Silver Spring Unveils its Gen4 Smart Grid Networking Platform

Silver Spring Networks unveiled its fourth-generation, IPv6-based networking technology for building Smart Grid utility networks.Silver Spring, whose utility customers already have connection over 10 million homes and businesses using its systems, said its Gen4 technology is focused on improving the flexibility needed to meet utilities’ demanding requirements across disparate service territories, deployment approaches and application needs. The company...

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TeraXion Appoints Chaoui as Chief Strategy Officer

Dr. Ghazi Chaoui has joined TeraXion as Chief Strategy Advisor, to lead its future partnership and acquisition activities.Dr. Chaoui has previously served at companies such as Oclaro, Infinera, Broadwing, Corvis, FiNet, Lucent and AT&T/Bell Laboratories.TeraXion supplies chromatic dispersion management solutions, including static and tunable dispersion compensators for terrestrial and submarine networks. http://www.teraxion....

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Panasonic Backs 60 GHz for Gigabit Speed Home Networks

Panasonic published a "Smart ICT" proposal to commercial a 60 Ghz technology based on WiGig and other network standards for ultra-high-speed wireless communications inside the home.The millimeter wave solution leverages innovations such as "Direct Conversion" radio architecture, "Digital Assist" circuit technique, "Gigabit Packet Processing", and "Low power consumption I/O". Panasonic plans to integrate all of these wireless functions onto a single...

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Potential Satellite Interference from Solar Storm

Ions from one of the strongest coronal mass ejections (CME), or solar storms, since 2005 are expected to hit the Earth's atmosphere beginning at about 9am EST (1400 GMT) on Tuesday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC).. The SWPC forecast is for Moderate (G2) level geomagnetic storming with G3 levels possible (the scale tops out at 5). This is expected to make the aurora borealis...

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MRV Announces Leadership Changes

MRV Communications announced a set of management changes, including the appointment of Kenneth Traub as Chairman of the Board and Robert as Vice Chairman. The company has also reached separation & transition agreements with Chris King, MRV’s interim CEO and CFO, and Blima Tuller, MRV’s VP, Finance. http://www.mrv....

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Actelis Signs KGP Logistics for Distribution

KGP Logistics has signed a new exclusive distribution agreement with Actelis Networks for its new Broadband Accelerator (BBA) product line.The Actelis BBA helps deliver broadband to residences that are too far from a central office or remote DSLAM. The environmentally unit is line powered by the existing POTS infrastructure and can be used on any ADSL/ADSL2/ADSL2+ line. The unit can boost broadband rates by as much as 100% on typical loops and more...

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Cisco Global Threat Report 4Q11

Enterprise users experienced an average of 339 Web malware encounters per month in 4Q11, a 205% increase compared to a year earlier, according to the newly released Cisco 4Q11 Global Threat Report". The number of Denial of Service attacks increased slightly during the quarter, while global spam continued its gradual decline.The Cisco report measures web malware risk by sector and finds that the pharmaceutical and chemical industries experience the...

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Semtech to Acquire Gennum

Semtech, which supplies analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, agreed to acquire Gennum Corp., a supplier of high speed analog and mixed signal solutions the optical market, for approximately CDN$500 million (approximately US$494 million). Gennum offers optical, analog and mixed-signal solutions supporting high-definition (HD) video, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, Ethernet, SONET and PCI Express. The company had 2010 revenue of US$128 million. It was...

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Intel to Acquire QLogic's Infiniband Fabric

Intel agreed to acquire QLogic's InfiniBand business including related product lines and technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.This acquisition is designed to enhance Intel’s networking portfolio and provide scalable high- performance computing (HPC) fabric technology as well as support the company’s vision of innovating on fabric architectures to achieve ExaFLOP/s performance by 2018. An ExaFLOP/s is a quintillion computer operations...

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Juniper Enhances its Media Flow CDN with BitGravity

Juniper Networks acquire rights to the service management layer of BitGravity's CDN technology. Financial terms were not disclosed. BitGravity, which is a subsidiary of Tata Communications, operates a Tier 1 CDN with strategic peering relationships and dedicated routing between its data centers and across its global MPLS backbone. Juniper said BitGravity's technology complements its own Media Flow Solution, enabling service providers, online media companies and content delivery networks (CDNs) to deliver online content more cost-effectively while...

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Oclaro Samples 20G VCSEL

Oclaro is sampling a 20G VCSEL (Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser) designed for the growing 16G Fiberchannel transceiver market. Oclaro noted that it has shipped well over 100 million VCSELs to date, including more than 500 thousand 10G VCSELs in the last year alone, making it the world's largest supplier of VCSELs. http://www.oclaro....

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LSI to Leverage ARM's Cortex-A15 for Networking Apps

LSI has expanded its long-term strategic relationship with ARM and has committed to use ARM's next generation, energy-efficient multicore processors for networking applications. The agreement provides LSI with access to the broad family of ARM processors, including the ARM Cortex-A15 processor with virtualization support and future ARM processors. LSI also gains access to ARM on-chip interconnect technology, including CoreLink cache coherent interconnect system IP, for use in multicore applications. http://www.arm.com http://www.lsi....

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Synopsys Acquires ExpertIO for Protocol Verification

Synopsys has acquired ExpertIO,a provider of verification IP (VIP) for industry standard protocols. Financial terms were not disclosed.Synopsys said it is focused on delivering a broad portfolio of leading standards-based VIP to help engineers address the growing verification challenges associated with creating today's 'smart' electronics. VIP provides functional models of on- and off-chip protocols that verification engineers use to test all of the interfaces on an SoC before manufacturing. It enables the engineer to verify how an interface conforms...

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