Violin Memory Raises $35M for Scalable Memory Array

Violin Memory, a start-up based in Mountain View, California raised $35 million in Series B funding for its scalable memory arrays. The Violin memory arrays and its patent-pending flash vRAID technology deliver enhanced application performance for enterprise data centers. Violin's Memory Arrays scale to hundreds of terabytes and millions of IOPS with low, spike-free latency.The funding round includes Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, the inventor and a technology leader of NAND flash and Violin's...

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Genachowski Call for Reform of Intercarrier Compensation and USF

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski reiterated his call for reform of the nation's intercarrier compensation regime and Universal Service Fund. The FCC is slated to vote on these issues tomorrow - February 8, 2011.Specifically, Genachowski is calling for reforms based on pillars:Modernizing the Programs To Support Broadband NetworksEnsuring Fiscal ResponsibilityDemanding AccountabilityEnacting Market-Driven and Incentive-Based PoliciesGenachowski is...

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Aircell Raises $35 Million for Expansion

Aircell, which provides "Gogo" inflight broadband service, raised $35 million from its existing investors and management team. The company is now serving nine of the top 11 U.S. airlines and is available on nearly 6,000 business aircraft. The financing will be used to fund growth in both commercial and business aviation markets. Currently, Gogo Inflight Internet Service is available on more than 1,050 commercial aircraft operating 3,800 flights...

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Loc-Aid Raises $13 Million for "Location-as-a-Service"

Loc-Aid, a start-up based in San Francisco and Miami, has raised $13 million in a Series C financing for its Location-as-a-Service (LaaS) model. Loc-Aid provides a location gateway that application developers can leverage to obtain precise geographic data on wireless devices. It aggregates data from major mobile operators, including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile, as well as other carriers in Canada and Latin America. This enables...

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Alcatel-Lucent Charts New Mobile Architecture

Alcatel-Lucent unveiled a new radio access architecture based on several key innovations that promise to radically simplify the way that mobile networks are deployed and operated. At the heart of the new design is "lightRadio" -- a new concept whereby the base station, which is typically located at the base of each cell site tower, is broken into its component elements and then distributed into both the antenna and throughout a cloud-like network.Bell...

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EVA and mimoOn Partner on LTE PHY Reference Architectures

CEVA and mimoOn announced a range of LTE reference architectures based on the widely adopted CEVA-XC communication processor and designed to accelerate the development of cost-efficient, low-power 4G solutions for mass market terminal and infrastructure devices. The reference architectures are software upgradeable to support additional wireless communication standards such as WCDMA, HSPA+ and WiMAX.The User Equipment (UE) reference architecture targets both LTE FDD and LTE TDD up to category-4 with ultra-low power consumption and silicon cost to...

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Australia's vividwireless Hits 128Mbps in TD-LTE Trial

Australia's vividwireless, which currently operates a mobile broadband network based on WiMAX, attained peak speeds as high as 128 Mbps and consistent speeds between 40 - 70 Mbps in a two month trial of TD-LTE. The tests were conducted with Huawei Technologies. vividwireless is using Huawei's base stations in its network.The trial commenced in December, 2010 and was conducted in inner-city Redfern, as well as Western Sydney around Horsley Park....

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Extreme Networks Builds Mobile Backhaul with Scalability, G.8262, Synchronicity

Extreme Networks introduced a 2G-3G-4G mobile backhaul architecture for fiber or microwave and supported with a new family of mobile backhaul routers. The company's E4G mobile backhaul family is highlighted by pseudowire capabilities, 1-10 Gigabit Ethernet scalability, and unique capabilities in next-generation timing as well as carrier-grade resiliency. Specifically, Extreme Networks is offering integrated synchronous Ethernet ITU-G.8262, support...

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Dell'Oro: EPC Revenues to Double Annually Through 2015

EPC market revenues are forecast to double on average annually between 2010 and 2015, while growth in the overall wireless packet core market is expected to expand an average of 20 percent each year during the same time period, according to Dell'Oro Group.The entire wireless packet core market is expected to grow strongly, but much more explosive growth is expected from mobile broadband subscriptions and traffic," said Greg Collins, Vice President...

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CENX Offers Carrier-Neutral, Inter-Exchange Service

CENX, which operates Carrier Ethernet Exchanges, has launched a new Inter-Exchange Service exclusively provided by its members. The service facilitates carrier-neutral connectivity between CENX Exchanges by integrating and advertising CENX members' bandwidth. CFN Services is the first CENX Member to provide this inter-Exchange function. CFN has announced immediate availability of connections between CENX New York, Chicago, and London exchanges,...

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DragonWave Debuts Horizon Harmony and Horizon Compact+

DragonWave Networks introduced its Horizon Harmony platform, a packet-based, high-capacity system for transporting converged TDM, ATM, Frame Relay and packet-based Ethernet traffic. The new DragonWave platform, which leverages technology from its recent acquisition of Axerra Networks, integrates pseudowire and packet microwave technologies. Horizon Harmony operates in the 6 to 60 GHz frequency range and delivers a number of advanced technologies...

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BLiNQ Acquires Nortel Wireless Backhaul Assets, Raises $7.4 Million

BLiNQ Networks, a start-up based in Plano, Texas with R&D in Ottawa, announced its entrance into the market for wireless backhaul solutions. The company has acquired certain intellectual property and wireless assets from Nortel Networks. It has secured $7.4 million in Series A funding and has appointed former President of Andrew Corporation's Wireless Network Solutions, Carleton Miller, as President and CEO.BLiNQ plans to unveil its wireless...

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NSN Joins GALACTICO Terabit Ethernet Project

Nokia Siemens Networks has joined the European Commission's GALACTICO project, which is focused on developing coherent optical communication systems for high-speed Ethernet. The three-year research program aims to uniquely blend three of the most established integration materials -- InP (Indium Phosphide), GaAs (Gallium Arsenide), and Si (Silicon) -- on a common silicon-based platform to address the high-performance, volume production and low-cost...

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