BT's Openreach Expands its FTTP Ambitions to 300 Mbps

Openreach, the wholesale access division of the BT Group, launched its initial 110 Mbps Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) service and announced plans to boost this capacity to 300 Mbps starting next year. The company's first commercial FTTP connections are launching in Ashford in Middlesex, Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes, Highams Park in North London, Chester South, St Austell and York this month. Trials of 1 Gbps connections are also underway.Openreach...

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Huawei Launches Enterprise Business group in the U.S.

Huawei has opened a third major division to serve the U.S. market.The Huawei Enterprise Business group will deliver a broad product portfolio and solutions, including teleconferencing, switches and enterprise-class routers, to channel partner (VARs, Distributors, System Integrators and via Carriers as a channel.) Huawei and its channel partners will also focus on vertical segments. Solutions will include campus networks, branch access, IP backbone,...

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Microsoft Signs Big Players for Xbox 360 LIVE Entertainment Service

Microsoft unveiled its Xbox 360 online entertainment service boasting content and support from nearly 40 leading TV partners, including Bravo, Comcast, HBO GO, Verizon FiOS and Syfy in the U.S.; BBC in the U.K., Telefónica in Spain; Rogers On Demand in Canada; Televisa in Mexico; ZDF in Germany; and MediaSet in Italy. Content providers already on the Xbox include AT&T, Netflix and Hulu Plus in the U.S., TELUS in Canada, BSkyB in the U.K., Canal+...

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Acme Packet Updates Financial Guidance

Acme Packet updated its financial guidance saying it now expects Q3 revenues to be approximately $70 million, with earnings per share on a non-GAAP1basis to be between $0.20 and $0.22.The company reaffirmed its previous business outlook for 2011. "While we remain confident in our second half growth plans, our third quarter results were adversely impacted by a very large opportunity at one of the two largest service providers in North America.�? said Andy Ory, President and Chief Executive Officer of Acme Packet, Inc. “We now expect this opportunity...

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Bridgewater Wins LTE Policy Project in Puerto Rico

Open Mobile, a leading mobile operator in Puerto Rico, has selected the Bridgewater policy and subscriber network control solution, for its new LTE network. The Bridgewater solution will enable Open Mobile, a Bridgewater customer since 2007, to rapidly launch new LTE data services such as the creation of volume-based packages with pre-set quotas, real-time subscriber redirection to top-up service quotas, and roaming controls to manage data usage and prevent mobile bill shock. The solution will also allow Open Mobile to manage and monetize mobile...

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IBM and Crocus Develop Next Generation Magnetic Memory Technology

IBM and Crocus Technology have entered into a cross licensing agreement to spur the development of magnetic memory technology.The partnership brings together Crocus' thermally assisted next generation Magnetic-Logic-Unit (MLU) technology with IBM's magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) technology and processing capabilities. Crocus' MLU, which was first announced by Crocus in June 2011, is based on a self-reference architecture and enables...

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Gigamon Shows Inline Switch for Monitoring 10G Networks

Gigamon introduced a new switch that enables intelligent distribution and management of traffic within Enterprise DMZs.The G-SECURE-0216 Inline Traffic Distribution Switch is able to receive traffic at up to 10 Gb and intelligently distributes it to different 1 Gb security tools (up to 8 in parallel), such as IPS, firewall, DPI devices, NACs or Web Filters. Integration of both session-based and application-based intelligence allows security teams to distribute traffic loads based upon IP or MAC addresses, as well as by application port number....

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