Nokia Siemens to sell Optical Business to Marlin Equity Partners

Nokia Siemens Networks will sell its Optical Networks business unit to Marlin Equity Partners for an undisclosed sum. Marlin, a Los Angeles California-based private investment firm with over US$1 billion of capital under management, will form a new optical company to be headquartered in Munich, Germany with operations around the world.  This new optical company will be led by its existing management team with Herbert Merz nominated as chief...

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Broadcom Samples 28nm Knowledge-based Processor

Broadcom introduced its eigth generation knowledge-based processor for high-touch packet services in 3G/4G mobile mobile infrastructure, data center and enterprise platforms. The Broadcom NLA12000 Series, which is the first to use 28 nanometer (nm) technology, offers significantly faster performance for increased classification, forwarding and security processing throughout the network -- the company cites up to 24x greater performance than competing...

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Altobridge Sees Backhaul Savings with Data-at-the-Edge

Altobridge confirmed the deployment of its Data-at-the-Edge (DatE) content delivery architecture by a Tier One wireless network operator in Asia. The Altobridge Data-at-the-Edge platform enables data passing between an operator’s core network and the radio base station to be identified, managed and optimized at a granular level. Altobridge said its customer is able to achieve savings of over 40% in mobile broadband backhaul costs. “The Altobridge...

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Cortina Debuts 28nm EDC PHY for Next Wave of Network Gear

Cortina Systems introduced its 28nm EDC PHY architecture designed to enable higher port counts and increased faceplate and backplane bandwidth for next generation data center, carrier and enterprise systems.  Significantly, Cortina's 28nm EDC PHY architecture also supports 100G and even 400G applications in data center, storage and high-performance computing. Cortina's first product in this family is an Octal 15G Electronic Dispersion Compensation...

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Compromised Security Would Cause Mobile Customers to Jump Ship

Compromised security – more than high monthly fees – would be the biggest catalyst for triggering users to change mobile network providers, according to an independent survey conducted by market research firm Opinion Matters on behalf of Crossbeam Systems. More than 1,000 adult smartphone users were polled in each country to examine usage habits, the importance of mobile security and data services, purchasing considerations, and what would motivate...

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Marvell Develops 802.11ac 4x4

Marvell introduced the first 802.11ac 4x4 wireless local area network (WLAN) system-on-chip (SoC), offering up to 1.3 Gbps of Wi-Fi throughput. The Marvell Avastar 88W8864 is designed to improve the throughput of enterprise and retail access points (APs) and the robustness of wireless video distribution. Highlights: 4x4 MIMO dual-band 802.11ac solution 1.3Gbps WLAN PHY rate Channel bandwidth up to 80MHz 256 QAM modulation scheme Implicit and...

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Equinix Opens Miami Data Center

Equinix opened a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Boca Raton, Florida. The new MI3 facility, which is located outside of the Category 5 hurricane evacuation zone, will provide 31,300 square feet of floor space, with additional options for future expansion.  It offers direct connectivity to the leading Latin American network operators for reduced latency, include close proximity to several cable landing stations such...

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Arista Releases 2nd Gen 10GBASE-T Switches, $300/port

Arista Networks introduced its second generation of 10GBASE-T switches, providing customers with the cost savings of twinax copper cabling in the data center instead of SFP+ fiber. The Arista 7050 Series 1/10GBASE-T data center switches offer wire speed performance with a choice of 36, 52 or 64 ports of 10GbE.  The Arista 7050T-36 switch includes 32 ports with auto-negotiating 100Mb/1GbE/10GbE ports based on standard RJ45 interfaces and 4...

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Cable & Wireless Comm Sells Assets to Bahrain's Batelco

Cable & Wireless Communications will sell its Monaco & Islands division to Bahrain's Batelcom Group for US$680 million. The sale include CWC's businesses in the Maldives, Channel Islands and Isle of Man, the Seychelles, South Atlantic and Diego Garcia as well as a 25% shareholding in Compagnie Monegasque de Communication SAM, the company which holds CWC’s 55% interest in Monaco Telecom. Cable & Wireless Communications said the...

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