Dell'Oro: Wireless LAN Market Up 18% in Q1

The wireless LAN market grew 18% year-over-year in 1Q11 thanks to rising shipments and average selling prices (ASPs), according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. All three of the segments – service provider mesh, enterprise, and small office, home office (SOHO), were up by double-digit percentages during the quarter.According to the report, Buffalo and NETGEAR established new high levels for SOHO revenue during the first quarter of 2011, with Buffalo growing more than 30 percent and NETGEAR growing more than 40 percent, versus the same quarter...

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Entropic Reaches 50 Million MoCA Chipset Shipments

Entropic Communications has shipped more than fifty million MoCA 1.0/1.1 chipsets since 2007. Entropic's MoCA enables whole-home entertainment networks over existing coax cabling. The Entropic technology is used in solutions now being deployed by Verizon, DIRECTV, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox Communications, Brighthouse, and other pay-TV service providers. "Demand for connected home entertainment is driving what we believe will be a multi-year growth cycle for the consumer electronics industry, and our MoCA solutions are paramount in this...

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First Transatlantic LightRadio Call Placed from Alexander Graham Bell's Desk

Alcatel-Lucent completed the first long-distance, mobile video-call using its new lightRadio platform from the historic desk of Alexander Graham Bell. Chris Lewis, Group Vice President of industry analysts IDC, hosted the call from Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, connecting with Ben Verwaayen, Chief Executive of Alcatel-Lucent in Paris, and delegates at a business conference in Miami.lightRadio is the name of a family of technologies developed...

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360networks Signs First layer 2 Ethernet/EVPL deal

360networks has signed Montana Opticom as its first customer for Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL). 360networks' EVPL service is fully mesh-protected for ubiquitous connectivity between major carrier hotels, data centers, Internet Exchanges, and neutral peering points across 360networks' entire 18,000 route mile footprint. It eliminates the mileage associated with traditional private line services. Instead, customers pay a monthly recurring...

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Cablevision Targets SIP Trunking for SMBs

Cablevision Systems has expanded its Optimum Voice Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Trunking from Optimum Business with a new offering tailored for small businesses with up to 100 employees. The service is designed for customers that want to take full advantage of a small business IP PBX system, while avoiding the cost of an analog gateway and traditional T-1 solutions. In addition, Optimum Voice SIP Trunking is now compliant with Avaya IP Office...

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Ciena Posts Revenue of $417.9 million

Ciena reported revenue of $417.9 million for its fiscal second quarter ended April 30, 2011. The net loss was $(62.7) million (GAAP), or $(0.66) per common share, which compares to a GAAP net loss of $(90.0) million, or $(0.97) per common share, for the fiscal second quarter 2010."Momentum continues to be strong across our business, as evidenced by high levels of customer engagement, additional design wins around the world and strong order flows,"...

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Cisco Declares $0.06 per Share Dividend

Cisco declared a quarterly dividend of $0.06 per common share to be paid on July 27, 2011, to all shareholders of record as of the close of business on July 7, 2011.Cisco's Board of Directors approved the initiation of quarterly cash dividends to its shareholders in March of 2011. The first quarterly dividend was paid on April 20, 2011. http://www.cisco....

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SFR France Enables IPv6 over L2TP with Cisco ASR 1000

SFR France is using Cisco's L2TP Softwire Tunnel technology to leverage its existing investment in IPv4 network access infrastructure to quickly provide IPv6 services to residential customers. The carrier has selected Cisco Carrier-Grade Internet Protocol Version 6 (CGv6) Solution as a first step in the transition of their network infrastructure to IPv6. Cisco said its IPv6 over L2TP approach requires limited investment and impact on existing infrastructure....

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World IPv6 Day Offers "Test Flight" from Major Content Providers

June 8th is World IPv6 Day.Major content providers, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Comcast, Microsoft Bing, Akamai, Limelight Networks and dozens of others, are marking the day by making a wide range of their content and services available directly over IPv6. The 24-hour demonstration is intended to be a test flight of IPv6 on a world wide scale.The participating websites are activating IPv6 on their main site while continuing to support IPv4...

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Verizon Runs IPv6 on LTE, Global IP and vBNS Networks

As part of its participation in the World IPv6 Day, Verizon confirmed that it is already running IPv6 on its 4G LTE network, global public IP network and vBNS (very high-speed backbone network service) network. "World IPv6 Day marks an important industry milestone with the first global-scale trial of IPv6," said Jean McManus, executive director of Verizon's Corporate Technology organization. "Verizon was an early promoter and adopter of IPv6 back...

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Cavium Boosts Per-Core Frequency of OCTEON Processor

Cavium Networks has boosted its OCTEON II CN63XX 2 to 6-core MIPS64 processors with up to 10.8GHz of 64 bit processing with each CPU core running at up to 1.8GHz to customers worldwide. This new 1.8GHz operating frequency more than doubles the CPU core frequency available relative to the previous generation of OCTEON Plus processors. The higher per-core frequency allows Cavium to address new markets including higher-end control plane, and integrated...

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GSMA: World Tops 500 Million HSPA Connections

The number of HSPA Mobile Broadband connections in service worldwide will surpass the 500 million mark by the end of June, according to the GSMA. The last 100 million subscribers were added since February, making HSPA the faster growing wireless technology ever. About 19 million new HSPA connections are being added per month. The rate of HSPA Mobile Broadband adoption in its first six years is ten times greater than the take up of 2G mobile phones...

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Dell'Oro WLAN Report - June2011

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Quantenna's 802.11n 4x4 MIMO Chipset Gains Wi-Fi Certification

Quantenna Communications' 802.11n 4x4 MIMO chipset with dynamic digital beamforming has achieved Wi-Fi certification. The Quantenna 4x4 MIMO achieves extremely high performance in applications such as video bridges and residential gateways. "Now that our Wi-Fi certification is in place for our next generation chipset, we expect that we will continue to enhance our customer base of this already emerging market. Consumers will be able to stream...

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