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Ericsson returned to profitability in 2Q18, although its overall sales decreased by -1% YoY (adjusted for comparable units and currency). Ericsson’s Networks group showed a sales growth of 2% YoY, with strong growth in North America, where mobile operators are now engaged in pre-5G rollout activities “We continue to execute on our focused business strategy […]
ADVA Optical Networking reported Q2 2018 revenue of EUR 123.8 million up 2.7% sequentially from EUR 120.5 million in Q1 2018 and down by 14.2% from EUR 144.2 million in the same year-ago period. Revenues for Q2 2018 were within the guidance forecast the company provided on April 26, 2018 of between EUR 120 million […]
SWIM.AI, a start-up based in San Jose, California announced $10 million in Series B funding for its edge intelligence software. SWIM.AI combines local data processing/analytics, edge computing and machine learning to efficiently deliver real-time business insights from edge data on edge devices. The goal is to help customers analyze high volumes of streaming edge data […]
Intel marked the 50th anniversary of its founding on July 18, 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. A ceremony in New York City and Santa Clara, California was presided over by Bob Swan, Intel’s chief financial officer and interim chief executive officer. Instead of ringing the Nasdaq opening bell, Intel’s well-known five-note jingle was […]
ADTRAN posted Q2 2018 sales of $128.0 million compared to $184.7 million a year earlier. Net loss was $7.7 million compared to net income of $12.4 million for the second quarter of 2017. Earnings per share, assuming dilution, were a loss of $0.16 compared to income of $0.26 for the second quarter of 2017. Non-GAAP […]
SolarWinds, which supplies IT management software, has acquired Trusted Metrics, a provider of real-time threat monitoring and management software. Financial terms were not disclosed. SolarWinds said the deal extends its IT management portfolio to include security monitoring. Trusted Metrics’ Threat Monitor tool can detect suspicious activity and malware by aggregating asset data, security events, host […]
AT&T has begun offering the Cisco 5000 Series Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS) as part of its Edge Solutions portfolio. The Cisco ENCS supports virtual network functions – including routing, switching, firewall, and WAN optimization – and can be dynamically upgraded. Cisco ENCS with AT&T will provide these functions on a single piece of AT&T-managed […]
Major League Baseball (MLB) has chosen AWS as its official provider for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and deep learning workloads. Specifically, MLB will use AWS machine learning services to continue development of Statcast—the tracking technology that runs on AWS to analyze player performance for every game—and develop new technologies to support MLB Clubs. AWS said […]
AppLovin, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, announced a $400 million investment from KKR, a leading global investment firm, to accelerate its global mobile game discovery business AppLovin said the partnership with KKR advances its goal of giving app developers of all sizes the ability to finance, market, and grow their businesses. KKR is […]
Keysight Technologies is joining the 5G Device Forerunner Initiative project, which was created earlier this year to accelerate the commercial availability of 5G devices. More than 20 key chipset, component, and end solution providers are in the ecosystem. Keysight said it is supplying its suite of 5G NR network emulation solutions to companies involved in […]
Paris-based Reflex CES introduced a 800 GbE accelerator card powered by Intel’s S GX FPGA. The board comes in different variants where clients can choose from different memory or FPGA densities. This board features the largest Stratix 10 GX device with 2800 KLE and is designed for processing intensive and various data a Stratixalgorithms thanks […]
The latest Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 release features new capabilities for automating across hybrid and multicloud environments, along with simplified connections to network APIs and updates for Ansible deployments overseeing Windows environments. This includes updated modules covering Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. The public cloud modules add capabilities designed […]
Verodin, a start-up based in Tysons, Virginia, announced $21 million in Series B funding for its Security Instrumentation Platform (SIP), which continuously executes tests and analyzes the results to proactively alert on drift from a known-good security baseline The system validates and optimizes control configuration, and provide evidence demonstrating if the controls purchased and deployed […]
