Cotendo Raises $17 million for Content Acceleration Service

Cotendo, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $17 million private funding for its cloud-based content acceleration technologies. Cotendo offers an integrated suite of Web and Mobile Acceleration Services from its 30 global distributed point of presence (POPs). Cotendo's single platform software includes acceleration services for dynamic web applications, static and dynamic web content, SSL, Advanced DNS, Adaptive Image Compression,...

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France to Open 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz Spectrum for LTE

ARCEP, the telecom regulatory authority in France, will open digital dividend spectrum in the 800 MHz frequency band and spectrum in the 2.6 GHz band for 4G mobile services. ARCEP has now opened applications for spectrum awards in these two frequencies. The deadline set for submitting applications to ARCEP are: 12 p.m. on 15th September 2011 for the 2.6 GHz band, and 12 p.m. on 15th December 2011 for the 800 MHz band. The Authority will be allocating...

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Ikanos Appoints Banatao as CEO, Reconfirms Q2 Guidance

John Quigley has resigned as president and CEO of Ikanos and as a member of its board of directors. The company named Diosdado Banatao, the executive chairman of Ikanos, as interim president and CEO effective immediately. A permanent CEO is being sought. Banatao has been the Company's chairman of the board since August 2009 and executive chairman of the board since April 2010 and previously served as the Company's interim president and chief executive officer from April 2010 to July 2010. Banatao has served as a founder and managing partner...

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WildBlue offers 1 Mbps Satellite Broadband for $40 for Qualified Customers

With funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act), WildBlue will begin offering a discounted price of $39.95 per month for satellite Internet service with 1 Mbps downlink performance. The service will be offered to rural households in the West and Midwest which are unserved by other broadband alternative. The new service package began selling June 3 and includes lifetime pricing for the customer. http://www.wildblue.com...

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Symmetricom Expands its SyncWorld Ecosystem Program

Symmetricom has expanded its "SyncWorld" Ecosystem Program to include communications test and measurement companies, including Anue Systems, Calnex, Chronos, EXFO, Ixia, and JDSU.The SyncWorld Ecosystem Program supports interoperability and promotes a standards-based approach to support precise timing and synchronization requirements for communications networks. The six new member companies join the growing list of organizations which are already...

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Industry Players Call for Compromise in LightSquared Interference Dispute

A coalition of network industry players are urging the FCC "to create an environment whereLightSquared and GPS can co-exist. Indeed, crafting such a solution is consistent with the charter of theFCC, who defines its mission as promoting competition, innovation, and investment in broadbandservices and encouraging the highest and best use of spectrum." The companies backing this position argue that the LightSquared network will sharply increase the nation's broadband capacity, enhancing wireless competition and providing additional choice, but that...

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LulzSec Claims Attack on CIA Public Website

Lulz Security, the hacktivist group behind numerous recent cyber attacks including the U.S. Senate, temporarily knocked the CIA's public website offline on Wednesday. The group takes credit for its exploits on Twitter.http...

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Hibernia Atlantic's Project Express Targets Sub <60 Millisecond Latency

Hibernia Atlantic is conducting a deep-sea submarine survey along the the transatlantic route of its forthcoming Project Express cable build. The submarine survey will use specialist ships to sail the exact planned route of the cable from Brean, England to Halifax, Nova Scotia, ensuring the chosen route is free of obstacles and to assess the installation techniques to be used. Hibernia Atlantic is engineering the Project Express cable to offer the...

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Samsung Picks Cavium's OCTEON Processors

Samsung Electronics will use Cavium Networks' latest OCTEON processors for 3G/4G systems.Applications for the OCTEON Processors include 4G Base stations and Packet Core environments, which require unprecedented levels of scalability, performance, security and deep packet inspection. Cavium's line of OCTEON Processors from 1 to 32 cores with integrated advanced 3G/4G hardware accelerators are optimized for cost, performance and power for these demanding...

