June 25, 2012

New Stuff

Renewable energy proponent Power-One Inc. unveiled its 1/8th brick i-PWER SQE48T20120, a DOSA-compliant 20A DC-DC bus converter that provides a fully regulated 12-volt isolated output and that operates across the 36-to-75 input voltage range. Evaluation models are available from stock…Yuna Software, the company that develops, designs and markets Messenger Plus! for Skype and Windows Live Messenger, says its Version 1.5 facilitates streamed movies and overlaid images in video conversations viewable on all Skype-enabled devices, including mobile phones and tablets...Paris-based SDN packet processor 6WIND says its software has achieved industry-leading TCP Termination performance for network appliances based on standard multicore processors. The 6WINDGate software delivers 100,000 TCP sessions per second, while terminating 2 million concurrent sessions and sustaining 17 Gbps bandwidth with 1KB MSS packet size, measured on an Intel Xeon Processor E5600 Series platform running at 3.33 GHz…AIR.U, a consortium of higher-education associations, public interest groups and high-tech companies, is about ready to announce a partnership named AIR.U (Advanced Internet Regions) to deploy Super Wi-Fi networks in underserved university campuses and nearby communities. By using white spaces, universities and communities will be able to expand the coverage and capacity of high-speed wireless on and off campus…The Japan-U.S. Cable Network is upgrading its trans-Pacific submarine network, which spans close to 23,000 kilometers from the U.S. to Japan, with Ciena’s coherent 100G technology; the buildout should be finished next year, bringing 5 terabits per second of additional capacity to a global network route connecting North America and northern Asia.