Glue Networks Secures $4.5 Million for Cloud Networking Service

Glue Networks, a start-up based in Sacramento, California, raised $4.5 million in Series A funding for its enterprise-grade cloud networking service.


The "Glue Virtual Office" extends corporate networks to remote offices and teleworkers at low cost over the cloud.


Investors in Glue Networks include Keiretsu Forum, San Joaquin Angels, Sierra Angels, Sacramento Angels, Sand Hill Angels and Harvard Angels.



http://www.gluenetworks.com

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Motorola Mobility Invests in Moblyng

Motorola Mobility Ventures has made an equity investment in Moblyng, a developer and publisher of cross-platform, HTML5-based games for mobile devices and social networks. Moblyng games have been published for Android, Facebook, iOS and WebOS platforms and have been downloaded more than 9 million times.


Motorola Mobility Ventures joins Mohr Davidow Ventures and Deep Fork Capital in this round of financing.
http://www.moblyng.com

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Duke Energy Connects Smart Meters over Verizon's LTE

Duke Energy has selected Verizon Wireless to connect the digital meters, signs and media players that will be used in project Envision: Charlotte.



Using Verizon Wireless' LTE network, Duke Energy will gather and aggregate energy usage data from about 70 participating buildings in Charlotte's 1.94 square mile I-277 inner-belt loop. The information will then be streamed to large interactive lobby-level screens provided by Cisco.



Building tenants will see the nearly real-time commercial energy consumption data for the community and suggested actions they can take to reduce their personal energy usage in the office.



"We are pleased that Verizon Wireless has joined along with Cisco in making this very important initiative possible," said Vincent Davis, Duke Energy's director of smart energy community projects. "Having near real-time energy usage information – that's not available today with analog technology – is the first step toward awareness and proactive human engagement to reduce the amount of energy that's wasted in commercial buildings."



Envision: Charlotte aims to reduce energy use by up to 20 percent and avoid approximately 220,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases by 2016.http:// www.duke-energy.com http://www.envisioncharlotte.com/

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Juniper's Converged Supercore Packs MPLS Switching + Optical

Juniper Networks introduced two Converged Supercore platforms for packet optical transport.



Juniper's new architecture calls for a single network management system for the entire transport network -- Junos -- for both the optical layer and the packet layer.



The aim is to combine the efficiency of MPLS, the simplicity of switching and integrated optics to deliver network scale with fewer network elements.



By collapsing the packet and transport network layers, the Converged Supercore would help carriers save money in network management and operations, whike taking uncertainty and cost out of core network provisioning. Juniper is forecasting network CAPEX cost savings of 40 to 65 percent compared to traditional architectures and a 35 percent savings versus a pure IP routing solution.



The new Converged Supercore switches are based on a new Junos Express chipset that is optimized for high capacity transport and features the on-chip traffic engineering, full delay bandwidth buffers, algorithms optimized for packet transport and embedded error detection required to support differentiated traffic types and patterns without disruption. Junos Express is built in 40 nanometer technology with 3.55 billion transistors. It represent an R&D investment of $40 million. Junos Express is the second chipset in the Junos One family of processors, which the company developed in-house.



Some highlights of the products:

• PTX5000 scales to 384 10 GE interfaces, 64 100 GE interfaces and 192 40GE interfaces in a single chassis. The architecture delivers 480 Gbps per slot and is designed to scale up to 2 Tbps per slot. Packet processing is rated at f 720 Mpps per slot. The PTX5000 features fully redundant, High Availability hardware (cooling, power supply, routing engines, control board and SIB). In addition, the PTX supports 50 ms redundancy switchover under load.



• The PTX9000 switch, is double the capacity of PTX5000, and is the foundation of the converged supercore delivering statistical multiplexing, high capacity MPLS switching and Multilayer packet-transport manageability.



• Juniper will be offering a suite of 10/40/100GE short-reach and ultra long-haul DWDM interfaces.



• The PTX Series will be available for beta trials in the third quarter of 2011.

http://www.juniper.net

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AT&T Calculates its 2010 Energy Efficiency Project Savings

During, AT&T launched a comprehensive online energy management training program for AT&T corporate real estate managers, and as a result implemented 4,200 energy efficiency projects. These efforts yielded $44 million in annualized energy savings.



AT&T is using an Energy Scorecard to grade its own efficiency at each of its top 500 energy-consuming facilities.



AT&T cited several examples of energy efficiency projects in 2010:

• Replaced tower light controllers and incandescent bulbs with LEDs at over 1,100 cell sites.



• As part of ongoing network upgrades, removed switches at 11 central office sites in 2010, thus cutting power consumption across the network by more than 300,000 kilowatt hours.



• Deployed desktop power management software on 169,000 computers generating a total estimated annualized savings of $614,000.

