AT&T Sells 10.2 million Smartphones in Q4, 89% of Postpaid Sales

AT&T sold a record 10.2 million smartphones in Q4, bringing its postpaid smartphone customer base to 47.1 million and driving overall consolidated revenue for the company to $32.6 billion, up 0.2 percent versus reported results for the year-earlier period, and up 2.8 percent excluding Advertising Solutions and Superstorm Sandy impact. There was an operating loss of $6.0 billion, compared to a loss of $9.0 billion for the same period a year...

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Belkin to Acquire Cisco's Linksys

Belkin agreed to acquire Cisco’s Home Networking Business Unit, including its products, technology, Linksys brand and employees. Financial terms were not disclosed. Belkin, which is headquartered near Los Angeles, is a privately-held company with more than 1,200 employees in 21 countries. It offers a similar portfolio of networking products for consumers and small business. After the transaction closes, Belkin estimates that it will account for...

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Tata Upgrades to 100G on Trans-Atlantic Cable with Ciena

Tata Communications is preparing to launch 100G services on its TGN-Atlantic (TGN-A) subsea cable system from New York to London. The first phase of the 100G deployment is expected to be in full service during the first half of 2013 The upgraded network is using Ciena’s GeoMesh solution based on the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform powered by WaveLogic 3 coherent optical processors and optical bypass.  The TGN-A will also be equipped with Ciena’s...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Confirms Strong Performance in Q4 2012

Nokia Siemens Networks reported its best quarter ever in Q4 2012 with an operating profit margin of 14.4% and rebounding sales in North America and Asia Pacific. In its quarterly financial statement, Nokia confirmed the turn around performance at Nokia Siemens Networks as the company achieved higher sales of both infrastructure equipment and services, partially offset by a decline in sales of business areas not consistent with Nokia Siemens Networks'...

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Cisco and NetApp Expand Flexpod Data Center Partnership

Cisco and NetApp are expanding their FlexPod partnership to deliver unified branch office, data center and public cloud infrastructures. The partnership expansion includes efforts in technology integration, solution development, and continued go-to-market collaboration – all designed to make it easier for customers to deploy and access next-generation cloud infrastructure solutions. The FlexPod data center platform is a prevalidated solution...

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Russia's Kvant Telecom Picks Ekinops for 100G

Russia's Kvant Telecom has selected Ekinops' optical transport equipment to provide coherent 100G transmission between Moscow and the Ukrainian city of Kharkov. The 100G service is deployed over an existing DWDM system. Kvant will now be able to offer 100G services for its diverse domestic and international customers. Kvant Telecom, founded in 2007, has more than 1,500 kilometers of fiber and more than 100 nodes throughout eastern Russia. Ekinops'...

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Eutelsat Readies Ka-Band Airliner Satellite Service

Eutelsat Communications introduced its Air Access aeronautical mobile service with speeds of up to 100 Mbps per airliner in the sky over Europe. This will support top-quality Internet access, videostreaming and GSM services via tablets, smartphones and laptops for airline passengers. Eutelsat Air Access, which will be available from mid-2013, uses ViaSat SurfBeam 2 technology and Eutelsat's KA-SAT high throughput satellite, which delivers a total...

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Crehan Research: Data Center Switch Market Approaches $16B by 2017

The Data Center Switch market will approach $16 billion by 2017, according to Crehan Research, as Ethernet, including Fibre Channel-over-Ethernet, becomes an ever-increasing portion of the overall market. The recently published Data Center Switch Long-Range Forecast Report, anticipates very strong growth for both 10GBASE-T switches and 40 Gigabit Ethernet-capable switches (40GbE). Some other highlights from the report: The report predicts...

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Guavus Acquires Neuralitic for Mobile Data Intelligence

Guavus, a start-up specializing in big data analytics for carriers, has acquired Montreal-based Neuralitic Systems, which offers mobile data monetization and marketing solutions. Neuralitic provides deep-dive analysis into mobile data, enabling Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to generate new revenue streams by improving decision-making aimed at subscriber acquisition, conversion and retention. Guavus’s applications provide insights across...

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Juniper Posts Revenue of $1.14 Billion, up 2%

Juniper Networks'  net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2012 increased 2% sequentially and on a year-over-year basis to $1,141 million. Operating margin for the fourth quarter of 2012 increased to 11.5% on a GAAP basis from 3.8% in the third quarter of 2012, and decreased from 11.9% in the fourth quarter of 2011. GAAP net income was $96 million, or $0.19 per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2012. "Juniper finished 2012 on a good note,...

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Polaris Wireless Posts 79% Growth in 2012 for its High-Accuracy Wireless Location

Polaris Wireless, a privately-held company that supplies high-accuracy, software-based wireless location solutions to wireless operators, law enforcement/government agencies and location-based application companies, announced a record increase in revenue and profitability in 2012, where revenue grew 79 percent year-over-year, and profitability (as measured by EBITDA) increased six-fold. Polaris Wireless said its strong results reflect sustained...

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Anuta Networks Targets SDN Automation

Anuta Networks, a start-up based in Milpitas, California, with R&D in Bangalore, India, announced its plans for network service virtualization for delivering on-demand, anytime, anywhere network services for cloud. Anuta Networks is developing a "nCloudX" platform to simplify and automate services in complex, heterogeneous, multi-vendor, multi-hypervisor and multi-device networks, including physical and virtual infrastructures in both private...

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