Mobile Campus Appoints Cingular Exec as CEO

Mobile Campus, which provides interactive mobile services for U.S. universities, announced the appointment of Jim Ryan as the company's new President and CEO. Most recently, Ryan served as vice president of consumer data services for Cingular Wireless.



To date, eleven major universities including the University of Texas, University of Florida, University of Central Florida, Texas State University, Texas Tech University, Kent State University and Clemson University have signed long-term agreements with Mobile Campus for their services.

http://www.mobilecampus.com/

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Freescale and Tundra Partner on RapidIO Switch

Freescale and Tundra Semiconductor introduced a Serial RapidIO interconnect development platform that uses Tundra's Tsi578 switch to cluster four Freescale MSC8144 multi-core DSPs in an AMC single-width form factor. The platform is designed to address interconnect bandwidth requirements of up to 10 Gbps between on-board components in applications such as wireless base stations, radio network controllers, media gateways, video conferencing and radar signal processing.



Tundra's Tsi578 enables low latency RapidIO interconnect capabilities at up to 10 Gbps, thereby supporting the bandwidth-per-link requirements of key applications. Freescale's MSC8144 multi-core DSP offers up to 10 Gbps per sRIO port. The solution could be used in standalone mode within MicroTCA and ATCA systems, or alongside Tundra's recently announced Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Development Platform.

http://www.freescale.com

http://www.tundra.com

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Korean MSO Selects Harmonic for Wideband Modular CMTS Trial

Qrix Communications, a Korean cable operator serving more than 710,000 subscribers, has launched a wideband modular cable modem termination system (M-CMTS) trial using Harmonic's NSG 9000 universal edgeQAM. Harmoni's NSG 9000 is capable of reaching up to 72 QAM RF outputs per unit and supports a wide variety of applications including broadcast, video-on-demand (VOD), switched digital video (SDV), M-CMTS and DOCSIS 3.0. The wideband M-CMTS architecture using the NSG 9000 universal edgeQAM enables Qrix to deliver up to 100 Mbps to the home.

http://www.harmonicinc.com

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LG and Harris Develop In-Band Mobile DTV Technology for Handhelds

LG Electronics and Harris Corp. submitted a proposal to the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) for a standard that would enable broadcasters to provide high-quality digital television (DTV) signals to a wide range of mobile and portable devices. Until now, reliable reception of signals transmitted by terrestrial broadcasters has not been possible in fast-moving vehicles or pedestrian handheld devices such as mobile phones or laptop computers.



LG Electronics and its U.S. research subsidiary, Zenith, has partnered with Harris to develop a Mobile-Pedestrian Handheld (MPH) in-band mobile digital television system that uses the digital broadcast signal and is backward-compatible to the current standard.



The companies said their "MPH" in-band mobile DTV system provides robust DTV signals to mobile, pedestrian and handheld devices. Unlike the cellular-based approach, MPH technology uses only the single, existing transmitter from commercial and public broadcasters.



MPH is a multiple-stream system, with the main service stream for existing DTV and HDTV services, and the MPH stream for one or more mobile, pedestrian and/or handheld services. Key attributes of the MPH( system include:

• Backward compatibility with the existing ATSC 8-VSB transmission and receiving equipment,



• Capability to receive broadcast signals at high (mobile) speed with a single antenna,



• Use of practical, small handheld receivers without the need for multiple antennas,



• Power savings in handheld receivers.

http://www.LGusa.com

http://www.harris.com

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Portugal Telecom Launches IPTV with Alcatel-Lucent + Microsoft

PT Comunicações, the largest telecommunications and multimedia business organization in Portugal, has deployed Alcatel for its new IPTV commercial service -- "meo" -- which launched this month in Lisbon, O'Porto and Castelo Branco. Initially, the service will deliver 78 TV channels (2 of them with high definition). It also includes VOD and PVR (160 hours) functionality.



The Alcatel-Lucent solution allows a customized on-demand service for each customer, enabling viewers to create their own schedule of TV programs and integrates an OSS-BSS interface that facilitates the integration between PT Comunicações' OSSs/BSSs and the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition platform.



The network infrastructure supporting PT Comunicações'striple play services include the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 Ethernet Service Switch, Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router and Alcatel-Lucent 7302 Intelligent Services Access Manager.

http://www.meo.pt

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Vodafone Portugal Selects Alcatel-Lucent for DSL

Vodafone Portugal has deployed Alcatel-Lucent's TPSDA (triple play service delivery architecture) that combines access and subscriber service delivery into an integrated DSL solution, as well as its next generation converged solutions.

Specifically, Alcatel-Lucent has supplied its Intelligent Services Access Manager and its Network Analyser and Home Network Management solution (for the management of devices deployed in customer homes and businesses). It has also deployed its next generation Service Router along with the Service Aware Manager and the Access Gateway Controller. Financial terms were not disclosed.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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U.S. International Trade Commission Denies QUALCOMM Request

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has denied a request by QUALCOMM to stay the effectiveness of the ITC's recent exclusion order, which bans the importation into the United States of certain Qualcomm chips and cellular phones containing those chips that infringe a Broadcom patent.

http://www.usitc.gov/

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