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• BBN Technologies Awarded $9M to Add Disruption Tolerance to Military Networks

  - 2008-08-19

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today it has been awarded $8.9M in funding by the Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA under the third phase of its Disruption Tolerant Networking DTN program. This latest award follows BBN's successful completion of Phases...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, DARPA, network, NETWORKING

• BBN Technologies Awarded $5 Million in DoD Funding to Advance Rapid Processing of Chinese

  - 2008-07-07

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today it has been awarded $5 million in additional funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA in year three of the five-year Global Autonomous Language Exploitation GALE program. The goal of GALE is to develop and apply...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, DARPA, NETWORKING, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Defense

• BBN Technologies Awarded $5.7 Million in Defense Funding to Design Faster, More Dynamic, More Secure, More Robust Optical Network

  - 2008-03-18

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today it has been awarded $5.7 million in funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA for the Dynamic Multi-Terabit Core Optical Networks: Architecture, Protocols, Control and Management CORONET program. BBN will lead a team that includes RTI...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, DARPA, network, NETWORKING

• BBN Technologies Awarded $13 Million in DoD Funding to Advance Rapid Foreign Language Processing

  - 2008-03-11

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today it has been awarded $13 million in additional funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA in year three of the five-year Global Autonomous Language Exploitation GALE program. The goal of GALE is to develop and apply...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, DARPA, NETWORKING, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Defense

• BBN Technologies Reduces Ad Hoc Network Power Consumption 100 Times; Demonstrates Dramatic Power Reduction with No Performance Loss

  - 2006-07-17

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, a leading advanced technology solutions firm, today announced a milestone achievement in phase two of a wireless networking program funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA. The goal of the program, Connectionless Networks, is to develop a low-power, mutihop wireless network that will...

  Tags: advertisement, battery, BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, DARPA, network, NETWORKING, performance, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• BBN Technologies Adds Wireless Capability to World's First Continuously Operating Quantum Cryptography Network; Partnership with QinetiQ Extends DARPA Quantum Network into the Skies

  - 2005-06-01

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology and research and development firm, announced today that the world's first operational quantum cryptography network--funded by the Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA--has now expanded to include its first free space link, enabling quantum keys or communications to be...

  Tags: BBN Corp., BBN Technologies, Cambridge, DARPA, network, NETWORKING, partnership, QinetiQ Ltd., Quantum Corp., SECURITY, wireless

• Physics finds cryptic application

  - 2004-09-19

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- It's a hacker's nightmare but a dream for bankers and spies: A computer network so secure that even the simplest attempts to eavesdrop will interrupt the flow of data and alert administrators to the snooping. The work by researchers at Harvard University, Boston University...

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• Better Encryption Techniques Spur Fiber Research

  - 2003-07-16

  Researchers at Boston's BBN Corp. are working on an encryption system that eventually could use subatomic particles to safeguard voice and data transmissions over fiber-optic networks. The research so far involves commercially available lasers and detectors that reportedly emit and detect single photons or pairs of photons, a practice...

  Tags: BBN Corp., DARPA, encryption, fiber, fiber-optics, Magiq Technologies, NETWORKING, SECURITY, technique, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• GTE to Buy Cambridge, Mass.-Based Internet Pioneer, BBN Corp.(Originated from The Boston Globe)

  - 1997-05-07

  May 7--Stepping up an aggressive strategy to challenge nationwide telephone carriers, GTE Corp., the nation's largest local phone company, yesterday agreed to buy Internet pioneer BBN Corp. of Cambridge for $616 million in cash, or $29 per share. The announcement came...

  Tags: BBN Corp., Boston Globe, GTE Corp., INTERNET, NETWORKING

• BBN Corp. Signs $340 Million, Four-Year Pact with America Online.(Originated from The Boston Globe)

  - 1996-10-17

  Oct. 17--BBN Corp., which refocused two years ago to become a major Internet service provider, yesterday saw its strategy pay off with its largest single contract, a $340 million pact with America Online Inc. The four-year pact is aimed at helping AOL meet future demands of...

  Tags: America Online Inc., BBN Corp., Boston Globe, Components, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Modems, NETWORKING