NTT to Acquire Solutionary for Managed Security Services

NTT agreed to acquire Solutionary, a privately held company based in Omaha, Nebraska that specializes in managed security in an all-cash transaction. Financial terms were not disclosed. Solutionary is a pure-play managed security service provider (MSSP) that helps enterprises fulfill the requirements of major compliance frameworks (such as PCI DSS, GLBA, FFIEC, HIPAA, HITECH and SOX). Solutionary's cloud-based ActiveGuard security services and analytics...

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Intel's "Knight's Landing" Xeon Phi Coproccesors to Use 14nm

Intel's new Xeon Phi coprocessors are powering the world's fastest computer -- "Milky Way 2," built for China's National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou.  At the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany, Intel revealed that 48,000 Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and 32,000 Intel Xeon processors were used to create Milky Way 2, which delivers a peak performance of 54.9 PFlops (54.9 quadrillion floating point operations per second)...

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Infinera: One Billion Hours without Failure

Infinera's photonic integrated circuits (PICs) recently surpassed one billion hours of failure-free operation in live networks worldwide. The company said this achievement is a cumulative total for all of the PICs that Infinera has shipped to customers since late 2004 in the Infinera DTN and DTN-X platforms. The PICs are deployed by 109 customers in 67 countries around the world to light over one million kilometers of fiber and provide over...

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Sprint Lights Up LTE in 22 More Cities

Sprint activated its LTE network in 22 new cities, including Miami, New Orleans, Raleigh, N.C., and Tampa, Florida. Sprint now offers LTE in 110 markets across the and expects to provide 200 million people with LTE by the end of 2013.  The service has not yet officially launched in Washington, D.C., New York orSan Francisco but Sprint customers are being to see some sites in these cities with an LTE signal. http://www.sprint.com ...

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Apple Confirms Facetime and iMessage Encryption

Apple confirmed that its iMessage and FaceTime services are protected by end-to-end encryption and that it cannot decrypt that data. Apple also stated that its does not store data related to customers' location, Map searches or Siri requests in any identifiable form. Apple also repeated its earlier assertion that it does not provide any government agency with direct access to its servers.  Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from...

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GigOptix Develops Parallel Optical for Consumer Electronics

GigOptix announced an expansion from the datacom market into optical links for consumer electronics. The company is positioning its parallel optical devices for use in embedded active optical cables (AOCs), pluggables and optical backplanes targeting high speed optical data links for consumer electronics connectivity and applications, such as: 1. Tablets, ultrabooks, and smartphones using the highest video and display resolution 2. 4K/8K high...

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EarthLink to Acquire CenterBeam for Managed IT Services

EarthLink agreed to acquire CenterBeam, a privately held information technology managed service provider with a 13-year track record of delivering cloud computing and hosted IT services, for $22 million. CenterBeam, which is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, provides remote managed IT services primarily to multi-location mid-sized businesses.  CenterBeam operates a 140-person IT Support Center providing help desk, desktop technical...

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TeliaSonera Appoints President and CEO

TeliaSonera named Johan Dennelind as its new President and CEO. He comes to TeliaSonera from the Vodacom Group where he held the position as CEO Vodacom International based in South Africa. He started his telecommunications career as a trainee with Telia AB. Between 1999 and 2010 he held various positions in Telenor, including two years as CEO of Digi Telecommunications. http://www.teliasonera.co...

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Sprint Sues Dish and Clearwire

Sprint filed a lawsuit against DISH Network Corporation and Clearwire Corp. seeking to block the DISH tender offer for Clearwire. Sprint argues the the transaction violates its rights and the rights of other strategic investors under Clearwire’s charter and under the Equity Holders Agreement. http://www.sprint.c...

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BTI Supplies Metro Optical for Equinix Singapore

Equinix has deployed BTI's intelligent networking solutions to interconnect data centers in Singapore. The deployment uses BTI's Data Center Interconnect solution, including the BTI 7000 Series which unifies packet and optical service delivery into one platform for network-layer consolidation. BTI said its 7000 Series offered Equinix a scalable 10G to 100G Coherent WDM optical layer and multidegree ROADM Dynamic Optical Layer delivering any...

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Ikanos Enhances its Home Gateway Processor with Diagnostics/Monitoring

Ikanos Communications is enhancing its family of Fusiv Vx185 A/VDSL2 communications processors with in-home broadband diagnostic and monitoring capabilities that enable DSL operators to proacti vely identify the cause of common wiring faults and noise interference problems. Ikanos' inSIGHT BXM software suite leverages the advanced diagnostic features of the chipset, along with Ikanos’ patent-pending algorithms, to identify and resolve service...

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