Verizon Customers Hit in Epsilon Data Breach

Verizon has begun informing its customers that their names and email addresses were part of the massive data breach reported by Epsilon, the online marketing firm, late last week. About 50 other leading consumer and financial firms were also victims of the data breach. A full list of companies whose customer data was compromised has not yet announced by Epsilon.http://www.verizon....

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Oclaro Sees Quarterly Revenue Shortfall

Oclaro now expects revenues for the third quarter of its fiscal 2011, ended April 2, 2011, to be approximately $116.5 million. This compares with revenue of $120.3 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2011, ended January 1, 2011, and compares with the estimate of $123 million to $131 million the Company provided on January 27, 2011. Oclaro blamed the revenue shortfall from the previous estimate resulted primarily from inventory corrections among...

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EB Upgrades LTE Testing for Enhanced MIMO and Beamforming

EB (Elektrobit Corp.) has added two LTE features in EB Propsim F8 test platform: an increased amount of fading channels for MIMO testing, and enhanced modeling capability for beamforming testing.The new feature enables affordable testing of bi-directional 4x4 MIMO with a single emulator unit. It is a flexible way to extend testing capacity as a single EB Propsim F8 with a limited number of channels can later be upgraded to the full configuration,...

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Verizon Settles Govt Overcharging Case for $93.5 Million

Verizon will pay the U.S. government $93.5 million to settle charges that it over billed from 2004 to 2010, when Verizon allegedly billed the government for a variety of surcharges including property tax surcharges, carrier cost recovery charges, state telecommunications relay service surcharges and public utility commission fee surcharges. The case concerns a whistleblower lawsuit filed against Verizon over a GSA fixed-price contract, which supposedly was negotiated to avoid hidden surcharges. "Verizon was not only charging the government...

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NSN Appoints Ricky Corker to Lead North American Business

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced the appointment of Rick Corker to lead its business in North America, replacing Sue Spradley, who is stepping down to pursue opportunities outside the company but who will continue to serve as a non-executive advisor to Nokia Siemens Networks and as a member of the company's external advisory board. Spradley joined Nokia Siemens Networks in July 2007. Corker, an Australian citizen, is currently head of the company's...

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Huawei: Ten Years of Building its U.S. Base

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Group of U.S. Senators Urge Obama to Block Huawei, ZTE

A group of five U.S. senators published an open letter in which they urge President Obama to block Huawei and ZTE from making inroads into the U.S. telecom market especially with regards to the proposed National Wireless Initiative and Public Safety Network. The letter states that these companies receive support from the Chinese government and might represent a threat to national cyber security. The senators are also seeking to prevent Huawei or ZTE from receiving direct or indirect from any government backed project. Signatories include Senators...

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Toshiba Debuts SmartNAND with Error Correction Code

Toshiba America Electronic Components introduced "SmartNAND", its next-generation 24-nanometer (nm) NAND flash product family featuring a control chip that supports error correction code (ECC). The chip remove the burden of ECC from the host processor, while minimizing protocol changes.SmartNAND and is available in densities ranging from 4 to 64 gigabyte (GB).The new SmartNAND 24nm product lineup is a replacement for current 32nm generation devices. Target applications include portable media players, tablet PCs, digital TVs, set-top-boxes, and...

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Huawei Opens R&D Facility in Silicon Valley

Huawei marked its tenth anniversary in the United States by hosting an inauguration of a new R&D center in Santa Clara, California. The 200,000 square-foot facility includes multiple state-of-the-art research labs and focuses on the research and development of next generation communications solutions for U.S. customers while supporting Huawei's global R&D research efforts.In a series of speeches, presentations and technology demos, Huawei...

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Vitesse and AppliedMicro Collaborate on 40G/100G Enhanced FEC

Vitesse Semiconductor and AppliedMicro announced an alliance to drive a standard approach for 40G and 100G Enhanced Forward Error Correction (eFEC) technology. The collaboration allows AppliedMicro to license Vitesse's patented portfolio of 40G and 100G hard decision eFEC cores for its FPGA and ASSP solutions aimed at emerging Optical Transport Network (OTN) applications requiring best-in-class net electrical coding gain (NECG) with the lowest implementation...

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Certes and Genesis Networks Target Encryption as a Service (EaaS)

Certes Networks (previously CipherOptics) announced a managed service partnership with Genesis Networks, a leading provider of network and managed services. Genesis will begin selling Certes Networks' multi-layer encryption solutions as part of its Managed Services portfolio. This offering enables security sensitive clients to meet compliance and data protection requirements with the high-quality support they have come to trust from Genesis' expert...

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