Sunday, February 10, 2013

Corning: Optical Fiber Demand Continues to Ramp

In its annual investor meeting last Friday, Corning outlined growth opportunities with its Gorilla Glass business, in fiber for telecommunications and in environmental and life sciences.  Some highlights:

  • Gorilla Glass sales surpassed the $1 billion mark last year.
  • Since launching Gorilla Glass in 2007, over 1 billion devices have implemented the technology.
  • Corning is working to bring new glass innovations to the consumer electronics market, including optimized touch and Radio Frequency (RF) capabilities; aesthetically pleasing shaped devices; and anti-reflectivity and antimicrobial properties.
  • Corning Lotus Glass is designed to offer superior performance for higher-resolution LCDs as well as OLEDs.
  • Corning’s newest advanced glass solution, the ultra-slim, flexible Corning Willow Glass, is positioned for next generation displays.
  • Corning sees the potential for double-digit growth in 2013 in its Telecommunications Business Group.
  • Corning believes the global optical fiber market will exceed 250 million fiber kilometers in 2013, with the bulk of this growth coming from developing markets.
  • Corning opened a new fiber manufacturing facility in India last year.
  • Corning continues to expand its Pretium EDGE solution for data centers.
  • Corning has an installed base of over 1.8 billion kilometers of fiber.
  • Corning is delivering optical solutions to every "edge" of the network -- Data centers, FTTH, Wireless and Consumer.
  • Corning expects optical investments to ourpace telecom CAPEX by >2X.
  • In data centers, Corning forecasts that there could be 10X the number of servers in use within the next decade.
  • In 2013, Corning is launching an all-optical distributed antenna system (DAS).
  • In Q1 2013, Corning will begin delivering USB 3.0 Optical and Thunderbolt Optical cables.

http://www.corning.com/news_center/news_releases/2013/2013020801.aspx

Big Switch Attracts Strategic Investment from Intel


Intel Capital has made a strategic investment in Big Switch Networks.  The investment in Big Switch's Series B funding brings the total amount raised to date to over $45 million from investors including Goldman Sachs, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and others.

"Data center operators need programmable and cost effective merchant silicon-based networking architectures to meet their data center economic and operational objectives,” said Bryan Wolf, Managing Director of Intel Capital. “At Intel Capital, we’re looking for companies creating the most disruptive data center solutions, and Big Switch Networks Open Software-Defined Networking product suite is a leading solution in data center network virtualization."

Big Switch is based in Mountain View, California.

http://www.bigswitch.com


  • In November 2012, Big Switch announced the full commercial release of its Open Software-Defined Networking (SDN) product suite, encompassing a Big Network Controller (BNC), the Open SDN platform for network applications which scales to more than a thousand switches and 250,000 new host connections per second; Big Tap, a unified network monitoring application which provides cost-effective enterprise-wide network visibility; and Big Virtual Switch (BVS), a data center network virtualization application that makes the data center network as agile and dynamic as cloud compute resources, while also driving dramatic increases in compute utilization through automated network provisioning. 
  • Compared to other SDN approaches, Big Switch said its architecture is distinguished by its large ecosystem of physical and hypervisor switch, security, cloud orchestration and application partners. These include: A10 Networks, Arista Networks, Broadcom, Brocade, Canonical, Cariden Technologies, Citrix, Cloudscaling, Coraid, Dell, Endace, Extreme Networks, F5, Fortinet, Gigamon, Infoblox, Juniper Networks, Mellanox Technologies, Microsoft, Mirantis, Nebula, Palo Alto Networks, Piston Cloud Computing, Radware, StackOps, ThreatSTOP, and vArmour.  

Eutelsat Awards 4-Launch Contract to Arianespace

Eutelsat Communications awarded a contract to Arianespace covering up to four satellite launches in 2016 and 2017.  The new contract is in addition to the contract signed in July 2012 between Eutelsat and Arianespace for the 2014 and 2015 timeframe, covering one launch and an option for a further launch.

"This latest contract seals a 30-year relationship between Eutelsat and Arianespace during which over 60% of our satellites have been launched by an Ariane rocket. It paves the road for the future by giving us flexibility and schedule assurance to secure our deployment pla n for the five years to come . We are delight ed to pursue our longstanding collaboration and are confident that we can count on Arianespace's total commitment to performance and precision," Michel de Rosen, stated Eutelsat CEO.

