IBM Outlines Big Data Approach to Cyber Security

IBM introduced a solution that combines security intelligence with big data analytics capabilities for both external cyber security threats and internal risk detection and prevention.  The goal is to allow security analysts to extend their analysis well beyond typical security data and to hunt for malicious cyber activity. The IBM Security Intelligence with Big Data solution combines real-time correlation for continuous insight, custom analytics...

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ZTE: LTE Carrier Aggregation Test Peaks at 223 Mbps

China Mobile completed a carrier aggregation test in a commercial environment in partnership with ZTE. Carrier aggregation, which is a core component of LTE-Advanced, combines two or more carriers into one channel in the same or different frequency bands. The test took place in an outdoor TD-LTE network environment and achieved a peak single-user download rate of 223Mbps at an uplink and downlink sub-frame ratio of 1:3. The special time slot ratio...

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Ericsson Hits 6% Growth Rate in Q4 Driven by N. America LTE

Driven by improved Network sales primarily in North America, Ericsson reported Q4 2012 sales of SEK 66.9 billion (US$10.52 billion), up 5% year over year and up 23% over Q3 2012.  However, there was a net loss of SEK 6.3 billion (US$0.99 billion) due to the restructuring charges at ST-Ericsson.  Various options are still being considered for dealing with ST-Ericsson. "Our segments showed mixed developments during the year with strong...

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euNetworks Delivers Dark Fiber for Telehouse Deutschland

euNetworks, which operates 13 metro fiber networks in key European cities, has been selected as the exclusive supplier of fiber connectivity to Telehouse Deutschland, one of the largest data centers in Germany. euNetworks has delivered dark fiber connectin the Telehouse facility outside of Frankfurt to DE-CIX, which is the Internet exchange linking over 400 domestic and international ISPs and carriers. euNetworks operates a dense, fiber metro...

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Alcatel-Lucent Supplies 100G for Moscow Cable TV

Russia’s largest cable TV operator, National Cable Networks (NCN), part of the OJSC Rostelecom group has deployed Alcatel-Lucent's 100G technology to support higher levels of traffic across its Moscow network due to the installation of public safety video surveillance cameras. NCN will use its network to carry video feeds from the surveillance cameras installed in porches, courtyards and other public places, to the Moscow Department of Information...

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JDSU Posts Strong Results

JDSU reported net revenue of $429.4 million and net income of $4.1 million, or $0.02 per share. Prior quarter net revenue was $420.9 million, with a net loss of $(11.6) million, or $(0.05) per share. Net revenue for the fiscal 2012 second quarter was $409.3 million, with a net income of $(10.2) million, or $(0.04) per share. "JDSU delivered a strong fiscal Q2, with revenue at the top of our guidance range and operating margins exceeding expectations...

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Tellabs Posts Revenue of $242 Million, Cancels 9200 Edge Router

Tellabs reported Q4 2012 revenue of $242 million, compared with $317 million in the year-ago quarter.  There was a net loss (GAAP) of $23 million or 6 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $5 million or 1 cent per share in the fourth quarter of 2011. Tellabs 2012 revenue was $1.053 billion, compared with $1.286 billion in 2011.  On a GAAP basis, in 2012 Tellabs lost $172 million or 47 cents per share, compared with $188 million...

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NYT Details Cyber Attack from China

The New York Times published a detailed accounting of ongoing cyber attacks on its systems following its report last October on the family wealth of Chinese premier Wen Jiabao.  Some key points: The attacks originated from compromised university servers that the New York Times claims were previously used by hackers associated with the Chinese military. The intrusion most likely originated as a spearfishing attack. The Times hired computer security experts at Mandian to investigate the attacks. AT&T monitored and confirmed the attacks. http://www.nytimes.com The...

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Narus Names John Trobough as President

Narus, a provider of big data analytics for cyber security, named John Trobough as its new president. Trobough previously was president of Teleca USA, a leading supplier of software services to the mobile device communications industry and one of the largest global Android commercialization partners in the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). He also held executive positions at Openwave Systems, Sylantro Systems, AT&T and Qwest Communications. Narus, which is a subsidiary of Boeing, is based in Sunnyvale, California. "The Narus team is exceptionally...

