JDSU Beats Guidance -- Revenue of $412.8 million

JDSU reported quarterly revenue of $412.8 million and net loss was $(10.2) million, or $(0.04) per share. This compares to net revenue of $420.8 million and net loss of $(5.8) million, or $(0.03) per share for the prior quarter, and net revenue of $473.5 million and net income of $23.6 million, or $0.10 per share for the same period a year earlier. “Our fiscal second quarter financial results surpassed our expectations. The outstanding efforts...

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eircom Seeks Investors or Buyer

The board of directors of eircom has retained Morgan Stanley & Co International to seek a buyer or new investors in the company, Discussions are also underway with bondholders regarding options for the balance sheet remediation process.http://pressroom.eircom.net/In December 2011, a proposal from Singapore's ST Telemedia (STT) for investment in eircom was rejected by a majority of the First Lien lenders in eirc...

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Facebook Connects 483 million Users per Day -- 48% YoY Growth

In an SEC filing for its expected IPO, Facebook disclosed key facts about operations. Some site metrics:Worldwide Monthly Active Users (MAUs) reached 845 million, up 39% from a year earlier.In the U.S., MAUs reached 161 million, up 16% over a year earlier. In India, Facebook had 46 million MAUs in December.Worldwide Daily Active users (DAUs) increased 48% to 483 million during December 2011 from 327 million during December 2010.DAUs as a percentage...

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Cisco Boosts 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet Capabilities

Cisco introduced a 40 Gigabit Ethernet Interface Module for its Catalyst 6500 Series and 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet capabilities for its Nexus 7000 data center switch. To expand its campus aggregation and data center top of rack switching, Cisco also announced two new fixed-configuration platforms that provide high-density 10 GE switching.The enhancements include two new M2-Series modules for the Nexus 7000: a 2-port, 100 GbE Module with XL Option,...

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Broadcom Posts Q4 Revenue of $1.82 Billion, Down 7% Sequentially

Broadcom reported Q4 revenue above guidance of $1.82 billion. a decrease of 7.0% compared with the $1.96 billion reported for the third quarter of 2011 and a decrease of 6.4% compared with the $1.95 billion reported for the fourth quarter of 2010. Net income (GAAP) for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $254 million, or $.45 per share (diluted), compared with GAAP net income of $270 million, or $.48 per share (diluted), for the third quarter of 2011...

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Belgacom Offers Alcatel-Lucent’s Application Assurance

Belgacom has begun offering a new tool to enterprises that provides visibility into which applications are using up the most resources on enterprise networks at any given time as well as how these applications are performing. The new capability is based on Alcatel-Lucent's "Application Assurance" solution, which is offered on top of the 7750 Service Router (SR) and 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS). The solution is based on the Multiservice Integrated...

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Verizon Wireless and Comcast Launch Joint Marketing

Verizon Wireless and Comcast have been offering each other's services in the San Francisco Bay area. New customers who sign up for both a qualifying Xfinity offering and a Verizon Wireless smartphone or tablet plan will be eligible to receive a Visa prepaid card valued up to $300. Similar programs have been launched in Portland and Seattle. http://www.comcast.com http://www.verizon.com Verizon Wireless announced a deal to acquire 122 Advanced Wireless Services spectrum licenses from SpectrumCo, a joint venture between Comcast Corporation,...

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Qualcomm Posts Record Quarter, up 14% Sequentially

Qualcomm reported record quarterly revenue of $4.68 billion, up 40 percent year-over-year and 14 percent sequentially. Net income was $1.40 billion, up 20 percent y-o-y and 33 percent sequentially. Diluted earnings per share were $0.81, up 14 percent y-o-y and 31 percent sequentially."I am pleased to report another record quarter with revenues, earnings and MSM shipments reaching all-time highs, driven by our industry-leading chipset portfolio and...

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Aviat Networks Posts Revenue of $105 Million

Aviat Networks reported quarterly revenue within its previous guidance -- $105.0 million, compared with $115.3 million in the year-ago quarter. Revenue and results of operations from WiMAX are classified as discontinued operations for all periods presented. The company reported a net loss, including discontinued operations, of $(12.8) million or $(0.22) per share, compared with a net loss of $(12.5) million or $(0.21) per share in the year-ago quarter....

