Ericsson Selects GoAhead's OpenSAFfire

Ericsson has selected GoAhead Software's OpenSAFfire source code for use in high availability platforms.The OpenSAFfire product is GoAhead's commercial distribution of the OpenSAF open source high availability software project."Aligned with our strategy for commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software, we are selecting third party products to strengthen the establishment of an ecosystem around standardized SA Forum-based middleware," said...

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WSJ: Corporate America Adopting Apple's iPad

Apple's iPad is finding a quick welcome in corporate America, according to The Wall Street Journal. While many companies have policies restricting the use of personal or consumer devices on the networks, the article cites several factors that have made the iPad an exception, including over 500 iPad business applications on iTunes. http://www.wsj....

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Telecom Italia Tests LTE in Turin

Telecom Italia has kicked off the second phase of LTE testing using 17 sites in the center of Turin. Italy's Ministry of Economic Development authorized the use of two 20 MHz blocks in 2500-2690 MHz frequency band. major technology partners involved in Telecom Italia's test include Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia Siemens Networks. Nokia Siemens Networks confirmed that it supplied its Flexi Multiradio Base Station, as well as its Evolved...

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West Africa Cable System Plans UK Extension, 40 Gbps

Alcatel-Lucent has been selected to build an extension of the West Africa Cable System (WACS) from Portugal to the UK. The leg will span 2,000 km and operate at 40 Gbps. Under the contract extension, WACS will also deploy GMPLS capabilities providing dynamic and automated service provisioning for highest quality of service. This extension follows the recent successful field trial with Alcatel-Lucent of 40G solution, which also leverages next-generation coherent technology, and will further bolster connectivity along the Africa-Europe route.The...

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DISH Network Launches Online Video Portal with Live TV

DISH Network introduced online video portal for its satellite TV customers that integrates live and recorded TV with more than 150,000 popular movies, TV shows, clips and trailers into one easy-to-use interface. DISHOnline.com enables customers to watch their live TV, all of their DVR recordings, and instantly view thousands of movies, TV shows, clips and more from programmers such as Food Network, Discovery Channel, MTV, EPIX, Starz and Encore....

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Juniper Releases Media Flow Engine Appliances

Juniper Networks released a line of high-performance content delivery appliances designed to maximize the scale and reliability of its Media Flow converged content delivery and caching solution for service providers.The Juniper VXA Series Media Flow Engines appliances, which leverage technology originally developed by Ankeena Networks (acquired by Juniper earlier this year), are aimed at optimizing content delivery networks (CDNs). Juniper's Media...

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Applied Materials' Flowable CVD Offers New Chip Process Technology

Applied Materials announced a breakthrough film deposition technology capable of electrically isolating the densely-packed transistors in 20nm-and-below memory and logic chips. The company describes its Eterna FCVD (Flowable Chemical Vapor Deposition) system as a "game changer" that solvesthe most critical challenges in scaling Moore's Law -- 3D isolation of gates at tight geometries and thermal budgets with high density designs. The Eterna FCVD...

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Huawei Partners with Amerilink Telecom for US Strategy

Huawei reportedly has formed a partnership with Amerilink Telecom, a new company based in Overland Park, Kansas, to help its entry into the North American market.Amerilink Telecom is headed by Kevin Packingham (CEO), who until recently was the Senior Vice President of Product and Technology Development for Sprint Nextel. Its management team includes Admiral (ret.) William Owens (former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and CEO of Nortel and Teledesic); Mark Kenyon (Principal), formerly at Sprint and Embarq; Alan Pritchard (Principal),...

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Allied Telesis Switch Cuts Power Consumption with Firmware Upgrade

Allied Telesis announced a firmware upgrade for its range of AT-9000 series eco-friendly Gigabit Layer-2 switches that cuts power consumption by 6% on average, enabling the switch to run cooler, reducing the need for air conditioning, and lowering utility bills. Allied Telesis has achieved even higher-power efficiency with the firmware upgrade for its AT-9000/28 port switch. Maximum power consumption is reduced by 7.5 percent to 29.5 watts and regular power consumption is reduced by 6.1 percent to 27.7 watts.The AT-S100 v2.0 firmware upgrade also...

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Intel and Nokia Open Lab at the University of Oulu

Intel and Nokia have established a Joint Innovation Center at the University of Oulu in Finland. Initially the focus of the lab will be on mobile user experiences, including the creation of interfaces that are more natural and intuitive, in the same way that modern games and movies are more immersive through the use of realistic 3-D graphics. The new lab is well aligned with the MeeGo open source platform recently launched by Intel and Nokia. The companies are planning to enable 3-D experience with MeeGo. http://www.intel.com http://www.ou...

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AT&T Adds VoIP Service to Enterprise VPN Service

AT&T began offering a VoIP service to its virtual private network (VPN) customers. The converged solution will enable customers to consolidate their separate voice and data networks, reduce equipment and maintenance costs, and simplify migrating these complimentary capabilities to a common, secure infrastructure. The AT&T VoIP portfolio is also certified for interoperability with leading industry providers of IP-PBX systems, such as SIP...

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NTELOS Selects ADTRAN for FTTH

NTELOS, which operates primarily in Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, has selected ADTRAN's flagship Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access and Aggregation Platform (MSAP) and Total Access 300 Series ONTs for its 9,000 home GPON deployment funded by the Broadband Stimulus program. NTELOS will use ADTRAN's Total Access 5000 to deliver FTTH and Broadband DLC services. In addition to this award, NTELOS will also deploy the platform for GPON...

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Virgin Mobile USA Offers $40 Unlimited Prepaid Mobile Broadband

Virgin Mobile USA, which is now one of Sprint's prepaid brands, introduced a $40 unlimited mobile broadband plan. Available tomorrow online and rolling out at retail in the coming weeks, the new offer replaces the previous $20, $40 and $60 plans. The $40 plan provides unlimited usage for one month. A lower tier $10 for 100MB of prepaid mobile broadband over 10 days is also available. The service operates over Sprint's Nationwide Network and customers...

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Arista Offers Visibility into VMWare Switch Virtualization

Arista Networks has updated its EOS (Extensible Operating System) software capabilities with a new "Arista VM Tracer" capability that uniquely bridges the gap between the physical and virtual networks by providing new levels of visibility into the virtualization layer while enabling VMware administrators to have seamless control through the VMware vSphere interface.Arista said its goal is to make it operationally simple to converge the management...

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VSS Monitoring Raises $20 Million for its Distributed Taps

VSS Monitoring, a start-up based in Burlingame, California, secured $20 million in venture funding for its distributed traffic capture system for network and security monitoring. The company's Distributed Traffic Capture Systems provide an intelligent and robust platform for centralized monitoring, tool optimization, and scalability for the network monitoring and security infrastructure.VSS Monitoring said its business is experiencing strong growth...

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