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Qualcomm to Buy Ikanos to Grow Broadband Portfolio

Qualcomm is looking to grow its capabilities in the home gateway market and the Internet of things through its decision to buy Ikanos Communications...

Carrier Interest in SDN Growing, IHS Infonetics Says

Carriers worldwide are embracing software-defined networking to help create infrastructures that enable them to more quickly spin out services for their customers, according to...

Xiaomi Reportedly to Build Its Own ARM Chips

Xiaomi, the 5-year-old Chinese smartphone maker that is challenging Apple in the massive Chinese market and is preparing to begin selling devices in the...

Polycom, Alcatel-Lucent Partner on UC

About two weeks, Polycom rounded out its lineup of VVX business media phones with the introduction of two new devices aimed at the entry-level...

Fujitsu Embraces Midokura for OpenStack Clouds

Fujitsu will start offering Midokura's network virtualization overlay technology in its OpenStack-based public and private cloud architecture, replacing the OpenStack Neutron plug-in component.The companies...

Nvidia Recalls 88,000 Shield Gaming Tablets

Nvidia is recalling about 88,000 of its Shield gaming tablets after complaints about the device's battery overheating.Nvidia officials said in a notice July 31...

Talari SD-WAN Virtual Appliance Now Available on AWS Cloud

Talari Networks is making it easier for businesses to connect to the Amazon Web Services Cloud by offering its software-defined WAN technology on the...

New Cisco CEO Adds Two to Executive Team

Chuck Robbins began his first full day as Cisco Systems' new CEO by adding two people to his executive team and reiterating his view...

IBM, National Instruments Join OIC IoT Group

IBM and National Instruments are among the newest companies to join the Open Interconnect Consortium, one of several industry groups working on open frameworks...

Plexxi Rolls Out Latest SDN Switches

Plexxi officials say the future of networks are single-tier, low-latency infrastructures that can scale quickly and that first determine what resources the workloads require,...