Cavium Posts Sales of $71 million, up 13% Sequentially

Cavium reported Q2 revenue of $71.6 million, a 12.7% sequential increase from the $63.6 million reported for the first quarter of 2011 and an increase of 43.7% from the $49.9 million reported for the second quarter of last year. Net income (GAAP) was $1.9 million, or $0.04 per diluted share, compared to net income of $1.5 million, or $0.03 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2011, and a net income of $0.6 million, or $0.01 per diluted share...

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MetroPCS Plunges 35% Following Q2 Earnings

Shares in MetroPCS fell 36% on Tuesday following the release of its Q2 financial report in which the company disclosed weaker than expected subscriber growth, higher CAPEX and the possibility of purchasing additional spectrum for its LTE network.Consolidated service revenues were $1.1 billion for the second quarter of 2011, an increase of $191 million, or 21%, when compared to the prior year's second quarter. Income from operations increased approximately...

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Sprint Announces Wholesale 4G

Sprint began providing wholesale access to its 4G (WiMAX) network, making it the first national scale wireless carrier in the U.S. to provide a wholesale 4G offering. Available immediately for Sprint's Wholesale customers are the Sierra Wireless 250U 3G/4G data card and HTC Detail 3G/4G handset, which has the same feature set as HTC EVO Shift 4G. http://www.sprint....

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Tekelec Appoints CTO

Tekelec appointed Douglas A. Suriano as chief technology officer (CTO). He will retain his current responsibilities as vice president of engineering, which he has held since joining Tekelec in 2003. In his eight-year tenure, he and his team have developed Tekelec's next-generation mobile broadband portfolio through organic growth and strategic acquisitions, while expanding market share of its voice and text solutions. Suriano joined Tekelec from dynamicsoft, Inc., where he was vice president of engineering, overseeing development of SIP products...

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NeoPhotonics Samples Extended Reach OLT Transceivers

NeoPhotonics has begun sampling its first extended reach "XG PON1" transceiver module for 10G PON applications in an XFP form factor. The new pluggable transceiver increases the link budget from 29 dB (ITU-T G987.2 Class N1) to 31 dB (ITU-T G987.2 Class N2), and is designed to support network overlay of 10G XG-PON1 over existing Class B+ GPON networks (28dB link budget). The company also today announced that it has tripled capacity for its current...

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Cavium Ships 10-Core OCTEON II Processors

Cavium has begun the first shipments of its 10-core OCTEON II CN66XX processors to multiple OEM customers. The Cavium OCTEON II CN66XX integrates up to 10 MIPS64 cores and hardware acceleration for networking, mobile infrastructure, control-plane and data-center applications."With the CN66XX, we now offer 2.5x the number of full 64-bit CPU cores and 2x the GHz versus alternatives within an extremely compact and power-efficient form-factor," said...

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Michigan's CTS Telecom Selects ADTRAN

CTS Telecom, an ILEC and CLEC serving southwestern Michigan, has selected the industry's fastest growing access platform, the Total Access® 5000, for a network upgrade. The upgrade will allow CTS to address higher-speed data demands and evolve the network to support VoIP to its new softswitch. ADTRAN will also provide the core technology for a major fiber roll-out funded in part by a Broadband Stimulus award. Financial terms were not disclosed....

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Industry Consortium Pursues Smart Energy

A new Consortium for SEP 2 Interoperability has been formed by the HomePlug Alliance, Wi-Fi Alliance, HomeGrid Forum and ZigBee Alliance with the goal of implementing a consistent testing plan for interoperable SEP 2 devices across an IP network. A joint certification and test program will be used to certify wireless and wired devices that support IP-based smart energy applications and end-user devices such as thermostats, appliances and gateways....

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The Next Step for Wi-Fi: Low-latency, Gigabit 802.11ac

The next big step for Wi-Fi is to make the leap to gigabit capacity with 802.11ac. As part of its Wi-Fi Day celebrations (08/02/11), Qualcomm Atheros hosted a press event in Silicon Valley to discuss how this future Wi-Fi will develop. The next rev of Wi-Fi technology, expected later this year, promises this performance boost along with new multi-user, multi-simultaneous stream capabilities.The Wi-Fi standards have moved all the way through the...

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10X10 MSA Releases 10Km and 40Km 100Gbps Standards

The 10x10 MSA has released 10Km and 40Km specifications for longer reach applications.The 10Km reach specification builds on already existing 2Km specifications to ensure backward compatibility and interoperability with the existing 10X10-2Km standard. The 40Km specification leverages existing 10Gbps DWDM network specifications to enable seamless upgrade of existing 10Gbps metro links to 100Gbps over up to 40Km single-mode fiber without the need...

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NTT Boosts Transpacific Network to 500 Gbps

NTT Communications' Global IP Network has reached 500 Gbps of capacity on its transpacific network.After reaching 400 Gbps of capacity in late 2010, the growth of NTT Communications' transpacific network suffered setbacks as a result of the Japanese earthquake in March 2011. The company said its network was able to quickly rebound as a result of concerted and dedicated efforts from the company's skilled engineers. http://www.ntt.co...

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Edpnet Builds 6/4 Tbps DWDM from St. Petersburg to Stockholm

Russia's Edpnet has deployed a DWDM system with 6.4 Tbps of capacity between St. Petersburg and Stockholm. The network uses the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP), enabling Edpnet to offer communications channels with a bandwidth of 10 Gbps (STM-64, OC-192c, 10 gigabit Ethernet WAN PHY, 10 gigabit Ethernet LAN PHY) and 40 Gbps. The system is also ready for 100 Gbps channels. The equipment was delivered by Perfect, a Cisco premier...

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