Blueprint: Top Three 2015 Predictions for Wi-Fi Networks

by Bruce Miller, Vice President of Product Marketing, Xirrus Analysts predict that by 2018, there will be more than 10 billion mobile-ready devices and connections - about three billion more than now. Further 2018 predictions expect mobile IP traffic will reach an annual run rate of 190 exabytes, up from less than 18 exabytes in 2013. New and innovative Wi-Fi technology must be used to manage the massive increase in mobile data traffic. Wireless...

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CommScope to Acquire TE Connectivity's Telecom, Enterprise and Wireless Units

CommScope agreed to acquire TE Connectivity’s telecom, enterprise and wireless businesses for $3 billion in cash. TE Connectivity's telecom, enterprise and wireless businesses generated annual revenues of approximately $1.9 billion in its fiscal year ended September 26, 2014, consisting of $1.1 billion from its telecom business, where it is a world leader; $627 million from enterprise; and $164 million from wireless. TE Connectivity holds approximately...

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Qualcomm Trims Financial Guidance

Qualcomm trimmed its revenue outlook for the second half of the fiscal year saying a major customer will likely not use its Snapdragon 810 processor for its flagship smartphone. "We delivered a strong quarter, achieving record quarterly revenues and Non-GAAP operating income, and we also are very pleased to have resolved our previously disclosed dispute with a licensee in China," said Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm. "Looking ahead, we have lowered...

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Facebook Tops 745 Million Mobile Daily Active Users

Facebook continues to add users across all regions of the world.  The number of daily active users (DAUs) now exceeds 890 million, an increase of 18% year-over-year, while the number of monthly active users (MAUs) topped 1.39 billion as of December 31, 2014, an increase of 13% year-over-year. Mobile DAUs were 745 million on average for December 2014, an increase of 34% year-over-year. Mobile MAUs were 1.19 billion as of December 31, 2014,...

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Obsidian Plans 400G InfiniBand for the WAN

Obsidian Strategics, a privately-held company based in Canada that offers InfiniBand products featuring range extension, routing and encryption, announced plans for a new platform that will take InfiniBand to 400 Gbps rates over WAN distances. Obsidian's Longbow technology allows an InfiniBand fabric -- normally a short-range network (up to 17m) used in supercomputers and data centers -- to be securely extended via optical fiber over global distances....

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Gigamon to Deliver Traffic Visibility for White Box Hardware

Gigamon plans to offer its GigaVUE-OS software on select third party 'white box' hardware. Gigamon said the new release for white box hardware will work seamlessly with the existing components of its Visibility Fabric, allowing Web-scale data center operators to expand the scope and scale of monitoring while retaining the functionality, agility and scale of visibility they have come to expect from a Gigamon fabric. The new offering will be compatible...

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6WIND Launches Turbo Router and Turbo IPsec Software Appliances

6WIND introduced Turbo Router and Turbo IPsec software appliances for standard x86 servers within bare metal and virtual machine (VM) environments. The company claims that its Turbo Router can deliver up to twice the performance at ¼ the price, compared to competing software routers. Compared to hardware-based IPsec Gateways, 6WIND’s Turbo IPsec can save 80% of the cost per gigabit of IPsec throughput. The new Speed Series Turbo Appliances, which...

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Dell’Oro: Microwave Transmission Equipment Market Improves

The point-to-point microwave transmission market is forecast to generate approximately $21 billion in equipment revenue over the next five years, according to a new report by Dell’Oro Group. “The environment for microwave transmission equipment began to improve in 2014.  We believe this positive trend will last for a few more years as operators continue to roll out new cell sites and upgrade to 4G LTE,” said Jimmy Yu, Vice President of Microwave...

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NTT Com Offers Low Latency Interconnect to Singapore Exchange

NTT Communications is teaming up with the Japan Exchange Group (JPX) and the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to launch of the lowest latency direct connect between the colocation facilities of JPX and SGX. The service will start from April 2015. The connectivity is delivered via NTT Com’s own Asia Submarine Cable Express (ASE), which provides the shortest cable route available between Japan and Singapore.  JPX-SGX Co-Location Direct will provide low-latency...

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Allied Fiber Signs Telefonica Global for Dark Fiber in Florida

Allied Fiber announced a 20-year agreement with Telefonica Global Solutions to provide dark fiber in the United States, as well as neutral colocation and interconnection services which will strengthen Telefonica's International infrastructures in America. Allied Fiber will provide Telefonica with dedicated access and use of its own physical network infrastructure within the Allied Fiber system enabling greater control of service provisioning, network...

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Lattice Semi to Acquire Silicon Image for $600 Million

Lattice Semiconductor agreed to acquire Silicon Image in an all-cash tender offer of $7.30 per share, representing an equity value of approximately $600 million (or approximately $450 million on an enterprise value basis). Silicon Image, which is based in Sunnyvale, California, led the creation of the HDMI, DVI and MHL standards, and is a driving force behind the WirelessHD standard. In addition, Silicon Image offers manufacturers comprehensive...

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