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On Friday, March 9, Qualcomm once again extended its cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding common shares of NXP Semiconductors. This offer extends through close of business on March 16, 2018. The acquisition was originally announced on October 27, 2016. NXP Semiconductors N.V., which headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands, employs approximately 45,000 people […]
Nokia has appointed Sanjay Goel as President of Global Services and member of the Group Leadership Team (GLT), reporting to Rajeev Suri, the company’s CEO. He replaces Igor Leprince, who is leaving to pursue opportunities outside the company. Goel was most recently head of Global Services Sales. He brings with him the experience of senior […]
Microsemi introduced its DIGI-G5 Optical Transport Network (OTN) processor for terabit capacity OTN switching cards. The company said this newest generation in its DIGI franchise enables packet-optical transport platforms to triple in capacity while slashing power consumption by 50 percent per port. DIGI-G5 delivers 1.2 terabits per second (Tbps) of combined OTN and client interfaces […]
NTT Electronics (NEL) has begun sampling a 64GBaud high-performance coherent DSP for DWDM optical transport systems. The DSP core leverages Broadcom’s 16nm CMOS fin-FET high-speed mixed-signal technologies which enhances per-lambda capacity by two-to-three times up to 600Gbps/λ. NEL’s new DSP supports flexible line capacities by combining multiple Baud-rates and modulation-formats, from 100Gbps/λ by 32GBaud QPSK […]
MACOM Technology Solutions is now sampling a four channel, 56 Gb/s PAM-4 VCSEL driver and companion four channel transimpedance amplifier (TIA) for short reach VCSEL-based optical module and active optical cables (AOC) applications. These new devices complement previously announced transmit and receive clock data recovery (CDR) devices for a complete transmit and receive solution. MACOM’s […]
Cisco announced a major extension of its Network Convergence System (NCS) data center interconnect portfolio with the introduction of two new modular platforms: Cisco NCS 1004 A transponder platform that packs more than 100 Tbps of capacity into a single seven-foot rack Can transmit 4.8 Tbps within a 2RU platform, with a total fiber capacity […]
InnoLight Technology announced its line-up of 400G QSFP-DD and OSFP optical transceivers: QSFP-DD SR8 QSFP-DD AOC QSFP-DD DR4 […]
Qualcomm’s Board of Directors announced a 9 percent increase in the company’s quarterly cash dividend. The quarterly cash dividend will increase from $0.57 to $0.62 per share of common stock and will be effective for quarterly dividends payable after March 21, 2018. This dividend increase will raise the annualized dividend payout to $2.48 per share […]
Marvell Technology Group reported revenue for the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2018 of $615 million. GAAP net income from continuing operations for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 was $49 million, or $0.10 per share. Non-GAAP net income from continuing operations for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 was $165 million, or $0.32 per […]
ZTE, now one of the world’s major network equipment suppliers, recently reported 2017 operating revenue of RMB 108.82 billion, 7.49% higher than a year earlier, but not the double-digit growth rate seen earlier in the decade. The big 4G expansion projects in its home market of China have largely wrapped up and the company has […]
Coriant introduced a new Coherent Multiservice Sled for its Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform. The new 1.2 Tbps modular sled leverages advances in integrated photonics and the latest 16nm coherent DSP. Coriant said its new Groove G30 Coherent Multiservice Sled enables the platform to achieve new performance benchmarks, including: Highest density – 9.6 Tbps of […]
Dropbox is expanding its global private network by offering its global collaboration platform on the Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric. Dropbox is also launching six new points of presence across North America and Europe that will improve performance and reliability for users globally. The new PoPs will include Atlanta, Denver, Berlin, Toronto, Stockholm, and Oslo.By the […]
Broadcom announced commercial availability of its Jericho2 and FE9600 chips, the next generation of its StrataDNX family of system-on-chip (SoC) Switch-Routers. The Jericho2 silicon boasts 10 Terabits per second of Switch-Router performance and is designed for high-density, industry standard 400GbE, 200GbE, and 100GbE interfaces. Key features include the company’s “Elastic Pipe” packet processing, along with […]