Saturday, February 9, 2013

AT&T Mobility and CWA Continue Labor Discussions


AT&T Mobility and  the Communications Workers of America (CWA) failed to reach agreement on a new labor contract ahead of the February 9th expiration of the the Mobility "Orange" contract, covers more than 20,000 AT&T Mobility employees in CWA Districts 1, 2-13, 4, 7, and 9 – AT&T Mobility's Orange unit.

The parties agreed to an extension of the contract and negotiations are continuing.

The contract covers wages, pension, work rules and disability.  CWA members in October ratified a separate four-year benefit agreement for all CWA-bargained Mobility employees nationwide covering health care and other benefits.

http://www.att.com

Friday, February 8, 2013

NTT Comm Signs with Denmark's TDC

NTT Communications announced an agreement with Denmark's TDC enabling it to extends services in the Nordic region. NTT Communications will also provide TDC with an extension to its Asia-Pac network through NTT Com's Global data network services.

"Both TDC Wholesale and NTT have clear visions and growth strategies for 2013 to 2015, which require high performance oriented cooperation and new business development in order to meet the ambitious time to market objectives. The collaboration between TDC Wholesale and NTT will further enable these visions. Nordic organizations show a growing demand for globally scalable ICT solutions, and on TDC Wholesale's Nordic platform, NTT is able to meet these demands and connect them to their global footprint. In parallel TDC's global reach is extended with NTT's global network," stated Eva Birgitte Bisgaard, Vice President, TDC Wholesale.

http://www.ntt.com
http://tdc.com/

TE SubCom Upgrades Trans-Pacific Express Cable

 TE SubCom has completed an upgrade of the 18,000-km Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) submarine cable system by adding 1 Tbps of capacity.

The TPE cable system, which entered service in 2008, the U.S. (Nedonna Beach, Oregon) and Asia with five landing stations located in Chongming, Qingdao, Keoje, Tanshui, and Shin Maruyama.  It is owned by AT&T, Chunghwa Telecom, China Telecom, China Unicom, KT, NTT Com, and Verizon Business.

“The trans-Pacific, and more specifically Northern Asia, continues to see an explosion in demand for capacity and TE SubCom maintains our commitment to provide the largest cross-sectional capacity on long-haul networks,” said Dr. Qian Zhong, Managing Director, TE SubCom. “The TPE cable system was designed and implemented to be flexible and meet this demand. With our extensive resources and technical familiarity with the system and its route, we are able to complete an upgrade that best positions TPE to provide essential bandwidth to one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the world.”

http://www.SubCom.com


Zayo's Quarter Revenue Reaches $243 Million, Loss Narrows

Zayo reported revenue of $243.5 million for the quarter ended 31-December-2012, a $13.8 million sequential quarter increase. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $137.3 million, which was $14.7 million higher than the prior quarter. There was a loss from continuing operations of $20.0 million for the quarter,  which was $33.4 million lower than the $53.4 million net loss for the previous quarter..

Contributing to the sequential quarterly revenue increase of $13.8 million were the acquisitions of FiberGate, US Carrier and First Telecom Services.  Also contributing to the revenue growth was positive net installations during the quarter.  Zayo said this increase in revenue related to organic growth was partially offset by total customer churn of $3.3 million in monthly revenue during the quarter.   

Zayo's financial backers include eight leading telecom investment firms.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Dell Pushes Ahead into SDN Cloud Data Centers

Dell advanced its strategy for cloud data centers with the introduction of a top-of-rack switch with 40G fabric uplinks and Fibre Channel over Ethernet , high performance 10/40G blade switching products, and the commercial release of OpenFlow software-defined networking in the Force10 operating system.

Dell said these additions underline its commitment to software-defined infrastructure. The company is pursuing a "complete and unbiased approach to SDN" by embracing legacy networking environments, greenfield controller-based deployments as well as hypervisor-oriented architectures.