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Riverbed Deepens its Cascade Network Performance Monitoring

Riverbed Technology has enhanced its Cascade application-aware network performance management (NPM) solution by extending its performance monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities deeper into the data center. The goal is to provide visibility into virtualized data centers and data centers that use load balancing application delivery controllers (ADCs). The new release, Cascade 9.5,features a wizard-based "Profiler" for mapping service monitoring...

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RadiSys Posts Q4 Revenue of $79.5 million

RadiSys reported Q4 2011 revenue of $79.5 million and non-GAAP revenue of $80.2 million, up $13.3 million or 20% on a non-GAAP basis when compared to the fourth quarter of 2010. Fourth quarter GAAP net loss was $6.7 million or $0.25 per share and non-GAAP net income was $1.4 million or $0.05 per diluted share. “Our fourth quarter revenue came in as we expected, and we exceeded our non-GAAP gross margin and EPS expectations with a higher mix of media server revenue. Our growing Next Generation Communications revenue is now on an annualized run-rate...

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OIF Focuses on Next Generation Interconnects

The OIF is planning to develop a Next Generation Interconnect Framework Document in 2012 that looks 5-8 years forward and identifies application spaces that may require industry consensus. A workshop, which was held last week in Cupertino, California, was attended and featured presentations by Brocade, Cisco, Ericsson, Finisar, Hewlett Packard, Infinera, Luxtera, Molex, TE Connectivity, Tellabs and Xilinx. Members of the Physical and Link Layer...

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Cyan Shortens Name

Cyan, which develops multi-layer, packet-optical transport platforms, has changed its legal name to “Cyan�? from “Cyan Optics.�? “This name change reflects Cyan’s ongoing focus on delivering a family of innovative packet-optical transport solutions with a broadening range of software and software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems, and comprehensive professional services," said Frank Wiener, Cyan’s vice president of marketing.http://cyaninc....

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Solera Raises $20 Million for Network Analytics Recorder

Solera Networks, a start-up based in Salt Lake City, raised $20 million in Series D financing for its Network Security Analytics.Solera leverages its patented DeepSee platform to collect, index and classify all network traffic (including cloud and mobile) in real-time, delivering a complete picture of what’s happening for any security event, including advanced persistent threats (APTs). Solera gives CISOs answers to the most important questions,...

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Tellabs Drops 9100 LTE Platform in Restructuring

Tellabs reported Q4 2011 revenue of $317 million, compared with $410 million in the year-ago quarter. There was a GAAP net loss of $5 million or 1 cent per share, compared with a net loss of $11 million or 3 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2010. On a non-GAAP basis, Tellabs recorded net earnings of $4 million or 1 cent per share in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared with net earnings of $6 million or 2 cents per share in the year-ago...

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FCC Updates Lifeline Program for Low-Income Americans

The three current commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve a comprehensive overhaul of the Lifeline universal service program, which helps tens of millions of low-income Americans afford basic phone service. The current Lifeline program, which was put in place in 1985, predated the rise of mobile phone service and gradually enabled perverse incentives for some carriers to continue an entrenched cost to the government.The...

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Ericsson Announces 2nd Gen DC/DC Telecom Power Modules

Ericsson unveiled its second digital-power Advanced Bus Converter platform for use with board-mounted DC/DC power modules in telecom and datacom applications. The new FRIDA II DC/DC power modules are designed for lower power dissipation in end-customer systems – decreasing the requirement for hard cooling and delivering higher reliability, lower CO2 emissions and lower Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO2). The first generation FRIDA modules were introduced...

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Ericsson Wins Mobile Backhaul Contracts in Germany, Belgium

Ericsson announced contracts to upgrade the mobile backhaul networks for KPN International subsidiaries E-Plus Group in Germany and KPN Group Belgium. Ericsson will install more than 15,000 MINI-LINK transmission node links in these countries before the end of 2013. Work is already underway. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ericsson....

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Solera Raises $20 Million for Network Analytics Recorder

Solera Networks, a start-up based in Salt Lake City, raised $20 million in Series D financing for its Network Security Analytics. Solera leverages its patented DeepSee platform to collect, index and classify all network traffic (including cloud and mobile) in real-time, delivering a complete picture of what’s happening for any security event, including advanced persistent threats (APTs). Solera gives CISOs answers to the most important questions,...

