Aquantia Samples Quad-port 10GBASE-T Chip

Aquantia, a start-up based in Milpitas, California, Aquantia, has begun sampling a quad-port 10GBASE-T PHY IC in a 25mm x 25mm package. This small dimension paves the way for single-row, 1RU 48-port 10Gigabit Ethernet switches, which are expected to see deployment in high-density data centers.http://www.aquantia....

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Huawei Wins Mobile Upgrade Contract in UK

Everything Everywhere, the newly formed mobile operator formed through the merger of T-Mobile and Orange in the UK, has awarded a four-year networking contract to Huawei. Financial terms have not been disclosed. http://www.huawei.com...

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NSN Wins 5-Year Managed Services Contract with Shanghai Unicom

Shanghai Unicom, the second-largest mobile operator in Shanghai, has awarded a five-year contract to Nokia Siemens Networks for network maintenance services. Under the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will offer field maintenance services, covering the base stations, transmission and fixed line networks of China Unicom's Shanghai branch. Delivery of the services starts in May, 2011. Financial terms were not disclosed.This is the second managed services...

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NVIDIA Enters 3G/4G Baseband Processing with Icera Acquisition

NVIDIA will acquire Icera, a developer of baseband processors for 3G and 4G phones and tablets, for $367 million in cash.NVIDIA plans to match its Tegra processor with the Icera baseband processing. "This is a key step in NVIDIA's plans to be a major player in the mobile computing revolution," said Jen-Hsun Huang, President and CEO of NVIDIA. "Adding Icera's technology to Tegra gives us an outstanding platform to support the industry's best phones...

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Freescale Targets Latest Quad-core Processor at Security Appliances

Freescale Semiconductor introduced its 10 Gbps "QorIQ" P2041 quad-core processor designed for unified threat management (UTM) security appliances. The device combines four e500mc Power Architecture cores running up to 1.5 GHz with features such as hardware virtualization, cryptography and deep packet inspection technology. It operates at 12W typical power and remains pin-compatible with Freescale's P2040 device and software-compatible with members...

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Solarflare Exits 10GBASE-T PHY Business

Solarflare announced its exit from the physical layer (PHY) business through the sale of its 10GBASE-T assets to an unnamed merchant semiconductor company. Financial terms were not disclosed.Solarflare will now focus on its family of 10GbE SFP+ and 10GBASE-T server adapters and portfolio of OpenOnload and EnterpriseOnload application acceleration middleware. Solarflare's 10GbE adapters, in combination with its OpenOnload middleware, are targeted...

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SiTime Introduces MEMS-based Voltage Controlled Oscillators for Telecom

SiTime introduced a new family of MEMS-based Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCXOs) for telecom, networking and embedded applications that serve as a drop-in replacement for older quartz-based oscillators. The new SiT380X family of VCXO's boast sub-picosecond jitter as well as 10 times better pull range and linearity than quartz VCXOs. SiTime delivers a number of programmable features for these oscillators, such as frequency, voltage, stability,...

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McAfee Builds its Cloud Security Platform

McAfee introduced its platform for securing content and data traffic between enterprise networks and public clouds.The McAfee Cloud Security Platform aims to secure all email, web and identity traffic moving between an organization and the Cloud. The company will offer a series of security modules can be deployed as an on-premises appliance, Software-as-a-Service solution or a hybrid combination of both. The first modules for this offering include:...

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NSN Releases Sustainability Report 2010

Nokia Siemens Networks published an in-depth Sustainability Report covering all of its activities as well as the use of its products worldwide during 2010. The report analyzes environmental performance, health and safety, and supply chain related information. In terms of overall energy consumption, the company improved the efficiency of its products and of the company last year, however the overall amount of energy consumed rose in 2010 due to the...

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Vantage Data Centers -- Panel Discussion -- Data Center Innovation

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Mu Dynamics Enables Application-Aware Network Testing

Mu Dynamics introduced its latest set of testing tools for recreating multiple types of applications– including Web, enterprise and mobile apps – at scale, to determine how they impact networks. Mu Studio 6, which builds on the company's recently announced application test content, as well as Mu TestCloud, is able to recreate actual production traffic. New capabilities for service providers and enterprises include:Application Mix support – Using...

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Horizon Telcom Picks Fujitsu Consortium for Connecting Appalachia

Horizon Telcom, which serves southern and eastern Ohio, has selected Fujitsu Network Communications, along with Juniper Networks and Calix, for a new network project to be constructed through 34 counties a part of the Connecting Appalachia federally-funded stimulus project. "Horizon is very proud that our vision for bringing the latest technology in fiber broadband deployment to Appalachian Ohio will be made possible...

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Sophos to Acquire Astaro -- Unified Threat Management

Sophos agreed to acquire Astaro, a privately held provider of network security solutions, for an undisclosed sum.Astaro, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany and Wilmington, Massachusetts, supplies a line of unified threat management appliances for small and medium-sized businesses. The company had 56 million in billings and 30% year over year growth in 2010, and claims to be the fourth largest dedicated unified threat management (UTM) provider.Sophos...

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NSN Integrates Accedian's Ethernet Demarcation Device

Accedian Networks announced a partnership with Nokia Siemens Networks to offer service providers a solution to assure high performance of IP/Ethernet networks. Specifically, Nokia Siemens Networks has integrated Accedian Networks' MetroNID demarcation device, and its MetroNODE 10GE Ethernet Operations Administration and Maintenance (OAM) aggregation platform with their solutions such as Mobile Backhaul, Carrier Ethernet Transport and Multiservice IP Backbone. "The data deluge in mobile networks is quite a challenge for mobile service providers,"...

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IEEE Studies Bandwidth Needs Beyond 100G

A new IEEE 802.3TM Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment Ad Hoc group has been formed to study the future bandwidth needs of Ethernet wireline applications across multiple industries, which will assist future development activities of Ethernet standards. At issue is whether industry standardization efforts should next be focused on 400G, 1 Terabit or other high-speed rates. Most recently, the IEEE pursued and ratified two high-speed Ethernet tracks at once:...

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Xilinx Acquires Modelware and Focuses on 100G Opportunity

Xilinx has acquired Modelware, a provider of traffic management/packet processing silicon intellectual property (IP) cores and reference designs. Modelware helps simplify system development of networking applications supporting 10G, 40G, 100G and beyond. Financial terms were not disclosed. Modelware is based in Red Bank, New Jersey.Modelware has the only FPGA-based IP capable of scaling to up to 100G + and running traffic rates at 150 million packets-per-second with 64B packet size on a single FPGA.Xilinx said this technology strengthens its...

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