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05/11/2012
Polycom, SeaChange Wrap Division Divestitures
Polycom Inc. is shedding its enterprise wireless voice solutions business, selling it to an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners Inc. for gross proceeds of approximately $110 million in cash (subject to certain adjustments set forth in the agreement). The sale should close in the third quarter. Polycom’s enterprise wireless voice portfolio includes Wi-Fi and DECT […]
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05/11/2012
Verizon Announces Major Infrastructure Upgrades
Verizon says it’s building more control-plane technology into its network infrastructure to allow electronic devices on its optical network to communicate more easily with each other, to simplify operations and to achieve near real-time provisioning of specified new circuits. In addition, Verizon will extend 100G technology into its metro network worldwide to provide the same […]
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05/10/2012
Live From CTIA: Wireless CEOs On The Hot Seat
NEW ORLEANS — In what he characterized as “the speed-dating round,” "Mad Money" man Jim Cramer reprised his role as financial interrogator extraordinaire this year during an International CTIA Wireless 2012 panel that put the country’s Top Four wireless CEOs on the grill. Cramer started out by asking each man what had changed the most […]
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05/10/2012
VOD, OTT Content Via Signal Sharing?
Well, here’s another new take on VOD and streaming OTT video. Israel’s RayV Technologies launched RayV Cloud TV, a platform it says “revolutionizes the way users view live TV and VOD content on their PCs, smartphones, tablets and connected TVs…without buffering.” RayV’s platform receives an external feed (live/VOD) and relays it to local servers; active […]
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05/10/2012
10 GbE Options Help Avoid Rip-And-Replace
Extreme Networks Inc. unveiled 10-gigabit Ethernet (GbE) copper modules for its BlackDiamond X8 core switch and new copper versions of its Summit X670 top-of-rack fixed data center switches at this week’s Interop in Las Vegas. According to the company, the new high-density copper switches are optimized to work with servers based on the Intel Xeon […]
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05/10/2012
Report: How Wireless Has Impacted Global Social Change
In conjunction with International CTIA Wireless 2012, which ends today in New Orleans, a report released by BSR and commissioned by CTIA-The Wireless Association shows wireless products and services “are a powerful agent of social change that allow billions of people around the world with anytime, anywhere access.” Socioeconomic Impacts of Wireless Technology cites case […]