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Fujitsu Wins Key Domain Supplier Status with AT&T

Fujitsu Network Communications has been selected as one of AT&T's Domain Suppliers for optical and transport equipment. The multi-year selection covers equipment used to expand and maintain AT&T's metropolitan and long-haul network infrastructure. Financial terms of the supplier agreement are still being negotiated.AT&T's Domain Supplier program, launched in September 2009, facilitates a more collaborative relationship with AT&T's...

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BT Openreach Launches Optical Spectrum Access with ADVA

Openreach, the infrastructure division of BT Group, launched a new Optical Spectrum Access (OSA) service that is built on ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000 DWDM platform. The new service enables enterprises to transport enormous amounts of data throughout the U.K. with much improved latency and unparalleled encryption and security. The OSA service provides dedicated single or resilient point-to-point optical fibre links throughout the U.K. With...

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Stoke Appoints VP of Engineering

Stoke appointed Charles Corbalis as Vice President of Engineering. He joins from RGB Networks where he was Vice President of Engineering. He was previously co-founder of optical switch company Calient Networks and StrataCom, Inc, where he led the development of breakthrough communications industry technologies. http://www.stoke....

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NetLogic Offers Xen Hypervisor for Multi-Core MIPS64

NetLogic Microsystems introduced an open–source Xen hypervisor for its high-performance multi-core MIPS64 processors for delivering virtualization for next-generation communications, networking and server platforms.The Xen hypervisor enables multiple instances of the same or different operating systems on a single processor. NetLogic said this capability enables applications to run completely independently and securely on a single processor. For...

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MTN Renews Managed Services Deal with Ericsson

MTN has extended its managed services agreement with Ericsson in Ghana. With 49% market share and 10 million subscribers, MTN is the premier operator in Ghana which is one of Africa's fastest growing markets with an 18% growth rate in 2011. This announcement marks the extension of the first managed services contract between Ericsson and MTN, originally signed in 2009 in connection to the rollout of MTN's 3G network in Ghana. Under the extension, Ericsson is responsible for network operations, field maintenance and optimization. http://www.er...

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MetroPCS Picks Ericsson for Microwave Backhaul

MetroPCS Communications has selected Ericsson to served as primary vendor for microwave backhaul equipment under a new four-year contract. Ericsson is already a key infrastructure provider for the company's networks, including its LTE network. Financial terms were not disclosed.Ericsson's customized microwave backhaul solution for MetroPCS will include:MINI-LINK TN - a unique microwave transmission node, capable of handling single hops and access...

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TI Introduces Advanced Signal Conditioners

Texas Instruments introduced 10 signal conditioners designed to drive high-speed interface standards such as 10G/40G/100G Ethernet, 10G-KR (802.3ap), InfiniBand, Fibre Channel and CPRI. The new integrated circuits (ICs), which use high-performance BiCMOS SiGe process technology, expand TI's existing family of repeaters and retimers that combat signal impairments caused by insertion loss, jitter, reflections and crosstalk in high-speed enterprise...

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Motorola Solutions Increases Stock Buy Backs

Motorola Solutions' Board of Directors authorized up to $1.0 billion in additional funds for use in the existing stock repurchase program through the end of 2012. The new funds are in addition to the up to $2.0 billion announced in July 2011, raising the total authorization to up to $3.0 billion. After stock repurchases of approximately $1.1 billion through Dec. 31, 2011, Motorola Solutions will have up to approximately $1.9 billion for its stock repurchase program in 2012. http://www.motorola....

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Tilera Releases its 36 and 16-core TILE-Gx Processors

Tilera, a start-up based in San Jose, California, released its "TILE-Gx" low-power, high-performance 64-bit processors – TILE-Gx36 and TILE-Gx16 in 40nm – as well as companion evaluation systems. These processors are aimed at networking, cloud computing and multimedia. For networking systems, the company calculates that a single TILE-Gx36 can deliver more than 40 Gbps of L2/L3 packet forwarding performance across small and large packet sizes using...

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AT&T Announces Executive Line-up Reshuffle

AT&T announced the following key executives, reporting to Randall Stephenson, its Chairman and CEO:John Stankey has been named to the newly created position of Group President & Chief Strategy Officer, where he will be responsible for developing the roadmap to maximize future growth opportunities, including corporate development, addressing long-term wireless-capacity needs, capital allocation strategies and identifying the best strategic...

