Infonetics Increases its Mobile Forecast -- Services at $870B in 2014

Infonetics Research has increased its mobile voice, broadband, and messaging services forecasts, and is now expecting telecom operator revenue to hit $870 billion in 2014. Mobile broadband service revenue is forecast to grow the fastest of the three primary mobile services, with a 25% 5-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2009 to 2014. The number of mobile broadband subscribers to grow to 1.8 billion worldwide in 2014 (28% of all mobile...

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Arista Introduces 4-Slot Data Center Switch

Arista Networks introduced a 4-slot modular data center switch offering 5 Tbps of capacity and up to 192 wirespeed L2/L3 10GbE ports in only seven rack-units. The Arista 7500 4-slot chassis builds off of the company's existing 8-slot chassis, which was introduced in April 2010. The new model is built to alleviate capacity demand in the spine layer of cloud networks.The Arista 7500 4-slot chassis leverages the same 48-port 10GbE Ethernet line cards,...

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Aerohive Acquires Pareto -- WLAN + Cloud Services

Aerohive Networks, which specializes in wireless LAN (WLAN) control solutions, has acquired privately-held Pareto Networks, a start-up that develops routing, VPN and cloud services technology. Financial terms were not disclosed.Pareto Networks, which is based in Sunnyvale, California, released its cloud-based router/VPN solution in June 2010. Pareto's service uses a low-cost CPE device to securely tunnel all branch office traffic to its hosted...

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Tilera Raises $45 Million for its Multi-Core Processors

Tilera, a start-up based in San Jose, California, raised $45 million in new funding for its TILE family of many-core processors for cloud computing and communications. Tilera's processors are based on its "iMesh" architecture that scales to hundreds of RISC-based cores on a single chip. Tilera has two product families: TILE64 processors and TILEPro processors, with its latest TILE-Gx family planned for early 2011. The new funding was led by Artis...

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Picochip, Continuous Computing and Ixia Demo LTE Small Cells

Picochip, Continuous Computing and Ixia have demonstrated and validated an LTE femtocell solution that could accelerate time-to-market for equipment vendors. The solution uses Continuous Computing's Trillium LTE and femtocell wireless protocol software running on Picochip's picoArray hardware. Ixia's IxCatapult test platform validated the implementation. Trillium LTE wireless protocol software from Continuous Computing supports LTE femtocells and picocells (Home eNodeB) as well as the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) Mobility Management Entity (MME),...

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Ixia Extends its IxCatapult for End-to-End Femtocell Testing with LTE

Ixia has extended its IxCatapult testing platform to provide an end-to-end femtocell ecosystem validation, including access points and gateways, for network equipment developers and service providers. Ixia's test solution can emulate any node in the femtocell ecosystem, including user equipment, home eNodeBs (HeNBs), HeNB gateways (HeNB GW), and HeNB management systems. A number of different femtocell test scenarios are provided covering interoperability,...

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Stoke Raises $17 Million for Mobile Broadband Gateways

Stoke, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, raised $17 million in Series E funding for its mobile broadband gateways. Stoke develops carrier-class mobile broadband gateways designed for mobile data offload on 3G networks and for security aggregation on LTE networks. The Stoke Session Exchange (SSX) is a high density, ATCA-based gateway platform. The data offload function is performed without impacting untargeted traffic flows, without interfering...

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Comcast-NBCU Brings Conditions

In approving the Comcast-NBCU mega-merger, the FCC and the Department of Justice imposed a number of conditions and commitments which generally will remain in effect for seven years. These are aimed at preventing potential harms posed by the combination of Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator and Internet service provider, and NBCU, which owns and develops some of the most valuable television and film content. ensuring an open market for...

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CoreSite to Offer CENX Ethernet Exchange in its Data Centers

CoreSite Realty Corporation which operates eleven data centers across the U.S. including One Wilshire in Los Angeles, will offer the CENX Carrier Ethernet Exchange services. CENX will own and operate its Carrier Ethernet Exchange services, with CoreSite's network-dense data centers providing national access points. The agreement supports CENX expansion to new markets, including the Bay Area, Boston, Northern Virginia and Washington, DC as well...

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Verizon Global Wholesale Enhances Processes for Private IP Services

Verizon Global Wholesale added new tools to help customers with its Private IP services. These enhancements add monitoring options that give wholesale customers an improved view into statistics that reflect the health of their network, including view of network traffic from the circuit connection to the provider edge. New speeds and new interconnection choices have also been added. Verizon also offers service-level metrics that are measured on...

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