XtremIO Raises $14 Million for Solid State Storage

XtremIO, a start-up based in Tel Aviv, raised $14 million in venture funding for its storage solutions based on Solid State technology. The company specializes in Enterprise storage system solutions based on innovative architecture and storage algorithms, utilizing solid-state drives (SSDs). Product details have not yet disclosed.The financing round was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from existing investors Giza Venture Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). http://www.xtremio....

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Hurricane Electric to Offer Premium IPv6 Tunnel Broker Service

Hurricane Electric, a leading IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider, introduced its new premium IPv6 tunnel broker service to complement its free and highly popular consumer-grade tunnel broker service.The new production-grade tunnel broker service is intended for intensive business and enterprise computing environments. Supporting throughput of up to 1 Gbps, the premium service is available via IPv4 and IPv6 and allows both protocols...

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ChinaComm Selects Tellabs for Wireless Packet Core

ChinaComm selected the Tellabs SmartCore 9100 platform for a packet core network for broadband wireless access services in Beijing and across nine other Chinese markets for a total of 10 markets in nine provinces. Specifically, the Tellabs SmartCore 9100 will support broadband wireless access networks from various radio access manufacturers, eliminating the need to use separate access service network (ASN) gateways. Financial terms were not disclosed."We...

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Verizon Wireless Showcases LTE Telematics for Automotive Industry

Verizon Wireless is showcasing LTE Telematics this week at an automotive industry event in Detroit. Verizon Wireless said its LTE network enables advances in key components of Telematics, such as GPS systems, maintenance indicators, wireless Web access, hands-free connectivity and roadside assistance, along with other technologies and applications. Some partners:Airbiquity -- wireless applications for vehicles. Together with Airbiquity, Verizon...

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AppliedMicro Embeds Trusted Module Security into PacketPro

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AppliedMicro) introduced its latest PacketPro Gen2 embedded processor featuring an embedded "SLIMpro" Trusted Management Module (TMM) that enables network equipment manufacturers to hard wired, tamper-proof encryption and authentication capabilities into their devices.The Trusted Management Module resides in a secure on-chip cryptographic boundary region designed to replace multi-chip solutions which are vulnerable...

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Infineta Tackles Hyper-scale Data Center to Data Center Traffic

Infineta Systems, a start-up based in San Jose, California, has begun shipping its Data Mobility Switch (DMS) designed for optimizing and accelerating "Hyper-Scale" WAN links, such as data center to data center high-bandwidth connections. Unlike existing WAN optimization platforms, Infineta has developed a customized "Velocity Dedupe Engine" in programmable logic (FPGAs), providing high throughput while incurring extremely low latencies and maintaining...

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PMC-Sierra Introduces Quad-Port EPON OLT Chip

PMC-Sierra introduced a quad-port EPON OLT System-on-Chip (SoC) family featuring integrated traffic management and packet processing, advanced power save modes that allow remote power down of customer premises equipment, in-band optical fiber testing and support for mobile backhaul. The PAS5400 devices integrate four 1 Gbps EPON MACs and are scalable to enable high-density OLT equipment. The new EPON OLT family includes three SoCs that comply...

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NEC and Juniper Deployed in Kiwi Research Network

The Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) is being extended to more points of presence across New Zealand (a total of 23). KAREN provides reliable, high speed, high capacity connectivity across New Zealand through 23 points of presence. As an Elite Juniper partner, NEC will provide fourteen Juniper Networks(R) MX80 3D Universal Edge Routers to support the growth of the network, which links KAREN members to over 200 million advanced network users worldwide.http://www.juniper....

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Apple's iCloud to Drive Bandwidth Usage

Apple's newly unveiled iCloud, along with wireless updates for untethered iOS devices, promise significant convenience for users and potentially huge amounts of new traffic for service providers. iCloud offers 5 GB of free storage for music, photos, apps, calendars, documents, etc. The automated service effortlessly collects content from the user, stores it and then pushes a copy to all devices associated with the account. With over 25 million...

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Clearwire, Comcast, and Sprint Expand 4G in PA

Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint announced a significant expansion of the Clearwire 4G network in the greater Pittsburgh metro area. The regional CLEAR, XFINITY®Internet 2go and Sprint 4G service area has added coverage for an additional 10,591 people. This expansion represents new coverage since Clearwire's initial launch on September 30, 2010. http://www.clearwire....

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