Shenick Launches Cloud-based Test System

Shenick Network Systems introduced a cloud-based test system that scales to four terabits of real, stateful service and application traffic while providing the ability to pinpoint issues right down to each individual application flow. The company said such capacity is needed because next-generation switching, routing, firewall, packet inspection, WAN optimization and other massive data handling systems are heading towards terabit levels of packet...

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CloudPhysics Targets Data Center Analytics

CloudPhysics, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding for its a data center analytics service. CloudPhysics, which was founded by former VMware executives John Blumenthal and Irfan Ahmad, provides virtualization administrators and architects detailed real-time analytics about their physical infrastructure and specific application workloads. "Today's datacenters are complex and highly dynamic. They...

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Mocana Raises $25 Million for Mobile App Protection

Mocana, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $25 million in Series D funding to scale the company's Mobile and Device Security Platform, a software and network services solution for securing connected devices and the information, applications and services that run on them. The Mocana Mobile Application Protection (MAP) solution gives enterprises fine-grained, cross-platform security management control over mobile apps, without requiring...

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AOptix Raises $42 Million for Biometric Verification and Wireless

AOptix Technologies, a start-up based in Campbell, California, secured $42 million in a Series E round of funding for its advanced iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth wireless optical communication solutions. AOptix conducted pioneering research into adaptive optics technologies and then worked with DARPA and the U.S. military to develop advanced mobile wireless networks for high speed air-to-ground and air-to-air communications....

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Telekom Austria Picks Ericsson for LTE Upgrade

Telekom Austria Group, which serves 23 million customers in Central and Eastern Europe, has awarded a multi-standard radio access network contract to Ericsson, which has been a long term supplier. Ericsson will upgrade the 2G and 3G mobile networks and also provide LTE for Telekom Austria Group's subsidiaries A1 in Austria and Vipnet in Croatia. Rollout has already started. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ericsson.c...

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The future of wireless is small, but very, very big

by Marcus Weldon, CTO, Alcatel-Lucent We are at a defining moment in broadband network deployment.  We are on the verge of a transformation in behaviors so profound that what we think is normal now will be viewed as quaint and amusingly antique in the same way that the Model T Ford, or wooden-cabinet enshrouded black and white TVs, or dial-up internet access are viewed today.  And this behavioral change will not be...

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Calix to Acquire Ericsson's GPON Access Platform

Calix will acquire Ericsson's fiber access assets for an undisclosed sum. Ericsson supplies a range of GPON OLT platforms and complementary ONTs. The Ericsson EDA 1500 GPON plaform features a redundant 320 Gbps switch architecture and support for 7168 ONT/ONUs per chassis (1:64 split ratio). It delivers 2.5 Gbps/ 1.2 Gbps downstream/upstream speeds and offers 10 Gbps uplink interface. Up to 61 U.S.-based employees of Ericsson are expected to...

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ZTE's 1H2012 Revenue Rises 15% to RMB 42 Billion (US$6.61B)

Driven by a 26% growth in its domestic Chinese market, ZTE posted 1H2012 revenue of RMB 42.64 billion for the period, an increase of 15.2% year-on-year. Pre-tax profit in the period was RMB 656 million, a decrease of 48.5% year-on-year. Basic earnings per share for the period were RMB 0.07. The decline in net profits was attributed to reduced investment income, exchange losses, postponement of network contract tenders of certain domestic carriers...

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T-Mobile USA Offers Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data Plan

T-Mobile USA introduced an Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data plan with no data cap or speed throttling. The Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data plan will cost $20 per month when added to a Value voice and text plan or $30 per month when added to a Classic voice and text plan. For example, a single line Value plan with unlimited talk and text combined with unlimited nationwide 4G data will cost $69.99 or a single line Classic plan with unlimited talk, unlimited...

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