Key elements of the announcement:

  • The new Dell S4820T top-of-rack (ToR) switch is powered by the Force10 operating system (FTOS) and designed to support both Layer 2 and Layer 3 functionality required for Web 2.0, enterprise and cloud server provider data centers. It features low cost 10GBASE-T connectivity, a common data center bridging-enabled 10G switching fabric, support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) using twisted-pair cabling, and four 40G uplinks providing for high-speed fabric connectivity enabling scalable multi-rack deployments demanded by larger customers.
  • The new Dell MXL blade switch and the Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator support migration of 10/40G in the data center and more streamlined architectures for server and storage connectivity.

    The Dell MXL - powered by FTOS and purpose-built for the Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade server chassis - is a full-featured 1/10/40GbE Layer 2 and Layer 3 blade switch that offers increased bandwidth, scalability, performance and operational simplicity for data center and campus environments.

    The Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator offers similar connectivity options and is optimized for plug-and-play simplicity and rapid configuration-free deployments.  Both products support local switching of server-to-server (east-west) traffic within the PowerEdge 1000e chassis.
  • The OpenFlow support is now available in the FTOS code base for the Dell Z9000 and S4810 data center switches.  Dell said it is fully compliant with available standards-based OpenFlow controllers, including the Big Switch Controller from Dell partner Big Switch Networks.


http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/secure/2013-02-07-dell-networking-cloud-data-centers.aspx

Telefónica Demos Multivendor VoLTE-to-3G Handover


Telefónica Deutschland has demonstrated multivendor handover of Voice-over LTE calls to 3G using Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC).  The handover test was achieved in Germany in a laboratory environment that simulates a real mobile network. Handsets and network components from at least six different manufacturers have been used, including Acme Packet, Ericsson, Huawei, NSN, Qualcomm and Sony Mobile.

Telefónica said future benefits of VoLTE could include HD voice services, faster call set-up, HD video calling, chat applications and other rich-media services from any device or location.

"Telefónica has achieved a significant landmark with the successful testing of this mobile broadband network for the future,” said Enrique Blanco, CTO of Telefónica.  “Most importantly, however, is our ability to deliver the very best customer experience – which is at the core to our long-term network strategy.  With VoLTE, our customers will be seamlessly connected to a superfast intelligent network that not only gives a top quality voice service – but also a network that opens up a new world of opportunities, such as high definition video calls".

http://pressoffice.telefonica.com

Sprint's Network Vision Upgrades Completed at 8,000 Sites


Sprint reported Q4 revenue of $9 billion and full year 2012 consolidated net operating revenue of $35.3 billion. There was a net loss of $1.3 billion and a diluted net loss of $.44 per share for the fourth quarter of 2012 as compared to a net loss of $1.3 billion and a diluted net loss of $.43 per share in the fourth quarter of 2011.

"Sprint’s strong performance was fueled by record wireless service revenue on the Sprint platform due to year-over-year postpaid ARPU growth and Sprint platform net additions,” said Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO. “As a result, quarterly Adjusted OIBDA* performance improved year-over-year in spite of significant cost increases related to Network Vision and the iPhone, both of which are key investments for our business that we expect will improve the customer experience and lead to growth in the years ahead.”

Some highlights:

  • Wireless service revenues for the Sprint platform grew 12 percent year-over-year for the quarter and nearly 15 percent for the full year thanks to increasing postpaid ARPU and subscriber growth.
  • Postpaid subscriber net add in Q4 totaled 401,000 driven by a postpaid Nextel recapture rate of 51 percent, or 333,000 subscribers, and strong 4G LTE smartphone sales. Sprint platform prepaid net additions equaled 525,000 due in part to the best ever quarterly prepaid Nextel recapture rate of 50 percent, or 188,000 subscribers.
  • Sprint sold approximately 2.2 million iPhones in the fourth quarter with 38 percent purchased by new customers. As of the end of the fourth quarter, Sprint had sold more than 4 million 4G LTE smartphones. For all of 2012, Sprint sold 6.6 million iPhones.
  • In Q4, over 6.1 million smartphones were sold.
  •  Network Vision  is on track: the number of sites that are either ready for construction or already underway has grown to more than 19,500 – approximately half the total number of sites to be upgraded. To date more than 8,000 sites are on air and meeting speed and coverage enhancement targets. Recent weekly construction starts are up 56 percent from the third quarter. Sprint continues to expect to have 12,000 sites on air by the end of the first quarter of 2013.
  • Network Vision leasing is complete at over 27,000 sites and zoning is complete at nearly 29,000 sites.
  • Sprint is on track to shut down the Nextel network by the end of Q2.
  • Sprint has now launched 4G LTE in 58 cities and expects the service will be available in nearly 170 additional cities in the coming months.
  • Activation of 800 MHz spectrum for CDMA voice is underway.

