Telefônica | Vivo Picks Ericsson for LTE in Brazil

Ericsson announced a major win to supply Vivo's 4G/LTE network in the North and Mid-Western regions of Brazil, as well as the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia and Sergipe. Financial terms were not disclosed. Vivo is Brazil's largest operator serving 75.7 million mobile subscribers. The 4G/LTE network will use Ericsson's RBS 6000 multi-standard radio base stations. This marks Ericsson's second LTE win in Brazil. http://www.ericsson...

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Tilera Debuts 64-bit, 9-Core Processor for Network Appliances

Tilera unveiled a 64-bit 9-core processor targeted at applications in networking, multimedia, storage and general purpose computing. The TILE-Gx9 integrates a high-performance memory controller, Ethernet and PCI Express interfaces, and available crypto and compression engines to reduce both system cost and circuit board area. The multicore performance enables the device to power 10 Gbps routers and firewalls. The TILE-Gx9 is fabricated in a 40...

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Funambol Secures Funding for White Label Personal Cloud

Funambol  (pronounced Fu-NAHM-bol), a start-up offering white-label personal cloud solutions for mobile providers, announced $5.75 million in new funding. Funabol believes the market for personal clouds is transitioning from 'silos' such as iCloud, Google Drive and MS SkyDrive to services that seamlessly support multiple brands to enable users to store all of their content in one cloud for convenience. Funabol's solution help consumersto...

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Vodacom Launches LTE in Johannesburg, South Africa

Vodacom Group switched on its commercial LTE network in Johannesburg, South Africa. The LTE service will initially be accessible via approximately 70 base stations in Johannesburg. Vodacom said its network transformation project aims to have 500 sites enabled for LTE by the end of the year as the rollout expands to other cities.  Vodacom has some 9,000 base stations in its network. Ninety percent of  3G base stations...

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Colt Builds Pan-European vCloud Linking its Data Center

Colt, which operates 20 data centres (one in development) and a fiber network spanning 43,000km across 22 countries, has deployed a pan-European vCloud based on the new VMware vCloud Suite 5.1. The deployment, which is the largest and most extensive vCloud Datacenter Service estate in Europe, enables customers in any Colt country to access enterprise cloud services from Colt data centres in the UK, France, Spain...

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Cisco and NetApp Offer ExpressPod Data Center Package

Cisco and NetApp introduced a prepackaged and tested solution for small and medium-sized organizations that are beginning to virtualize their networking, storage, and computing environments. The ExpressPod integrates Cisco UCS C-Series servers, NetApp FAS2220 or FAS2240 storage, and Cisco Nexus 3048 switches with infrastructure management. In addition, now features support and validation for VMware vSphere on NetApp...

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DragonWave Posts Revenue of $44.2 Million

DragonWave reported revenue of $44.2 million for the quarter ended 30-Aug-2012, compared with $13.6 million in the same period last year and $13.0 million in the preceding quarter.  Revenue through the Nokia Siemens Networks channel totaled $32.3 million in the quarter. “We continue to advance our strategic priorities,” said DragonWave President and CEO Peter Allen.  “Our partnership with Nokia Siemens Networks is still in the integration phase and involves a wide range of activities, including access to a wide range of major global...

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ASSIA Launches Wi-Fi Management Service for Carriers

ASSIA, which supplies high-performance software tools for dynamic spectrum management (DSM) of DSL and Wi-Fi, is introducing a residential Wi-Fi management service to help carriers resolve in-home networking problems. ASSIA's new Expresse Wi-Fi provides advanced diagnosis and automatic, proactive repair capabilities of in-home Wi-Fi networks,  including the real-time calculation of throughput, latency, and connectivity.  The...

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Lantiq Hits 250 Mbps over Copper with Reverse Powered Fiber to the Distribution Point

Lantiq, in partnership with Aethra Telecommunications, an access network equipment supplier, introduced a reverse powered Fiber to the Distribution Point (FTTdp) broadband access solution that uses standard fiber and copper wire to deliver aggregated data rates up to 250 Mbps over 200m twisted-pair copper line lengths.   The idea is to use fiber drop points on a neighborhood pole or in a building basement to provision multiple...

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Actelis' CEO Steps Down

Vivek Ragavan has resigned as president and CEO of Actelis. Tuvia Barlev, Actelis' co-founder and former CEO, will take over the company's operations as executive chairman during the search for Ragavan's replacement.  Barlev served as president and CEO of Actelis from 2002 to 2010 and, since then, has served as chairman. http://www.actelis.com Vivek Ragavan joined Actelis in 2010.  He previously served as CEO at Atrica and Redback...

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ADTRAN Posts Q3 Revenue of $162 Million

ADTRAN reported Q3 revenue of $162,125,000 compared to$192,194,000 for the third quarter of 2011. Net income was $9,272,000 for the quarter compared to$36,213,000 for the third quarter of 2011. Earnings per share, assuming dilution, were $0.15 for the quarter compared to $0.56 for the third quarter of 2011. ADTRAN Chief Executive Officer Tom Stanton stated, “This quarter’s performance came in line with our revised expectations. Although current market conditions limit near term visibility,...

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NSN's Service Management Can Now Predict Problems

Nokia Siemens Networks is launching a new Service Management Capability that helps mobile operators to predict and prevent service degradation and reduce complaint calls to customer care departments. The new Service Operations and Management solution, which is offered to mobile operators either on-site or as a managed service from NSN, combines insights related to service performance with operations functions to manage mobile broadband services...

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Calxeda Raises $55 Million for its ARM Data Center Processors

Calxeda, a start-up based in Austin, Texas, raised $55 million in new funding for its ARM-based “EnergyCore” Server-on-a-Chip designed for a new generation of high-density servers. Calxeda said its new chip will deliver as much as a ten-fold improvement in energy efficiency compared to today’s commodity X86-based servers. “ New investors include Austin Ventures and Vulcan Capital, plus additional participation by the firm’s existing investors. "This...

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