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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

AT&T and the Communications Workers of America reached a new tentative labor agreement covering about 20,000 wireline employees in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. The four-year deal includes general...

 Tekelec and Allot Communications have completed Interoperability Testing (IOT) on a 3GPP Sd Diameter Interface between their systems. The companies are the first to announce IOT over the new Sd...

Akamai Technologies reported Q4 2012 revenue of $378 million, a 9 percent increase over third quarter revenue of $345 million, and a 17 percent increase over fourth quarter 2011 revenue...

The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) and the Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO) agreed to merge. NCTA represents more than 580 locally owned and...

Ben Verwaayen will step down as CEO of Alcatel-Lucent and has decided not to seek re-election as a director of the firm. Verwaayen has serves as Alcatel-Lucent's CEO since September...

D-Link introduced a family of 10-Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 and Layer 3 managed aggregation switches designed for enterprise, education, and data center networks. The D-Link DXS-3600-16S and DXS-3600-32S are compact...

Piston Cloud Computing, a start-up based in San Francisco, raised $8 million in Series B funding for its enterprise OpenStack solutions. The company's flagship Piston Enterprise OpenStack is designed for...

Global mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next five years, reaching 11.2 exabytes per month (or an annual run rate of 134 exabytes) by 2017, according to the...