IBM Commits $100 Million to Big Data R&D

IBM announced a $100 million investment for continued research on technologies and services focused on "big data" -- including massive scale analytics, software, systems and services capabilities. The goal is to enable chief information officers (CIOs) to construct specific, fact-based financial and business models for their IT operations. IBM is currently rolling out software capabilities to analyze massive volumes of streaming data with sub-millisecond...

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Broadcom Announces 40nm Satellite Set-top box Chip

Broadcom announced its next-generation 40nm high definition (HD) satellite set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution. The new device is aimed at low cost HDTV and interactive services to emerging markets such as BRICA (Brazil, Russia, India, China, Africa). For example, Sky Brazil (offers 25 HD channels), Russia's NTV Plus (offers 8 HD channels) and Dish TV India (offers 35 HD channels). The percentage of satellite STBs shipping that support HD in Brazil, Russia and India will grow from 13 percent in 2010 to 57 percent in 2016, according...

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Brocade Hits Q2 Revenue of $550 Million, up 9.8% YoY

Brocade recorded quarterly revenues of $550 million, representing an increase of 9.8% year-over-year and resulting in diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.06 on a GAAP basis and $0.13 on a non-GAAP basis.In the quarter, Brocade saw product revenue growth of 17% year-over-year in its storage networking business driven by strong revenues across the product portfolio that included over 20% growth for both backbone/director and Server product revenues. Brocade also saw its Enterprise and Service Provider Ethernet businesses revenue grow 24% year-over-year...

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EU Funded Research Looks for Internet of the Future

The European Commission hosted a "Future Internet week" event in Budapest to review the progress of some 140 "Future Internet" research projects which it supports. These efforts are part of a €600 million "Future Internet" Public-Private Partnership launched earlier this month and aimed at developing new ways of building better services and improving business innovation online.The partnership will explore eight areas where this data revolution could...

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NEC UNIVERGE Certified with Verizon IP Trunking

NEC's UNIVERGE SV8500 Communications Servers are now certified with Verizon's IP Trunking Service.NEC's UNIVERGE SV8500 and Verizon IP Trunking, now available in the United States and a number countries in Europe, target medium- and large-sized enterprises seeking to deploy advanced IP features, streamline network management and control operational costs. In addition, by adding NEC's unified communications (UC) applications enterprises and vertical businesses, such as healthcare, hospitality, education and government, can streamline processes...

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EU Action Targets Deutsche Telekom

The European Union has taken legal action to oblige the German government to comply with EU law and so not protect Deutsche Telekom from competition on the broadband market. If applied as originally drafted, a German law would have made it difficult for telecom operators to compete on this market. As Germany has now removed the provision in question, the European Commission has closed the infringement case it had opened against Germany. The case...

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Georgia Tech Researchers Demo 25 Gbps over Plastic Optical Fiber

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta demonstrated an error-free data transmission over 100 meters of 80 μm-diameter core plastic optical fiber (POF) at record 25 Gbps. The coupling tolerances to reach error-free transmission (defined as a bit error ratio <10-12) were as high as ~35 µm. The tests used and 850 nm VCSEL from VI Systems GmbH.Optical data transmission of up to 40 Gbps has been realized with high speed photodetectors...

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SURFnet Selects Ciena for Coherent 100G

SURFnet, which operates an advanced research network in The Netherlands, will upgrade its backbone with support for full photonic flexibility and the deployment of 100 Gbps on international links connecting the Netherlands to research communities like CERN in Switzerland. SURFNet is using Ciena's ActivFlex 6500 Packet-Optical Platform equipped with WaveLogic coherent optical processors and ActivSpan Common Photonic Layer. Ciena's ActivFlex 6500...

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