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 strategic investor since April 2010. Also joining this round is networking innovator Juniper Networks, along with other corporate partners, crossover investment funds, high net worth industry leaders and private equity general partners.
"Violin Memory is a true performance leader in high-end silicon storage," said R.K. Anand, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Business at Juniper Networks. "We believe their innovative flash Memory Array will play an important role in delivering tiered and near-server storage capabilities to help advance the requirements of cloud computing and network-driven data center consolidation."http://www.violin-memory.com
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 strategic investor since April 2010. Also joining this round is networking innovator Juniper Networks, along with other corporate partners, crossover investment funds, high net worth industry leaders and private equity general partners.
"Violin Memory is a true performance leader in high-end silicon storage," said R.K. Anand, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Business at Juniper Networks. "We believe their innovative flash Memory Array will play an important role in delivering tiered and near-server storage capabilities to help advance the requirements of cloud computing and network-driven data center consolidation."http://www.violin-memory.com
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 location-based services for any application on any wireless device. For the carrier, Loc-Aid provides a source a revenue and an access path to developers. For developers, the platform provides an easier way to obtain opt-in location data than negotiating separate deals with each carrier and managing multiple APIs.
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.
The tests were conducted with Huawei Technologies. vividwireless is using Huawei's base stations in its network.
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 for IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol, and carrier-class resiliency with support of Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) and ITU-G.8032 resilient packet rings. The architecture leverages MPLS-TP to scale the network, deploy new services and accommodate the anticipated explosion of users and capacity.
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, along with the roadmap to interconnect all the CENX exchanges by June 2011.
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.
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 requirements of the next generation of GbE, and eventually Terabit, optical transponders. The GALACTICO consortium includes nine partners comprising university research centers and leading companies from several European countries.
