Extreme Announces Preliminary Results

Extreme Networks now expects revenue for its 2011 fiscal third quarter ended March 27, 2011 to be $75.5-76.5 million. "The revenue for the quarter was impacted by the deferral of $2.6 million in product revenue for a large customer and the timing of several large and relatively complex customer transactions," said Oscar Rodriguez, President & CEO of Extreme Networks. "We expect to be able to complete our obligations under these deals in future quarters, which will represent additional revenue for Extreme Networks at that time. In addition,...

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Orange Business and Tata expand Telepresence

Orange Business Services announced an interoperability agreement with Tata Communications to allow customers to conduct Telepresence meetings seamlessly on each respective network. The collaboration will provide customers of each organization with open access to connect across a much broader business ecosystem.Meetings can take place between Orange's Telepresence Community customers and any private or public room on the Tata Communications Global...

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China Unicom Anhui Selects NSN's Energy Solutions

China Unicom's subsidiary in Anhui province will deploy Nokia Siemens Networks' Energy Solutions including cooling box and battery cooling cabinet to replace more costly air conditioning units. The solution can help lower average ambient temperatures to reduce the dependency on expensive air-conditioning reducing total power consumption.Nokia Siemens Networks said its Energy Solutions provide a comprehensive approach to reduce energy consumption in telecom networks, which accounts for 86% of the total energy consumed by operators or 10%-30% of...

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thePlatform Integrates Microsoft's Smooth Streaming

thePlatform, a leading white-label video management and publishing company, has integrated Microsoft's leading digital media technologies, including Microsoft PlayReady and Internet Information Services (IIS) Smooth Streaming. The companies said their integration enables premium video providers to deliver protected, high-definition (HD) Web video for both in-home and remote viewing experiences using the Microsoft streaming technology.IIS Smooth...

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Zixi Raises $4 million for Online VOD Software

Zixi, a start-up based in Waltham, MA, raised $4 million in new funding for its solutions for broadcast-quality HDTV globally over the cloud.Zixi's software maximizes network bandwidth, minimizes startup delay and eliminates buffering, without sacrificing quality or altering business or operational processes. The company said its solution enables zero packet loss, split-second latency, a mere three to four percent overhead on available network bandwidth,...

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Level 3's Acquisition of Global Crossing Builds Scale

Level 3 Communications will acquire Global Crossing in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.0 billion. Global Crossing shareholders will receive 16 shares of Level 3 common stock for each share of Global Crossing common stock or preferred stock that is owned at closing. The combined company will operate fiber optic networks on three continents, connected by extensive undersea facilities. The combined network will serve a worldwide...

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Cortina Debuts 2nd Gen 40G OTN Processor

Cortina Systems is now sampling its second generation 40G/10G optical transport processor family, CS604x, designed for transport and aggregation of data, voice, and video signals simultaneously over 10G, 40G, and 100G networks. Cortina said its updated processor is aimed at the growing adoption of 40G Ethernet transport, as these trunks will require the cost-efficient aggregation of 10G connections. Recent OTN standards ratification for GMP mapping...

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Eircom Deploys RAD Demarc Devices

Eircom has deployed fiber demarcation devices from RAD Data Communications to deliver symmetric Ethernet services to businesses across Ireland at speeds up to 1 Gbps.RAD's ETX-202A is a fully featured demarcation device that provides transport demarcation to Layer 3 business services such as IP VPN, VoIP and dedicated Internet access over native Ethernet access with high reliability and management. Similarly, RAD's Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) solution, the LA-210 DSL termination unit, will be rolled out across the eircom network later in the...

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Altair Raises $26 Million for its LTE Silicon

Altair Semiconductor, a start-up based in Israel, has completed a $26 million round of funding for its ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance LTE chipsets. Over the last year, Altair launched the first commercial LTE product in Poland, the world's first Band 12 LTE solution and the first Digital Dividend LTE router in Germany. The company has completed interoperability testing with numerous tier-one infrastructure vendors around...

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Mu Dynamics Stress Tests Application-aware Networks

Mu Dynamics is turning up its ability to stress test application performance across networks in real time.The company is expanding its "Mu TestCloud"-- an online collaborative community for the sharing of test assets -- to include thousands of downloadable, ready-to-run, application-specific tests. Mu's solution gives service providers and equipment vendors the ability to immediately recreate and accurately test network policies using real application...

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Cisco CRS-3 Adds Packet Transport Blades, Customer Traction

In its first year, the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System has racked up 80 customers, putting it on a faster adoption pace than the original CRS-1 platform. Cisco is now adding new capabilities to the CRS-3 platform, expanding its addressable market while reducing the cost for service providers to deliver packet-transport services.Flexible Packet Transport -- the Cisco CRS-3 flexible packet-transport capability is a form of label switching enabled...

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Verizon Unveils Content-to-Consumer Media Service

Verizon is launching a Digital Media Service for delivering live and on-demand personalized content to any type of consumer device at large scale. Verizon Digital Media Services aims to automate previously manual workflow processes associated with formatting, managing and delivering digital media. The goal is to help content owners and digital retailers to more effectively produce, manage and distribute premium programming to consumers when, how...

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Cotendo's Cloudlet Accelerates Dynamic Content in the Cloud

Cotendo, a start-up Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Value-Added Site Acceleration services provider, introduced its "Cloudlet" Platform, which helps content providers to push business logic for Web content applications into the cloud and much closer to the end user. Cotendo said its Cloudlet paradigm will solve the challenge of quickly and efficiently delivering personalized web pages and device-specific content. This type of highly customized...

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Dynamic Content, Clouds, and CDNs

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