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With its ability to power high-bandwidth networks that provide new, higher-capacity, less expensive services such as voice, video, data, wireless and more, long term evolution has been gaining more traction than even CDMA-based ultra mobile broadband.

Data storage testing specialist Quarch Technology announced the addition of a new Mini SAS control module to its Torridon Storage Test System to expand Quarch's Torridon ATE product range to automate insertion, removal and failure of Mini SAS cables.

With LTE doing rounds in the market, it appears to have been gaining more traction than Ultra mobile broadband. Wireless test equipment vendors also seem to favor its ability to power high-bandwidth networks that provide a cost-effective service and offer and enable a wealth of new applications that were previously available on a wired Internet connection.

San Francisco, Calif.-based IPWireless (www.ipwireless.com), a provider of 3GPP technology, and Israel's startup Altair Semiconductor (www.altair-semi.com), a developer of ultra-low power 3GPP long term evolution (LTE) chipsets, have inked a partnership to jointly develop a suite of multi-band LTE modem solutions that will support key frequency bands for global LTE deployments.

How important is it to employ reliable network monitoring? How important is it for your network to stay online? Do outages cause problems for your customers or your employees? Can you lose data in the process or does downtime cost you money and productivity you can't really afford?

FireScope Dash is offered as either a virtual or a physical appliance, and bypasses the traditional headaches of solution deployments by including the complete software stack pre-installed and ready to start. This design, when coupled with FireScope Dash's built-in discovery and auto-configuration, enables organizations to get to their first real-time dashboards of infrastructure status and performance in minutes.

comScore, Inc., a prescence in measuring the digital world, has successfully completed the acquisition of the products division of Nexius, Inc., a premier provider of mobile carrier-grade solutions that deliver network analysis focused on the experience of wireless subscribers, as well as network intelligence with respect to performance, capacity and configuration analytics.