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ActionPacked Offers Free Visualization Tool for NetFlow and Cisco Medianet

ActionPacked! Networks announced that, for a limited time, it will be giving away permanent licenses for its newest LiveAction Version 2.31 software with in-depth, real-time traffic flow visualizations plus the company’s newest Medianet capabilities. As a flow monitoring tool, the free version of LiveAction tracks and graphically displays NetFlow, J-Flow and sFlow paths and characteristics over a live network topology view that the software generates...

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Video: Super-Channels

What's beyond 100G? Inexorable bandwidth growth requires the next leap in optical transmission. Super-Channels allow rapid deployment of massive bandwidth in chunks of 500 Gigabits per second or even 1 Terabit per second and will be shipping in 2012. Infinera's super-channels aggregate up to 10 carriers or 100 Gbps using a photonic integrated circuit.Presented by Mike Capuano, Vinay Rathore and Dave Welsh. This text will be replaced jwplayer('mediaspace').setup({ 'flashplayer': 'player.swf', 'file': 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pYKHVC-oig',...

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Wi-Fi Alliance Sees Confusion in Labeling White Spaces as 'Super Wi-Fi"

The Wi-Fi Alliance is expressing concern over the growing use of the terms “Super Wi-Fi�? or “Next Generation Wi-Fi�? to describe wireless broadband access over the unlicensed spectrum known as Television White Spaces. The Wi-Fi Alliance cautions that recently-announced deployments using terms like “Super Wi-Fi�? are not in fact Wi-Fi, as the technology does not interoperate with the billions of Wi-Fi devices in use today. In a press release, the...

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Clearwire Completes $300 Million Bond Sale

Clearwire completed a sale of $300.0 million aggregate principal amount of 14.75% first-priority senior secured notes due 2016 at an issue price of 100% (the “Notes�?). The funds will be used for the deployment of mobile 4G LTE technology alongside the mobile 4G WiMAX technology currently on its network and for the operation and maintenance of its networks and for general corporate purposes. http://www.clearwire....

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Tekelec's Privatization is Complete

A consortium led by Siris Capital Group completed its acquisition of Tekelec for approximately $780 million, or $11.00 per share in cash.“Our new ownership structure will enable us to continue our rapid expansion into the mobile data business and capitalize on our leadership in the voice and text signaling business and to rapidly expand our mobile data business,�? said Ron de Lange, president and CEO of Tekelec. “Going forward, our customers can...

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Marvell Cuts its Financial Guidance Citing Thai Flood

Marvell cut its financial outlook for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, ending January 28, 2012. The company now expects net revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 to be in the range of $735 million to $745 million, compared with prior outlook of between $775 million to $825 million."The supply of disk drives started to recover in our fourth fiscal quarter, but later than we had originally anticipated. Our SSD revenues grew more than expected...

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NTT DOCOMO Extends LTE Introductory Discounts

NTT DOCOMO announced a set of discounts for subscribers to its "Xi" LTE s from May 1 to September 30, 2012. Subscribers to selected packet flat-rate and data service plans will automatically receive a ¥1,050 (including tax) discount on their basic monthly charges. At present, Xi subscribers are scheduled to receive monthly discounts of ¥1,575 (including tax) through April 30, so the new campaign means they will continue to enjoy special discounts...

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NSN Renews EUR 1.3 Billion Loan

Nokia Siemens Networks signed forward starting term and multicurrency revolving facilities agreement valued at €1.305bn with 15 international banks. The loan will replace Nokia Siemens Networks’ existing revolving credit facility when it matures in June 2012.http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks....

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NTT Docomo Reports LTE Progress

As of December 31, 2011, NTT Docomo had 1.14 million LTE subscribers -- its first full year of operating a commercial LTE network.Docomo currently has four LTE handsets, 2 LTE-enabled tablets, and three LTE modems/routers on offer.Docomo's LTE network now covers all prefectural capital-sized cities across Japan, covering about 24% of the population. This footprint consists of approximately 5,000 LTE base stations in operation. By the end of March...

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Verizon Expands Network in Africa and the Middle East

Verizon announced the expansion of its Private IP service to the following locations: Gabon on Africa's western coast; Djibouti and Ethiopia on the Horn of Africa; Malawi and Zimbabwe in Eastern Africa; and Swaziland in the southern region. The expansion brings to 21 the number of African countries where Verizon's Private IP is now available. In addition, the network has been expanded to Bahrain and Qatar in the Middle East. Services were already available in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and United Arab Emirates...

