The agreement includes a joint solicitation for industrial Research & Development (R&D) collaborations between Massachusetts and Israeli companies. The three participating Massachusetts agencies, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (the Center), the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), are committing nearly $1 million in collective funding for Massachusetts companies that are engaged in cooperative industrial research and development projects with an identified Israeli partner company. The Office of the Chief Scientist will provide up to $1 million in matching dollars for the corresponding Israeli partner companies. Massachusetts is the first U.S. state to enter into such an agreement with the State of Israel.

“Today we have made a significant commitment to the long-term success of our economy,” said Governor Patrick. “This Agreement will promote research collaborations, industrial partnerships and commercialization of new technologies, expanding opportunity and job growth both in Massachusetts and in Israel.”

The initiative comes as a direct result of Governor Patrick’s Massachusetts Innovation Economy Partnership Mission, a ten-day trade mission in March that included travel to Israel, where a coalition of the state’s leading business executives and senior government officials explored growth opportunities of common interest for Massachusetts’ and Israel’s innovation industries. During that mission Governor Patrick and Shalom Simhon, Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, signing on behalf of their respective states, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Jerusalem. MIIP has been established to implement the spirit of the MOU’s framework. The MIIP initiative will be officially launched once the Israeli Knesset ratifies the MOU.

The initiative will support joint investment opportunities that will further the Massachusetts/Israeli relationship in ways that bring mutual economic benefit to both states and that further scientific discovery. A Request for Proposals (RFP) will be issued jointly by the Center, MTC and MassCEC seeking applications for funding. The OCS will concurrently issue a solicitation seeking applications for funding from Israeli companies wishing to engage in industrial R&D collaborations with Massachusetts counterparts.

“This Agreement serves as another example of the Office of Chief Scientist’s mission to implement programs that establish Israel as a hub of hi-tech industry,” said Chief Scientist Avi Hasson, Israel Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor. “We will continue to build international partnerships like the one with Massachusetts that enable Israeli and international companies to engage in joint technology development projects that drive economic growth.”

The R&D Cooperation Agreement is designed to help Massachusetts and Israeli companies accelerate development cycles, promote mutually beneficial business-to-business cooperation to enhance opportunities for marketplace success and expand their global reach. It proposes a flexible framework of parallel funding for each participating company, having its R&D expenses supported by its own state according to its respective laws, regulations, rules and procedures.

“The Economic Development Administration (EDA) is pleased to collaborate in this important public-private partnership to promote technology commercialization in the biotechnology and life sciences industries to increase economic and job growth,” said U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development John R. Fernandez. “This partnership between Massachusetts and Israel will be a great boost to the many innovators and entrepreneurs who are tackling today’s challenges in clean energy, medicine and other fields and fueling the innovation economy.”

“Helping businesses move forward with R&D projects through strategic international partnerships is the mission of the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation,” said Ann Liebschutz, executive director at USISTF. “This Agreement exemplifies how we are encouraging the U.S. to tap into Israel’s zeal for developing highly advanced and in-demand technologies to facilitate the competitiveness of American companies in this challenging global economy.”

“This Agreement stems directly from the Governor’s recent trade mission to Israel,” said Susan Windham-Bannister, President & CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. “A strong collaboration between two of the world’s leading centers for life sciences innovation — Israel and Massachusetts — will undoubtedly advance scientific research, as well as development and commercialization of important new advances in medical devices, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and other fields. We also are confident that this collaboration between Israel and Massachusetts will deliver meaningful economic benefits to both states.”

“Israel and Massachusetts share a parallel asset in our world-class academic and research institutions, which have led to numerous technological discoveries and business start-ups in the clean energy sector,” said MassCEC Executive Director Patrick Cloney. “This partnership will strengthen Massachusetts’ relationship with the Israeli clean energy industry, and promote Massachusetts as an international clean energy leader, while providing Massachusetts companies access to the cutting edge expertise of their Israeli collaborators. With partnerships such as this we are on our way to making clean energy a marquee industry in Massachusetts, just like life sciences and IT.”

“During the Governor’s recent Trade Mission, we were impressed by the many synergies between the Israeli and Massachusetts technology sectors in areas such as cybersecurity, social media and digital healthcare management,” said Patrick Larkin, Director of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s John Adams Innovation Institute. “We believe this public-private collaboration can serve as a catalyst to energize our state’s entrepreneurs and innovation-led industries to develop new products for global markets and create new economic opportunities for Massachusetts.”

