FCC Appoints Rick Kaplan as Chief of Wireless Telecom Bureau

Rick Kaplan, currently Chief Counsel and Senior Legal Advisor to the FCC Chairman, will succeed Ms. Ruth Milkman as Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Milkman is departing the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau to serve as Special Counsel to the Chairman for Innovation in Government.Prior to his current role in the Office of the Chairman, Mr. Kaplan previously served as Chief of Staff forCommission Mignon Clyburn, and as deputy coordinator of the FCC DTV task force under then-ActingChairman Michael Copps. He practiced regulatory...

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Boingo Wireless Posts $21 Million in Quarterly Revenue

Boingo Wireless, which recently completed its IPO, reported first quarter revenue of $21.0 million, compared to $18.5 million for the first quarter of 2010, an increase of 13.7 percent. During the first quarter, the company generated $5.7 million in cash from operating activities and ended the first quarter with overall cash and investments of $33.9 million. This excludes cash received from its IPO, which was completed on May 3, 2011. http://www.boingo....

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Optelian Appoints Stephen Loudermilk as Director of Marketing

Optelian, which develops optical transport networks, has appointed Stephen Loudermilk as Director of Marketing. Prior to joining Optelian, Mr. Loudermilk oversaw social media, marketing, analyst and public relations for Alcatel-Lucent's Services Group. http://www.optelian....

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Fujitsu Launches Global Cloud Service Powered by Windows Azure

Fujitsu is ready to launch a Global Cloud Platform service powered by Microsoft Windows Azure. The cloud service platform is now running in Fujitsu's datacenter in Japan and will be launched as a commercial service in August 2011. The Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform service, FGCP/A5, is the result of the strategic partnership between Fujitsu and Microsoft on the development of a Fujitsu-branded cloud service running specifically on Fujitsu servers...

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AT&T Cuts Electricity Consumption by 16.6% in 2010

AT&T reduced the electricity intensity of its operations by 16.6% in 2010 by implementing a variety of programs, according to the company's newly released 2010 Sustainability Report. Significantly, A&T reduced the electricity associated with a terabyte of data from 498 kWh/terabyte of data in 2009 to 418 kWh/terabyte of data in 2010.Some highlights of the 76 page report: Realized $44 million in annualized energy savings from implementing...

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Tata Picks Cisco ASR 9000 for Carrier Ethernet Across India

Tata Communications will deploy the Cisco Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series (ASR 9000) for its next-generation Ethernet network service throughout India. Financial terms were not disclosed. The companies expect IP traffic in India to grow nine-fold from 2010 to 2015, a compound annual growth rate of 54%. IP traffic in India is expected to reach 1.2 Exabytes per month in 2015, up from 137 Petabytes per month in 2010. Also, there are expected to be one billion networked devices in India by 2015, up from 570 million in 2010.http://www.ci...

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Cisco Enhances ASR 9000 with 10G and 100G Interfaces

Cisco rolled out a series of enhancements for its ASR 9000 series edge and aggregation routers with a new high-capacity chassis, new 10 GigE and 100 GigE interface cards, a virtualization technology for linking edge routers into a single management plane, and a content-caching service module.Cisco noted that is ASR 9000 series has been deployed in over 500 Service Provider networks worldwide, giving it substantial base of customers ready to upgrade...

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RSA Comments on SecureID Breach

In an open letter to customers, Art Coviello, Executive Chairman, RSA confirmed that information taken from RSA in March had been used as an element of an attempted broader attack on Lockheed Martin, who has stated that this attack was thwarted and that no data was stolen.Coveillo said he remains confident in RSA's authentication technology and that the attack on Lockheed Martin does not reflect a new threat or vulnerability in RSA SecurID technology....

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