Marvell's Revenue Rises 6% Sequentially

Marvell Technology Group posted quarterly revenue of $950 million for its third fiscal quarter of fiscal 2012, a 6 percent sequential increase from $898 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2012, ended July 30, 2011, and down 1 percent from $959 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2011, ended October 30, 2010. GAAP net income was $195 million, or $0.32 per share (diluted), for the third quarter of fiscal 2012, compared with GAAP net income of $192 million, or $0.31 per share (diluted) in the second quarter of fiscal 2012, and $256 million,...

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Cox to Exit Wireless Business Effective March 30, 2012

Citing the lack of wireless scale necessary to compete in the marketplace, the acceleration of competitive 4G networks as well as the inability to access iconic wireless devices (the iPhone), Cox Communications announced its intention to exit the 3G mobile business effective March 30, 2012. The cable operator has discontinued selling Cox Wireless, its wireless phone service, effective November 16, 2011. All Cox Wireless customers have multiple Cox...

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Motorola Mobility Stockholders Approve Merger with Google

Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility took a step forward with overwhelming approval by Motorola Mobility stockholders for the merger. The deal is expected to close in early 2012, pending regulatory approvals.As previously announced on August 15, 2011, Motorola Mobility and Google entered into a definitive agreement for Google to acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of approximately $12.5 billion. http://www.motorola.com/mobil...

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Aruba Networks Posts Record Quarter, Sales up 44% YoY

Aruba Networks reported record sales for its fiscal first quarter 2012 ended October 31, 2011: revenue of $119.4 million, an increase of 44 percent from the $83.1 million reported in Q1'11. GAAP net loss for Q1'12 was $0.5 million, or $0.00 per share, compared with net income of $2.1 million, or $0.02 per share, in Q1'11.First quarter revenue increased by 44 percent year-over-year, in part due to the proliferation of mobile devices, which continued...

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BT Expands Ethernet Connect to six New Countries

BT has expanded its Ethernet Connect VPN services to a total of 28 countries and launched international E-LAN services. Ethernet Connect combines E-Line and E-LAN services, improving an organization's ability to retain control of the IP architecture and innovate. BT also differentiates itself by offering end-to-end service management to the customer premise as standard. This means faults are fixed faster.Ethernet Connect, including E-LAN service,...

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BT Openreach Cites Progress on Duct and Pole Sharing

Openreach noted progress in trials of its Duct and Pole Sharing services. The company published revised prices for pole and duct access, which other operators could use to launch their own fibre services.Fujitsu UK, the furthest-advanced participant in Openreach's trial of duct and pole sharing, has recently connected its first end-users. It has done so via a trial of Fibre-to-the-Premises technology in the Wirral, deployed using Openreach's duct...

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Marvell's Revenue Rises 6% Sequentially

Marvell Technology Group posted quarterly revenue of $950 million for its third fiscal quarter of fiscal 2012, a 6 percent sequential increase from $898 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2012, ended July 30, 2011, and down 1 percent from $959 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2011, ended October 30, 2010. GAAP net income was $195 million, or $0.32 per share (diluted), for the third quarter of fiscal 2012, compared with GAAP net income of $192 million, or $0.31 per share (diluted) in the second quarter of fiscal 2012, and $256 million,...

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Cox to Exit Wireless Business Effective March 30, 2012

Citing the lack of wireless scale necessary to compete in the marketplace, the acceleration of competitive 4G networks as well as the inability to access iconic wireless devices (the iPhone), Cox Communications announced its intention to exit the 3G mobile business effective March 30, 2012. The cable operator has discontinued selling Cox Wireless, its wireless phone service, effective November 16, 2011. All Cox Wireless customers have multiple Cox...