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AT&T Reports Soaring Wi-Fi Traffic

The volume of traffic on AT&T's Wi-Fi network nearly tripled in 2011 over 2010 for a total of 1.2 billion overall connections. The uptick in traffic was especially noticeable in Q4 2011, when 486.9 million connections were made over the 3 month period. There are now more than three million connections per day to the AT&T Wi-Fi Network "As AT&T Wi-Fi connections and usage soar at hospitality locations, retail stores, stadiums and enterprise...

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Alcatel-Lucent Appoints Head of Enterprise Division

Alcatel-Lucent has appointed Michel Emelianoff as President of its Enterprise division, succeeding Tom Burns, who after 12 years is leaving the company for personal reasons. Michel Emelianoff is Vice President & General Manager, Data & Security Solutions for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. He joined Alcatel Enterprise in 1998 as Sales Director, Northern Europe. Prior to joining Alcatel, Michel spent six years at Siemens, where he held positions in sales, marketing, and business development in Germany, France, and the U.S. Michel Emelianoff...

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Oclaro Sees Recovery from Thai Floods

Oclaro reported revenues of $86.5 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2012, compared to revenues of $105.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2012. While above the high end of the company’s guidance for the quarter, revenues and operating results for the quarter were materially impacted by the flood in Thailand. GAAP gross margin was 13% for the second quarter of fiscal 2012, compared to a GAAP gross margin of 23% in the first quarter of fiscal 2012.“In the second quarter of fiscal 2012, Oclaro achieved revenue at the high end of our...

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Nokia Posts Q4 2011 Net sales of EUR 10.0 Billion, Down 21%

Nokia reported net sales of EUR 10.0 billion for the fourth quarter of 2011, down 21% from Q4 2010 and up 11% from the preceding quarter. There was a loss of nearly EUR 1.1 billion.Sales of devices and services overall fell by 29%: in Europe, these sales fell 38%, in China by 40% and in North America, these sales fell by 77%.On the bright side, Nokia reported that the sale of more than one million of its new Windows-based Lumia phones."In the war...

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AT&T: iPhone Accounts for 80% of Smartphone Sales

AT&T reported blockbuster mobile broadband sales in Q4 2011 with 9.4 million smartphone activations in the quarter -- 50 percent more than the previous quarterly record and nearly double 3Q11 sales. This equates to over 100,000 smartphone activations for every day of the quarter. There were 7.6 million iPhone activations, meaning that Apple represented 81% of smartphone sales in Q4 for AT&T. “This was a blowout quarter for smartphone...

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Orange Sees Growth in French Cloud Computing

Orange Business Services reported that it now has over 3,600 customers in France using its cloud computing solutions. This includes 110 for the Flexible Computing Express Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offer, introduced in October 2011, and over 2,500 small business customers for Cloud Pro, a suite of online services launched in June 2011. http://www.orange-business....

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Riverbed's Q4 Revenue Rises to $203 Million, up 7% YoY

Riverbed Technology reported Q4 2011 revenue of $203 million, an increase of 7% from $190 million reported in the third quarter of This compares to GAAP net income of $19 million, or $0.12 per share, in Q3’11 and $13 million, or $0.08 per share, in Q4’10. GAAP net income for 2011 was $64 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $34 million, or $0.22 per diluted share, in 2010. "We believe we are in the strongest strategic and competitive position in our history. Adding to that, early in 2012 we will be entering what we...

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Freescale's Q4 Sales Decline to $1.01 billion

Freescale Semiconductor reported net sales for the fourth quarter of 2011 were $1.01 billion, compared to $1.14 billion in the third quarter of 2011 and $1.18 billion in the fourth quarter last year. Net sales for calendar year 2011 were $4.57 billion compared to $4.46 billion in calendar year 2010.The net loss for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $6 million, or $.02 per share, compared to a loss of $88 million, or $.36 per share, in the third quarter of 2011 and a loss of $102 million, or $.52 per share, in the same period last year. The net loss...

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Juniper Posts Weak Q4 Revenue

Juniper Networks' net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2011 decreased 6% on a year-over-year basis, and increased 1% sequentially, to $1,120.8 million. For the year ended December 31, 2011, Juniper's revenue increased 9% on a year-over-year basis to $4,448.7 million.The company posted GAAP net income of $96.2 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, and non-GAAP net income of $150.1 million, or $0.28 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2011. Included in the GAAP diluted earnings per share was a $0.02 cents impact for restructuring and other...

