up to four times the capability of the average LTE baseband currently on the market in a 1U rack with the most compact size in the industry.


Motorola noted that this milestone follows the recently announced TD-LTE field trial success initiated by the TD-LTE working group, set up by MIIT in June 2009 with China's three telecom operators and other key industry partners to develop a healthy TD-LTE ecosystem.


As part of these efforts, Motorola was invited to conduct the TD-LTE lab trial in advance of the large-scale system trial.
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Panasonic Activates Twitter on its VIERA CAST Plasma HDTVs

Panasonic has activated Twitter on its VIERA CAST enabled HDTVs and plans to add the capability to its VIERA CAST-enabled Blu-ray Disc Players at a later date.



Earlier this year, Panasonic added Skype voice and video calling, Netflix, Pandora, and Fox Sports. It also supports Amazon Video-on-Demand, YouTube, Google's Picassa Web Album, Bloomberg and a weather service.http://

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Dell to Offer Aruba's WLAN Solutions under its PowerConnect W-Series

Dell and Aruba Networks signed a multi-year agreement under which Dell will deliver Aruba's wireless solutions under its PowerConnect W-Series networking portfolio.


The PowerConnect W-3000 Series Controllers enable businesses to manage up to thousands of wireless access points while ensuring security for data, voice, and video applications. The deal also includes Aruba's AirWave Wireless Management Suite for multi-vendor wired, wireless, and mobile device networks.


Dell will begin offering the products in the United States, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom this quarter, with other countries in the near future.
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