Broadcom Acquires Beceem for Multimode LTE/WiMAX Chipsets

Broadcom will acquire Beceem Communications , a privately-held developer of 4G chipsets, for approximately $316 million in cash.Beceem has been a developer of WiMAX silicon solutions, but earlier this year announced plans for chipset that address both LTE and WiMAX. The company claims its silicon technology supports peak broadband download speeds of up to 200Mbps. Its existing WiMAX chip has been seen major deployment in the Clearwire/Sprint ecosystem...

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Qualcomm Acquires iSkoot for Mobile Processing Offload

Qualcomm Innovation Center has acquired iSkoot Technologies Inc., a San Francisco-based start-up offering mobile optimization software. Financial terms were not disclosed.iSkoot works with device manufacturers and U.S. mobile operators to bring popular social networks and new Internet services to mobile handsets in an intelligent manner that reduces data bandwidth usage on the network and saves battery life on phones. The company's Kalaida Platform...

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Researchers Demonstrate Long-haul 40 Gigabit Ethernet

Ciena, Mellanox Technologies, SURFnet and the University of Amsterdam have demonstrated long-haul 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) network connections at the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF)'s 10th annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. For the demonstration, the organizations created a network using an existing 1650 km production-quality SURFnet link, connecting an experimental high-performance computer cluster equipped with a Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN 40GbE NIC at the University of Amsterdam to a remote data processing...

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EMC Introduces Greenplum for Big Data Clouds

EMC introduced a new "Greenplum" Data Computing Appliance that features a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture to handle the massive amounts of data being generated from various sources such as always-on networks, the Web, consumers, surveillance systems and sensors. EMC's Greenplum delivers data loading performance of 10 terabytes (TB) an hour, twice as fast as Oracle Exadata systems and five times as fast as systems from Netezza and Teradata. It integrates database, compute, storage and network into an enterprise class, easy-to-implement...

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LightSquared Targets Emergency Rapid Response Communications

LightSquared, which is building a nationwide LTE + satellite wholesale network, has formed an Emergency Rapid Response Communications Team (ERRT), which can provide on-call mobile satellite communications services, personnel and equipment for emergency support to federal, state and local first responders and public safety agencies. "LightSquared, through its SkyTerra communications services, has a strong track record of assisting the first responder/public...

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