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ZTE's Chewing Gum 3G Data Card - 6.8mm Thick

ZTE introduced a new ultra-thin 3G datacard measuring only 6.8mm in thickness. The "Chewing Gum" device, which the company calls the "thinnest data card in the world", supports top downlink HSPA+ speeds of 21 Mbps. Preconfigured software enables it to connect to the network in just under 15 seconds.  It supports multiple operating systems (including Win8) along with IPv6. http://wwwen.zte.com.cn/en/press_center/news/201301/t20130130_...

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PMC-Sierra Posts Q4 Revenue of $129.4 Million

PMC-Sierra reported net revenues of $129.4 million for Q4 2012, a sequential decrease of 2 percent compared to $131.7 million in the third quarter of 2012, and a decrease of 15 percent compared to $152.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. Net income (GAAP) was $11.1 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net loss in the third quarter of 2012 was $274.4 million, or $1.31 per share. For the full year ended December 29, 2012, net revenues were $531 million compared to $654.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2011, a decrease...

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Cavium Reports Q4 Revenue of $66.4 Million, up 9% Sequentially

Cavium reported Q4 2012 revenue of $66.4 million, an 8.7% sequential increase from the $61.1 million reported in the third quarter of 2012. There was a net loss (GAAP) of $78.8 million, or $(1.56) per diluted share compared to $8.1 million, or $(0.16) per diluted share in the third quarter of 2012.  Gross margins were 62.3% in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to 59.4% in the third quarter of 2012. Cavium established a full valuation allowance against its US net deferred tax assets, which resulted in a one-time, non-cash charge of $43.5...

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AppliedMicro Cites Progress in ARM 64-bit Development

AppliedMicro reported net revenues of $51.7 million for the quarter ending 31-Dec-2012, up approximately 12% sequentially and down approximately 8% year over year. There was a GAAP net loss was $71.6 million or $(1.08) per share compared to net loss of $21.6 million or $(0.33) per share for the previous quarter. AppliedMicro also reported that performance simulations of its ARM 64-Bit X-Gene processor have significantly exceeded the company's expectations...

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Vertical Systems: Rapid Growth in U.S. Business Ethernet Service Ports

The U.S. market for retail Ethernet ports grew 24% in 2012 as the rankings of top providers shifted amidst increased price competition and network expansion, according to Vertical Systems' newly released U.S. Business Ethernet Leaderboard. "The U.S. market for retail Ethernet ports rose 24% in 2012. The year was characterized by major backbone upgrades, new market rollouts, price wars and channel expansion. Ethernet access to IP VPNs and Cloud connectivity...

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Cisco Unified Access Switches Leverages New ASIC for SDN Programmability

Cisco introduced two Unified Access networking products featuring a new Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) ASIC designed to terminate wired and wireless traffic.  The UADP ASIC features a programmable data plane specifically for software-defined networking services.  Cisco said its new ASIC also provides a foundation for converged APIs across wired and wireless. The new products are: Cisco Catalyst 3850 Unified Access Switch with built-in...

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OIF Looks to 400G Modules, Transport SDN, E-NNI Neighbor Discovery

At its meeting last week in New Orleans, the Optical Internetworking Forum approved an implementation agreement for RSVP Extensions for User Network Interface (UNI) 2.0 Signaling Specification Release 2. OIF members also evaluated the need for technology-focused projects on 400G Modules, carrier requirements for Transport Software-Defined Networking, and Neighbor Discovery for E-NNI. Specifically, The Physical and Link Layer Working Group started...

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América Móvil Builds 100G Submarine Cable with ALU

América Móvil has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build a 17,500-km submarine cable linking the Americas. The AMX-1 System will connect seven countries with eleven landing points: Miami and Jacksonville (United States), Barranquilla and Cartagena (Colombia), Fortaleza, Salvador & Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Puerto Plata (Dominican Republic), Cancun (Mexico), San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Puerto Barrios (Guatemala). The system is optimized for 100G wavelengths...

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Interoute Builds a CloudStore with Virtual Appliances

Interoute, which operates a pan-European fiber network, 9 hosting data centers, 32 collocation data centers and a cloud services platform, launched CloudStore, an online marketplace aimed at accelerating ICT service delivery. Interoute CloudStore hosts the full spectrum of core ICT infrastructure, network, computing, communication and storage services needed to build sophisticated platforms. Enterprise IT departments, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)...