Today there are nearly 100 companies with Israeli founders or Israeli-licensed technologies in Massachusetts. In 2009, these companies employed nearly 6,000 people and generated $2.4 billion in direct revenue for the state. Local firms exported over $180 million worth of goods to Israel in 2009 and, at 12.35 percent, the United States is Israel’s largest source of imports. An important market for health-related technologies, Israel is home to 377 hospitals and 37,000 practicing physicians.

Governor Patrick also announced today that Massachusetts has hired a new Trade Representative to Israel, Hadas Bar-Or. Ms. Bar-Or is an experienced international economic development expert with a strong background in business development within the innovation economy and building collaborations between the public and private sectors. The new Representative will be responsible for increasing trade, investment, and commercial partnerships between Massachusetts and Israel. Governor Patrick announced that Massachusetts would be hiring a Trade Representative to Israel as part of his Innovation Economy Partnership Mission to Israel in March. Ms. Bar-Or will report to Secretary Greg Bialecki, Governor Patrick’s Economic Development Cabinet Secretary and Chairman of the Massachusetts Marketing Partnership.

“Massachusetts and Israel today have extensive business relationships, due to our region’s common industrial focus areas of life sciences, IT, and clean energy,” said Housing and Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki. “Building on a strong foundation, our new trade representative will extend these business collaborations to new customers and industries.”

The study, commissioned by a consortium of corporate, industry association and government leaders, reflects that the Commonwealth’s IT industry continues to grow well beyond its roots, creating a strong and competitive technology hub in Massachusetts that also facilitates growth in other emerging arenas. Emerging sectors in robotics, digital media, digital gaming and mobile communications are transforming established markets, opening new business and job growth opportunities enabled by digital technology. Venture capital investment in the Massachusetts IT industry ranks second only to California, at $10,257 per IT worker. Between 2006 and 2008, half of all venture capital investment in Massachusetts went to the IT industry.

“This study is further proof that the digital technology sector is a cornerstone of our economy, and a catalyst for innovation across all of our industries,” said Governor Patrick. “We are committed to supporting IT’s growth and vitality, and harnessing its transformative contributions to the Commonwealth.”

The report also underscores the economic impact of the Massachusetts IT industry, quantifying it as the state’s second largest knowledge-intensive industry cluster second only to health care. The sector is home to 10,300 firms with more than 178,000 workers. The industry directly expended $65 billion in Massachusetts in 2008, a figure that is comparable in scale to nearly 18 percent of state’s Gross Domestic Product. Linkages to the health care, life sciences, financial services, and defense and energy sectors are catalyzing new opportunities for growth, demonstrating the importance of this sector as a vehicle for innovation and economic growth.

In January, Governor Patrick called for the establishment of an IT Collaborative, bringing together industry, academia and government to advance policy and an action agenda to enhance the IT sector’s competitiveness. Since then, this collaborative has mobilized and focused on several key priority areas, including doing research and analysis to understand the current state of the IT industry in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts IT Study Group, co-chaired by Donna Cupelo, Verizon Region President of New England, and Paul Bosco, Cisco Vice President and General Manager, Video and Wireless Products, commissioned the UMass Donahue Institute to perform an in-depth research exercise to better understand the state of the Commonwealth’s IT industries.

“Industry leaders came together because we wanted to better understand the composition of the technology industry and how it is impacting the state’s economy,” said Donna Cupelo from Verizon. “The industry has clearly transformed from its Route 128 mini-computer days. The study gives us a better understanding of the scope and the impact of the diversified and innovation-intensive businesses all around us. The technology industry is strong and provides growth opportunities for emerging segments and other industry sectors.”

“The IT industry is critical to Massachusetts’ entire innovation ecosystem,” said Michael D. Goodman, an Associate Professor at UMass Dartmouth, who led the team that prepared the study results. “The Commonwealth’s global leadership in sectors like financial services, health care and defense is significantly enhanced by the presence and expertise of IT firms and the thousands of IT professionals working inside and outside of the industry.”

At the event, Housing and Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki also moderated a roundtable dialogue with industry leaders that examined transformative trends in digital technology, and the prospects for future growth of the Massachusetts innovation economy.

To view the report, go to http://tinyurl.com/yhogseu .

This performance is normally difficult to deliver using Microsoft Windows drivers, but has now been achieved by Napatech. This provides Napatech OEM customers greater flexibility in the application of Napatech’s 2-port 10 Gbps NT20E and 4-port 1 Gbps NT4E PCI Express adapters.

