Hardware
Intalio partners with Mellanox Technologies
Intalio, a vendor of private cloud computing platforms, has announced a strategic partnership with Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for data centre servers and storage. Through this partnership, Mellanox Technologies will supply its InfiniBand adapters and switches used by the Intalio Cloud Appliance as a unified networking fabric. The Intalio Cloud Appliance [...]
Lockheed Martin acquires Gyrocam Systems
Lockheed Martin has completed its acquisition of Gyrocam Systems. Gyrocam develops and supplies gyrostabilised optical surveillance systems and sustainment field services, principally to the US military. Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, a unit of Lockheed Martin’s Electronic Systems business area, will manage the Gyrocam business. Missiles and Fire Control has facilities in Dallas, Texas [...]
Vimicro acquires Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell’s ViSS business
Vimicro, a multimedia semiconductor and solution provider, has announced that Vimicro Tianjin, a joint venture company operated and managed by Vimicro, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Video Surveillance System (ViSS) from Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell (ASB). Vimicro Tianjin will acquire the complete ViSS business including all property, plant and equipment, inventories, business contracts, intellectual [...]
Futurex opens regional office in Singapore
Futurex, a provider of hardware data encryption security solutions, has opened a regional office in Singapore, its first in Asia. The company informed the decision follows a demand for Host Security Modules (HSM) and Key Management Servers (KMS) in the Asia Pacific marketplace and particularly the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) group of countries. [...]
Former Taiwanese exec indicted in CDT price-fixing conspiracy
A federal grand jury in San Francisco has returned an indictment against a former executive of a Taiwanese colour display tube (CDT) manufacturing company for participating in a global conspiracy to fix prices of CDTs, a type of cathode ray tube used in computer monitors and other specialised applications, the Department of Justice announced on [...]
KDDI selects Motorola for LTE network in Japan
Motorola will help develop and implement KDDI’s Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, including RAN/base stations, in Japan. Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility business will provide the optimal LTE solution to enable KDDI to offer high-speed mobile broadband services, such as video and social networking, to its customers across Japan. KDDI informed that it will deploy [...]
Huawei launches ‘first’ commercial LTE eNodeB
Huawei, a provider of next generation telecommunications network solutions, has launched, what is claimed to be, the world’s first LTE eNodeB ready for large-scale commercial deployment. The company has informed this LTE eNodeB is capable of fully supporting a downlink rate of up to 150 Mbps in commercial LTE networks. By adopting 64QAM (Quadrature Amplitude [...]
Spirent launches multi-GNSS navigation, positioning test system
Spirent Communications, a provider of navigation and positioning test solutions, has launched the Spirent GSS6700 Multi-GNSS Constellation Simulator for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) testing. The GSS6700 offers not only GPS test capability but also support for the Russian GLONASS system and planned European Galileo system, the company said. The company further noted the GSS6700 [...]
ZTE to build all-IP mobile broadband network in Madagascar
ZTE, a global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, is rolling out an all-IP mobile phone and data network for Madamobil, a new mobile operator in Madagascar. Madamobil is owned and operated by Life Telecom Holdings (a telecom investment and management firm based in the Netherlands) in partnership with Tecom Investments (a subsidiary of [...]
Acronis launches backup & recovery solution
Acronis, a provider of storage management and disaster recovery software, has launched Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, a portfolio of disaster recovery products that combine data deduplication, support for virtual environments, and centralised management features based on the company’s disk imaging and bare metal technology. Acronis informed the new software is the next generation of [...]
