Amdocs Posts Revenue of $812 Million, North American Outlook Strong, Europe Uncertain

Amdocs posted quarterly revenue of $812.2 million, up 1.3% sequentially from the third fiscal quarter of 2011 and up 6.6% as compared to the same period last year. Net income on a non-GAAP basis was $111.2 million, or $0.62 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $122.4 million, or $0.62 per diluted share, last year.“We concluded fiscal 2011 with strong execution, on-going deal momentum in the emerging markets and continued progress in revitalizing our European business. In North America, we continued to see solid demand in 2011 and...

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Amdocs Posts Revenue of $812 Million, North American Outlook Strong, Europe Uncertain

Amdocs posted quarterly revenue of $812.2 million, up 1.3% sequentially from the third fiscal quarter of 2011 and up 6.6% as compared to the same period last year. Net income on a non-GAAP basis was $111.2 million, or $0.62 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $122.4 million, or $0.62 per diluted share, last year.“We concluded fiscal 2011 with strong execution, on-going deal momentum in the emerging markets and continued progress in revitalizing our European business. In North America, we continued to see solid demand in 2011 and...

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Qi Wireless Charging Standard Gains Momentum

Huawei and Visteon are the latest companies to join Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), which now has over 100 backers, including notables Energizer, HTC, LG, Verizon, Motorola, Nokia, Philips, Panasonic, Samsung, Sanyo, and, Sony-Ericsson.The Wireless Power Consortium is promoting Qi as the global standard for wireless charging. Qi allows devices to be charged just by placing them on any Qi charging surface without connecting cords or wires. "Since...

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Swisscom Begins LTE Pilot Network

Swisscom kicked off an LTE pilot network in Davos, the first of seven tourist regions in Switzerland to be equipped with the technology. A further six regions will follow by the beginning of December. The carrier's full commercial LTE rollout is dependant of the issuing of new licences for mobile frequencies, which is expected to occur in spring 2012. In parallel, Swisscom will be expanding the current HSPA+ network to 42 Mbps. http://www.swisscom....

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Qualcomm Acquires HaloIPT for Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging

Qualcomm has acquired HaloIPT, a start-up based that is developing Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) technology for the wireless charging of electric cars. The acquisition include substantially all of the technology and other assets of the company and all team members have joined Qualcomm's European Innovation Development group based in the UK. Financial terms were not disclosed.In addition to the HaloIPT transaction, Qualcomm and Auckland UniServices,...

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Palo Alto Networks Warns that Unknown Malware is Rampant in Enterprises

Palo Alto Networks warned that previously unknown malware is a present danger to enterprise networks. Using its new WildFire malware analysis engine, the company has uncovered hundreds of unique, previously-unknown malware samples on live networks. In fact, Palo Alto Networks reports that every network tested with WildFire's virtualized sandbox technology uncovered instances of real-world attacks from malware that was previously unknown to the security industry. "I think we were all a bit surprised by the volume and frequency with which we were...

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Shaw Upgrades to 100 Gbps with Alcatel-Lucent

Canada's Shaw Communications has upgraded its inter-city network to 100 Gbps, 10 times faster than before. The launch follows a field trial over a 350-kilometre network between Calgary and Edmonton. The upgrade uses technology from Alcatel-Lucent. http://www.shaw.cahttp://www.alcatel-lucent....

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Hibernia and Huawei Test Coherent 100G Across the Atlantic

Hibernia Atlantic, in conjunction with Huawei Marine, successfully completed a test of coherent 100G connectivity between Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada to Southport, England. The test marks the first 100G trial across the Atlantic. The companies now plan to move forward with deployments of 100 Gbps connections between Halifax and Montreal and between Amsterdam and London by Q1 2012, followed by other key routes later in the year. The trial used...

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ECI Converges Layers 0-3 with Apollo OMLT

ECI Telecom is taking the next step beyond packet-optical transport system (P-OTS) with a new modular platform that integrates L0 to L3 functionality with a single management system for all layers. The Apollo Optimized Multi-Layer Transport system (OMLT) addresses metro core and regional networks for carriers shifting from traditional ring-based architecture to mesh-based and OTN switching architecture. With the OMLT, ECI's aim is to address shortcomings...

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Luxtera Debuts 100 Gbps Silicon Photonic Transceiver

Luxtera introduced its 100 Gbps optical transceiver targeted for 100Gbps Ethernet, OTN and InfiniBand applications as well as emerging OIF (Optical Internetworking Forum) Short Reach (SR) and Very Short Reach (VSR) electrical interconnect to host systems. The device can be socketed directly onto the customers' switch or server boards for both backplane and rack mount connectivity. Luxtera's single chip opto-electronic transceiver includes four fully integrated 28Gbps transmit and receive channels powered from a single laser for an aggregate...

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