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Danaher Acquires Navman Wireless for Fleet Management

Danaher Corporation agreed to acquire Navman Wireless, a provider of GPS-based fleet and asset management technology, for an undisclosed sum. Navman's technology currently monitors more than 175,000 vehicles owned by over 14,000 organisations on five continents, making Navman Wireless one of the world's largest fleet management providers. The company reports five successive years of revenue and installed base growth. Danaher plans to operate Navman...

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Xilinx Nears 20nm Milestones

 Xilinx announced three milestones in the development of its next generation 20nm All Programmable Devices: First Design Tools for 20nm -- the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite will support initial 20nm devices in March 2013. First 20nm Product Tape Out -- Xilinx expects to tape out its first 20nm product on TSMC's 20SoC manufacturing process during Q2 2013. Device samples are expected this year for strategic customers. First Ten Early Access Customers...

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Cisco to Acquire Cognitive Security for Behavioral Analytics

Cisco agreed to acquire Cognitive Security (COSE), a start-up focused on applying artificial intelligence techniques to detect advanced cyber threats. COSE leverages NetFlow/IPFIX inputs and Network Behavior Analysis in order fight against Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), exploit kits, zero-day attacks, molymorphic malware or trojans inside the client's network. COSE line of products integrate statistical analysis, autonomic/agent-based computing,...

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Sprint Supports LTE Acceleration Lab in Tel Aviv

Sprint announced its support for an LTE acceleration lab in Tel Aviv in collaboration with the Israel Mobile & Media Association (IMA).  The idea is to add significant momentum to the Israeli-based ecosystem of startups and developers by providing access to innovate on Sprint’s LTE network. "As a complement to our efforts to unlock innovation in the United States, this Sprint-sponsored LTE acceleration lab will allow startups and developers...

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Qualcomm Hits Revenue of $6.02 billion, up 29% YoY

Qualcomm reported revenue of $6.02 billion for the quarter ending 30-December-2012, up 29 percent year-over-year (y-o-y) and 24 percent sequentially. Net income was $2.20 billion, up 32 percent y-o-y and 42 percent sequentially. "We are pleased to report record quarterly revenues, Non-GAAP EPS and MSM chip shipments, driven by the growing global demand for smartphones and our industry-leading portfolio of 3G/LTE chipsets," said...

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Broadcom Reports Q4 Revenue of $2.08B, up 14% YoY

Broadcom reported net revenue of $2.08 billion for Q4 2012, a decrease of 2.3% compared with the $2.13 billion reported for the third quarter of 2012 and an increase of 14.3% compared with the $1.82 billion reported for the fourth quarter of 2011. Net income (GAAP) was $251 million, or $.43 per share (diluted), compared with GAAP net income of $220 million, or $.38 per share (diluted), for the third quarter of 2012 and GAAP net income of $254 million,...

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Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Moves Ahead

One year after launching its Carrier Ethernet 2.0 initiative, the Metro Ethernet Forum announced significant progress in its efforts to drive the next wave of Ethernet service delivery. Whereas the first generation of Carrier Ethernet standardized E-Line and E-LAN services, CE 2.0 standardizes Multi-CoS over eight interconnected services, including two versions of E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree and E-Access. Newly defined Multi-CoS extensions ensure standardized...

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Fujitsu Claims New Protocol Delivers 30X over TCP

Fujitsu Labs has developed a new data transfer protocol that it claims delivers a 30x improvement in throughput over conventional transmission control protocol on long-haul connections between Japan and the U.S.   Fujitsu's protocol uses a proprietary retransmission method based on user datagram protocol (UDP).  The protocol addresses the problem of UDP transmissions consuming excess bandwidth by performing a real-time measurement of...

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Amazon's Elastic Transcoder Targets Video Production in the Cloud

Amazon Web Services introduced a highly scalable service for transcoding video files between different digital media formats in the cloud. The new Amazon Elastic Transcoder enables content producers to convert their large high resolution “master” video files into smaller versions that are optimized for playback on websites, mobile devices, connected TV’s and other video platforms. Amazon said its new service manages all aspects of the transcoding...

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Orange Launches LTE in Paris

Orange officially launched commercial LTE service in the Paris Opera neighborhood and promised to cover the entire city of Paris by the end of 2013. Orange is also preparing to launch LTE in 15 other French cities in April. Orange is currently supporting 5 LTE smartphones: Samsung Galaxy S III 4G, Samsung Galaxy Note II 4G, Nokia Lumia 920, HTC One SV, and the Sony Xperia Z. http://orange-en-france.orange.fr In September 2011, ARCEP, the office...

