Cisco and Insieme Confirm Data Center Event for Weds. Nov 6th

On Wednesday, November 6, in New York City, Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers will host a news conference in partnership with Insieme, its spin-in start-up focused on application-centric data center architecture.  The keynote/news conference will be webcast live. Insieme has not yet publicly disclosed its product plans or technology strategy.  The company is believed to be developing customized silicon for SDN, although various media...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom Reports 63% of Broadband Users Served by Fiber

As of September 30th, Chunghwa Telecom served 2.90 million FTTx subscribers, accounting for 63.7% of total broadband users. Moreover, the number of subscribers signing up for 60Mbps and higher speed connections increased by 32.7%, reaching 1.09 million. On the mobile front, Chunghwa had 10.55 million mobile subscribers, representing a 3.4% year-over-year increase.  In the third quarter of 2013, the company increased the number of mobile...

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FCC Opens Door for Globalstar Terrestrial Broadband Using 22 MHz at 2.4 GHz

The FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) paving the way to allow Globalstar to deploy a terrestrial broadband network over 22 MHz of spectrum in the 2.4 GHz band. Globalstar said the proposed new rules would allow it to provide terrestrial broadband services over its 11.5 MHz of previously-licensed S-band spectrum at 2483.5-2495 MHz, as well as the adjacent 10.5 MHz of unlicensed spectrum at 2473-2483.5 MHz. "The FCC's release of...

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Extreme Networks Completes Enterasys Acquisition

Extreme Networks completed its acquisition of Enterasys Networks.  The deal was valued at $180 million in cash when it was first announced in September. Enterasys Networks, based in Salem, NH, is a privately held provider of wired and wireless network infrastructure and security solutions.  It has approximately 900 employees and $330 million in annual revenues. Extreme Networks, which is based in San Jose, California, specializes in...

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CENTRI Raises $13 Million for Mobile Bandwidth Optimization

CENTRI Technology, a start-up based in Seattle, announced a $13 million Series C round of financing to support its mobile bandwidth optimization and bandwidth management solutions. CENTRI’s BitSmartCX platform uses patented optimization techniques that dynamically reduce the amount of data transmitted across the network via byte-level caching technology, between the device, the radio network backhaul, and the network core.  The platform can...

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Australia's NBN Now Reaches 107,000 Premises

Australia's NBNco has begun posting weekly updates on the rollout progress of its new infrastructure. As of Sunday, October 27th: 107,230 premises are using the NBN across the fibre, fixed wireless and interim satellite networks Of this total, 40,441 are receiving the NBN via fibre to the premises in brownfields communities with a further 21,801 fibre users in new developments (or “greenfields” estates).  There are 41,482 satellite users  There...

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