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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