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Canada-based EXFO Inc. has announced that it has improved its sales by 20.9 percent to $67.6 million, and has also improved its net bookings to 7.3 percent to $61.3 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2011 from $57.1 million in the same period last year and 6.4 percent from $57.6 million in the second quarter of 2011.

DesignArt Networks announced that its Unified Mobile Backhaul (UMB) software pack for gigabit+ wireless backhaul applications is available now.

Exalt Communications' microwave backhaul systems have been deployed by the Grays Harbor Public Utility District (GHPUD), a public utility based in Aberdeen, Washington, to carry critical SCADA and automated meter reading (AMR) traffic from its substations to its main data center. The GHPUD team chose Exalt microwave systems for their high reliability and because of their potential to carry both native TDM and IP traffic.

Ruckus Wireless, a provider of Wi-Fi solutions, announced that its ZoneFlex midrange Smart Wi-Fi system performed up to 10 times faster than higher end competitive wireless products from Cisco, Aruba, HP and others.

Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) has chosen the ADVA FSP 3000 to facilitate the extension of high-speed broadband service to the entire area of Washington State. The ADVA Optical Networking solution allows NoaNet long-term and cost-effective scalability to have room for more users and continue a transition to higher speeds.

BTI Systems, a provider of intelligent packet optical networking for metropolitan networks, announced the expansion of its engineering, research and development functions.

Small cells are almost certainly coming to a cellular network near you, and the cloud could come into play as part of this new architecture as well. That could create new opportunities for alternative backhaul solutions, says Amir Makleff, president and CEO of BridgeWave.

Proxim Wireless believes that standards can unnecessarily water down solutions by diluting their efficiency, but the company appears to be embracing the idea of LTE nonetheless. That's not to say the company is using LTE in its products, however. It isn't. Rather, Proxim is offering up its proprietary products to enable mobile data backhaul in LTE-based networks.