Sprint Awarded $2 Billion Contract

The Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA), a purchasing consortium composed of 15 states, has awarded Sprint a four-year, $2 billion contract to serve as one of its wireless products and services providers. The contract with WSCA, a national public sector purchasing consortium, represents one of the largest for Sprint in 2012. WSCA participants will be able to take advantage of the full suite of Sprint wireless products and services, including...

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SiTime Hits MEMS Milestone: 100 Million Timing Devices Shipped

SiTime Corporation, which specializes in silicon MEMS timing solutions, announced a major milestone: cumulative shipments of its MEMS oscillators, clock generators and resonators have exceeded 100 million units. Over 800 electronics companies have adopted SiTime’s Silicon MEMS timing solutions in more than 100 unique applications. “SiTime’s unique MEMS and analog technology is transforming the decades-old timing industry with revolutionary...

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Broadcom Unveils 100 GE Switching Silicon with L2-4 Classification

Broadcom unveiled its 100 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switching solution designed for next gen data center switching platforms with densities up to 4,000 100GbE ports. Broadcom said a key innovation in its highly integrated BCM88650 system on chip (SoC) is that the features and functionality of a complete line card have been combined into a single chip. The chip can process a single stream of 200Gbps traffic at Layer 2-Layer 4 with integrated advanced...

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Verizon to Market FIPS-140-2 Encrypted Mobile Voice Services to U.S. Government

Verizon will begin selling secure mobile voice services to the U.S. government using technology from Cellcrypt, a provider of government-grade encrypted voice-calling software. The two companies will jointly market Cellcrypt's mobile voice-encryption solution to military, intelligence and civilian agencies. Cellcrypt helps address the potential risks of interception of sensitive voice communications. The technology is currently undergoing trial...

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Comcast and Verizon Wireless Extend Co-Marketing

Comcast and Verizon Wireless are moving ahead with their co-marketing agreement with special bundled offers in a number of markets. Depending on the package chosen, new and existing customers of both Comcast and Verizon Wireless could qualify for cash incentive between $50 and $300, and/or a "double your data package" on the Comcast Xfinity Internet service and a doubling of a 4G LTE data plan from Verizon Wireless. "Because mobility is a top...

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IBM Outlines its New Foundation for Mobile Computing

IBM outlined its strategy for building an extensive portfolio of software and services that delivers enterprise-ready mobility for clients. The company believes this sector represents a $22 billion market, potentially growing to $36 billion in 2012 as companies increasing adopt mobile technologies to improve their productivity. The plan is to extend unified capabilities extend from servers and laptops, to smartphones and tablets. The new IBM Mobile...

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Mindspeed Powers LTE + Wi-Fi Femtocell for SK Telesys

Mindspeed Technologies has supplied its Transcede wireless baseband processors for an LTE + Wi-Fi femtocell from SK Telesys, the wireless system manufacturer in SK Group Korea. The Wi-Fi integrated LTE femtocells will be first deployed in densely populated regions in South Korea, focusing primarily on the commercial centers of major cities. The rollout will then be expanded to areas with high data demand – i.e. indoor areas like shopping centers,...

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Shenick Network Systems Tests VoLTE with Leading Operator

Shenick Network Systems is supplying per-flow IP and 4G communication test systems for measuring quality of experience (QoE) of 4G networks for Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and streaming video. Shenick’s diversifEye tests 4G networks for next generation VoLTE, IP video and other data services over both regular and secure mobile VPN’s such as SSL and IPsec; right down to each individual application flow. diversifEye can also stress test mobile VPNs...

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Fujitsu Builds Optical Backbone for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has selected Fujitsu's FLASHWAVE 7420 Metro/Enterprise WDM Platform to implement a multi-node regional fiber optic network linking remote data centers. The deployment will also use Fujitsu's NETSMART 1500 Management System and its professional services. The network is designed for tunable bandwidths reaching 40 Gbps, sub-microsecond latency,...

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PMC-Sierra Posts Q1 Revenue of $132 Million

PMC-Sierra reported Q1 revenue of $132.1 million, a decrease of 13% compared to $152.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, and 16% lower than net revenues of $157.4 million in the first quarter of 2011. GAAP net loss in the first quarter of 2012 was $96.3 million, or $0.41 per share, including $85.4 million income tax provision related to an intercompany dividend made in preparation for funding a share repurchase program. “Despite a challenging first quarter, we continued to execute well, making key product announcements and winning designs...

