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Cortina Debuts 2nd Gen Electronic Dispersion Compensation Device
Cortina Systems, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, has begun shipping its second generation 10GE Electronic Dispersion Compensation (EDC) device.
The CS4315 EDC functionality supports two full duplex 10G links. Both transmit and receive paths include Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) circuits. The CS4315 EDC has a wide operating frequency range covering 1GbE, 1G FC, 2G FC, 4G FC, 8G FC, SONET (9.5 – 11.3G), and 10GbE.
Applications include 10G SFP+, enterprise and telecom backplanes, and single-mode fiber links....
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CA to Acquire Nimsoft for $350 Million
CA agreed to acquire privately-held Nimsoft, a provider of IT performance and availability monitoring solutions, in an all-cash transaction valued at $350 million.
Nimsoft has developed monitoring and reporting solutions for public cloud and on-demand offerings like Google Apps for Business, The Rackspace Cloud, Amazon Web Services and EC2, Salesforce.com, as well as internal applications, databases, and physical and virtual server environments.
The Nimsoft Unified Monitoring solution allows managed service providers (MSPs) to gain visibility into the performance and availability of their customers' business applications across both internal and external IT infrastructures.
CA said the Nimsoft acquisition significantly extends its ability to meet the unique IT management needs of emerging enterprises and MSPs, both of which are playing leading roles in the growth of cloud computing.
The deal follows CA's recent acquisitions of Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore and the planned acquisition of 3Tera.
Nimsoft is based in Redwood City, California....
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SiBEAM Raises $36.5 Million for 60 GHz Chips for WirelessHD
SiBEAM, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $36.5 million in Series D funding for its 60 GHz CMOS chipsets for WirelessHD applications. The company's second generation 60 GHz wireless high definition chipsets are targeting the mainstream consumer electronics marketplace, as well as fund future projects for personal computing and mobile devices.
The second generation of SiBEAM's WirelessHD chipsets, which were brought into mass production earlier this year, support advanced features including 3D, HDCP and DTCP content protection that can be designed into A/V receivers, home theater-in-a-box systems, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, media center PCs, and consumer laptops.
The new funding was led by Foundation Capital. All of SiBEAM's original investors contributed to this round including U.S. Ventures Partners (USVP) and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), joined by new partners in SiBEAM's success, Lux Capital and Hatteras Funds. Best Buy Inc, and Cisco have also contributed strategic equity investments to support SiBEAM's growth....
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Cloudmark leverages a unique combination of "Advanced Message Fingerprinting" technology, real-time corroborated feedback from Cloudmark's Global Threat Network system, automated, anonymous traffic analysis and dedicated security analysts to provide spam, phishing and virus protection. The company said it is able to detect messaging abuse with up to 99 percent accuracy and near-zero false positives.