The main features & benefits of the new Windows driver are:

* Support for both XP and Windows Server 2003, both in 32- and 64-bit versions
* Support for filtering, time-stamping and capture of frames at line speed without packet loss
* Time-stamping with 10 nanosecond resolution and support for six time stamp formats
* Very low CPU utilization, below 1 percent
* Distribution of network frames to 1 – 32 host CPU cores based on 2/5-tuple hash keys
* Use of up to 64 advanced adapter hardware filters.

“Developing a high-speed Windows interface capable of handling line speed data rates is extremely demanding. With this achievement we believe that we have the world’s fastest Windows driver for Ethernet applications,” says Erik Norup, President Napatech Inc.

In addition to the features listed above, Napatech’s high-performance adapters include line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 nanosecond time-stamping, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic frame slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. A programming interface and development tools are also provided.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 10 GbE and multi-port 1 GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for intelligent real-time adapters as Ethernet speeds increase. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

For more information visit us at: www.napatech.com.

In addition to PCI-Express and RMON1 support, the NT4E-STD provides a number of additional enhancements to the XD feature set:

* Support for 4 x 1 Gbps ports both electrical RJ45 and Optical SFP versions
* Support for additional DDR2 RAM for data burst buffering up to 4 GB
* Fixed Slicing functionality for payload discard
* Support for Multiple CPU cores via 1, 2, 3 or 4 host buffers with individual statistics.

The NT4E-STD uses the same API and programming interfaces as Napatech’s other adapter products.

“The new NT4E-STD PCI-Express adapters enable our OEM customers to provide very advanced solutions with a high port density at an attractive price point. The NT4E-STD family provides advanced time stamping features as well as new statistics features, which combined with its attractive price offers our OEM customers a cost-effective platform for the future,” says Nick Arraje, VP of Sales North America at Napatech. By implementing the full RMON1 standard (RFC2819) a very detailed view of network traffic can be presented with zero CPU load. RMON1 provides jumbo frame counters on a per-port basis, which offer a number of useful “good/bad” statistics for each of the four host buffers supported.

These statistics are presented as “snapshots,” which are transferred to the host through a separate DMA process followed by a time stamp. The new advanced statistics allow appliances/applications to present a very detailed view of network traffic at practically zero CPU load.

Napatech’s high-performance adapters include line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping of every packet, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for high performance adapters as Ethernet speeds increase. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

For more information visit us at: www.napatech.com.

This module is targeted for OEM customers who need fast response on very dynamic conditions such as auto/motorcycle racing, aviation, rocketry and sports.

The ISM300F2-C5′s world class performance suits it to navigating urban canyons, as well as wide open spaces. TTFF (time-to-first-fix) under open sky is just 35 seconds from a cold start, 1 second from a hot start. Reacquisition time is 1 second.

The ISM300F2-V5 facilitates ease of design and manufacturing. Its surface mount technology (SMT) allows for fully automatic assembly and reflow soldering. Being lead-free, it complies with the European Union’s RoHS (Restrictions of Hazardous Substances) directive. Its EMI/EMC shield not only lets it meet FCC/CE standards, but also assures peak performance in noisy environments. The ISM300F2-C5 provides two UARTs (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) for quick-and-easy I/O. It supports both NMEA-0183 and SiRF binary.

Inventek ISM300F2-C5 family of GPS modules performs fast and deep search capabilities; it features high sensitivity, and low power. Our latest upgrades have increased our cold and warm start acquisition sensitivity to -145dBm (~25dB-Hz) and our hot start for long receiver of times has been improved by up to 50-percent. Hot start acquisition sensitivity has been improved to -155dBm (~15dB-Hz).

The ISM300F2-C5-V0005 sells for $29.95 in 100 piece quantity and can be ordered on-line at www.inventeksys.com.

About Inventek Systems

At Inventek Systems we pride ourselves in being a USA-based, full service GPS company. While GPS modules and GPS antennas are our primary focus, we also provide complete GPS services from consulting to custom design and manufacturing.

Inventek is a SiRF (VAD/VAM) Value Added Manufacturer and is a certified developer and manufacturer of GPS modules and system level products using SiRF location solutions.

