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NTT Communications (NTT Com) opened its Tokyo No.6 Data Center, a disaster-resistant facility with a total floor area of 22,000 square meters, enough to accommodate approximate 3,000 racks. The new...

Juniper Networks reported preliminary revenue for Q1 2013 of $1,059 million, down 7% from Q4'12 and up 3% from Q1'12.  The company posted GAAP net income of $91 million, or...

GENBAND introduced a new session border controller optimized for branch offices and small to mid-sized businesses. The new QUANTiX QFlex is an on-premise, software-based SBC that is deployable on common...

Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) Consortium has selected Xtera Communications' Nu-Wave Optima equipment for the upgrade of its festoon subsea cable system.  ECFS subsea cable system is made of 10...

VMware reported Q1 revenue of $1.19 billion, an increase of 13% from the first quarter of 2012. Net income for the first quarter was $174 million, or $0.40 per diluted...

As of 31-March-2013, China Mobile was serving 726.31 million customers, up by about 16 million customers over the past three months.  However, ARPU fell to RMB 63 (US$10.19) compared to...

Xtera Communications introduced a next-generation optical repeater for extending high-capacity reach on subsea cable systems. Xtera is leveraging a modular optical design to allow the amplifiers to be tailored to...

CommScope introduced a version of its ION platform aimed at reducing the complexity out of integrating a distributed antenna system (DAS) into a macro wireless network. The new ION-U guides...

GlobeNet, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oi (formerly Brasil Telecom), completed construction on its new high capacity subsea cable system (Segment 5), which connects Bermuda to New Jersey.  The new...

Ixia introduced an upgraded version of its Anue Net Tool Optimizer for providing network visibility into physical and virtual networks. The upgrade enables large enterprises and mobile carriers to monitor...

NASA has successfully launched a trio of "PhoneSats" to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics of a capable, yet very inexpensive, satellite. NASA's...

By James E. Carroll, Editor NTT Communications was among the first Service Providers to see the potential of OpenFlow and SDN for transforming its operations, said Yukio Ito, Senior VP...

Targeted cyber attacks, such as spear phishing, rose 42% in 2012 compared to a year earlier, according to Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 18 (ISTR), released last week. Over...