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Taiwan'ss Chunghwa Migrates 55% of Broadband Users to FTTx

Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom saw its Q1 consolidated revenue increase by 5.6% to NT$55.4 billion over a year ago, although net income fell 20% to NT$9.5 billion. Dr. Shyue-Ching Lu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, "We began 2012 with a solid market leadership for all of our major business segments. For the first quarter, our growth was driven primarily by mobile business such as value-added services, increase of mobile internet subscribers, and innovative mobile service marketing. In addition, our MOD/IPTV is also gaining traction due...

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Aware to Sell Wi-Fi, LTE and Home Networking Patents to Intel

Aware will sell selected patents and patent applications to Intel for approximately $75 million. The patents and patent applications relate to WiFi (802.11n/ac), LTE and Wireline Home Networking. Global IP Law Group, LLC represented Aware in this transaction. http://www.aware....

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MCNC Advances North Carolina's Golden LEAF

The first round of MCNC's $144 million Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI) is complete with all fiber now actively in service to Community Anchor Institutions (CAIs) including K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, health care facilities, public health facilities, libraries, research institutions, and other sectors of CAIs in western and southeastern North Carolina. The GLRBI is funded through grants from U.S. Department of...

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AT&T's Board of Directors is Re-Elected

At its annual meeting of stockholders held last week in Salt Lake City, each of the 11 nominees were reelected to AT&T's board of directors for one-year terms, with each member receiving at least 96.3 percent of the shares voted. The board members are: Randall L. Stephenson Jon C. Madonna Gilbert F. Amelio John B. McCoy Reuben V. Anderson Joyce M. Roche James H. Blanchard Matthew K. Rose Jaime Chico Pardo Laura D'Andrea Tyson James P. Kelly An interesting note: A shareholder proposal asking that AT&T commit to operating its...

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FCC Adopts TV Channel Sharing Rules

The FCC adopted new rules that allow multiple broadcast stations to elect to stream individual programming while sharing a single channel. The order is seen as a first step toward making a significant portion of spectrum currently used by the broadcast television service available for new uses. The FCC is also planning a future incentive auction to address the nation's growing demand for wireless broadband. Specifically, the Report and Order establishes...

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China Telecom Sees 16% YoY Growth in Q1 Revenues

China Telecom continues to grow rapidly as a mobile operator although profit margins in Q1 were squeezed. Mobile substitution continues to impact the number of fixed lines in service and the company is seeing intensified competition. For Q1 2012, China Telecom reported operating revenues of RMB67,929 million, representing an increase of 15.7% over the corresponding period of last year. Excluding mobile handset sales, Q1 revenues amounted to...

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Acme Packet acquires IPTEGO for Networking Monitoring Tools

Acme Packet has acquired privately held IPTEGO GmbH, an IP communications network management software company, for approximately $21 million in cash. IPTEGO, which is based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in software for real-time, end-to-end communications network intelligence, voice and video operations monitoring, customer experience management and fraud prevention and detection. Specifically, its Palladion software optimizes next-generation IP communications networks, enabling troubleshooting down to the individual session level. The company...

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Docomo Outlines LTE Expansion Plans

NTT Docomo reported flat revenue growth for FY 2011 -- sales of 4,240 billion yen, up 0.4% compared to 4,224 billion yen for FY 2011. Income before taxes rose 5%. The company spent much of the last year recovering from the earthquake/tsunami disaster, implementing new disaster preparedness plans, expanding its new LTE networking, and putting in place the fundamentals to transform itself into a personal and enterprise integrated cloud service provider. Some...

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Cisco Connects Argentina's AcerBrag

AcerBrag, an iron and steel manufacturing company in Argentina, has implemented a Cisco Unified Wireless network that enables bar code readers to track the company's inventory of materials in real time. The solution is based on the Cisco Borderless Network Architecture and is mainly composed of switches, access points and wireless controllers that are integrated with the SAP system and data collectors. Encryption standards and codes keep the same security in the wireless access points and in the fixed network of the company. http://www.cis...

