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06/04/2012
Limelight Highlights IPv6 Support
Perhaps in observance of the upcoming World IPv6 Day, Ariz.-based Limelight Networks Inc. plans to offer businesses IPv6 support as part of its content delivery service. ?? "The 21st-century Web is growing and it is being built on IPv6," comments CTO Nathan Raciborski. "There is a real risk to customers around business continuity as the […]
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06/04/2012
Gartner Ranks Ericsson Near Top Of OSS/BSS Providers
As a result of a strengthened focus on OSS and BSS, and of its recent acquisition U.S.-based Telcordia, Ericsson was ranked second in OSS/BSS and next-generation service delivery platforms by Gartner. In 2011, Ericsson says it signed 33 new contracts for OSS, BSS, SDP and data-center build, of which 26 were for OSS and BSS. […]
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06/04/2012
GE Switch Includes More IPv4 Business Capabilities
The VSC7431, what Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation says is “the industry’s lowest power and scalable 28-port Gigabit Ethernet (GE) switch with Layer 3 (L3) managed routing capabilities," is the latest addition to the company’s E-StaX-III Enterprise Ethernet switch family. Targeting high-performance small and medium-sized enterprise network applications, the VSC7431 reportedly uses 50-percent less power while integrating […]
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06/01/2012
Carriers Gear Up For 2012 Hurricane Season
Today marks the official start of the 2012 U.S. hurricane season, and communications carriers are ramping up to make sure networks continue operation if and when high winds and rain hit their areas. The latest forecast for the 2012 hurricane season predicts as many as 15 named tropical storms and as many as 11 hurricanes […]
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06/01/2012
Office Unified Communications Go Mobile
SimpleSignal, Inc., a cloud-based unified-communications/collaboration provider for business, now has a mobile video communications and conferencing application it says works seamlessly across a variety of mobile, desktop and telepresence/video-enabled devices via a Wi-Fi connection or a 3G/4G network. “The seamless integration of iOS and Android operating systems into SimpleSignal’s unified-communications platform, coupled with the mobile […]
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06/01/2012
Mobile Infrastructure: Bad News And Good News
The global 2G, 3G, and 4G equipment market decreased 14 percent, closing in at a touch less than $10 billion in 1Q12. According to research firm Infonetics, this follows a 8-percent increase in 4Q11. "The overall mobile infrastructure market took a beating in the first quarter of 2012," notes Stéphane Téral, principal analyst/Mobile Infrastructure and […]