Alcatel-Lucent Posts Q4 Revenue of EUR 4.096 Billion, Down 1.3% YoY

Citing persistent cautious spending in Europe and low activity in China, Alcatel-Lucent reported revenue of Euro 4.096 billion for Q4 2012, down 1.3% YoY but up 13.8% compared to the previous quarter.  At constant currency exchange rates and perimeter, revenues increased 16.2% sequentially and decreased 3.9% year-over-year.  

Gross margin came in at 30.4% of revenue for the quarter, compared to 34.4% in the year ago quarter and 27.9% in the third quarter 2012.  Fourth quarter reported net loss (group share) came in at Euro (1.372) billion or Euro (0.60) per share, including restructuring charges of Euro (247) million and other adjustments.


For Q4, Alcatel-Lucent's Networks posted a mid single-digit decline year-over-year, a substantially lower rate than in the first three quarters of the year.

The IP business recorded a double-digit increase and its highest revenues level ever, while Wireless stabilized after four quarters of double digit declines, driven by US service providers stronger spending.

The Optics business declined at a double digit rate, driven by muted spending in terrestrial and low point in submarine.

The Wireline business declined at a low double digit rate in the fourth quarter.

The Software, Services & Solutions (S3) segment shifted to positive territory, benefiting from Network Applications’ strong performance.

The Enterprise segment posted a mid single-digit decline.

From a geographic standpoint, also adjusted for constant currency and compared to the year ago period, North America posted a 10% growth rate. Asia Pacific posted a low double-digit decline, traction in Japan being offset by continued low activity in China. Europe declined at a low double-digit rate. Rest of world was resilient, driven by continuous traction in Brazil and by Middle East and Africa, which returned back to growth after several quarters of decline.

Ben Verwaayen, CEO Alcatel-Lucent, commented: “Our fourth quarter reflects the early progress of The Performance Program announced last July. We announced clear choices on where we would operate, how we would operate and where we would differentiate.”

“We have seen progress on all these choices, and close 2012 ahead on our cost reduction plans. We have addressed half of the previously margin-diluting Managed Services contracts, and show continued and strong growth in IP and Next Generation Wireless. We can see a clear statement of customer confidence through growth in both our order book and backlog.”

“In addition, we completed a Euro 2 billion financing which enables us to extend our near-term maturities, stabilizes our balance sheet and provides us with the flexibility to finalize The Performance Program.”

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

Fujitsu and Panasonic to Combine Semiconductor Units

Fujitsu Limited and Panasonic Corporation agreed to combine their semiconductor businesses into a new company with a fabless business model.

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) envisions a new integrated company that focuses on key fields, including LSI devices for high-performance servers and networks in cloud infrastructure, visual and imaging solutions (next-generation DTV, applications for image recognition, etc.), and wireless solutions (mobile and extremely low-power wireless connectivity solutions that support ubiquitous networks).

Fujitsu and Panasonic will have the backing of third party investors, including Development Bank of Japan.

Fujitsu and Panasonic said bringing together their respective advanced technologies and customer bases is vital to build a competitive business globally. Specifically, the plan would consolidate the design and development functions of the system LSI businesses of Panasonic and Fujitsu Semiconductor.

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2013/20130207-05.html

TIM Brazil Builds Long-haul 100G on G.653 Fiber with Huawei

TIM Brazil has deployed a coherent 100G WDM network over G.653 optical fiber using equipment from Huawei.

The G.653 optical fiber (also called dispersion shifted fiber) used on TIM's current networks was generally thought to be incompatible with 100G long-haul WDM due to strong non-linear effects such as four-wave mixing (FWM).