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Amazon Web Services Adds Storage Gateway

Amazon Web Services introduced a new option for enterprises to securely upload data to the AWS cloud. The AWS Storage Gateway connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage for seamless integration between on-premises IT environments and AWS storage infrastructure. The service provides low-latency performance by maintaining data in on-premises storage hardware while asynchronously uploading data to AWS, where it is encrypted...

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TE Connectivity Posts Slower Communication Sales

TE Connectivity reported quarterly sales of $3.3 billion. Earnings per share from continuing operations (GAAP EPS) were $0.59 for the quarter and adjusted EPS were $0.66. Included in the GAAP EPS were $0.03 per share of restructuring and other charges, $0.01 per share of acquisition-related charges and $0.04 per share of tax items. Free cash flow was $85 million for the quarter. "The first quarter was a slow start to our fiscal year due to...

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Motorola Solutions Sees Strong Q4

Motorola Solutions posted Q4 revenue of $2.3 billion, up 5 percent from a year ago. GAAP operating earnings in the fourth quarter of 2011 were $276 million or 12 percent of sales, compared to $272 million or 12 percent of sales in the fourth quarter of 2010.Government sales in Q4 totaled $1.5 billion, up 6 percent from a year ago, while enterprise sales were $753 million, up 3 percent from a year ago. “Our record fourth quarter capped a very strong and exciting year for our company,�? said Greg Brown, chairman and CEO of Motorola Solutions. “We...

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Polaris Wireless Builds Momentum for its Wireless Location

Polaris Wireless, which specializes in high-accuracy, software-based wireless location solutions, reported a major increase in sales bookings in 2011. The sales momentum includes several significant customer contracts, for multi-million dollar deployments of the Polaris Wireless Altus and OmniLocate location surveillance product suite. The deals represent a major increase in Polaris Wireless’ international business, in areas that are increasingly...

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CableLabs Announces DOCSIS-Supported EPON Qualification

CableLabs has introduced an equipment qualification program for its DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON (DPoE) project, with an aim to facilitate accelerated development of devices that support the delivery of business communications services using Ethernet Passive Optical Network.CableLabs said its DPoE Qualification Program allows equipment makers to certify that their technology and devices are compliant with CableLabs DPoE version 1.0 specifications,...

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Huawei Acquires Photonics R&D Lab in the UK

Huawei has acquired the Centre for Integrated Photonics Ltd (CIP), a photonics research laboratory, from the East of England Development Agency (EEDA). Financial terms were not disclosed.CIP, which is based in Ipswich, specialises in hybrid integration, combining materially different components on a single platform to create innovative photonic devices.CIP will form the core of the new Huawei UK R&D centre, part of Huawei’s global R&D network. "As...

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Everything Everywhere and BT Wholesale Extend LTE Trial

Everything Everywhere and BT Wholesale have expanded their LTE trial in Cornwall, UK. The trial has seen the two companies collaborate to provide wireless broadband to 180 customers living in and around St. Newlyn East in Cornwall since October 2011. The extension until the end of June 2012 has been granted by Ofcom to enable the companies to continue to investigate the application of 4G LTE in rural areas. The LTE trialists are currently achieving an average download speed of 7 Mbps.Olaf Swantee, CEO, Everything Everywhere, said: “The rollout...

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Netflix Delivered 2 Billion Streaming Hours in Q4

Netflix delivered over 2 billion hours of streaming video in Q4 2011, which is approximately 30 hours per member per month on average. The company had 21.67 million streaming subscriptions as of the end of 2011, of which 1.86 million were international streaming subscribers.http://www.netflix....

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Ericsson Reports Slower Network Sales in Q4 2011

While 2011 was a year of strong sales overall, Ericsson reported lower sales in Q4 2011 due to the failed AT&T + T-Mobile USA merger in North America and more cautious operator spending in markets worldwide.“Group sales in the quarter were flat year-over-year and grew 15% sequentially, which is weaker than normal in the fourth quarter. The sequential growth is mainly driven by a strong development of 32% in Global Services, while Networks sales...