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Huawei and Intel Announce LTE Partnership

Huawei and Intel will establish a joint LTE TDD test lab in China under a new collaboration partnership announced by the firms. The collaboration will utilize Huawei's expertise in LTE TDD network infrastructure technologies and Intel’s cost-optimized mobile communication platforms to expedite the maturity and deployment of LTE TDD. "Huawei has been committed to LTE TDD commercial deployment worldwide," said Deng Taihua, president LTE TDD &...

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MetroPCS Reaches 580,000 LTE Subscribers -- 6% of Customer Base

MetroPCS reported Q1 total revenues of approximately $1.3 billion, an increase of 7% over the first quarter of 2011. Adjusted EBITDA came in at $262 million, a decrease of 8% over the first quarter of 2011. During Q1, MetroPCS surpassed 580 thousand 4G LTE subscribers, representing over 6% of total subscribers. Roger D. Linquist, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MetroPCS, said, "Our first quarter results highlight our continued focus on...

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Tellabs Revenue Drops 20% YoY to $258 Million

Tellabs reported Q1 2012 revenue of $258 million, down from $322 million in the year-ago quarter. There was a net loss of $140 million or 38 cents per share in the first quarter of 2012, compared with a net loss of $24 million or 7 cents per share in the first quarter of 2011. Tellabs’ GAAP gross profit margin was 37.1% in the first quarter of 2012, compared with 37.9% in the year-ago quarter. Broadband segment revenue was $130 million, Transport segment revenue was $80 million and Services segment revenue was $48 million. �?The first quarter...

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Clearwire Targets TDD-LTE in Hot Zones for 31 Cities

Clearwire will target high demand "hot zones" in major urban centers with its TDD-LTE network. During the first half of 2013, Clearwire will launch its TDD-LTE network in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle. A total of 31 cities will be targeted. Clearwire said its advantage will be in leveraging its deep spectrum holdings to commercialize large contiguous swaths of spectrum in a given market. Clearwire believes its...

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Optus Switches On LTE in First Two Markets

Optus announced the first switch-on of its 4G network coverage, with initial coverage across Greater Newcastle, as well as in Port Stephens, the Hunter Valley and Lake Macquarie areas. Over a thousand business and residential customers will be receiving 4G service and dongles from next week. Optus is initially offering these 4G services to select customers for free, in exchange for their feedback on network performance and device capability. Optus...

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NTT Comm Opens Data Centers in Singapore and Malaysia

NTT Communications inaugurated its Singapore Serangoon Data Center and its Malaysia Cyberjaya 3 Data Center. The two facilities, NTT Com’s first self-designed-and-built data centers outside Japan, are the company’s fourth such facility in Singapore and the third in Malaysia. They will provide key support for NTT Com’s ongoing expansion in the fast-growing Asia Pacific region, where the company already operates data centers in 13 countries. http://www.ntt.co...

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GigOptix Ramps Production of 40G and 100G

GigOptix announced the availability of its 40G and 100G bundled solutions, which feature a next generation Thin Film Polymer on Silicon (TFPSTM) Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM), the corresponding MZM drivers, Transimpedance Amplifiers (TIA) and their respective bias boards for a number of popular 40G and 100G modulation formats. The sampling includes 40G DQPSK, 40G RZ-QPSK, 100G DP-QPSK. http://www.gigoptix....

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Oclaro Says Thailand Flood Recovery Mostly Complete

Oclaro posted quarterly revenue of $88.7 million, compared with revenues of $86.5 million for the preceding quarter. Revenues and operating results for the quarter continued to be materially impacted by the flood in Thailand. Revenues for the quarter were also adversely impacted by approximately $4 million by a short-term work stoppage in Shenzhen, which has since been resolved. GAAP gross margin was 15% for the third quarter of fiscal 2012, compared with a GAAP gross margin of 13% in the second quarter of fiscal 2012. "This quarter demonstrates...

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AppliedMicro Advances its X-Gene "Server-on-a-Chip"

AppliedMicro is making progress on "X-Gene", its forthcoming "Server-on-a-Chip" based on 64-bit ARM technology. X-Gene, which the company first announced last October, is being designed to power next-generation cloud-computing data centers and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). AppliedMicro is now demonstrating an open source Apache Web Server running on an FPGA implementation of X-Gene. This development milestone represents the first 64-bit...

