Connectivity Scorecard 2011 Ranks Countries by ICT and Innovation

Sweden and the United States ranked highest in the annual Connectivity Scorecard 2011, a global study commissioned by Nokia Siemens Networks and authored by Professor Leonard Waverman, Dean, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary in conjunction with the consulting firms, Berkeley Research Group and Communicea. The study measured the extent to which governments, businesses and consumers in 50 countries make use of connectivity technologies...

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CenturyLink Sees Continued Access Line Losses

CenturyLink reported Q1 revenue of $1.70 billion compared to $1.80 billion in first quarter 2010. The company attributed the revenue decline primarily to the impact of access line losses and lower access revenues, including the anticipated impact of lower universal service fund receipts and wireless and long distance traffic migration. These decreases more than offset revenue increases driven by growth in high-speed Internet customers, data services...

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TelePacific to Acquire Orange County Internet Xchange

TelePacific Communications, a California-based CLEC, will acquire Orange County Internet Xchange (OCiX), a dedicated provider of carrier class colocation services. OCiX operates a 10,000 square-foot SAS 70 Type II certified facility, located in Santa Ana, California which TelePacific plans to substantially expand in the near future. Financial terms were not disclosed.The OCiX data center is strategically located very close to the existing TelePacific...

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TelePacific Acquires Telekenex

TelePacific Communications, a California-based CLEC, will acquire all of the assets and customers of IXC (Telekenex), a business-grade IP services provider headquartered in San Francisco and Seattle.Under the terms of the agreement, the TelePacific Communications family of companies will gain approximately 1,000 business customers and 122 employees. Financial terms were not disclosed.TelePacific will also add the following services through the acquisition:...

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Aviat Posts Sales of $115 Million

Aviat Networks reported quarterly revenue of $115.5 million, compared with $117.0 million in the year ago period and $115.9 million in the prior quarter. Net loss (including discontinued operations) was $36.9 million, or $(0.63) per share, compared with a net loss of $25.7 million, or $(0.43) per share, in the year ago quarter. Net loss from continuing operations was $25.5 million, or $(0.44) per share, compared with a net loss of $22.5 million,...

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Polaris Wireless Selects GoAhead OpenSAFfire for Wireless Location Platform

Polaris Wireless, which supplies high-accuracy, software-based wireless location solutions, has selected GoAhead Software's OpenSAFfire to help ensure system uptime and uninterrupted service for the company's OmniLocate wireless location platform."With the increased focus on wireless location for public safety and mission critical applications, such as enhanced 911, leveraging standardized solutions like OpenSAFfire enables us to ensure the availability and reliability of the OmniLocate platform when it is most needed," said Zaheer Allam, senior...

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Sandvine Lands 3 More Wireless ISPs for it Network Policy Control

Sandvine named three new wireless ISP customers using its network policy control platform: Alaska-based GCI, Michigan-based Thumb Cellular, and Carolina West Wireless. Thumb Cellular is using Sandvine for the deployment of bandwidth-based service tiers, which allows them to provide 3G data services with a high degree of customer satisfaction. Thumb is also deploying Fairshare Traffic Management to ensure quality Internet access for their subscribers...

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cPacket Launches 10G Data Monitoring Switch

cPacket Networks, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, introduced a new line of data monitoring switches that combine aggregation and replication with real time L2-L7 packet filtering, on-the-fly performance visibility, and built-in flow load balancing. The cVu product family includes the cVu320G with 32 10-Gigabit ports, which was introduced in Interop last year; the cVu240G with 24 10-Gigabit ports; and the new cVu120G with 12 10-Gigabit...

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PAETEC to Open Major Mid-Atlantic Data Center in Virginia

PAETEC announced plans for the deployment of a new data center in McLean, Va. The three-story building, which will include 49,000 square feet of raised floor space, will provide colocation services and geographic diversity to businesses and government entities along the East Coast and nationwide. The center also will support the shift to cloud computing as more business applications move towards advanced network-based services. The McLean center...

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Ixia Debuts Cloud Simulation Test Modules

Ixia introduced two modules for validating ultra-low latency for time-sensitive applications in data center cloud networks. The company's new Xcellon-Flex and ImpairNet modules use a single integrated chassis for data center cloud simulation. Specifically, the Xcellon-Flex 10/40GE Accelerated Performance load module generates both east-west and north-south traffic flows that are characteristic of data center clouds, and measures whether switches can satisfy forwarding performance requirements. At the same time the new ImpairNet module simulates...

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Cisco Announces Restructuring

Cisco outlined a business restructuring aimed at refocusing the company on the five areas driving the growth of networks and the Internet: core – routing, switching, and services; collaboration; data center virtualization and cloud; video; and architectures for business transformation. Cisco announced the following changes:Worldwide Field Operations will now be organized into three geographic regions: the Americas; Europe, Middle East and Africa;...

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Telco Systems Names New CEO

Telco Systems, a BATM company, named Itzik Weinstein as its new Chief Executive Officer. Previously, Weinstein was President and CEO of ECtel, a provider of revenue management solutions to the telecommunications industry. He has also held senior positions with VocalTec, NetManage, KLA-Tencor Corp., Scitex Corp., and Intel.The appointment of Weinstein comes on the heels of Telco Systems' acquisition of ANDA Networks last month and the launch of set of new MPLS and mobile backhaul solutions.http://www.telco....

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France's Completel selects Alcatel-Lucent's 100G

Completel, which delivers Fiber To The Office (FTTO) services in France, will deploy Alcatel-Lucent's 100G optical technology on new and existing routes to boost network capacity and performance. Alcatel-Lucent's 100G solution is part of its Converged Backbone Transformation (CBT) approach which integrates IP and optical transport technologies. It is based on Alcatel-Lucent's 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) that leverages future-proof coherent...

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BTI Adds Network Caching Support for Netflix Video Delivery

BTI Systems has updated the adaptive bit rate protocol support in its WideCast content-aware networking platform to ensure smooth delivery of Netflix content. BTI Systems said its WideCast upgrade enables service providers can gain control of accelerating traffic growth in metro networks by transparently caching many content types, including Netflix, by serving it closer to the user instead of streaming it across increasingly congested networks. "Given North America's strong adoption of OTT media distribution, we are committed to ensuring our customers...

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