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Talari Raises $4.5 Million for its WAN Virtualization Platforms

Talari Networks, a start-up based in San Jose, California, raised $4.5 million in new funding from current investors for its enterprise WAN virtualization technology.Talari supplies a line of WAN appliances that aggregate multiple broadband connections into a single, virtualized pipe. The largest is a rack-mountable, 2U appliance that supports aggregation of WAN bandwidth up to 500 Mbps full-duplex, even while performing 128-bit AES encryption. Talari's...

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IBM Teams with NEC on OpenFlow

IBM is working with NEC to deliver OpenFlow based solutions to three early deployment sites. IBM offers an OpenFlow-enabled 10/40GbE top of rack switch and NEC offers a ProgrammableFlow OpenFlow-based network controller. Stanford University, which has incubated the OpenFlow protocol, will deploy IBM and NEC’s solution in a parallel network to test OpenFlow’s applicability to the university’s production environment. Tervela, which develops a distributed...

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CommScope Develops Ultra-wideband Base Station Antennas

CommScope introduced a new family of ultra-wideband base station antennas for the 1710-2690 MHz frequency range.The CommScope High-Bandwidth (HW) Family of Ultra-Wideband Base Station Antennas are available in three different configurations of two, four or six dual-polarization radiating arrays under a single radome. CommScope said its design offers potentially higher spectral efficiency through 100 percent passive intermodulation (PIM) testing...

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Celeno Supplies Wi-Fi for Amino IPTV Set-Top Boxes

Amino Communications has selected Celeno Communications to supply Wi-Fi silicon for a range of IPTV set-top boxes. Specifically, Amino will offer Wi-Fi/Ethernet bridges powered by Celeno’s CL1830 SoC to wirelessly enable after-market IP STBs, including the Aminet A130, A140 and A540. These bridges will enable whole-home wireless PVR functionality, allowing the consumption of centrally stored content anywhere in the home. http://www.celeno....

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AT&T Pushes Ahead with Cloud-Based Unified Communications Services

AT&T is launching a new set of Unified Communications services for to businesses of all sizes. As with AT&T's other cloud solutions, which are embedded directly into the AT&T managed network, AT&T UC Services is accessible from almost any device, enabling employees to collaborate and communicate in real-time regardless of location. AT&T UC Services is comprised of two major components: AT&T Unified Communications Central...

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Codenomicon Launches Fuzz-o-Matic Software Security Testing

Finland-based Codenomicon introduced its cloud-based, "Fuzz-o-Matic" software security Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS) for applications running on Windows, Linux, Mac, and mobile operating systems. Fuzz-o-Matic offers a hosted approach to application fuzzing for those who do not have in-house security testers or have a limited budget for penetration testing. Codenomicon said its application fuzzing uses unexpected inputs to stress-test software far beyond normal operating conditions. Most software testing simulates normal operating conditions to determine...

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Ekinops Introduces 20G Transponder

Ekinops introduced a dual channel transponder that lets network operators install two 10G circuits where they could previously install only a single 10G service. The module can be used on existing Ekinops networks or over third party line systems. It also uses Ekinops' "DynaFEC" (Dynamic Forward Error Correction) technology. http://www.ekinops....

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KPN Sells its Getronics Consulting Arm to Aurelius

Royal KPN is selling its Getronics divisions in Europe and APAC to Aurelius, a private equity firm. Financial terms were not disclosed.Europe and APAC is an IT service provider offering workspace management, data management and hosting, as well as consulting services. The deal covers Getronics operational units in seven European and five APAC countries, with a total of 2,900 staff members and a turn-over of approximately 450 million euros in 2011....

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Austria's H3G Deploys Alcatel-Lucent's 100G

H3G, one of the leading mobile operators in Austria, is deploying Alcatel-Lucent’s 100G optical coherent technology to meet growing subscriber demand for mobile Internet, video and other data services. Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will supply H3G Austria with its 100G coherent optical solution including the 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) and the 1626 Light Manager (LM). The 1830 PSS brings together optical transport network (OTN) and...

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Clearwire Ends 2011 with 10.4 Million Users

Clearwire reported preliminary Q4 2011 revenues of approximately $362 million, representing a more than doubling of revenues from the prior year's fourth quarter. Retail revenues are estimated to be approximately $198 million and wholesale revenues are estimated to be approximately $164 million for the period, representing 1% and 20% sequential growth, respectively, over third quarter 2011 retail and wholesale revenues. Clearwire added approximately...

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