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Alcatel-Lucent Reports Slow Start to 2012

Citing a slower than expected start to 2012 and economic uncertainties in Europe, Alcatel-Lucent reported Q1 2012 revenues of Euro 3,206 million, down 12.3% year-over-year on a reported basis and down 14.8% year-over-year at constant currency. There was an adjusted operating loss of Euro 221 million or -6.9% of revenue. Networks saw a double digit year-over-year decline. The IP business continued growing at a double digit rate, but this was more...

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Infinera Posts Q1 Revenue of $105 Million

Infinera reported Q1 2012 revenue of $104.7 million compared to $112.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 and $92.9 million in the first quarter of 2011. GAAP net loss for the quarter was $(20.6) million, or $(0.19) per share, compared to net loss of $(19.4) million, or $(0.18) per share, in the fourth quarter of 2011 and net loss of $(16.4) million, or $(0.16) per share, in the first quarter of 2011. "Activity in our first quarter reflected demand from our customers for both our existing and next generation platforms,�? said Tom Fallon, president...

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NETGEAR Continues to Grow at 17% YoY Pace

NETGEAR reported Q1 2012 revenue of $325.6 million, as compared to $278.8 million in the comparable prior year quarter, 16.8% year-over-year growth. Non-GAAP net income was $28.1 million, as compared to $24.2 million in the comparable prior year quarter, 16.1% year-over-year growth.Patrick Lo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NETGEAR commented, "The first quarter of 2012 represents another record breaking period for our net revenue and non-GAAP...

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Akamai's Revenue up 16% YoY, Net Income Down 15%

Akamai reported revenue for the first quarter of 2012 of $319 million, a 16 percent increase over first quarter 2011 revenue of $276 million. Net income (GAAP) was $43 million, or $0.24 per diluted share, a 15 percent decrease from first quarter 2011 GAAP net income of $51 million, or $0.26 per diluted share, and a 28 percent decrease from fourth quarter 2011 GAAP net income of $60 million, or $0.33 per diluted share. http://www.akamai....

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Facebook Teams with Antivirus Providers

Facebook is establishing a Antivirus Marketplace with leading cyber safety companies. Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos and Symantec will augment Facebook's URL blacklist system with their own URL blacklist databases. The AV Marketplace will also let people download six-month licenses to full versions of anti-virus software at no charge. https://www.facebook.com/secur...

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ZTE Reports Revenue of US$2.9 Billion, up 29% YoY

ZTE reported operating revenue of US$2.96 billion forQ1 2012, an increase of 29.46% over the same period last year. Net profit attributable to shareholders was US$22.99 million, an increase of 23.85% over the same period last year. Basic earnings per share were US$0.00635. ZTE noted that sales to carrier customers rose by 13.65% compared to the same period the previous year, a reflection of an increase in revenue generated from sales of optical...

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Sprint's Network Vision Advances, But Q1 Financial Loss Widens

Sprint reported Q1 wireless service revenues of $7.2 billion, an increase of more than 7 percent year-over-year, driven primarily by Sprint platform postpaid ARPU growth of $4.03. net loss of $863 million and a diluted net loss of $.29 per share for the first quarter of 2012. This compares to a net loss of $439 million and a diluted net loss of $.15 per share in the first quarter of 2011 and includes depreciation of approximately $543 million, or...

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FCC's Connect America Fund Gets Underway

The FCC adopted an official reform order for establishing the Connect America Fund, which replaces the outdated universal service and intercarrier compensations systems. The Connect America Fund has the following mission: (1) preserve and advance universal availability of voice service; (2) ensure universal availability of modern networks capable of providing voice and broadband service to homes, businesses, and community anchor institutions;...

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Broadcom Intros Four Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) PHYs

Broadcom has added four energy efficient chips to its Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) portfolio. The new 10/100/1000BASE-T physical layer transceivers (PHYs) lower operating power by more than 40 percent, and up to 70 percent or more through the implementation of EEE directly at the physical layer. The PHYs also feature Broadcom's AutoGrEEEn technology, which enables systems with legacy MACs to leverage the power savings of EEE in periods of low link utilization. This allows customers to transform existing network equipment to EEE-compliance...