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SFR Launches LTE in Paris La Défense with NSN

SFR launched its commercial LTE service in Paris La Défense. 4G service packages start at EUR 29 per month for 3GB. SFR currently offers LTE in six cities and four additional cities are slated open during the first half of 2013: Lille, Marseille, Strasbourg and Toulouse. Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected by SFR as radio supplier to implement its 4G LTE network and upgrade its existing GSM and 3G networks in major French cities. NSN will...

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Russia's MTS Deploys ECI Telecom's Apollo Multi-Layer Transport for 100G

MTS, the leading mobile operator in Russia, has deployed ECI Telecom's Apollo Optimized Multi-Layer Transport (OMLT) platforms to extend the existing ECI’s DWDM backbone, enabling all advanced services, including 100G. The project links Moscow and Saint Petersburg.  With more than 1,000 km, it has been operational since 2003, with both 2.5G and 10G.  By adding Apollo OMLT shelves with 100G cards in add/drop points, MTS can leverage the...

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VMware up 22% in '12 but Forecasts Slower Growth in '13

VMware reported Q4 2012 revenue of $1.29 billion, an increase of 22% from the fourth quarter of 2011, and net income of $206 million, or $0.47 per diluted share, compared to $200 million, or $0.46 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2011. Revenues for all of 2012 were $4.61 billion, an increase of 22% from 2011. U.S.revenues for 2012 grew 22% to $2.23 billion from 2011.  International revenues grew 22% to $2.38 billion from 2011. Looking...

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Mavenir Opens VoLTE/RCS Centre in Cologne, Germany.

Mavenir Systems has opened a VoLTE/RCS Centre of Excellence in Cologne, Germany to support European mobile operators implementing new technologies based on the 4G LTE standards.  Mavenir already operates an EMEA headquarters in Reading, UK. "2012 was an eventful year for the mobile industry with the commercial launch of VoLTE and the very latest version of RCS.  These developments herald the dawn of a new era in mobile communications...

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AT&T Supplies MPLS-VPN for Canada's Dorel

AT&T has been selected by Dorel Industries to connect more than 40 offices and integrate its worldwide operations and multiple divisions. AT&T will interconnect sites in North America, Europe and Asia through AT&T MPLS-enabled Virtual Private Network (VPN) to enhance employee collaboration and productivity, providing access to shared resources across the organization.  Dorel is based in Montreal, Canada. Its branded products...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Forecast Lower Revenue in 2013

Citing the likelihood of less construction revenue from its property development subsidiary, a continued decline in voice revenue, mandated tariff reductions as well as the mobile interconnection rate reduction imposed by Taiwan's regulatory authority, Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom expects its overall revenue for 2013 to fall by NT$2.46 billion, or 1.1%, to NT$217.82 billion compared to the unaudited consolidated revenue for 2012. Electricity rates...

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Spirent Intros Axon Network and App Testing Box

Spirent Communications introduced its "Axon" network and application testing platform for validating the performance of applications, network devices and IT services. Spirent's Axon can be used to generate and model realistic traffic scenarios that benchmark and validate the performance of applications and network infrastructure.  For example, now when rolling out new services such as VoIP, video conferencing or email upgrades, the IT team...

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Lyatiss Targets Application-defined Networking

Lyatiss, a start-up based in Mountain View, California with R&D in Lyon, France, unveiled its CloudWeaver network intelligence tool for optimizing application performance in public clouds. The Lyatiss CloudWeaver is an orchestration tool that gathers intelligence on cloud performance and network resources to help users optimize their application performance.  Lyatiss is currently launching a public beta for Amazon Web Services users. Lyattis...

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China Mobile Transmits 1st Live TV broadcast via TD-LTE

China Mobile transmitted a live video stream of the Xiamen International Marathon over its trial TD-LTE on January 5th to TV centers of China Central TV and Xiamen TV for live broadcasting. It was the first such live TV broadcast over TD-LTE. Nokia Siemenes Networks, which is the sole supplier of China Mobile's TD-LTE in Xiamen, said the high-definition (HD) video were transmitted with zero bit rate errors throughout the entire event from cameras...

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OVH Interconnects its Cloud Data Centers with Infinera's 500G Super-Channels

OVH, the leading web hosting in Europe with more than 140,000 physical servers online, will deploy the Infinera DTN-X platform to interconnect its data centers via its pan-European network. The OVH pan-Eureopan network links data centers throughout 10 major European cities in seven countries. Infinera said its platform was selected for its ability to provision large amounts of bandwidth very quickly.  The Infinera DTN-X enables long-haul 500...

