Dell'Oro Tracks Rise of FCoE -- Now 7% of New Servers

Approximately 7 percent of servers, or 150,000 units, shipped with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capable network connections in the first quarter of 2011, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. Most of those server connections were driven by HP blade servers with Emulex FCoE LAN on Motherboard (LOM). Not all HP's blade servers were operating FCoE, but the rate of adoption more than doubled sequentially during the quarter."HP, in its...

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Dell'Oro: Optical Transport Market up 10% YoY to $3 Billion in Q1

Worldwide optical transport equipment market revenues grew 10 percent year-over-year to $3 billion in the first quarter of 2011, according to a newly published report from Dell'Oro Group. The study predicts that the market will grow 9 percent to over $13 billion by year-end. "As expected, the optical market declined sequentially in the first quarter due to seasonality, but grew a healthy 10 percent year-over-year in 1Q11," said Jimmy Yu, Sr. Director...

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YouTube: 3 Billion Views per Day, up 50% YoY

Google released some remarkable stats about YouTube, including:YouTube is now delivering 3 billion views per day, a 50% increase over last year. More than 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube , every minute, a 37% increase over the last six months and 100% over last year.YouTube is celebrating its six year anniversary. http://www.youtube....

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Freescale Prices IPO at $18 Per Share

Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) priced its initial public offering of 43,500,000 common shares at $18 per share.The common shares are expected to begin trading on May 26, 2011, on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "FSL."http://www.freescale.comFor Q1 2011, Freescale Semiconductor reported net sales for the first quarter of 2011 of $1.19 billion, compared to $1.18 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010 and $1.02 billion in the first...

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CASSIDIAN and Alcatel-Lucent Target 400 MHz LTE for Emergency Responders

Cassidian and Alcatel-Lucent are jointly developing an LTE mobile broadband solution for emergency response and security communications systems operating in the 400 MHz spectrum band. The system will be able to support mobile video security, location-based video services and smart vehicle integration of devices and applications to complement the current voice and data systems.Cassidian will develop radio heads and terminals specific to the needs...

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South Africa's Cell C Deploys GSM 900/1800MHz and DC-HSPA+

Cell C which is one of the top three mobile operators in South Africa, is the first mobile operator to operate a GSM 900MHz/1800MHz dual-band network. The GSM/UMTS 900M network uses ZTE's SDR base-stations, which simultaneously support both GSM and UMTS, and allows migration to HSPA+/LTE.　Last July, ZTE and Cell C jointly announced Africa's first HSPA+ 900MHz network, which was upgraded to 42M DC-HSPA+ in less than a year.http://www.zte.com...

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AT&T to Launch LTE in 5 Markets this Summer

AT&T announced plans to launch LTE in five markets this summer -- Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and San Antonio. It plans to add 10 or more markets in the second half of the year. Trials have delivered performance that is consistent with others. This would give AT&T an LTE footprint covering 70 million Americans by year-end. In a presentation at a Barclays Conference, John Stankey noted that the average actual speed on the nationwide...

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Extreme Networks Adds FCOE Support

Extreme Networks has added support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols in multi-vendor environments. The company recently launched its Extreme Networks "Open Fabric" data center solutions providing increased scale, virtualization, and automation to maximize performance and efficiency. Extreme Networks also recently completed testing in conjunction with the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) FCoE Plugfest, held at the University...

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