DragonWave Posts Revenue of $27.2 Million

DragonWave reported revenue of US$27.2 million for its second quarter fiscal year 2011, ended August 31, 2010, compared with $32.4 million in the second quarter of fiscal year 2010. Net income was $1.2 million or $0.03 per diluted share, compared with net income of $5.7 million or $0.19 per diluted share in the second quarter of fiscal year 2010. Gross margin for the second quarter was 44%, compared with 42% in the second quarter of the prior fiscal year; operating margin was 4% in the quarter, compared with 17% in the second quarter of the prior...

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NTT Com Builds Premium Data Center in Hong Kong

NTT Communications will open a new premium data center in Hong Kong. The Tseung Kwan O Data Center, which occupies 30,000 square meters of land, will become NTT Com's biggest data center outside of Japan, and located in the eastern side of Kowloon. http://www.ntt....

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UK Regulator Issues Wholesale Fibre Access Rules

Ofcom, the official telecom regulator in the UK, published new rules designed to promote competition and investment in super-fast broadband services across the UK. The plan calls for "virtual unbundling/; -- allowing competitors to have access to a dedicated virtual link over new fibre lines laid by BT. Ofcom will permit BT to set prices for these new wholesale products. These prices would be constrained by market forces given the highly competitive...

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Force10 Adds 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet Top-of-Rack Switch

Force10 Networks is extending its S-Series family with a new S55 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) top-of-rack (ToR) access switch fore data centers.The 1 RU unit delivers non-blocking, line-rate switching performance as well as support for the Force10 Open Automation Framework to make virtualized data center environments more responsive and manageable. It provides 48 GbE access ports and up to four optional 10 GbE uplinks. http://www.force10networks....

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TELUS deploys Alcatel-Lucent's Digital Media Store

TELUS has deployed Alcatel-Lucent's Digital Media Store (DMS) to offer ringtone, image and mobile game services to its more than 7.9 million mobile and broadband Internet customers across Canada.Alcatel-Lucent is providing the digital store front for TELUS as an end-to-end managed and hosted service. The DMS is driven by a configurable merchandizing and analytics engine that enables focused marketing programs, such as bundles, subscriptions, personal...

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AT&T Builds Innovation Centers in Palo Alto, Plano and Ra'anana

AT&T will build innovation centers in Palo Alto, California, Plano, Texas, and Ra'anana, near Tel Aviv, Israel to accelerate new networking technologies and applications. Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs and Ericsson are initial participants. Cisco and Juniper also plan to contribute to the centers. The centers will provide an environment for developers to collaborate with AT&T and its innovators, its host suppliers and other developers.The centers...

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ENISA Sees Paradigm Shift with Stuxnet

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) issued a preliminary assessment of the recent "Stuxnet" attacks and their potential impact on Europe, calling the attack a paradigm shift in cyber security.The report argues that Europe should reconsider its protection measures for Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP). ENISA warns that new measures must be developed and put into practice by public and private enterprises...

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LightSquared Reaches L-Band LTE Deals with Qualcomm, Nokia

LightSquared, the new company backed by Harbinger Capital Partners that is building a nationwide LTE + satellite wholesale network, announced agreements with Qualcomm, Nokia two additional suppliers of wireless devices -- AnyDATA and BandRich.Qualcomm is integrating L-Band LTE technology in its mainstream chipset roadmap and has developed a satellite air interface technology. The Enhanced Geostationary Air Link (EGAL) enables the satellite mode...

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GSMA Launches mWomen Programme

The GSMA has launched an "mWomen Programme" aimed at bringing the resources of the global mobile industry and the international development community together to bring mobile devices to more than 150 million women in developing markets within three years. The initiative was formally launched by Rob Conway, CEO of the GSMA, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Cherie Blair, at an event in Washington, D.C..The vision of the programme...

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