Juniper Hires Former Head of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business

Juniper Networks has appointed Robert Muglia as executive vice president of the Software Solutions Division. He joins the company from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and will report directly to Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson.Over the past 23 years, Muglia has served in leadership positions across all of Microsoft's business groups, including Developer, Office, Mobile Devices, Windows NT and Online Services. Most recently, Muglia served as president of Microsoft's $15 billion Server and Tools Business (STB), where he was responsible for infrastructure software,...

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NDS Appoints Dave Habiger as CEO

NDS, which supplies conditional access (CA) and digital rights management (DRM) technology, announced the appointment of Dave Habiger as Chief Executive Officer, and that in his continuing role with the company, Dr. Abe Peled, previously Chairman and CEO, will assume the full time position of Executive Chairman.Dave Habiger, 42, began his career in media as a founder of Providence Productions. In 1992 he began working with the founding members of Sonic Solutions, later playing an important role in the company's IPO in 1994 (NASDAQ: SNIC). As President...

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Mindspeed Acquires IPG Comm for W-CDMA

Mindspeed Technologies has acquired substantially all of the assets of privately held IPG Communications, Inc. of San Diego, CA. Financial terms were not disclosed.IPG specialized in advanced signal processing technologies for wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) 3GPP standard release 8, which deliver significant cost and power advantages. In addition, IPG designed a dual-mode turbo decoder which combines W-CDMA and LTE, greatly reducing...

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UAE's du Completes First Phase of OTN Backbone Transformation

UAE-based du announced the completion of the first phase of its Optical Transport Network (OTN) expansion, becoming among the first few telecom service providers in the Middle East to establish OTN on a national scale across the country; converging all its services. The OTN upgraded project is set to extend all the way from Abu Dhabi to Dubai and the northern emirates, ultimately reaching du's submarine cable landing station in Fujairah. du has invested...

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ZTE Establishes Finance Arm -- RMB 1 Billion in Capital

ZTE has established a group finance company, ZTE Group Finance Co. Ltd. (ZTEFC), a registered capital fund of RMB 1 billion. The new organization, which is based in Shenzhen, has been approved by the Chinese Banking Regulatory Commission. Mr. Wei Zaisheng, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ZTE, will serve as the Chairman of the new establishment. A signing ceremony for the company's establishment and partner agreement was...

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Mindspeed's Revenue Up 10% Sequentially

Mindspeed reported quarterly revenue of $42.2 million, up 10% sequentially. Product revenue from communications convergence processing solutions contributed 45 percent of quarterly product revenues and increased 22 percent sequentially from the prior fiscal quarter. Product revenue from high-performance analog products represented 37 percent of product revenue and increased 4 percent sequentially from the prior fiscal quarter. Wide area networking communications product revenue contributed the remaining 18 percent of product revenue and decreased...

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Broadcom Posts Q2 Revenue of $1.8B, up 12% YoY

Broadcom reported Q2 revenue of $1.8 billion, an increase of 12% compared with the $1.6 billion reported for the second quarter of 2010. Net income (GAAP) was $175 million, or $.31 per share (diluted), compared with GAAP net income of $278 million, or $.52 per share (diluted), for the second quarter of 2010. "Broadcom delivered solid profitability in Q2 within our non-GAAP target model, with better-than-expected gross margins and record cash flow from operations," said Scott A. McGregor, Broadcom's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Looking...

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Research In Motion Cuts 2,000 Jobs

Research In Motion Limited (RIM) announced a global workforce reduction across all functions by approximately 2,000 employees. Following the completion of the workforce reduction, RIM's global workforce is expected to be approximately 17,000 people. The company said it is reallocating resources to focus on areas that offer the highest growth opportunities.The company also announced several management changes. Thorsten Heins is taking on the expanded role of COO, Product and Sales. All product engineering functions, including both hardware and...

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HP Resells Acme Packet Enterprise Session Border Controllers

HP has selling the Acme Packet family of Net-Net enterprise session border controllers (E-SBCs) as part of the HP Unified Communications (UC) Solutions Portfolio. Acme Packet E-SBCs address critical interoperability, service quality and security challenges that are encountered when using IP to deliver real-time voice, video and UC. The integrated solutions enable consolidation of communications services onto a unified IP network infrastructure without disruptive changes to existing applications, security compromises, or service interruptions. ...

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Germany's HEAG MediaNet Goes with Orckit-Corrigent's PTN Switches

HEAG MediaNet, a leading German telecommunication service provider, will deploy Orckit-Corrigent's MPLS and MPLS-TP based CM-4000 PTN switches and the accompanying CM-View network management system, complemented by 3M Services comprehensive support scheme, to expand its networking infrastructure for the delivery of carrier, enterprise VPN and residential broadband services on a converged networking layer.Orckit-Corrigent's CM-4000 portfolio is a...

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Alcatel-Lucent Offer Open Telepresence Solution

Alcatel-Lucent released a suite of open visual collaboration solutions that extends enterprise video to any endpoint and location, including desktop PCs, smart phones, laptops, tablets, interactive whiteboards and display screens across offices, meeting rooms and boardrooms. Collaborators on the solutions include SMART Technologies, RADVISION and Lifesize. Alcatel-Lucent's Visual Collaboration suite includes the new Alcatel-Lucent Interactive Whiteboard Solution, which integrates content sharing using the Alcatel-Lucent My Teamwork application...

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CloudBees Raises $10.5 Million for Java Middleware

CloudBees, a start-up based in Boston, raised $10.5 million in Series B financing for its Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology.Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is the software infrastructure needed to run applications in the cloud; in simplest terms, it is middleware for the cloud. CloudBees DEV@cloud provides the fully integrated development infrastructure while RUN@cloud provides the 'application server' in the cloud. With the CloudBees PaaS,...

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NetLogic Adapts its Multi-Core Processor for Network Storage

NetLogic Microsystems introduced a multi-core processor optimized for the rapidly growing storage-area networking (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) markets in data center, enterprise and small-to-midsize business (SMB) networks. The XLP316T multi-core processor integrates 16 high-performance NXCPUs featuring a highly differentiated quad-issue, quad-threaded, superscalar out-of-order processor architecture capable of operating at up to 2.0...

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NeoPhotonics Samples 40G Transceiver Module

NeoPhotonics has begun sampling its first 40G transceiver module for high speed Ethernet client side applications. The new pluggable transceiver increases the data rate per module from 10G, in the case of XFP or SFP+ transceivers, to 40G, over single mode fiber at distances up to 10 kilometers. The new NeoPhotonics product is designed primarily to connect gigabit and terabit routers and switches with next generation high capacity transport systems....

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OTN Hits its Stride

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