Blueprint Column: Women in Engineering - Changing the Odds

by Scott McGregor, President and Chief Executive Officer, Broadcom Corporation Some of the greatest successes in the modern economy come from finding multibillion-dollar industries that are ripe for disruption. Engineers spend a lot of time looking for such opportunities. And yet, one of the ripest targets for disruption is right before their eyes: the engineering industry itself. Here’s how to disrupt it: Increase the number of women in the engineering...

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Momentum Builds for Wi-Fi Passpoint, New Features Extend Functionality

The Wi-Fi Alliance's Certified Passpoint program is quickly gaining momentum and is poised to become a key enabling technology for connecting mobile devices to public networks.  Passpoint enables seamless connection and WPA2 security for mobile devices in Wi-Fi hotspots. At a press event in San Francisco, Wi-Fi Alliance officials said hundreds of models of smartphones, tablets, and operator-grade access points have been certified for Passpoint,...

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Level 3's Cloud Connect Adds HP Helion

Level 3 Communications has added HP Helion Managed Cloud Service to its Cloud Connect Solutions ecosystem, which provides enterprises and government agencies with an MPLS VPN connection over the global Layer 3 network to third party cloud services. In addition to the security of a private VPN connection, Level 3 said its Cloud Connect offers rapid service provisioning, dynamic bandwidth, and usage-based billing. Level 3 Cloud Connect via the global...

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Cyan Blue Planet SDN Discovers and Provisions Cisco and Juniper Nodes

Cyan significantly extended the reach of its Blue Planet SDN platform by adding the ability to provision and manage Ethernet services across Cisco ASR a nd Juniper MX routers. Blue Planet SDN-based control over Cisco and Juniper equipment is based on access to standards-based interfaces such as CLI and NETCONF/YANG.  New element adapters being introduced this quarter use Link-Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) to auto-discover Cisco network,...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom Selects Coriant for Mobile Backhaul

Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has chosen Coriant's 7090 Packet Transport Platform to upgrade their mobile backhaul network. The Coriant 7090 Packet Transport Platform enables end-to-end "any-service" transport, including Triple Play, Carrier Ethernet, and private line (TDM, Carrier Ethernet) services. In mobile backhaul applications, Coriant calculates the 7090 enables operators to save up to 40% in CapEx compared to router-centric (IP/MPLS-over-WDM)...

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TIM Brasil Picks Coriant for Long Haul DWDM

Telecom Italia Mobile Brasil (TIM) will deploy the Coriant hiT 7300 Multi-Haul Transport Platform. Coriant said its hiT 7300 was selected due to its flexibility, stability and per-channel transmission capacities. TIM ranks as the second largest mobile telecommunications provider in Brazil covering 94 percent of urban geographies with over 74 million customers. "Our Coriant team has been working with TIM Brazil since 2008 and we are pleased to continue...

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Truecaller Raises $60 Million for Verified Global Directory

Truecaller, a start-up based in Stockholm, Sweden, raised US$60 million in new funding for its verified mobile phone community. Truecaller manages a global database of verified telephone numbers.  Users of its app can search for business or friends. Truecaller users will be notified when someone requests their number, and have the option to approve any request that comes through.  The system filters out spammers and unwanted callers. The...

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Infonetics: Carrier Spending on OTN Switching and P-OTS Jump 35% YoY

The global optical transport network (OTN) market totaled $4.3 billion in the first half of 2014 (1H14), an increase of 9% from the first half of 2013 (1H13), however sales of OTN switching gear jumped 35% in the period, according to a new report from Infonetics Research. “The dramatic growth of OTN switching we saw last year carried over into the first half of 2014 (1H14), with revenue soaring 35% from the same period a year ago as deployment...

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Televõrgu Deploys ADVA 100G Core over 3,000km

Televõrgu AS, which is part of the Tele2 Group, has deployed the ADVA Optical Networking's 100G Core to connect Northern and Eastern Europe. The network uses the ADVA FSP 3000 with coherent detection technology and RAMAN amplification to transport up to 9.6 Tbps of data across 3,000km of fiber without regeneration and without any dispersion compensation. Together with flexgrid reconfigurable add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) technology, this system...

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Open Interconnect Consortium Gets Underway

A new Open Interconnect Consortium has begun work to define the connectivity requirements to improve interoperability between the billions of devices making up the Internet of Things (IoT).  The group recently appointed its leadership: President: Jong-Deok Choi, executive vice president and deputy head of Software R&D Center, Samsung Electronics Vice President: Imad Sousou, vice president, Software and Services Group and general manager,...

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DragonWave's Revenue Jumps 32% over Previous Quarter

DragonWave reported revenue of $37.9 million, for the second quarter of fiscal year 2015, ended August 31, 2014. This compares with $28.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2015 and $25.5 million in the second quarter of fiscal year 2014. Revenue from the Nokia channel represented 60% of revenue in the second quarter of fiscal year 2015, versus 61% in both the first quarter of this fiscal year and the second quarter of fiscal year 2014....

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