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Smartphone market 'reborn' in 4Q 2009, says ABI (Mar 15, 2010)

ABI Research reports that the final quarter of 2009 was remarkable for the strength of smartphone shipment growth, compared to the rather lackluster preceding nine months.

NOAA selects Luxtera's AOC to power multi-room data center (Mar 15, 2010)

Luxtera announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) selected the company's 40G Blazar active optical cable (AOC) to interconnect its multi-room data center.

Light Brigade course targets OSP emergency restoration (Mar 12, 2010)

The course places heavy emphasis on fault location, troubleshooting, and test equipment.

Spending on wireless data to soar from $43B to $93B by 2013, predicts TIA mobile report (Mar 11, 2010)

Fueled by the popularity of smartphones, spending on wireless data will more than double during the next four years, the Telecommunications Industry Association reports in its 2010 ICT Market Review & Forecast.

AT&T trials 100G with Opnext, Cisco, and Ixia (Mar 10, 2010)

By Contributing Editor Stephen Hardy, Lightwave -- AT&T saw this week's Verizon 100-Gbps trial and raised it 27 Gbps in live traffic. The carrier conducted the trial using Cisco's new CRS-3 Carrier Routing System.

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Black Box intros fiber patch cables in 12 standard colors (Mar 12, 2010)

The cables offer custom options but with the convenience of standard part numbers.

Avnet, Tyco Electronics release Pluggable I/O solutions kit (Mar 10, 2010)

Tyco Electronics' product samples and development guides for SFP, SFP+, XFP, X2 and QSFP products are now available exclusively from Avnet Electronics Marketing, free for qualified customers through March.

Draka adds FTTH connectivity boxes for MDUs (Feb 25, 2010)

Draka Communications has added five new FTTH connectivity boxes for multi-dwelling units (MDUs).

APC intros NetShelter SX enclosure with improved support for high density networking apps (Feb 23, 2010)

The company says the new enclosure's side airflow duct kit eliminates the challenge of cooling side-to-side airflow equipment, while addressing problems of hot and cold air isolation.

Targeting virtualized data centers, Brocade FCX Series doubles 10-GbE uplinks (Feb 19, 2010)

The switches have an optional 4-port 10-GbE module, doubling the number of 10-GbE connections between network layers and making them ideal for virtual data centers.

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