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Moto acquires OD tech maker Broadbus

SCHAUMBURG, Il. – Motorola announced Tuesday that it is buying Broadbus Technologies, a Boxborough, Ma.-based provider of on demand solutions. "Broadbus Technologies’ industry-leading, carrier-class technology solutions enable the distribution of on-demand content to consumers through multiple devices," explains the press release. "The company's innovative solid-state server architecture is based on the intelligent configuration and management of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). As a result, the platform can use less space and power than traditional hard-disk based technology, while providing performance, reliability and scalability improvements for video ingest, streaming, and storage." A Motorola purchase of Broadbus was a hot rumor on the...