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NETGEAR to Acquire Sierra Wireless' AirCard Business

NETGEAR agreed to acquire Sierra Wireless' AirCard business, including customer relationships, certain intellectual property, inventory and fixed assets, for approximately $138 million in cash. Sierra Wireless expects to net about $100 million from the asset sale, after related liabilities, taxes, expenses, and funds held in escrow. Sierra Wireless' AirCard business supplies a range of data cards, dongles, and hotspots for 3G and 4G networks....

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NEC Builds Submarine Cable in Taiwan

Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom has selected NEC to construct the Taiwan Penghu Kinmen Matsu No.3 (TPKM3) Submarine Cable system, a high-bandwidth non-repeater optical submarine cable that will link Taoyan (North Taiwan) with Matsu and Tainan (South Taiwan) with Kinmen through Penghu. The TPKM3 cable system will span 510 km. http://www.nec.com/en/press/201301/global_20130128_01.ht...

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Gigamon Scales Data Center Traffic Visibility with 40Gb Blade

Gigamon is introducing a new high density 40Gb blade, the GigaPORT-Q08, for the GigaVUE H Series Chassis. Gigamon's flagship GigaVUE H Series can handle up to 2.5 Tbps of monitored traffic, delivering it intelligently to the appropriate application, security, or performance management systems. The new GigaPORT-Q08 blade enables 40Gb scalability in dense data center network architectures, whether end-of-row (EoR) or top-of-rack (ToR) deployments. Gigamon...

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Altera Supplies 28nm FPGA to Power JDSU's Optical Network Test

Altera has supplied its 28nm Stratix V GT FPGA to JDSU for volume production of the company's next-generation Optical Network Tester (ONT) solutions.  JDSU's ONT-600 platform is a multifunctional and multiport solution for testing OTN environments. The interchangeable Stratix V GT FPGA-based plug-in modules within the ONT-600 family provide customers flexibility by enabling a single platform to support multiple technologies, including Ethernet,...

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ITU Approves High Efficiency Video Coding -- H.265

The ITU-T’s Study Group 16 has agreed first-stage approval (consent) of H.265 or ISO/IEC 23008-2, also known as ‘High Efficiency Video Coding’ (HEVC).  The new video codec uses about half the bit rate of its predecessor, ITU-T H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 and is suitable for use in a range of applications, from mobile devices to Ultra-High Definition TV. The specification was developed by the ITU Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC...

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Broadcom Advances its Switching Silicon for SMBs

Broadcom introduced the latest version of its StrataConnect Series of switch system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for small-to-medium business (SMB) networks, combining Layer 2 and Layer 3 (L2/L3) switching, 16 GbE physical layer transceivers (PHYs), 10 GbE and high-performance central processing unit (CPU) onto a single piece of silicon. Broadcom said its latest StrataConnect silicon is designed for SMBs adopting cloud services and application requiring...

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Crehan Research: Five-Fold Increase in Server Networking Bandwidth by 2017

Server-class networking bandwidth will see a five-fold increase by 2017, exceeding 900 terabits in that year as data centers continue to increase network capacity to keep up with traffic demand, according to Crehan Research’s latest Server-class Adapter & LAN-on-Motherboard (LOM) Long-Range  Forecast Report. The bandwidth increase is enabled by technology upgrades from 1 Gbps Ethernet (GbE) to 10Gbps Ethernet (10GbE), from 8Gbps Fibre...

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Dell'Oro: WDM Market to Hit $13 Billion in 2017

The total worldwide wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) market revenue is forecast to grow at a ten percent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next five years, reaching $13 billion in 2017, according to a newly released Optical Transport forecast report by Dell'Oro Group. "Forty and 100 Gigabit is really where the growth is going forward," said Jimmy Yu, Vice President of Optical Transport Market Research at Dell'Oro Group.  "Demand...

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NTT Looks to Network Virtualization for Faster Disaster Recovery

NTT, along with Osaka University and The University of Electro-Communications, are developing virtualized network control technology to provide rapid recovery from unexpected disaster or severe network congestion. As cloud computing gains traction, it is increasingly the case that multiple network services share the same physical infrastructure. In order to ensure business continuity in the event of a widespread outage or sudden spike in traffic,...

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