Bivio Introduces Data Retention System

Bivio Networks, a leading supplier of deep packet inspection (DPI) network systems, has introduced a high-performance Data Retention System for network operators and government agencies. The Bivio Data Retention System provides tracking of user applications, networks and devices across wireline and mobile network infrastructures.The Bivio Data Retention System uses proprietary record correlation technology combined with deep packet inspection (DPI) network probing to enable contextualized multi-source data collection and retention. The system links...

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Ixia Scales IP Testing to Terabit Levels

Ixia introduced its "Xcellon" next-generation architecture for scaling IP traffic generation and testing to the terabit level. This class of testing is aimed at carriers, enterprises and equipment manufacturers who are building networks with complex traffic patterns from millions of mobile and fixed subscribers. Requirements includes stress testing and traffic emulation on the highest performance routers, switches, web application servers, application-aware...

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Autonomy's Private Cloud Grows to 17 Petabytes

Autonomy Corporation, which claims to be the world's largest private cloud, revealed that it now manages over 17 Petabytes of email, documents, and multimedia data on 6,500 servers on 8 data centers around the world. Seventeen Petabytes is equal to more than 11 times the size of the 10 billion photos on Facebook, or 226 years of HD video. Verticals with rapid growth include hosted marketing applications and cloud-based legal collaboration. For...

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Alcatel-Lucent Packs 256 10GigE ports in Enterprise Switch

Alcatel-Lucent introduced a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) enterprise switch as part of its new "Application Fluent Networks" strategy, which optimizes the enterprise network for real-time applications.The new OmniSwitch 10K Modular LAN Chassis delivers five terabit per second (5 Tbps) of wire rate switching capacity. This enables a density of up to 256 10GigE ports. However, power consumption is rated at less than 1.5 watts per non-blocking Gigabit...

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Alcatel-Lucent opens Delivery Center in Bangalore

Alcatel-Lucent opened a new regional delivery center (RDC) in Bangalore, India. The facility provides services to manage, operate and maintain multi-vendor fixed and mobile telecommunications networks based in India or anywhere around the world. This is the first center of its kind for the company in the Asia Pacific region, and the fourth in the world. Alcatel-Lucent's other RDCs are located in the United States, Poland and Romania. The Bangalore...

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Hatteras Networks Builds Carrier Ethernet Momentum

Hatteras Networks reported its fourth sequential quarter of record-breaking revenue growth and profitability. The privately-held company said its strong growth is sparked by extensive customer expansion, product advancements and an uptake in customers' mobile backhaul as well as wholesale and retail service deployments. "During the past year we have experienced dramatic increases in deployments of carrier Ethernet solutions, and our growth is a...

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Level 3 Vyvx to Offer Uncompressed HD Video Transport

Level 3 Communications offering uncompressed high-definition (HD) video transport services between Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and New York City. The service will support 1.5 and 3.0 Gbps transport with zero compression, ensuring that the video feed is delivered in its native, pristine form. Level 3 Vyvx customers in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. can use the services for transmission locally or between any of the three cities. ...

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Aruba Updates its WLAN OS for Multimedia Apps, Smartphone, Tablets

Aruba Networks released a new version of its WLAN OS with new features for multimedia applications in high-density smartphone and tablet environments. Key features of ArubaOS 6.0 include:Application fingerprinting technology -- this enables identification of encrypted voice and video protocols and applies quality of service (QoS) over the air. Always-on spectrum analysis -- integrated into all Aruba 802.11n access points, the Aruba Spectrum Analyzer...

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Calix Picks Up Broadband Stimulus Projects in Minnesota

Federated Telephone Cooperative (Federated) and Farmers Mutual Telephone Company (Farmers) have selected the Calix E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) and 700GX/GE families of optical network terminals (ONTs) for Broadband Stimulus projects that will bring new services to "unserved" and "underserved" rural areas of western Minnesota. Calix. The companies have gained over $14 million in grants, loans, and private investment to advance these Fiber Forward" initiatives. http://www.calix....

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Ciena Reaffirms Financial Guidance

Ciena reaffirmed its financial guidance for the fiscal fourth quarter ending October 31, 2010. The company currently expects a sequential increase in its fourth quarter revenue of up to 5 percent, which, based on third quarter results, reflects a revenue range of approximately $390 million to $409 million. Ciena also expects adjusted gross margin in the low 40s percent range. http://www.ciena....

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IBM Introduces Blueworks Live Cloud Management

IBM introduced a new Blueworks Live cloud offering that brings together process documentation and social community elements with more than 20,000 members and over 200,000 processes already modeled and documented. The new cloud service also adds a new ability to structure and automate ad hoc processes that businesses currently run over email and attachments. Blueworks Live combines and delivers these in one cloud offering/ Service starts at $10...

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Sony Unveils its Google Internet TV

Sony introduced its first Google TV sets, saying the combination of its hardware and engineering expertise with Google's understanding of open software will deliver a unique user experience.Sony Internet TV powered by Google TV leverages the Android platform, runs the Google Chrome browser and uses an Intel Atom processor. It provides the ability to search across Internet and television content for access to entertainment and information. The Sony...

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Intel Posts Record $11.1 Billion in Revenue

Intel reported record quarterly revenue of $11.1 billion, up 18 percent year-over-year. The company reported operating income of $4.1 billion, net income of $3.0 billion and EPS of 52 cents.Some Q3 2010 highlights:PC Client Group revenue was up 3 percent sequentially, with record mobile microprocessor revenue.Data Center Group revenue was up 3 percent sequentially, with record server microprocessor revenue.Intel Atom microprocessor and chipset revenue of $396 million, down 4 percent sequentially.The average selling price (ASP) for microprocessors...

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Sonus Networks Appoints New CEO

Raymond P. Dolan has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Sonus Networks, replacing Richard Nottenburg, who previously announced his plan to step down as President and CEO and a director of Sonus. Most recently, Dolan served as CEO QUALCOMM/Flarion Technologies, a developer of mobile broadband communications technologies, as well as Senior Vice President of QUALCOMM Incorporated. Prior to its acquisition by QUALCOMM in 2006, Mr. Dolan served as Chairman and CEO of Flarion. http://www.sonusnet....

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PEER 1 Upgrades Data Centers with Juniper

Vancouver-based PEER 1 Hosting has selected Juniper's '3-2-1' architecture for an upgrade of its data centers and core network infrastructure. The deployment will enable PEER 1 Hosting to meet its guarantee of 100 percent network availability and ultra-low latency to its customers worldwide for all services, including their flagship Cloud Hosting Services.PEER 1 now operates seventeen data centers worldwide. The company is deploying Juniper's MX960 3D Universal Edge Routers, EX8200 Ethernet Switches and EX4200 Ethernet Switches with virtual chassis...

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SA Forum: "There's No Upside to Downtime"

By Alan Meyer, SA Forum Marketing Work Group ChairWith a growing reliance on mobile technology, uninterrupted telecommunications service is expected by today's consumers. In addition, it is pivotal to the success of companies whose products or services run on networks. The market demand for service availability, which implies a service is always available, regardless of hardware, software or user fault, has increased steadily.The Service Availability...

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