American Tower to Acquire Global Tower Partners for $4.8 Billion

American Tower Corporation agreed to acquire 100% of the outstanding common membership interests of MIP Tower Holdings LLC, a private real estate investment trust, which is the parent company of Global Tower Partners, for approximately $4.8 billion. GTP owns and operates approximately 5,400 towers across the U.S., 800 domestic property interests under third-party communications sites, and has management rights to over 9,000 domestic sites, which...

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Las Vegas' Switch SUPERNAPS Continues Rapid Growth

Switch, which operates the SUPERNAPS data centers in Las Vegas, sold a record-breaking 19 megawatts of power to 23 clients during the month of August. Switch provides massive-scale colocation, connectivity, cloud and content solutions for more than 600 global clients. SUPERNAP 8 is built from Switch’s modular optimized designed products, which includes the Switch SHIELD (redundant weather-proof roofing structures), the TSC 1000 ROTOFLY (HVAC system),...

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Oracle Government Cloud Opens for Business

Oracle announced the availability of the Oracle Government Cloud, its suite of secure cloud applications built specifically for government. Oracle owns, manages and certifies the underlying technology for Oracle Government Cloud.  The company is initially offering Software as a Service (SaaS).  Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) options will be available soon. “We are very excited to meet our public...

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NEC Cites 50% Power Reduction for Innovative Cooling Technology

NEC has developed an innovative, multi-stage cooling technology that enables data centers to reduce air conditioning power consumption by up to 50%. NEC is leveraging phase change coolants, which are able to remove a large amount of heat from the system at the temperature point when they change from liquid to vapor. The company said its technology is able to substantially reduce the air conditioning load inside server rooms because the heat from...

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Qualcomm Unveils Low-Power Wi-Fi

Qualcomm Atheros introduced a low-power Wi-Fi chip familt designed to connect the "Internet of Everything." The new QCA4002 and QCA4004 networking platforms include the IP stack and full networking services on the chip to enable customers to add Wi-Fi to virtually any product.  The platforms feature an on-chip processor and memory, which are designed to eliminate the need for a system controller that adds to product cost, complexity and power...

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Infonetics: Ethernet Switch Market Expands 6% in Q2

Globally, the Ethernet switch market was up 6% in 2Q13, to $5 billion, according to a new report from Infonetics. "In the second quarter of 2013, global Ethernet switch sales grew from a seasonally slow first quarter, but not enough to drive year-over-year growth," reports Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst for enterprise networks and video at Infonetics Research. "North America, the largest region for Ethernet switches, was the bright spot,...

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Ericsson acquires Airvana's EVDO Business

Ericsson has acquired Airvana Network Solutions' EVDO business. The acquisition resolves a lawsuit filed by Airvana in Februaru 2012 against Ericsson. Financial terms were not disclosed. Airvana Network Solutions is a Massachusetts-based company and supplier of EVDO software to Ericsson. EVDO software enables data transmission in a CDMA wireless network and is an important part of the CDMA ecosystem. Airvana's approximately 38 EVDO specialists...

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Telefónica Picks Ericsson for LTE in Madrid and Barcelona

Telefónica has selected Ericsson selected as its LTE vendor for the cities of Madrid and Barcelona, among others. The roll out cover about 1000 nodes in 2013, in order to support Telefonica's goal to take 4G to as many customers as possible already this year. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ericsson....

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