Calix Hires Cisco Exec

Calix has appointed Andy Lockhart as senior vice president, international sales and marketing. Lockhart joins Calix after over twenty years at Cisco, where he developed a wide range of international and cross cultural leadership experience. Most recently, Andy held worldwide sales responsibility for the integration of Cisco's largest acquisition in recent years. Andy was instrumental in establishing many of Cisco's largest international business operations, including the founding of Cisco Japan, building Cisco's Asia Pacific partner network, establishing...

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TE Connectivity Launches "QUAREO" Connection Identification Chip

TE Connectivity introduced "QUAREO", a patented connection point technology that provides the ability to electronically trace, monitor and authenticate every connection from the data center to the desktop. QUAREO connectors have an advanced chip technology that provides a unique "connection point identification" that records the real-time status of each fiber and copper connection point and its entire cabling pathway into a global database for access...

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Verizon Cuts its DSL Pricing to $15 per Month

Verizon has introduced two new price tiers for both its stand-alone, unbundled High Speed Internet service and for so-called "dry-loop connections," which are connections without voice service. No annual plan contracts are required, and prices are good for one year. When ordered online, customers save $5 on the monthly price for any price point, and also receive a free wireless router – a $34.99 value. The new price tiers are effective immediately. Stand-alone service prices are: 500 Kbps to 1.0 Mbps -- $19.99 ($14.99 online) Either 1.1-3...

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Verizon Wireless Prices MiFi LTE Hotspot at $99

Verizon Wireless began marketing its new MiFi 4510L 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot modem for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement on a 4G Mobile Broadband plan. 4G LTE Mobile Broadband plans begin at $50 monthly access for 5GB. User should expect download speeds of 5 to 12 Mbps and upload speeds of 2 to 5 Mbps in 4G Mobile Broadband coverage areas. http://www.verizonwireless....

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Telecom New Zealand Submits Ultra Fast Broadband Proposal to Crown Fibre

Following months of detailed negotiations, Telecom New Zealand submitted its offer to Crown Fibre Holdings (CFH) to participate in the nation's new, open-access, fibre-to-the-home network. Under the proposal, Telecom would structurally separate its access business and physical infrastructure."Our proposal meets all of the key components of the UFB vision. It would see the creation of a completely new listed company, Chorus, to deliver an open-access,...

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Texas Instruments Posts Strong Q1 Revenue of $3.39 Billion

Texas Instruments (TI) reported Q1 revenue of $3.39 billion, net income of $666 million and earnings per share of 55 cents. Orders were $3.58 billion, down 2 percent from a year ago and up 14 percent from the prior quarter."2011 started strong, with customer demand in January and February tracking our expectations for a first quarter of above-seasonal growth," said Rich Templeton, TI chairman, president and chief executive officer. "But the Japan...

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Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom Seek Savings in Joint Procurement

Deutsche Telekom AG and France Telecom-Orange outlined details of their 50-50 joint venture company aimed at generating significant cost-savings through common purchases of network infrastructure equipment. The companies estimate cost savings of 400-900 million Euros after three years of joint purchases. The jointly owned and operated entity will have two operational units in Bonn and Paris staffed by employees from the respective procurement departments...

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BoxTone Advances its Mobile Device Management

BoxTone, a start-up based in Columbia, Maryland, released a major upgrade to its Mobile Service Management (MSM) platform, which helps enterprises to activate, secure and manage their smartphones, tablets and applications. BoxTone 6, which supports BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android Tablets, Windows Mobile/Phone 7 and Symbian devices, adds a real-time compliance engine with automated workflow capabilities. The company said its strategic...

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Sequans Makes NYSE Debut

Sequans Communications, a supplier of LTE and WiMAX silicon, completed an initial public offering of American Depositary Shares (ADSs), representing 7,700,000 ordinary shares, at a price to the public of $10.00 per ADS. The company's shares are now trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SQNS.Trading closed on Friday at $8.25Sequans is based in Paris.http://www.sequans....

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Huawei's Revenue Hit CNY185.2 Billion in 2010, Up 24.2%

Huawei Technologies reported sales revenues of CNY 185.2 billion (US$28.36 billion) for full-year 2010, a 24.2% growth over the previous year. Huawei also reported an increased net profit of CNY 23.8 billion (US$3.64 billion), up 30.0% from 2009, and net profit margin of 12.3%. The financial results were independently audited by international accounting firm KPMG. Huawei cited several factors for its steady growth in 2010, including a notable expansion...

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WildPackets and Gigamon Expand Partnership

Gigamon, which offers a line of data access switches that eliminate SPAN port contentions, has extended its technology partnership with WildPackets, a provider of network and application performance analysis solutions.The integrated WildPackets/Gigamon solution leverages the synchronized and precise nanosecond time stamping of the Gigamon GigaVUE appliance with the WildPackets OmniPeek network analyzer, to direct network packets with 100% time stamp accuracy. Highly precise data time stamping is essential for most organizations, especially those...

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Novatel Wireless Ships 3G/4G MiFi Devices

Novatel Wireless announced commercial shipment of new mobile broadband devices across multiple form factors and air interfaces that operate on 4G technology. This includes versions of the MiFi family of Intelligent Mobile Hotspots and USB modems."This has been among the most ambitious development initiatives in our company's history, with new products being commercialized across numerous form factors and next-generation 4G air interfaces, including...

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CableLabs Demos Tru2way Premium Content Sharing among Home Devices

CableLabs hosted an interoperability event showing premium cable content being shared over the home network in a secure manner. Devices on the home network communicated and shared content using Ethernet, MoCA 1.1 (Multimedia over Coax Alliance), or Wi-Fi technologies. The tru2way software reference implementation (RI) was also included in the multi-vendor interoperability scenarios. Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) Certified device manufacturers...

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