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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Verizon Posts Record Revenue, Fueled by -- Smartphones and FiOS

Fueled by continued strong demand for smartphones and FiOS fiber-optic services, Verizon Communications posted the highest year-over-year quarterly revenue growth in the company's 11-year history -- Q4 revenue of $28.4 billion on a consolidated basis, an increase of 7.7 percent compared with fourth-quarter 2010. For full-year 2011, revenues totaled $110.9 billion, a 4.0 percent increase compared with 2010, when results included revenues from operations...

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Apple Sells 37.04 Million iPhones in Q4, up 128% YoY

Apple continues to gain momentum. Some stats from its record Q4 2011 report:37.04 million iPhones sold, representing 128 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple says Siri in the iPhone 4s is positive factor in booming sales. The iPhone 4s is now for sale in 90 countries.15.43 million iPads sold during the quarter, a 111 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.5.2 million Macs sold during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase...

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