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The Napatech adapters support the FCoE standard by being able to filter, time-stamp and capture FCoE frames at line speed without packet loss. The main features and benefits of combining a Napatech Programmable Ethernet Adapter with FCoE support are:

* Very accurate time stamp resolution of 10 nanoseconds, in six different formats
* Very low CPU utilization, below 1 percent
* Utilization of many of the advanced Napatech Network Adapter features
* Distribution of network frames to 1-32 host CPU cores
* Use of up to 64 advanced adapter hardware filters

“The new support for FCoE allows our OEM customers with network monitoring solutions to enter large datacenters or server farms that have implemented combined IP and Fiber Channel traffic. By having the same comprehensive API with the many filtering capabilities as our current Programmable Ethernet Adapters, this greatly expands the reach of these solutions,” says Nick Arraje, VP of Sales, North America.

The main driver for combining the two types of traffic onto one Ethernet is cost. Standard switches and routers can be used in the Datacenter infrastructure; and with the new Napatech support for FCoE, the need for two monitoring devices or two Data Capture devices is eliminated.

The new features described above are added to the already feature-rich product line offered to Napatech’s OEM customers. The high-performance adapters already include line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic frame slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for high-performance adapters as Ethernet speeds increase. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

“The new configurable LibPCAP library greatly simplifies the task for new Napatech OEM customers to port their applications to the high-performance Napatech Programmable Network Adapter platform. Current OEM customers have experienced more than fourfold performance improvements with less than one day’s work,” says Nick Arraje, VP of Sales, North America.

The new Napatech highly configurable LibPCAP library enables customer applications, implemented using the standard PCAP programming interface, to take advantage of the advanced features of the Napatech Programmable Network Adapters. This enables our OEM customers to achieve a 300-600 percent performance increase at practically zero development effort. The hardware functionality of Napatech Network Adapters, such as adapter generation of 5-tuple hash keys, used for distribution of selected network frames to a number of server CPUs, can be configured via a text-based file that is read by the Napatech driver when the adapter is started.

The new features described above are added to the already feature-rich product line offered to Napatech’s OEM customers. The high-performance adapters already include line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic frame slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for intelligent and programmable adapters as Ethernet speeds increase, since the current PC architecture limits the amount of processing that can be achieved. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Napatech X family of 4-port 1 Gbps adapters has for years had an advanced “Local Retransmit function” allowing incoming data to be filtered on the adapter and returned to the network without involving the host CPU. This functionality is now further enhanced and moved to the NT20E two-port 10 Gbps adapter.

Local Retransmit enables a number of advanced in-line applications like traffic sorting using the advanced 64 filters available, or combining appliances in a daisy chain where local retransmit relays certain traffic downstream to other appliances for further processing. The Local Retransmit feature set can be combined with Packet Classification, Hash Key Generation (2/5-tuple), Filtering, Coloring and Multi-CPU Splitting.

The new Time Sync feature allows the daisy chain time sync available on all Napatech NT adapters both 1 Gbps & 10 Gbps to sync directly, without the need for special boxes, with any one pulse per second timing source from i.e. IRIG-B or CDMA.

Napatech’s on board statistics have been enhanced in functionality and includes an extensive number of counters which are available independently whether traffic is forwarded to the host or not. This enables customer applications to retrieve a comprehensive network traffic analysis at virtually zero CPU load. There are two types of counters: Large set RMON1, including Jumbo frames, for both captured and discarded frames on a per-port basis; and a Normal set including frame & byte counters for good and bad frames per filter (64 counter sets) and per host buffer (32 counter sets).

The new features described above are added to Napatech’s OEM customers at no additional cost. The high-performance adapters already include line rate processing of packets up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping of every packet, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic slicing, 64 user programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for intelligent and programmable adapters as Ethernet speeds increase. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

“The new 4- and 8-port combinations available with this new family of PCI-Express adapters enable our OEM customers to provide very advanced solutions with a high port density at an attractive price point. The NT4 family carries all features previously announced in the ANAHEIM and TUCSON release plus the above new feature set, a true new platform for the future,” says Nick Arraje, VP of Sales North America at Napatech.

The DMA-based statistics further enhance the comprehensive Napatech set of statistics already available. The full RMON standard extended with jumbo frame counters on a per-port basis are now available for both captured and discarded frames. The NEWARK release further brings a number of useful “good/bad” statistics per filter (64) and per host buffer (32). These statistics are presented as “snapshots,” which are transferred to the host through a separate DMA process followed by a time stamp. The new advanced statistics allow appliances/applications to present a very detailed view of the network traffic at practically zero CPU load.

The new features described above are added to the already feature-rich product line offered to Napatech’s OEM customers. The high-performance adapters already include line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping of every packet, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for intelligent and programmable adapters as Ethernet speeds increase, since the current PC architecture limits the amount of processing that can be achieved. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.