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Blue Coat agreed to acquire Crossbeam Systems for an undisclosed sum.  Blue Coat specializes in web security and optimization while Crossbeam supplies scalable network security systems.  Crossbeam is best known for its...

Cisco completed its acquisition of privately held Cariden Technologies, a provider of network planning, design and traffic management solutions for telecommunications service providers, for approximately $141 million in cash and...

Dr. Tom Leighton, Akamai's co-founder and Chief Scientist, will succeed Paul Sagan as the company's CEO.  Sagan announced earlier this year that he intended to step down. Leighton has been...

Windstream Hosted Solutions plans to construct a Tier III enterprise-class data center in Durham, N.C.   The new 22,000-square-foot facility (expandable to 88,000 square feet) is scheduled to open in...

Chelsio Communications, which supplies 10Gb Ethernet adapters, introduced its Unified Wire API for 40G and 100G speeds. The standardized API can run unmodified Fibre Channel and InfiniBand applications concurrently over...

Tunisiana has awarded a four-year contract to Alcatel-Lucent to build a wireline broadband access network. Tunisiana, which is Tunisia’s largest mobile operator and part of the Qtel Group, plans to...

The World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai ended with delegates from 89 countries agreeing to a new treaty that encompasses a range of communications issues, including addenda on the development and...

INTERXION is now offering AWS Direct Connect from its 32 data centres across 11 countries in Europe. AWS Direct Connect allows customers to establish private connectivity between the AWS platform...

Telenor restated its intention to become a major player in the Indian communications market by committing  INR 155 billion to its operations there. In the most recent spectrum auction, Telenor...

Orange Spain has acquired 100% of Simyo, the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) owned by KPN in Spain, which has around 380,000 customers. This brings Orange Spain's  total mobile customer...

The government of the Netherlands raised EUR 3.804 billion from a spectrum auction, including new bands designated for LTE.  Licenses for some spectrum bands were set to expire in 2013...

Alcatel-Lucent announced EUR 1.615 billion in senior secured credit facilities. commitments with Credit Suisse AG and Goldman Sachs Bank USA.   Commenting on the initiatives, Ben Verwaayen, CEO Alcatel-Lucent, said:...

Avago Technologies has begun sampling its new Vortex Gearbox family of Physical Layer Transceiver (PHY) devices supporting Ethernet and Optical Transport Networking (OTN). Avago’s Vortex Gearbox , which uses 28nm...