Qwilt Unveils its Unified, Transparent Video Caching

Qwilt, a start-up based in Redwood Shores, California, unveiled its QB-Series transparent-video delivery appliance for helping carriers gain control over Internet-video traffic on their networks. The company claims its QB-Series appliance can help operators reduce video traffic demands by 60-80%.Qwilt is using proprietary video-content classification and analysis technology to transparently detect video content in an operator's Internet-traffic...

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Cisco Updates its Unified Computing Systems (UCS)

Cisco announced a series of enhancements and upgrades to its Unified Computing System, which integrates network, compute, virtualization and management. The changes, which are aimed at delivering third-generation fabric computing, leverage the newly announced Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family and includes multiple server form factors. The new Intel silicon provides far greater server density and efficiency, with up to eight times the...

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Ericsson Scales its Packet Optical Transport Platform to Multi-Terabit

Ericsson is extending its SPO Packet Optical Transport Platform (POTP) family from the Metro Access to the Metro Regional network to support popular packet, TDM and wavelength services on one platform.Ericsson’s SPO 1400 family, which leverages a Unified Packet/OTN Switch Fabric, integrates OTN, SONET/SDH and PDH support and performance, L2 connection oriented Ethernet switching and aggregation and WDM technology. The product family previously scaled...

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Altera Lowers Q1 Financial Guidance

Altera lowered its first quarter 2012 revenue guidance. Initially, the company expected a 5 to 9 percent sequential revenue decline, largely the result of program timing in the military vertical market and continued softness in sales to wireless customers. Altera now says that as the quarter has progressed, it has experienced somewhat more pronounced and broader than anticipated inventory adjustment related weakness and now believes that first quarter revenue will be 7 to 9 percent lower than fourth quarter levels.The company continues to expect...

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TI Lowers Financial Guidance, Cites Weaker Wireless Sales

Texas Instruments lowered its expected ranges for revenue and earnings per share (EPS) for Q1, citing lower demand for its wireless products.The company currently expects its financial results to be within the following ranges:Revenue: $2.99 – 3.11 billion compared with the prior range of $3.02 – 3.28 billionEPS: $0.15 – 0.19 compared with the prior range of $0.16 – 0.24. http://www.ti....

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Mindspeed Intros Third-Generation Burst-Mode Laser Driver

Mindspeed Technologies introduced the third generation of its burst-made laser drivers for optical networking units (ONUs) for GEPON GPON. The highly integrated solution features power-saving sleep and current reduction modes and supports data rates to 3.1Gbps in a small 4x4 mm package."The M02099 family of burst-mode laser driver chipsets builds on the feature set of our widely deployed M02090 and M02098 drivers, including lower power dual-closed-loop EyeMinder™ technology that delivers real-time monitoring and compensation for laser aging and...

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Exinda Raises $12 Million for WAN Optimization

Exinda, a start-up based in Boston, raised $12 million in series B funding for its WAN optimization solutions incorporating Unified Performance Management. Unlike conventional approaches to WAN optimization which focus primarily on mass data compression and optimization, Exinda’s performance assurance technology introduces user and application profiling for precision optimization. Exinda’s assurance architecture targets 52 unique user and application...

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