Aruba Posts Record Revenues, 1,500 New Customers in Latest Quarter

Aruba Networks reported record financial results for its fiscal second quarter 2012 ended January 31, 2012. Revenue for Q2’12 was $126.3 million, an increase of 35 percent from the $93.9 million reported in Q2’11. GAAP net loss for Q2’12 was $11.4 million, or $0.11 per share, compared with $2.8 million, or $0.03 per share, for the same period in the previous year. Non-GAAP net income was $19.4 million, or $0.16 per share, compared with of $16.3 million, or $0.14 per share, in Q2’11. “Second quarter revenue grew by 35 percent over last year as...

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Vantage Data Centers Sees Strong Silicon Valley Demand

Vantage Data Centers reports robust demand in the heart of Silicon Valley. The company, which took over a former 18-acre Intel facility in Santa Clara, California, is accelerating the construction and availability of V1, the third data center on its three-building campus. The first two data centers building in the complex (V2 and V3) are 100% leased.The new V1 facility is a 198,000 square feet, two-story data center that will support 22 MWs of...

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Sony Ericsson Divestiture Completed

Sony completed the buy-out of Ericsson's 50% stake in their joint venture, Sony Ericsson.Ericsson's gain on the transaction will be approximately SEK 7.5 billion (approx. US$1.1 billion).http://www.sony.com http://www.ericsson.comThe Sony Ericsson joint venture was created in 20...

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AppliedMicro Samples 28.1 Gbps CMOS PHY for 100GBASE-LR4

AppliedMicro has begun sampling the world's fastest CMOS PHY at 28.1Gbps. The new S28010 Gearbox integrated circuit is designed for next generation CFP optical modules compliant with 100GBASE-LR4, 100GBASE-ER4 and OTU4.4 standards, supporting optical connection speeds from 10Gbps to 100Gbps for high-end switching and routing equipment.Until now, industry adoption efforts have been slowed by high-cost, power-hungry SiGe or FPGA integrated circuits...

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NEC to Leverage 60GHz Microwave for Small Cell Backhaul

NEC announced plans to leverage 60GHz radio as its key technology for the backhaul of small cells. The company's first field trials are expected later this year. NEC cited license-free bandwidth availability at 60GHz and the uniquely high channel re-use characteristics of this spectrum as reasons for this strategic decision. The company believes 60GHz is ideally suited to deliver high capacity and low latency connections to hundreds of cell...

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Blue Coat's Privatization is Complete

An investor group led by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo has completed its previously announced acquisition of Blue Coat Systems. Blue Coat shareholders will be entitled to receive $25.81 in cash per share of common stock they currently possess. The company's listing on NASDAQ has been withdrawn."Blue Coat will be an excellent addition to our portfolio of software and technology companies," said Thoma Bravo managing partner Orlando...

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Colt Deploys ADVA FSP 3000 Multi-Degree ROADM in Dublin

Colt has selected ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000 as the foundation of its new ROADM-based network in Dublin, Ireland. The infrastructure enables incremental bandwidth to be added on demand with fast provisioning through the FSP Service Manager. The eleven-node, ring-based network spanning 100km is capable of flexible service routing that reduces operational costs, planning time and lead times when deploying new services. "The multi-degree ROADM architecture provides us with a flexible provisioning option, allowing us to easily provide access...

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Leap Hires Former T-Mobile USA CIO

Leap Wireless International announced the appointment of Robert A. Strickland as executive vice president and chief technical officer, a position in which he will have responsibility for the company's information technology, engineering and network operations. Strickland is charged with setting and managing Leap's long-term network technology strategy. Previously, Strickland was senior vice president and chief information officer at T-Mobile USA, responsible for all software development including handsets and related infrastructure elements,...

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LightSquared Fires Back at FCC, Claims $4 billion Spent

Following the NTIA's finding that there is "no practical solution" to the GPS interference issue with LightSquared's proposed network, and the FCC's subsequent decision to rescind its conditional approval of the network, LightSquared fired back. In a press statement, Sanjiv Ahuja, Chairman and CEO of LightSquared states:"After years of receiving regulatory approvals, the FCC approved LightSquared to build its ground network in 2005. In 2010, the FCC amended that plan, requiring LightSquared to build a national broadband network that reached 260...

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Gigamon Adds High-Accuracy Packet "Time-Stamping" to Network Monitoring

Gigamon has enhanced its Traffic Visibility Fabric solutions with an FPGA-based, high-speed time-stamping capability that can be applied to packets directly at the ingress ports with nanosecond accuracy. Accurate time-stamping of traffic traversing production networks enables architects, engineers and operators of High Frequency Trading (HFT), financial and service provider infrastructures to analyze, evaluate, manage and tune the latency of transactions. Gigamon...

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OIF to Demonstrate Ethernet over OTN

Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom/Orange, KDDI and Verizon are hosting a global test of Ethernet services over OTN transport. The testing is proving out updates to the existing OIF ENN-I 2.0 and UNI 2.0 Implementation Agreements under development, with extensions for both multi-layer and OTN. The goal of the interoperability testing is to marry Ethernet as the predominant access and client interconnect technology, and OTN as the dominant transport...

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NEC Release Small LTE Base Station

NEC introduced a compact all-in-one LTE base station designed for installation in areas with limited space, such as rooftops and compact indoor spaces. The MB4300 series features a high function processor with a volume of less than 10L, a weight of less than 10kg and an output power of 2 x 5W (MIMO). It can serve up to 200 subscribers. NEC also features an advanced SON (self-organizing network) capability for autonomous network configuration,...

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Comcast Posts Strong Results, Increases Dividend and Share Repurchase Plan

Comcast reported solid cable customer metrics for Q4 2011 and good results from theme parks and NBCUniversal, leading the company to increase its dividend by 44% and adopt a new $6.5 billion share repurchase plan. Including the integration of NBCUniversal, Comcast's revenue increased 54.7% in the fourth quarter of 2011 to $15.0 billion, while Operating Cash Flow increased 32.3% to $4.9 billion and Operating Income increased 45.0% to $2.9 billion....

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FCC Streamlines 800 MHz Cellular Service Licensing

The FCC adopted rules aimed at providing licensees with greater flexibility to provide advanced communications service in areas currently unlicensed in the 800 MHz Cellular Service (Cellular Service). Specifically, the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and Order proposes to revise the licensing model for the Cellular Service from a site-based to a geographically-based approach. Since its inception approximately 30 years ago, the Cellular Service...

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T-Mobile Poland and Orange Poland Agree to Radio Network Sharing

T-Mobile Poland and Orange Poland have selected Nokia Siemens Networks as one of the vendors to deploy and upgrade their GSM and HSPA networks, enable radio network sharing and prepare for LTE.Nokia Siemens Networks will provide its Single RAN (radio access network) platform and related services to improve the network performance, reduce costs and make the shared network LTE-ready. Flexi Multiradio Base Stations will replace a large part of the...

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FCC Requires VoIP Outage Reporting

In an effort to boost the nation’s 9-1-1 services, the FCC will begin requiring interconnected VoIP service providers to report significant network outages that meet specific criteria and thresholds. Specificantly, the FCC’s Report and Order defines outage reporting for interconnected VoIP service, establishes reporting criteria and thresholds, and discusses how the reporting process should work, what information should be reported, and confidential...

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Digging Deeper into Cisco's Global Mobile Data Forecast 2012

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