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Novatel Wireless Powers Wireless Credit Card Parking Meter Module

Enfora, a Novatel Wireless company, will supply wireless modules and services for POM's new Parktel Credit Card Parking Meter Module. The Parktel Credit Card Parking Meter Module is an retrofit upgrade to the existing APM-E SII coin-only meters. It fits into the housings and domes of already installed parking meters. http://www.novatelwireless.com http://www.pom.com/ParktelCC....

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STMicroelectronics Prototypes in 28nm CMOS

STMicroelectronics announced that the CMOS 28nm process is now available for prototyping to universities, research labs and companies through the silicon brokerage services provided by CMP. ST said this milestone builds on the successful collaboration that has allowed universities and companies to access previous CMOS generations such as 45nm (introduced in 2008), 65nm (introduced in 2006), 90nm (introduced in 2004), and 130nm (introduced in 2003)....

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Motorola Mobility Signs Time Warner Cable for Video Gateway

Motorola Mobility is working with Time Warner Cable to develop a video gateway platform incorporating the latest set-top and gateway-related technologies for the home. Motorola's DCX3600M Video Gateway includes built-in transcoding capabilities allowing it to take QAM MPEG-2 services and transcode to MPEG-4 for delivery to mobile devices including tablets and smartphones over the home network. The DCX3600M also provides operators with the flexibility to deliver a mixture of QAM and IP services. The device can tune up to six QAM services simultaneously,...

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Verizon and Tata Communications Expand Global Telepresence

Verizon and Tata Communications reached an agreement to link their telepresence services. The agreement enables meetings to take place between Verizon's telepresence customers and any public or private telepresence room on the Tata Communications Global Meeting Exchange, which is one of the broadest telepresence networks accessible today and a gateway to the company's public room network spanning 31 cities on five continents. Verizon and Tata Communications...

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Motorola Mobility and Honeywell Develop Home Security for Operators

Motorola Mobility is working with Honeywell Security Group to develop an end-to-end security solution for cable and telecom service providers, offering subscribers a connected home security service that enables remote management of alarm panels and associated security devices using multiple control interfaces—including TV, smartphone, PC and tablet. The system will be rooted in Motorola's 4Home software platform, which provides a framework to expand device management across connected home devices, and which can be enabled by service providers...

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Sipera Integrates With McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator for UC Security Management

Sipera Systems has integrated its UC-Sec enterprise communications security solution and been designated as McAfee Compatible with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) security management platform. The integration provides visibility of and control over the security of real-time business communications using converged IP networks. The joint solution allows security managers to block threats and enforce policies on voice-over-IP, IP videoconferencing,...

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Lockheed Martin Announces Private "BlackCloud" for Government Agencies

Lockheed Martin introduced "BlackCloud", a secure turnkey private cloud solution for government agencies. BlackCloud integrates Lockheed Martin's architecture with solutions from Cyber Security Alliance partners Cisco, NetApp, and VMware to offer secure multi-tenancy in the data center. The company said the mission of BlackCloud is to ensure end-to-end segmentation of a cloud computing environment while offering the economies of scale customers seek to reduce infrastructure costs. The BlackCloud architecture offers built-in security features that...

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NeoPhotonics Ships PIC-Based Integrated Coherent Receivers for 40, 100 Gbps

NeoPhotonics has quadrupled capacity for PIC-based Integrated Coherent Receivers (ICR) for 40 and 100Gbps coherent fiber optic transport systems. The devices combine the company's PIC-based ICR, which has one of the industry's highest signal detection responses, with advanced digital signal processing on each channel.The NeoPhotonics ICR is designed to convert the phase encoded optical signals into electrical signals of varying intensity, which...

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Cotendo Announces Mobile Acceleration Suite

Cotendo, which specializes in cloud-based acceleration technologies, introduced a Mobile Acceleration Suite (MAS) to speed up delivery of mobile websites and mobile applications. The solution is especially aimed at reducing latency on mobile devices, which is one of the top revenue killers for content providers. Long page-load times reduce conversions and engagement with applications or sites. The new Cotendo service addresses these latency and page-load performance problems caused by slow or variable mobile network data connectivity rates. Cotendo's...

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