RuggedCom buys WiMax equipment provider WiNetworks
RuggedCom, a public company that makes networking equipment that works in unfavorable environments, has acquired WiMax equipment developer WiNetworks for $9 million. It will also take on $5 million in debt from the Israeli company. Rugged hopes that the deal will add to its arsenal as it eyes the burgeoning Smart Grid sector. Many networking companies are looking to ride the wave toward a cleaner, more efficient electrical grid, offering their services to help transmit… Continue Reading
Orsus raises funds for risk management software, buys rival Cinario
Orsus, a Mountain View, Calif. company that makes both software and hardware for risk assessment and security purposes, announced it has raised a round of capital and has acquired smaller rival Cinario. The financial terms of the deal have yet to be disclosed. All that is known about the financing round is that it was provided by existing investors.
The purchase may give Orsus more reach in the United Kingdom, where Ireland-based Cinario’s clients include retail… Continue Reading
PeerApp takes $8M for peer-to-peer traffic policing
PeerApp, an infrastructure company for Internet service providers that helps them deal with peer-to-peer traffic, has raised an $8 million second round of funding less than a year after taking its first.
The company’s UltraBand caching system stores chunks of P2P files locally, so that repeated downloads of popular files don’t overburden the network. Tangential to the needs of the ISPs, the product can also speed up the downloads for the end user.
Over 100 UltraBand systems… Continue Reading
Iamba Networks raises $7 million for networking tech
Iamba Networks has raised $7 million in in funding to expand its business of making chips and software for telecommunications companies.
The Cupertino, Calif., company’s chips are used to enable telecommunications companies to implement gigabit passive optical network, or GPON, access. That’s a standard for enabling an optical fiber to be split into different streams to serve different parties.
Companies are using the technology to build wireless phone networks that can handle on-demand video, high-definition video, and… Continue Reading
PeerApp raises $3M for streamlined peer-to-peer sharing
PeerApp, a company based in Newton, Mass., claims that its infrastructure solutions for internet service providers can reduce the costs for ISPs when dealing with peer-to-peer traffic, a claim that, if true, should get it plenty of business.
Many ISPs grumble about the cost of dealing with P2P traffic, and a major company, Comcast, is currently the target of an FCC probe investigating its handling of P2P traffic.
A recent agreement with Pando Networks has given PeerApp… Continue Reading