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IBM to Acquire Vivisimo for Big Data Analytics

IBM agreed to acquire Vivisimo, a privately-held developer of discovery and analysis software for big data. Financial terms were not disclosed. Vivisimo offers federated data capabilities that can provide a single point of access to disparate data sources. The company claims 140 customers in government, life sciences, manufacturing, electronics, consumer goods and financial services. Founded in 2000, Vivisimo is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

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Ericsson Sees LTE Strength in North America While Europe Waits

Ericsson reported Q1 2012 revenue of SEK 51.0 billion (US$7.59 billion), down 4% YoY, impacted by an expected major decline in CDMA sales as well as lower operator network spending in regions with macro-economic or political uncertainty. Net income was SEK 8.8 billion (US$1.31 billion). Global Services and consolidation of Telcordia contributed positively. "Sales of high-performance mobile broadband developed well in North America, Japan and Korea,...

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Radisys Packs a 4X Punch with New T-Series 40G ATCA Platform

Radisys introduced its T40, an ATCA-based 40G platform designed to scale for carrier applications such as deep packet inspection (DPI), advanced network security and the 4G evolved packet core (EPC). As part of the Radisys T-Series family of ATCA solutions, the new T40 platform provides 4X switching capacity over existing 10G systems and 160 Gbps of I/O performance, while aggressively lowering the cost per bit. Radisys calculates that compared...

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Scaling the Core

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AT&T: iPhone Accounts for 78% of Smartphone Sales in Q1

AT&T activated 5.5 million smartphones in Q1, including 4.3 million iPhones (78%), with 21 percent new to AT&T. Smartphones represented more than 78 percent of postpaid device sales. (For Q4 2011, AT&T reported a blockbuster 9.4 million smartphone activations including 7.8 million iPhones). At the end of the quarter, 59.3 percent, or 41.2 million, of AT&T's postpaid subscribers had smartphones, up from 46.2 percent and 31.5 million...

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NEC to Resell Tellabs 7100 Packet Optical Transport System in Japan

NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation (NEC Networks & SI), a leading Japanese network systems integrator, will resell the Tellabs 7100 Packet Optical Transport System in Japan. NEC Networks & SI will provide sales, system integration, and maintenance support. The Tellabs 7100 P-OTS (Packet Optical Transport System) integrates ROADM-based DWDM, SDH, OTN and Ethernet switching functionality on a single platform. http://www...

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Gigamon Partners With ForeScout on Real-time Visibility

Gigamon and ForeScout Technologies, a provider of automated security control solutions for enterprises, are collaborating to provide network management and visibility solutions that enable real-time network visibility and automated security controls, while minimizing core network switch infrastructure load for network operators. The partnership enables the ForeScout's automated security control platform (CounterACT) to leverage Gigamon's Traffic Visibility Fabric to have broader visibility of all devices communicating on the network and dynamically...

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Broadcom Announces 100 Gbps Full Duplex Network Processor

Broadcom announced its 100 Gbps full duplex network processor unit (NPU) aimed at the next wave of 100GbE optimized switches and routers for service provider networks. The new BCM88030 family features 64 custom processors running at 1GHz and eliminates the need for many external components. Power savings are estimated at up to 80 percent per 10GbE port. The architecture leverages extensive multi-threading and hardware acceleration for functions...

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Dell Introduces 40 Gigabit Ethernet Blade Server Switch

Dell introduced its first 40 gigabit blade server switch for the Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade system, designed to support demanding workloads in traditional, virtual, public and private cloud environments. The Dell Force10 MXL 10/40GbE switch, which is part of the company's Virtual Network Architecture portfolio, is a Layer 2 and Layer 3 blade switch powered by the Force10 operating system (FTOS), which powers some of the largest and most demanding...

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Terascala Raises $14 Million for Big Data Storage

Terascala, a start-up based in Avon, Mass., raised $14 million in venture funding for its storage I/O optimization for big data applications. The Terascala Integrated Storage Information System (TISIS) provides appliance management and workload-driven I/O technology for open source Lustre, the world’s fastest parallel file system. TISIS runs on industry-standard storage appliances in a wide range of market segments, including life sciences, financial...