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Motorola Mobility Stockholders Approve Merger with Google

Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility took a step forward with overwhelming approval by Motorola Mobility stockholders for the merger. The deal is expected to close in early 2012, pending regulatory approvals.As previously announced on August 15, 2011, Motorola Mobility and Google entered into a definitive agreement for Google to acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of approximately $12.5 billion. http://www.motorola.com/mobil...

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Aruba Networks Posts Record Quarter, Sales up 44% YoY

Aruba Networks reported record sales for its fiscal first quarter 2012 ended October 31, 2011: revenue of $119.4 million, an increase of 44 percent from the $83.1 million reported in Q1'11. GAAP net loss for Q1'12 was $0.5 million, or $0.00 per share, compared with net income of $2.1 million, or $0.02 per share, in Q1'11.First quarter revenue increased by 44 percent year-over-year, in part due to the proliferation of mobile devices, which continued...

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BT Expands Ethernet Connect to six New Countries

BT has expanded its Ethernet Connect VPN services to a total of 28 countries and launched international E-LAN services. Ethernet Connect combines E-Line and E-LAN services, improving an organization's ability to retain control of the IP architecture and innovate. BT also differentiates itself by offering end-to-end service management to the customer premise as standard. This means faults are fixed faster.Ethernet Connect, including E-LAN service,...

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BT Openreach Cites Progress on Duct and Pole Sharing

Openreach noted progress in trials of its Duct and Pole Sharing services. The company published revised prices for pole and duct access, which other operators could use to launch their own fibre services.Fujitsu UK, the furthest-advanced participant in Openreach's trial of duct and pole sharing, has recently connected its first end-users. It has done so via a trial of Fibre-to-the-Premises technology in the Wirral, deployed using Openreach's duct...

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LSI and Advantech Partner on "Packetarium" Network Appliance

LSI and Advantech introduced a new "Packetarium" platform powered by the LSI Axxia Communication Processor and designed for caching gateways, enterprise routing, unified threat management and radio network controllers. Among its potential applications, Packetarium could be used to deliver network intelligence and security in LTE deployments. The NCP-2110 Packetarium system is a 1U rack-mountable design that accommodates two front-loadable network...

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US Signal Tests Cisco's 100G Coherent DWDM

US Signal, a provider of regional transport, data center and IP services, has completed field trials of 100G coherent DWDM based on the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) system. The 100G coherent trial was performed over an in-service 10G-engineered network between Chicago, Ill. and Kalamazoo, Michigan. Cisco said this trial confirmed that US Signal can deploy in-service, 100G coherent technology on networks originally designed for 10G transmission without any re-engineering. US Signal is also leveraging the Cisco Aggregation...

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Aruba Networks to Acquire Avenda Systems for Network Security

Aruba Networks agreed to acquire privately-held Avenda Systems, a developer of network security solutions for connecting personal mobile devices to business networks. Financial terms were not disclosed.Avenda Systems offers an identity-based policy engine that helps corporate networks maintain security where employees bring their on device. Avenda's eTIPS solution and complementary applications provide a scalable identity-aware network access security platform that offers role-based policy control, differentiated access, endpoint health checks,...

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Alcatel-Lucent's "CloudBand" Sees Carrier Migration to Clouds

Alcatel-Lucent is introducing a new "CloudBand" architecture for delivering "virtual telco" functionality and enterprise services from cloud-enabled data centers rather than dedicated telecom platforms. CloudBand, which will be the foundation for a new class of ‘carrier cloud' services such as IMS or video applications, leverages generic compute resources deployed in regional data centers throughout a carrier's footprint. The goal is to make the...

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OIF Starts New 100G Transmitter Project

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has kicked off a new project on Integrated Dual Polarization Quadrature Modulated Transmitter Assembly (ITXA), targeting lower cost, higher density applications. “Our existing Polarization Multiplexed Quadrature Modulated Transmitter has been successfully adopted in Ultra Long Haul and Metro markets,�? said Karl Gass, the OIF's Physical and Link Layer Working Group vice-chair and a consultant of TriQuint...

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