In 2008, AT&T established an energy intensity metric based on kWh per terabyte of data carried on their network and set a goal for 2009 to reduce that intensity by 15 percent. In 2009, AT&T achieved a 23.8 percent decrease in energy intensity using 498 kWh per terabyte of data carried on their network. For 2010, AT&T set a goal to further reduce energy intensity by an additional 15 percent as compared with 2009's KWh per terabyte of data figure.http://www.att.com

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Marvell Posts Revenue of $901 Million, Down 6% Sequentially

Marvell Technology Group reported revenue for the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2011 of $901 million, a 7 percent increase from $843 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010, ended January 30, 2010, and a 6 percent sequential decrease from $959 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2011, ended October 30, 2010.



For the fiscal year ended January 29, 2011, revenue was $3.61 billion, an increase of 29 percent over revenue of $2.81 billion for the fiscal year ended January 30, 2010.



GAAP net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 was $223 million, or $0.33 per share (diluted), compared with GAAP net income of $205 million, or $0.31 per share (diluted) for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. GAAP net income in the third quarter of fiscal 2011 was $256 million, or $0.38 per share (diluted).



"We had a strong fiscal year for 2011 with revenues up 29% from the previous year, and free cash flow of nearly $1.1 billion or $1.60 per share. This is amongst the best in our industry and the highest free cash flow generation in the history of Marvell," said Dr. Sehat Sutardja, Marvell's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "While the results for our fourth quarter continue to be affected by seasonal declines in our mobile and wireless end markets, we are well positioned with competitive products to take advantage of the trends in the coming years."http://www.marvell.com

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Free Mobile (Iliad) and Orange Sign Roaming Deal

Free Mobile (Iliad) and Orange announced a national roaming agreement covering their respective 2G and 3G networks in France. This agreement will take effect once Free Mobile has deployed a network that offers coverage for 25% of the French population. Under the terms of its license, Free Mobile has taken a clear commitment to deploy a network that offers coverage to at least 90% of the population by 2018http://www.iliad.fr

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J.D. Power and Associates Ranks Verizon Wireless Highest in Wireless Call Quality

Verizon Wireless won the highest rating in wireless call quality performance according to a newly released J.D. Power and Associates U.S. 2011 Wireless Call Quality Performance Study.



The semiannual study measures wireless call quality based on seven problem areas that impact overall carrier performance: dropped calls; static/interference; failed call connection on the first try; voice distortion; echoes; no immediate voicemail notification; and no immediate text message notification. Call quality issues are measured as problems per 100 (PP100) calls, where a lower score reflects fewer problems and higher call quality.



J.D. Power and Associates also found that the percentage of wireless calls made indoors has increased considerably during the past eight years—to an average of 56 percent in 2011 from 40 percent in 2003, and that among wireless calls made outside of buildings, the greatest decrease has occurred among calls made in vehicles, which has declined to 20 percent in 2011 from 37 percent in 2003. Typically, wireless calls placed indoors result in slightly more problems, on average, than calls placed outdoors, and the study concludes that this factor contributes to an overall decline in call quality.

More online.http://businesscenter.jdpower.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2011023

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EXFO and Opnext to Demo 100GBASE-LR4 CFP Test

At next week's OFC/NFOEC event in Los Angeles, EXFO will demonstrate 100G interoperability testing capabilities in collaboration with Opnext. The company have already tested Opnext's 100GBASE-LR4 CFP Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) optical module using EXFO's FTB-85100G Packet Blazer (100G/40G Ethernet and OTN) module.



Housed in EXFO's FTB-500 portable platform, the FTB-85100G features numerous testing capabilities, including qualifying 100 GigE IP traffic transmission at 100 % throughput, measuring latency and ensuring transparent recovery of the client signal at the receiver end when mapped over OTN.http://www.exfo.com http://www.opnext.com

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NeoPhotonics Reports Record Revenue

NeoPhotonics recorded record annual revenue for 2010 of $184.1 million, an increase of $29.1 million, or 19%, over $155.1 million in 2009. Gross margin for 2010 increased to 30.4% from 26.1% in 2009. The company also reported its first full year of profitability in 2010. Net income for 2010 was $3.3 million, as compared to a net loss in 2009 of $6.8 million.



"We achieved record revenue for both periods and we recorded our first full year of profitability in 2010. Moreover, 2010 marks our 8th consecutive year of year-over-year revenue growth. We believe our strong financial performance demonstrates the positive demand we are seeing for our PIC-based technologies and products with the world's largest network equipment manufacturers," said Tim Jenks, Chairman, President and CEO of NeoPhotonics.



NeoPhotonics said it made significant progress qualifying new PIC-based product designs in 2010 with 97 cumulative, multi-year product family design wins to its tier one customer group. This is an increase of 17 product family design wins since the end of 2009.http://www.neophotonics.com

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