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GigOptix Samples Next Gen Transimpedance Amplifier for 100G/400G Coherent

GigOptix has begun sampling its next generation GX3222B dual channel Linear Transimpedance Amplifier (TIA) designed for use in 100 Gbps DWDM optical receivers. The device is a high performance, silicon germanium, dual channel 32Gbaud linear TIA with adjustable bandwidth control that enables its use in receiver modules in a number of fiber optic transmission systems such as current generation 100 Gbps DP‐QPSK optical systems in addition to future...

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Internet2 NET+ Services and CENIC Establish Purchasing Program for Amazon Web Services

Internet2 and CENIC, California’s advanced networking consortium, will offer a new purchasing program for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make it easier for research and education community institutions to take advantage of the AWS cloud. This includes Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3), and other cloud services. A community-friendly self-service portal created and managed by AWS solution provider, Datapipe, provides discounts on eligible AWS services....

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Juniper Sees Q1 Financials Ahead of Expectations

Juniper Networks reported preliminary Q1 revenue of $1,032.5 million, down 6% on a year-over-year basis and down 8% sequentially. GAAP net income was $16.3 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, and non-GAAP net income of $84.0 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2012. "Our first quarter results reflect solid execution across Juniper," said Kevin Johnson, CEO of Juniper Networks. "We are pleased with initial customer response...

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Radisys Post Q1 Revenue of $75.5 Million, ATCA Sales Accelerate

Radisys reported Q1 revenue of $75.5 million and a first quarter GAAP net loss was $4.8 million or $0.18 per share. GAAP gross margin was 30.5%. ATCA and Software & Solutions Revenues were $49.7 million, up 60% Year over Year and growing to 66% of total revenue. Commenting on the first quarter results, Mike Dagenais, Radisys’ Chief Executive Officer stated, "Our first quarter performance came in as expected. Solid shipments in both our ATCA and Software & Solutions product groups, which combined grew 60% year on year, enabled non-GAAP...

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Intel to Acquire Cray Assets

Intel will acquire certain assets ofCray Inc. to acquire certain assets related to its high-performance computing (HPC) interconnect program. The deal includes Cray’s interconnect personnel and intellectual property. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Cray interconnect team developed the Gemini interconnect as well as the upcoming Aries interconnect, designed to work in Cray’s next-generation supercomputer, codenamed "Cascade," which will integrate Intel Xeon processors. http://www.intel....

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Internet2 Forms Cloud Partnerships

Internet2 has formed partnerships with 16 leading technology companies to provide cloud services to college campuses across the U.S. Cloud partners include Aastra; Adobe; Box; CENIC; Dell; Desire2Learn; Duo Security; DuraSpace; Evogh; HP; Level 3 Communications; Merit Network, Inc.; Microsoft; Savvis, a CenturyLink Company; SHI International; and The Solution Design Group. "These major cloud service partnerships are customized to meet the needs...

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Apple Sells 35.1 million iPhones

Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones during its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended March 31, 2012. This represents a 88 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 11.8 million iPads during the quarter, a 151 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The iPhone 4s is now being sold by 230 carriers in over 100 countries.There have been 365 million iOS device sales to date.There are now 125 million iCloud users.Apple now has $110.2 billion...

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NEC's High-Capacity Microwave Radios Reach 4 Gbps

NEC introduced its new trunk microwave communications systems, the 5000iP Series, featuring 1.6 times the transmission capacity of existing 5000S systems -- equating to as much as 4 Gbps. To achieve the capacity boost, the system leverages a Cross Polarization Interference Canceller (XPIC. The new system also automatically changes the modulation method and the transmission rate in response to wireless link quality as well as optimizes transmission...

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Ixia Releases OpenFlow Test Solution

Ixia's IxNetwork and IxANVL test solutions now enable OpenFlow protocol emulation with integrated network traffic and offer a suite of OpenFlow compliance tests. The OpenFlow test solution helps network equipment manufacturers, service providers, and enterprises to verify protocol conformance and tune network designs before deployment. Among the new capabilities, IxNetwork can now emulate an OpenFlow controller to modify flow table entries and then generate traffic to test the forwarding. For testing switch protocol conformance, IxANVL will have...

