Alcatel-Lucent will use the new, six-core Intel Xeon processor 5600 series in a wide variety of future products. Alcatel-Lucent reported that the new processor boosts performance by a factor of 15 over single-core servers and a 40 percent performance improvement over the previous generation four-core Intel Xeon processer 5500 series. This new processor series also will provide a significantly improved performance/power dissipation, and by doing so can substantially reduce the carbon footprint of some of Alcatel-Lucent's products.
Alcatel-Lucent also reinforced its commitment to Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) technology as the foundation for its next-generation telecommunication and application platforms. v
"This announcement builds on our strong, ongoing commitment to ATCA as a key foundation for our efforts to provide high performance networks that offer exceptional cost- and energy-efficiency profiles," said Philippe Keryer, President of the Carrier Products Group at Alcatel-Lucent. "Through our early involvement with Intel in integrating the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series into our gear, Alcatel-Lucent's customers will benefit from the highest available performance for a standards-compliant computing platform and will enjoy reduced power demands and lower operating costs, high priorities for every service provider today."
a key requirement as the company continually drives reductions in power consumption throughout its portfolio.
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Alcatel-Lucent also reinforced its commitment to Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) technology as the foundation for its next-generation telecommunication and application platforms. v
"This announcement builds on our strong, ongoing commitment to ATCA as a key foundation for our efforts to provide high performance networks that offer exceptional cost- and energy-efficiency profiles," said Philippe Keryer, President of the Carrier Products Group at Alcatel-Lucent. "Through our early involvement with Intel in integrating the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series into our gear, Alcatel-Lucent's customers will benefit from the highest available performance for a standards-compliant computing platform and will enjoy reduced power demands and lower operating costs, high priorities for every service provider today."
a key requirement as the company continually drives reductions in power consumption throughout its portfolio.
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The companies noted that already almost half of the 12.3 million Netflix members had instantly watched a movie or TV episode on either a computer or TV via a Netflix ready device as of the end of 2009.. 
announced plans to expand the number of Ethernet switches on its U.S. network by almost 400 percent. By expanding the switching footprint, Level 3 is eliminating the need for backhaul of switched metro Ethernet applications and also providing a more efficient backhaul mechanism for higher layer services, such as Internet or voice. The carrier said this will drive network efficiency, scalability and flexibility.
has turned to Hibernia Atlantic to deliver multiple 10 Gbps wavelengths of capacity to and from Toronto, New York, Dublin, London, Frankfurt and other major metro areas on Hibernia's private network. Tinet cited rising customer demand for wholesale services, such as Ethernet Private Lines, VPLS and IP Transit. This increase is also in line with Tinet's previously announced expansion plans, whereas the company is further investing its network, including deploying a third Network Operations Center (NOC) in the U.S.
controller software for the company's recently announced Pro-Safe 16-AP Wireless Management System (WMS5316). 
to combat interferences and optimize network performance, eliminating deployment restrictions and allowing users to have greater flexibility in the management, control and expansion of their networks.
announced a new milestone in the development of Carrier Ethernet interconnection with the aggregate of over five million Carrier Ethernet Locations to be accessible through CENX Exchanges. Moreover, based on its sharp customer ramp, CENX expects the number locations to be accessible via CENX exchanges to double by the end of the 2nd quarter, topping 10 million locations.
Service Provisioning & Activation, Resource Inventory, and Discovery & Reconciliation modules to automate the fulfillment of fixed network-based Broadband Internet connections as well as next-generation IMS-based multimedia services and to manage their IMS-based infrastructure. Financial terms were not disclosed. NetCracker is a subsidiary of NEC.
"Blazer" 40G Active Optical Cable (AOC) to interconnect its multi-room data center, which is used to build environmental simulation models as well as predict short-term weather and climate forecasts. The AOC provides various interconnects within the data center at a much lower cost and longer reach than traditional multimode fiber VCSEL interconnects. 
