Brocade Delivers 100GigE 2-Port 100 GbE Blade to CERN

Brocade has now delivered over 100 of its two-port 100GbE blades to CERN, the European particle physics laboratory. CERN’s demanding environment exceeds 15 petabytes or 15 million gigabytes of data traffic per year. To put this number in perspective, 15 petabytes is equivalent to approximately 200 years of continuously running HD-quality video.“We first selected the Brocade MLXe routers one year ago because it was a perfect fit for our stringent networking requirements in the near-and-long term (we test products to destruction); now that we are...

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AppliedMicro Delivers Embedded Processor for 802.11ac Wireless Access Points

AppliedMicro introduced its new Catalina APM86491 embedded System-on-a-Chip (SoC) processor for next generation IEEE 802.11ac wireless access points with an enterprise-class QoS engine, TCP offload engines, a 4 Gbps packet classification engine and application aware offloads. These advanced capabilities will be essential in supporting the new class of all-in-one home appliances that serve as a router, wireless access point and networked storage...

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Taoglas Brings LTE Antenna to Verizon LTE Innovation Center

Verizon Wireless is showcasing a new LTE antenna from Taoglas, which specializes in external, embedded and base station antenna solutions for M2M applications. Taoglas' LTE antenna will be featured in two remote-presence solutions: VGo's all-in-one robotic telepresence solution and also InTouch Health's monitors and tablets for remote-presence telemedicine. The Taoglas "Viking" antenna is a septa-band, surface mount antenna (SMT) covering all worldwide...

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T-Mobile USA Continues HSPA+ Expansion

T-Mobile USA announced the continued expansion of its HSPA+ network and the coming availability of the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G smartphone and the Nokia Lumia 710 Windows phone. T-Mobile has doubled the speed of its 4G network in 12 additional markets, offering faster 4G (HSPA+ 42) to 184 million Americans in 175 markets. In addition, T-Mobile expanded the reach of its nationwide 4G (HSPA+ 21) network to nine additional markets, now covering 217 markets across the country and reaching more than 200 million people.T-Mobile USA noted that the AT&T...

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Corning Gorilla Glass 2 is 20% Thinner

Corning unveiled its Gorilla Glass 2 delivering a 20 percent reduction in glass thickness while maintaining damage resistance, toughness, and scratch resistance for a mobile devices, tablets and other consumer devices/appliances. Corning says its thinner Gorilla Glass 2 enables slimmer and sleeker devices, brighter images, and greater touch sensitivity. Product qualification and design implementation are underway.Corning Gorilla Glass is expected...

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Novatel Wireless Demos 10 4G Solutions with Verizon Wireless

At CES, Novatel Wireless is showcasing an array of mobile computing, mobile Internet and media platforms utilizing the Novatel Wireless Expedite E362 PCI Express Mini Card running on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network, including:Ambient Smart Grid Communication Node – a network device designed to support utility applications on the distribution grid supporting Smart Metering, Distribution Automation, Distribution Management, Demand Response, Distributed Generation and more.BL Healthcare Access Tablet – an all-in-one, touchscreen, remote care patient...

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Qualcomm and Microsoft Target LTE + Windows 8

At CES, Qualcomm is collaborating with Microsoft to demonstrate pre-release Windows 8 on Snapdragon S4 processors with LTE. The demo uses the AT&T 4G LTE network.Snapdragon-enabled Windows 8 PCs, including tablets, convertibles and notebooks, will also be enhanced by Qualcomm's mobile Internet connectivity platform, Gobi, which provides advanced 3G/4G connectivity and integrated LTE world mode support. Qualcomm's Gobi 4000 platform allows device manufacturers to offer both LTE/HSPA+ and LTE/EV-DO. http://www.qualcomm....

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Motorola Mobility to Use Intel in Smartphones

Intel and Motorola Mobility announced a multi-year, multi-device strategic relationship that includes smartphones. Motorola will offer its first Android smartphone powered by an Intel Atom processors later this year. The collaboration also covers tablets.http://www.intel....

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BridgeWave Secures $10.3 Million for 4G Millimeter Wave Backhaul

BridgeWave Communications, which supplies 4G millimeter wave backhaul solutions, has secured an additional $10.3 million in financing to support accelerating growth in the backhaul for network deployments. The round was led by Intel Capital and Morgan Creek Capital Management, with full participation from existing investors Core Capital Partners and Cipio Partners. "This investment will allow us to ramp up production of our carrier-grade wireless...

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NEC Carries 1.15 Tbps Superchannel over 10,000km

NEC Corporation (NEC) announced a successful experimental demonstration of 1.15-Tbps ultra-long haul optical transmission over 10,000 kilometers using optical superchannel technology. The terabit/s channel generated was generated from a single laser source. NEC's test transmitted four of these superchannels using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) to achieve a total capacity of 4 Tbps and a spectral efficiency of 3.6 b/s/Hz. Optical superchannels...

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BSkyB Deploys 100G Optical Backbone with Alcatel-Lucent

BSkyB (Sky), the UK’s leading home entertainment and communications company, has deployed a 100G optical transmission network to support its broadband and video services. Alcatel-Lucent has provided Sky with its 100G next generation optical coherent technology, including its 1626 Light Manager, enhanced with 100G next-generation coherent technology through the 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS). Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www....

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Mercedes-Benz USA Pushes "mbrace2" Telematics

At CES, Mercedes-Benz USA introduced its next generation "mbrace2" telematics platform for delivering safety, infotainment, personal assistance and vehicle care capabilities.mbrace2, which is powered by Hughes Telematics, works seamlessly inside and outside the vehicle and offers a revamped control module with two all-new categories of services: Internet and remote access capabilities. It also includes a solution to remotely update all software modules...

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Iliad's Free Mobile Launches EUR 19.99 Unlimited Service in France

The Iliad Group launched a new mobile service in France offering unlimited domestic and international calling to 40 countries, along with unlimited SMS and MMS, for only EUR 19.99 per month. The price can be further reduced to EUR 15.99 per month by subscribing to the Free broadband service as well. A more limited service for only EUR 2 per month provides 60 minutes of calling and 60 SMS messages per month.The aggressive market entry is expected...

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Consumer Electronic Sales to Hit $1 Trillion in 2012

Sales of consumer electronics (CE) are forecast surpass $200 billion in overall revenues in the U.S. during 2012, up 3.7% over last year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Worldwide this figure is expected to top $1 trillion.Tablet computers are the fastest growing category in CE history and will continue to see strong growth in 2012 with a projected 37.6 million units being shipped, an increase of 28 percent, resulting in $18.3 billion in revenue.Smartphones will continue to be the primary revenue driver for the industry....

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