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Intel Debuts is 22nm Ivy Bridge

Intel formally introduced its 3rd generation Core processors, code named Ivy Bridge, which are based on its 22-nanometer (nm) 3-D tri-Gate transistor technology. The 3-D tri-gate transistor technology and architectural enhancements enable the processor to deliver up to double the 3-D graphics and HD media processing performance compared with Intel’s previous generation of chips. The new processors also add Intel Secure Key and Intel OS Guard security...

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Motorola Solutions Wins $4M Public Safety LTE Contract in Texas

Motorola Solutions was awarded a $4 million contract to expand the Harris County, Texas Public Safety LTE wide area broadband network. Seven LTE sites will be added to the network for a total of 13 LTE sites delivering enhanced video and data capabilities along with expanded interoperability with Harris County’s existing ASTRO 25 Land Mobile Radio (LMR) system. The deployment includes Real-Time Video Intelligence (RTVI) software, enabling live fixed or mobile video to be delivered to and from the field, as well as Broadband Push-To-Talk (PTT)...

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Infonetics: DPI Market Expected to Grow Rapidly

Service provider deep packet inspection (DPI) product revenue grew 29% to over $470 million worldwide in 2011 and is forecast to grow to $2 billion in 2016, according to a new report from Infonetics. The bulk of this increase is expected to come from mobile networks, where DPI is increasingly being incorporated into larger solutions, such as video optimization and mobile offload. “Though fixed-line operators continue to invest in deep packet inspection...

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Polaris Wireless Completes Trial with Indian Mobile Operator

Polaris Wireless, which specializes in high-accuracy, software-based wireless location solutions, announced that it has completed a field trial with a major Indian wireless network operator to prove compliance with India’s Department Of Telecommunications (DoT) May 2011 mandate for location-based systems. The trials were conducted over a period of two weeks in the North East telecom circle of India, at Agartala, to demonstrate the effectiveness of Polaris Wireless Location Signatures (Polaris WLS) in urban, suburban and rural environments and...

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Microsoft and Facebook Strike Patent Deal

Microsoft and Facebook announced a significant patent agreement covering numerous Web technologies. Microsoft will assign to Facebook the right to purchase a portion of the patent portfolio it recently agreed to acquire from AOL Inc. Facebook has agreed to purchase this portion for $550 million in cash. "Today's agreement with Facebook enables us to recoup over half of our costs while achieving our goals from the AOL auction," said Brad Smith, executive vice president and general counsel, Microsoft. "As we said earlier this month, we had submitted...

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Texas Instruments Sees Signs of Upturn

Texas Instruments reported $3.12 billion, net income of $265 million and earnings per share of 22 cents. EPS includes 10 cents of charges associated with the company's acquisition of National Semiconductor and restructuring. "As we expected, our business cycle bottomed in the first quarter, and early signs of growth began to emerge," said Rich Templeton, TI's chairman, president and CEO. "Orders were up 13 percent, and backlog is growing again. Particularly encouraging is the breadth of increased orders across geographical regions and markets,...

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Vodafone Bids for Cable & Wireless

Vodafone has submitted a bid to acquire Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) for £1.04 billion (US$1.7 million). Established in the 1860s, Cable&Wireless Worldwide owns and operates the UK’s largest fibre network dedicated to business users. It provides nationwide access through a combination of fibre, digital, microwave, radio and leased circuits. The network has presence in over 400 towns and cities in the UK, with more than 864 unbundled...

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ST-Ericsson Announces new Strategic Direction, Reductions

ST-Ericsson, the joint venture by Ericsson and STMicroelectronics, outlined a new strategy and business model to deliver complete system solutions for smartphones and tablets. The company will offer competitive integrated modem plus application processor solutions (ModAp) differentiating a combined approach of development and alliances. In order to limit and optimize the R&D effort, ST-Ericsson will look to partnerships and alliances to develop...

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Huawei Sees Strongest Growth in Consumer/Enterprise, While Carrier Sales Grow 3%

Driven by strong growth in its Consumer and Enterprise business groups, Huawei reported FY 2011 sales revenues of RMB 203.9 billion (US$32.396 billion), an 11.7% growth over the previous year, and net profits of RMB 11.6 billion (US$1.850 billion), in line with Huawei's business revenue expectations. Some highlights from the newly released annual report: Huawei's Consumer business recorded sales revenues of RMB 44.6 billion, an increase of 44.3%...

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