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Talari Networks™, Inc., a leading innovator of WAN reliability and performance quality, today announced Walter Carrington as its new Worldwide VP of Sales. Carrington joins Talari from Juniper Networks and brings more than two decades of networking industry sales experience spanning the U.S. and Canada. Carrington will be responsible for growing Talari's customer base, forging new strategic partnerships and expanding the national sales force. Carrington will report directly to Talari's President and CEO Emerick Woods.

"We are pleased to welcome Walter to our senior executive team at a time where the industry is poised for dramatic growth," stated Talari Networks' CEO Emerick Woods. "Walter is a perfect fit for Talari with his deep networking background, coupled with his strong customer and partner relationships. I am confident he will be able to rapidly accelerate our sales efforts and deliver on the value of our unique innovative technology."

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Extreme Networks Inc. (EXTR) today announced the appointment of Theresa Caragol as vice president, worldwide channels. Caragol brings a 17-year track record of building channel and distribution organizations in the networking industry stemming from her previous roles with IBM, Nortel, Bay Networks and most recently, Ciena, where she was VP of channels and alliances for 7 years.

Caragol is charged with overseeing strategy and successful execution for Extreme Networks worldwide channels encompassing a base of more than 700 partners throughout more than 50 countries.

"Extreme Networks will benefit from the leadership Theresa brings, where her experience will energize our partners and drive sales growth," said Oscar Rodriguez, president and CEO for Extreme Networks. "Theresa is an exceptional manager with a significant track record in channel development. Her combination of experience is ideal as Extreme Networks looks to further penetrate markets such as cloud, mobile campus and data centers."

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Broadcom Corp.  has introduced what it claims is the industry's first 100-Gbps full-duplex network processor unit (NPU) that will enable the next wave of 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) optimized switches and routers for service provider networks.

The fully programmable BCM88030 family features 64 custom processors running at 1 GHz, delivering more than twice the throughput of any NPU on the market, according to Broadcom. The company also claims that the BCM88030 has the industry's highest level of integration, thus eliminating external components and reducing system cost and power by up to 80 percent per 10GbE port.

Built on the XGS Core packet processing architecture, the BCM88030 family delivers a feature-rich application at 100GbE full duplex for complex service provider switching and routing requirements, Broadcom continues. It incorporates an array of high-speed processors, multi-threading, and hardware acceleration for functions such as packet parsing, classification, and look-ups. The BCM88030 family is completely user programmable, enabling a highly flexible forwarding NPU that ensures support for the most demanding applications, both existing and future, Broadcom asserts.

The BCM88030 NPU family also includes a proprietary algorithmic look-up engine using DDR-3 DRAM that enables scale for Layer 2, IPv4, and IPv6 tables while reducing system cost. Algorithmic on-chip access control list (ACL) capability is available along with seamless expansion using Broadcom's NL566xx knowledge-based processor (KBP).

Other features include:

    Integrated OA&M engine, 1588 timing, and Synchronous Ethernet, 10GbE.
    SerDes and 1/10/40/100GbE Ethernet MACs that reduce board space, system cost, and power.
    Seamless integration with XLP multi-core processors for control plane processing.

The BCM88030 family consists of three devices: the 100-Gbps BCM88038 NPU, the 50-Gbps BCM88034 NPU, and the BCM88032 24-Gbps NPU. All devices are now sampling with production volume slated for the second half of 2012.

ADVA Optical Networking says that the Municipality of Cape Town has deployed its FSP 3000 WDM platform in the city’s not-for-profit municipally owned network. The network’s initial core ring configuration connects key municipal offices throughout the city via more than 100 km of fiber to support MPLS and 10-Gbps Ethernet services.

In addition to such anchor institutions as libraries, schools, hospitals, research institutions and other organizations, the network will ultimately provide service providers, enterprises, and communities with a shared infrastructure to offer affordable commercial services.

“We believe the network we’ve built here is a first for Africa,” commented Leon van Wyk, telecommunications manager at City of Cape Town. “By building our own dark fiber network, we’re able to drive the rollout of broadband services throughout the municipality and the region. Our mandate is primarily to provide high-bandwidth network services to government entities, including schools, clinics, hospitals, and libraries, but we also want to encourage the private sector to deliver every business, family, and organization the bandwidth they need to participate in the modern knowledge economy. Data is the currency of tomorrow and with ADVA Optical Networking’s help, support, and direction, we’ve built a strong foundation for the future.”

The network’s core currently comprises eight nodes, each outfitted with the FSP 3000. The next phase of the project will expand the core ring to all parts of the Cape Town metro area via as many as 100 new nodes. The population of Cape Town in 2010 was estimated at 3.7 million people -- with an estimated 1,060,964 household units -- and is estimated to grow to 4.25 million in 2030.

“This is an incredible project to be involved in,” commented Günter Landers, sales director, Africa, ADVA Optical Networking. “The Municipality of Cape Town is developing a network that will dramatically impact upon the community. It will provide high-speed connectivity for a whole range of government services, as well as enabling people to access applications such as remote learning, telemedicine, and video conferencing.”