Ixia Posts Q4 Revenue of $78M, up 10% Sequentially

Ixia reported record Q4 2010 revenue of $77.8 million, an increase of 39 percent compared with $56.1 million reported for the 2009 fourth quarter and an increase of 10 percent compared with $70.9 million reported in the immediately preceding quarter. Total revenue for the fiscal year 2010 was $276.8 million, an increase of 56 percent compared with $178.0 million reported in fiscal year 2009.Fiscal year 2010 and 2009 revenue include approximately $70.0 million and $24.1 million, respectively, of sales attributable to IxN2X and IxCatapult products...

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Verizon Wireless States Policy on Network Management

Verizon Wireless is implementing two new network management practices: bandwidth throttling and content compression optimization. The announcement comes as the company begins enrolling iPhone customers for the first time.In a statement posted online, Verizon Wireless states that it may implement bandwidth controls for the top 5% of bandwidth users during peak periods. Specifically, for these heavy users, Verizon Wireless may reduce data throughput...

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Internet Inflection Point: Last IPv4 Addresses Allocated

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Number Resources Organization (NRO), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Society held a press event in Miami to issue the last remaining blocks of IPv4 addresses. The last address blocks were handed out to the five global Regional Internet Registries."This is a major turning point in the on-going development of the Internet," said Rod Beckstrom, ICANN's President...

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Dell'Oro: Enterprise WLAN to Grow 75%+ by 2015

The Dell'Oro Group is forecasting that the enterprise Wireless LAN (WLAN) will grow by more than 75 percent over 2010 levels in the next five years to $7.5 billion. The report also indicates that the small office/home office (SOHO) WLAN market will continue to grow, with unit shipments rising in each year of the forecast."The wireless LAN market rebounded quickly from the economic recession, with 2010 revenue levels easily surpassing those of 2008...

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AT&T Kicks Off "Anthem" B2B Advertising Campaign

AT&T has kicked off a multi-million dollar B2B advertising campaign focused on transformative network-based and mobility solutions. The advertising campaign - AT&T's largest in the B2B space since 2004 - is titled "Anthem" and is initially targeted to large enterprises. http://www.att.com http://www.business.att.com/enterprise/online_campaign/netwo...

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Verizon Reauthorizes Share Buyback Program

Verizon Communications' Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to 100 million shares of its common stock. The board also determined that no additional shares may be acquired under a previously approved program to repurchase up to 100 million shares. Under the previous program, which was due to end Feb. 28, 2011, approval remained to purchase approximately 60 million shares. http://www.verizon....

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IANA Allocates the Last IPv4 Addresses

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NSN's Single RAN Advanced Supports GSM/HSPA/LTE/LTE Advanced

Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled its "Single RAN Advanced" architecture for supporting the full range of air interface technologies from GSM up through LTE-Advanced using software defined radios.Key components of Single RAN Advanced include a new highly powerful, compact and scalable Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station. This base station will be 10 Gbps capable for high capacity cell sites. Single RAN Advanced also includes the Flexi Lite Base Station...

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Alcatel-Lucent Boosts ISAM to 10G GPON

Alcatel-Lucent announced latest release of its Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) IP access platform designed for large scale 10G GPON rollouts. The 10G GPON technology is available on the existing (ETSI) ISAM products, as well as on a new set of market-leading, high-capacity shelves. The latter provide dual 100Gbps capacity per slot to accommodate mass-market, high-capacity fiber deployments. Alcatel-Lucent said the ISAM's density, capacity...

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Aviat Networks Posts Revenue of $124 Million

Aviat Networks reported quarterly revenue of $124.2 million, compared with $122.6 million in the year ago period. Net loss was $12.5 million, or $(0.21) per share, compared with a net loss of $7.9 million, or $(0.13) per share, in the year ago quarter. Revenue in the North America segment was $40.4 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2011, compared with $49.4 million in the year ago period. International revenue was $83.8 million, compared with $73.2 million in the year ago period."Aviat Networks made significant progress in its restructuring...

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RENATER and Ciena Complete Successful Coherent 100G

RENATER, the French national telecommunications network for technology education and research, has completed a 100 Gbps network trial connecting the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva and the IN2P3 Computing Centre in Lyon, a distance of 220 km. The trial, which was completed in December, used Ciena's ActivFlex 6500 Packet-Optical Platform. The Ciena 100G coherent technology trialed is capable of delivering a total throughput of 8.8 Tbps on a single strand of optical fibre. A second phase of tests, validating the trial...

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