Juniper Networks (JNPR) said during its fourth quarter earnings call that it wants to "right-size," and now it looks as if that may mean significant layoffs. The Silicon Valley network equipment maker is preparing to cut as many as 800 jobs, or about 8%...
Software is expected to be big news at this year’s Mobile World Congress event as the wireless industry looks to glean greater efficiency from mobile networks. Leading up to the event, a number of announcements were made in regards to software enhancements, including network...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of telecom software news. Partnerships abound this week as it seems like everybody's shaking hands with everybody to create some great deals. AT&T was especially busy on this front, furthering its partnership with Amdocs for its connected car program,...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. There's no real common thread in the week's news, but there's definitely a sense of gearing up for 2014 with new acquisitions, new software deployments and new partnerships.
Redknee landed an impressive $10...
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Fueled by the availability of low-cost/high-functioning smartphones, the data demand on mobile networks is driving investments in LTE networks worldwide....
A former Verizon Communications executive will run Juniper Networks starting in January.
Shaygan Kheradpir has been selected by the company as its next chief executive officer; he will succeed Kevin Johnson, who announced in July that he would be retiring as CEO but remain a...
Juniper Networks launched new enhancements to boost the capacity of its flagship MX Series 3D universal edge routers today to support the demands of video and other high-bandwidth applications on networks.
Juniper said that its highest capacity MX router, the MX2020 (pictured at right), has...
Juniper Networks reported a strong quarter with net  income jumping to $97.9 million compared to $57.7 million in the same period last year. Net revenues grew 7% year-over-year and 9% sequentially to $1.15 billion for the quarter.
The company also announced that its CEO, Kevin Johnson,...
Juniper Networks' revenues were up 3% year-over-year and down 7% sequentially, the company reported in preliminary results for the first quarter of 2013.
Juniper had revenues of $1.06 million, and its operating margin for the quarter increased to 8.2% year-over-year from 4.6%. Net income was...
Several major recent announcements in the SDN space reflect the high level of interest in software-defined networking, and network function virtualization -- where software, rather than specialized network hardware, becomes the delivery system for new services and network management.
Alcatel-Lucent launched a new, internal start-up...
Network virtualization is on its way.
If nothing else was clear from MWC 2013, it’s that networks are on the road to becoming less hardware and more software. Vendors and mobile operators are setting up for a radical change in how they conceive and build...
Vendors are scrambling to help network operators figure out smarter ways to manage and optimize their networks, drawing data from various sources in order to make informed business decisions on infrastructure and services and exploring the promise of software defined networks.
A barrage of announcements...
Mobile backhaul is sometimes seen only as a means for connecting the access network to the core. But, in a world that demands rich, context-aware, multimedia-based user experiences, mobile operators and alternative access vendors need to rethink the mobile backhaul network and design it...
There is no going back when telecom operators move to become integrators of information and communication technology (ICT) , since carriers are seeking ways to avoid becoming just dumb pipe. "They aim to increase revenue through ICT by adding services to their business-to-business (B2B)...
Shares of networking equipment bellwether Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) are higher today after the company surpassed Wall Street's forecasts for its fiscal first quarter. The better-than-expected report was a welcome bright spot in what has been a somewhat lackluster earnings season for the IP network...
Greenpacket has been awarded a 2-year contract by Wateen Telecom, WiMAX operator in Pakistan, for the supply of Greenpacket’s modem, the UH350. Wateen Telecom is a venture of the Abu Dhabi Group, which also owns Warid Telecom, Pakistan’s mobile operator. Value undisclosedDialogic announced that...
AT&T has teamed up with Juniper Networks on a new mobile security platform which it claims will better protect customer devices from security threats.
Security has become a big buzz word in mobile, with firms scrambling to add protection to their mobile services either through...
AT&T has teamed up with Juniper Networks on a new mobile security platform which it claims will better protect customer devices from security threats.
Security has become a big buzz word in mobile, with firms scrambling to add protection to their mobile services either through...
AT&T has teamed up with Juniper Networks on a new mobile security platform which it claims will better protect customer devices from security threats.Security has become a big buzz word in mobile, with firms scrambling to add protection to their mobile services either through...
Security continues to be a moving target in the mobile space with consumers facing an array of third-party choices for security apps and other measures. While third-party apps flourish on their won, Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and AT&T Inc. (T) have tapped McAfee Inc....
Alcatel-LucentRussia: With State Corporation Russian Technologies to develop and manufacture Long Term Evolution (LTE) components customized for the Russian market. The companies will set up a R&D Center in St. Petersburg operated by Alcatel-Lucent RT that will be fully integrated with Alcatel-Lucent's wireless operations....
Qualcomm announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Rapid Bridge LLC, a San Diego-based inventor of advanced techniques for the design and development of semiconductor products. Rapid Bridge's San Diego design team and San Diego/Bangalore engineering services operations will...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week: Alcatel-Lucent France: With Completel to undertake a major upgrade of its backbone communications network. Completel will deploy Alcatel-Lucent's 100 Gigabit per second (100G) optical technology on new and existing routes to boost network capacity and...
Juniper Networks Inc. (JNPR) will begin reselling Openet’s policy management and charging platforms under a new strategic partnership agreement between the two companies. Openet’s subscriber optimization software will be included in Juniper’s MobileNext solution, announced earlier this year.Specifically, Juniper will offer Openet’s Policy...
