Scaling the Core

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AT&T: iPhone Accounts for 78% of Smartphone Sales in Q1

AT&T activated 5.5 million smartphones in Q1, including 4.3 million iPhones (78%), with 21 percent new to AT&T. Smartphones represented more than 78 percent of postpaid device sales. (For Q4 2011, AT&T reported a blockbuster 9.4 million smartphone activations including 7.8 million iPhones). At the end of the quarter, 59.3 percent, or 41.2 million, of AT&T's postpaid subscribers had smartphones, up from 46.2 percent and 31.5 million...

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NEC to Resell Tellabs 7100 Packet Optical Transport System in Japan

NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation (NEC Networks & SI), a leading Japanese network systems integrator, will resell the Tellabs 7100 Packet Optical Transport System in Japan. NEC Networks & SI will provide sales, system integration, and maintenance support. The Tellabs 7100 P-OTS (Packet Optical Transport System) integrates ROADM-based DWDM, SDH, OTN and Ethernet switching functionality on a single platform. http://www...

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Gigamon Partners With ForeScout on Real-time Visibility

Gigamon and ForeScout Technologies, a provider of automated security control solutions for enterprises, are collaborating to provide network management and visibility solutions that enable real-time network visibility and automated security controls, while minimizing core network switch infrastructure load for network operators. The partnership enables the ForeScout's automated security control platform (CounterACT) to leverage Gigamon's Traffic Visibility Fabric to have broader visibility of all devices communicating on the network and dynamically...

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Broadcom Announces 100 Gbps Full Duplex Network Processor

Broadcom announced its 100 Gbps full duplex network processor unit (NPU) aimed at the next wave of 100GbE optimized switches and routers for service provider networks. The new BCM88030 family features 64 custom processors running at 1GHz and eliminates the need for many external components. Power savings are estimated at up to 80 percent per 10GbE port. The architecture leverages extensive multi-threading and hardware acceleration for functions...

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Dell Introduces 40 Gigabit Ethernet Blade Server Switch

Dell introduced its first 40 gigabit blade server switch for the Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade system, designed to support demanding workloads in traditional, virtual, public and private cloud environments. The Dell Force10 MXL 10/40GbE switch, which is part of the company's Virtual Network Architecture portfolio, is a Layer 2 and Layer 3 blade switch powered by the Force10 operating system (FTOS), which powers some of the largest and most demanding...

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Terascala Raises $14 Million for Big Data Storage

Terascala, a start-up based in Avon, Mass., raised $14 million in venture funding for its storage I/O optimization for big data applications. The Terascala Integrated Storage Information System (TISIS) provides appliance management and workload-driven I/O technology for open source Lustre, the world’s fastest parallel file system. TISIS runs on industry-standard storage appliances in a wide range of market segments, including life sciences, financial...

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GigOptix Samples Next Gen Transimpedance Amplifier for 100G/400G Coherent

GigOptix has begun sampling its next generation GX3222B dual channel Linear Transimpedance Amplifier (TIA) designed for use in 100 Gbps DWDM optical receivers. The device is a high performance, silicon germanium, dual channel 32Gbaud linear TIA with adjustable bandwidth control that enables its use in receiver modules in a number of fiber optic transmission systems such as current generation 100 Gbps DP‐QPSK optical systems in addition to future...

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Internet2 NET+ Services and CENIC Establish Purchasing Program for Amazon Web Services

Internet2 and CENIC, California’s advanced networking consortium, will offer a new purchasing program for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make it easier for research and education community institutions to take advantage of the AWS cloud. This includes Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3), and other cloud services. A community-friendly self-service portal created and managed by AWS solution provider, Datapipe, provides discounts on eligible AWS services....

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Juniper Sees Q1 Financials Ahead of Expectations

Juniper Networks reported preliminary Q1 revenue of $1,032.5 million, down 6% on a year-over-year basis and down 8% sequentially. GAAP net income was $16.3 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, and non-GAAP net income of $84.0 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2012. "Our first quarter results reflect solid execution across Juniper," said Kevin Johnson, CEO of Juniper Networks. "We are pleased with initial customer response...

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Radisys Post Q1 Revenue of $75.5 Million, ATCA Sales Accelerate

Radisys reported Q1 revenue of $75.5 million and a first quarter GAAP net loss was $4.8 million or $0.18 per share. GAAP gross margin was 30.5%. ATCA and Software & Solutions Revenues were $49.7 million, up 60% Year over Year and growing to 66% of total revenue. Commenting on the first quarter results, Mike Dagenais, Radisys’ Chief Executive Officer stated, "Our first quarter performance came in as expected. Solid shipments in both our ATCA and Software & Solutions product groups, which combined grew 60% year on year, enabled non-GAAP...

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Intel to Acquire Cray Assets

Intel will acquire certain assets ofCray Inc. to acquire certain assets related to its high-performance computing (HPC) interconnect program. The deal includes Cray’s interconnect personnel and intellectual property. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Cray interconnect team developed the Gemini interconnect as well as the upcoming Aries interconnect, designed to work in Cray’s next-generation supercomputer, codenamed "Cascade," which will integrate Intel Xeon processors. http://www.intel....

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Internet2 Forms Cloud Partnerships

Internet2 has formed partnerships with 16 leading technology companies to provide cloud services to college campuses across the U.S. Cloud partners include Aastra; Adobe; Box; CENIC; Dell; Desire2Learn; Duo Security; DuraSpace; Evogh; HP; Level 3 Communications; Merit Network, Inc.; Microsoft; Savvis, a CenturyLink Company; SHI International; and The Solution Design Group. "These major cloud service partnerships are customized to meet the needs...

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Apple Sells 35.1 million iPhones

Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones during its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended March 31, 2012. This represents a 88 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 11.8 million iPads during the quarter, a 151 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The iPhone 4s is now being sold by 230 carriers in over 100 countries.There have been 365 million iOS device sales to date.There are now 125 million iCloud users.Apple now has $110.2 billion...

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