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Bharti Airtel has awarded a 10-year contract to IBM to provide IT solutions to its employees across 16 African countries. In terms of the agreement, IBM will provide a standard operating environment, help desk and desk side support to enhance employee efficiency and convenience. The announcement builds on a strategic partnership signed in late 2010 […]
Chile’s Entel is launching dual carrier HSPA technology for peak downstream rates of up to 42 Mbps. Ericsson is the lead supplier. Commercially, Entel will offer plans with a maximum speed of 22 Mbps, with an average download speed of 6 Mbps, positioning the company well ahead of the game as compared to competitors. Antonio […]
Qualcomm Atheros introduced a low power 1 Gbps Ethernet passive optical networking (EPON) chip. The QCA8829 offers power consumption of less than 200mW for grid applications with Gigabit Ethernet (GE) PHY sleep mode enabled and less than 600mW when running full 1 Gbps throughput with GE PHY enabled. The 76-pin package size fits into a […]
AT&T will deploy Bloom Energy Servers at eleven sites in California to power their operations. The Bloom Boxes leverage solid oxide fuel cell technology to deliver clean, reliable, affordable onsite power from either natural gas or biogas. Deployment sites include facilities in Corona, Fontana, Hayward, Pasadena, Redwood City, Rialto, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Jose, […]
Citrix Systems has acquired Cloud.com, which provides software infrastructure platforms for cloud providers, for an undisclosed sum. Cloud.com delivers an open source software platform for launching either public or private cloud environments. The company currently has over 50 large-scale production clouds in deployment. The Cloud.com product line is a hypervisor-agnostic solution for building clouds the […]
As it works through its restructuring, Cisco is determined to remain a customer-driven company said John Chambers, speaking at the Cisco Live! event in Las Vegas. The restructuring primarily aims to simplify the company’s operations, refocus on core areas of network switching, routing and collaboration, and to speed-up decision making. Multiple groups inside the company […]
Cisco unveiled a set of enhancements to its flagship Catalyst 6500 Series Switches to help enterprise customers to evolve their network infrastructure for the proliferation of connected devices, growth of video traffic, cloud computing business models and increasingly mobile workforces. The company also updated Cisco IOS software with over 200 new features. The newly overhauled […]
Hong Kong-based New World Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent to prepare its optical network for 100G transmission. At the heart of the Alcatel-Lucent-provided solution is the 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS), which will enable New World Telecom to support a mixture of 10G, 40G and 100G channels on the same fiber pair. Financial terms were not […]
TELUS will deploy a packet microwave solution from DragonWave to provide additional high-capacity connectivity for special events. Specifically, TELUS selected DragonWave’s Horizon Compact primarily because its all-outdoor, zero-footprint design that will allow for rapid deployment of service to remote locations without need for trenching optical fibre. TELUS is working with DragonWave’s partner, Alliance Corporation. http://www.dragonwaveinc.com
G.vector is a new technology standardized by the I.T.U. for overcoming crosstalk and noise on adjacent copper pairs in the access network. Ikanos’ NodeScale Vectoring dynamically cancels crosstalk across a node of up to 384 ports. Presented by Kevin Fisher, VP, Advanced DSL Technology, Ikanos Communications. http://www.ikanos.com
Infoblox launched its IPv6 Center of Excellence, providing enterprise IT teams with expert IPv6 tutorials, resources, guidance, training and best practices. Infoblox IPv6 expert and eminent DNS authority, Cricket Liu, has been appointed Vice President and General Manager of the CoE. Infoblox also announced today that Owen DeLong, IPv6 Evangelist at Hurricane Electric, has joined […]
Gigamon introduced its GigaSECURE data switching line. The GigaBPS intelligent bypass switch, which is the first product in the GigaSECURE family, provides intelligent visibility for both Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). It could be used by Managed Hosting Providers to implement more advanced and scalable security practices when delivering Cloud services, […]
Time Warner Cable, which serves more than 14 million customers mainly in North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, Ohio, southern California and Texas, will build its next generation, national data center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The $101 million project is expected to create 225 jobs over the next three years. The project is supported in […]