Huawei said it was able to overcome these long-haul constraints using modulation format technologies, non-linearity suppression algorithms, and PMD compensation algorithms. Consequently, 100G signals over 1,000km spans have been maintained.

TIM Brazil is a subsidiary of Telecom Italia.

http://www.huawei.com/en/about-huawei/newsroom/press-release/hw-203746-100g.htm

Charter to Acquire Optimum West from Cablevision for $1.6 Billion

Charter Communications, which is the fourth largest cable operator in the U.S., will acquire Cablevision's Bresnan Broadband Holdings (Optimum West) for $1.625 billion in cash.  Optimum West manages cable operating systems in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Utah that pass more than 660,000 homes and serve 304,000 video subscribers and 366,000 customer relationships.

"With this transaction, Charter will acquire some of the fastest growing cable assets in the United States," said Tom Rutledge, Charter's President and CEO.  "These former Bresnan properties operate in growing communities, and the network, employees and customer base have been well served for many years. In particular, over the past two years Cablevision, as Optimum West, has grown video, Internet and telephone customers through the execution of a product and service strategy, which is the same as the one we recently implemented at Charter.  Optimum West is an ideal fit for Charter and we anticipate an efficient integration process."

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Ixia Posts Q4 Revenue of $124 Million

Ixia reported revenue of $124.1 million for Q4 2012, compared with $83.7 million reported for the 2011 fourth quarter and $109.6 million reported for the 2012 third quarter. The Q4 results include $30.3 million in revenue from the recent acquisitions of Anue Systems and BreakingPoint Systems. which closed in June and August 2012, respectively. Excluding Anue and BreakingPoint, fourth quarter revenue grew 12 percent to $93.8 million in 2012 from $83.7 million a year ago.

Total revenue for the fiscal year 2012 was a record $411.7 million, an increase of 34 percent compared with $308.4 million reported for fiscal year 2011. Fiscal year 2012 includes $54.9 million in revenue attributable to Anue and BreakingPoint. For the full year, excluding Anue and BreakingPoint revenue in calendar 2012, revenue grew 16 percent to $356.8 million.

“Our strong fourth quarter capped off a transformational year that included completing two significant acquisitions and achieving record revenue and profit,” commented Vic Alston, Ixia's president and chief executive officer. “In the quarter, demand was strong across our entire solution offering with revenue from our Anue and BreakingPoint solutions exceeding our expectations. We made solid progress expanding our customer base with service provider and enterprise accounts hitting 50 percent of revenue in the quarter.”

http://www.ixiacom.com


France Telecom Activates 400G Paris-Lyon Wavelength with Alcatel-Lucent


France Telecom-Orange has activated a 400 Gbps wavelength over its live network between Paris and Lyon using equipment from Alcatel-Lucent.

Alcatel-Lucent said its optical transmission platform could carry up to 44 wavelengths at 400G, representing a total capacity of up to 17.6 Terabits per second (Tbps).

RENATER, the Public Interest Group that manages the telecommunications network for "Technology, Teaching and Research" institutions in France and that is a customer of Orange Business Services, will be the first to test the functionality of this technological development in a real-life situation.

"As part of our innovation programme, we plan to test this optical fiber link in real conditions by using it to route traffic across one of our main backbone arteries between Paris and Lyon. This link transports the bulk of France's scientific data that passes through our network. This pilot phase also aims to test the latest switching equipment supplied by major OEMs on a network running at this capacity and will enable us the anticipate the architecture of RENATER's network in the coming years. A 400 Gbps network is an important step forward for the networks and research projects of tomorrow," stated Patrick Donath, Managing Director of RENATER.

http://www.orange-business.com
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com


  • In March 2012, Alcatel-Lucent unveiled its Photonic Service Engine (PSE), a new chip for coherent optical networking that supports data rates of 400 Gbps.  Alcatel-Lucent said its 400G PSE chip can be deployed in a broad range of network configurations - from metro to regional to ultra-long haul - and transmit wavelengths over existing or new photonic lines. It is designed specifically for use in a family of line cards in the Alcatel-Lucent 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS). Specifically, the company is planning to use the PSE in a 100G muxponder card, a 100G transponder and a 100G backplane uplink. Alcatel-Lucent is also pushing ahead with a 400G line card for the 1830 Photonic Service Switch.

