Gigamon Cites Rapid Growth, Sales up 52% YoY
Gigamon reported Q3 revenues of $39.0 million, compared to $25.7 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2012, representing growth of 52% year-over-year. GAAP gross margins of 80% in the...
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Marcus Weldon appointed President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs
Dr. Marcus Weldon has been appointed President of Bell Labs, replacing Gee Rittenhouse, who has has decided to retire from Alcatel-Lucent in order to focus on other business interests. Weldon...
FCC Chairman Appoints Key Staff
Newly confirmed FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced key staff appointments, including: Ruth Milkman, Chief of Staff -- previously served as Chief of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau from August 2009...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Belgium’s BASE Prepares 4G Launch with ZTE
BASE Company, the Belgian subsidiary of Dutch mobile operator KPN, has launched 4G services. ZTE serves as radio equipment supplier and provided engineering services. http://www.zte.com.cn
Brocade Releases Blueprint for Dynamic Network Resource Manager
Brocade is proposing a Dynamic Network Resource Manager (DNRM) blueprint to simplify the deployment and management of physical and virtual networking resources within cloud infrastructures. The goal is to enable...
Japan’s Softbank Mobile Picks Ericsson for VoLTE
SoftBank Mobile has selected Ericsson's voice over LTE (VoLTE)solution. The network upgrade will support High Definition (HD) voice and video calling, and new enriched multimedia services. Specifically, Ericsson is upgrading...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Powers Google’s New Nexus 5
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 processor powers Google's newest Android smartphone, the Nexus 5, which is the first smartphone to be released with global LTE support and Android 4.4 (KitKat). The Nexus...
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