Freescale Licenses ARM Cortex-A50 Processor

 Freescale Semiconductor has licensed the ARM Cortex-A50 series of microprocessors (MPUs) for future versions of its i.MX applications processor and QorIQ communications processor product lines. The deal is part of a new multiyear subscription license with ARM. ARM recently announced the Cortex-A50 series which is based on the ARMv8 architecture and is capable of 64- and 32-bit execution. The series initially includes the Cortex-A57 and...

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Deutsche Telekom Hits 2012 Financial Targets, Beating European Peers

Unlike many of its European competitors, Deutsche Telekom held its net revenue more or less steady, at EUR 58.2 billion. The organic decline in revenue - i.e., adjusted for exchange rate effects and changes in the composition of the Group - was reduced from from 3.6 percent in 2011 to 2.7 percent. The adjusted EBITDA margin for the full year stood at 30.9 percent, a decline of around 0.9 percentage points year-on-year, largely due to the increase...

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T-Systems Sees Cloud Boost in Q4

Despite the global economic situation, T-Systems increased its overall revenues and external business during Q4 2012. The growth is attributed to an expanding number of cloud contracts. In the 2012 financial year, T-Systems recorded order entry of EUR 8.7 billion, up some 18 percent year-on-year. This encouraging development was driven by major contracts in the fourth quarter with oil company Shell and the state of Lower Saxony. The extension of...

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United Fiber & Data Builds High-Capacity NYC-Ashburn Route

United Fiber & Data (UFD) has begun construction on a new low-latency, fiber network from New York City and its surrounding areas to Ashburn, Virginia. Founded in 2009, UFD has completed all necessary planning and has secured rights of way for the first phase of construction. UFD is using a diverse route with both logical and physical redundancy built into the design. http://www.unitedfd.co...

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Sandia National Lab Deploys Largest PON LAN

Sandia National Laboratories is deploying what is described as the world’s largest passive Optical LAN.  The network now connects about 13,000 workstations in 265 buildings. Sandia National Laboratories started deploying Tellabs Optical LAN Solution in 2009 to replace an existing copper-based LAN. Tellabs calculates that with the Optical LAN Sandia will save about $20 million in costs over 5 years, once the system is fully deployed. Tellabs...

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NTT DOCOMO Opens Brazilian Subsidiary

NTT DOCOMO has established a wholly owned subsidiary in Brazil to provide mobile solutions for mainly Japanese corporate customers in Brazil and conduct research aimed at developing new business opportunities in Latin America. The unit is based in Sao Paulo. http://www.ntt.co....

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Raytheon to Leverage DHS Cyber Alerts for new Service

Raytheon plans to operate as a commercial service provider under the recently expanded Enhanced Cybersecurity Services (ECS) program outlined in President Obama's Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. ECS is a voluntary information sharing program that assists critical infrastructure owners and operators as they improve the protection of their systems from unauthorized access, exploitation or data exfiltration. Under...

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Tata Comm Selects Allot for Hosted Policy

Tata Communications Ltd. has selected Allot Communications' Service Gateway solution to provide cloud-hosted policy services to their Mobile Network Operator (MNO) customers. Tata Communications is launching a Hosted Policy Engine, which is a cloud-based solution for policy control. The carrier offers Policy Management and Enforcement solutions as a managed service, hosting it in the cloud to reduce the complexity, cost and timeline for deployment...

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Kay Kapoor to Head AT&T Government Solutions

Kay Kapoor has been appointed to head AT&T Government Solutions, the unit within AT&T that serves a wide range of federal agencies. AT&T Government Solutions is a 4,000 employee organization responsible for delivering IT and professional services solutions to government customers at the federal level. http://www.att....

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