New Relic Raises $80 Million for Cloud App Performance Mgt

New Relic, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $80 million in mezzanine financing for its SaaS-based cloud application performance management.

New Relic offers a web application performance tool that measures performance from the end user experience, through servers, and down to the line of application code.  The company claims over 35,000 active accounts and millions of app instances monitored.  The company also said it nearly tripled its revenue growth and more than doubled its customer base during 2012.

The funding was led by Insight Venture Partners and included a major investment from accounts managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Other participants included Dragoneer Investment Group, Passport Ventures and the company’s existing investors Allen & Company, Benchmark Capital, Trinity Ventures and Tenaya Capital.

In November, New Relic announced at Amazon Web Services’ global customer conference in Las Vegas that it now has 12,000 customers building, deploying and monitoring apps in the cloud. New Relic has been a long-time partner of AWS and charter member of the AWS Solution Providers Program.  It provides 24x7 visibility into the performance of AWS web application environments, including real user monitoring, server resources and app code.

http://newrelic.com

Devicescape Scales its Curated Virtual Network of Wi-Fi Hotspots to 12 Million

Devicescape now has over 12 million Wi-Fi access points in its Curated Virtual Network (CVN) of hotspots.  The Devicescape CVN provides mobile operators, device partners, and active subscribers with curated access to quickly growing list of amenity Wi-Fi hotspots.

Devicescape, which is based in San Bruno, California, is now projecting that its CVN will grow from 12 million access points today to 100 million by the end of 2017.  The company modeled the CVN’s future size by analyzing growth patterns in conjunction with a detailed multi-country study including, but not limited to, the deployed-device-to-CVN-access-point discovery ratio, open versus secured hotspot ratios and the pace and actual growth in the number of amenity Wi-Fi hotspots occurring worldwide.

Devicescape's announced customers include Republic Wireless, U.S. Cellular, Cincinnati Bell, Bouygues Telecom and Flash Wireless, Intel and Microsoft.  Powered by Devicescape CVN data, Microsoft already launched the Data Sense application for Windows Phone 8 devices being used exclusively by Verizon in the U.S.

“Amenity Wi-Fi is an irreversible mega-trend and, increasingly, mobile operators are adding it to their heterogeneous network strategies,” said Dave Fraser, CEO of Devicescape. “As more venue owners offer complimentary Wi-Fi to their customers, operators have identified Wi-Fi as a key asset that can help elevate customer experience, magnify their mobile network and serve as a platform for offering new, creative services.”

“Moving into 2013, we expect to see significant international growth as operators around the globe strategize the best options to capitalize on mobile data demand and consider the ongoing challenge of retaining and growing a customer base that has ever increasing expectations for service availability, quality, and affordability,” said Fraser.

Vasona Builds Cell Site Application Controller

Vasona Networks, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California with R&D in Tel Aviv, introduced its SmartAIR1000 edge application controller to address cellular bandwidth congestion.

 Vasona determines each cell's current capacity and characteristics of each of its concurrent sessions, whether streaming audio and video, web browsing, file downloads, or others. The platform, which sits between the RAN and the core network, then allocates bandwidth to each application in real time at the cell site level.

Vasona said its SmartAIR1000 is compatible with 3G and 4G networks, including cdma2000, UMTS/HSPA and LTE.

"Mobile networks can be unruly because traffic has no regard for other traffic — selfishly contending for as much resource and capacity as it can get," says Biren Sood, CEO of Vasona Networks. "Vasona Networks is working closely with mobile operators on establishing the SmartAIR platform to overcome bandwidth contention problems and enhance subscriber experiences."

http://www.vasonanetworks.com


Samsung Invests in Cloudant for Database-as-a-Service

Samsung Ventures has made a strategic investment in Cloudant, a start-up offering a globally distributed database-as-a-service, which distributes application data across a global network of highly secure, high-performance data centers while providing non-stop data access with low-latency for its customers.

Cloudant said its DBaaS managed service helps developers eliminate the delays, costs, and distractions inherent in working with databases while providing scalability, availability, and performance.  The company is based in Boston.

https://cloudant.com