The Femto Forum Sets Charter

A new Femto Forum has been launched with a mission to promote femtocell deployment worldwide through open standards, market education and ecosystem development. Founding members including Airvana, ip.access, NETGEAR, picoChip, RadioFrame, Tatara and Ubiquisys. Initial working groups will concentrate on pre-competitive standards-focused issues including radio planning & control, device provisioning & management and device to network standardization....

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India's Bharti Airtel Awards US$900 Million Deal to Nokia Siemens Networks

India's Bharti Airtel Limited awarded a contract valued at approximately US$900 million to Nokia Siemens Networks for an expansion of its mobile, fixed and Intelligent Network platforms. Specifically, Nokia Siemens Networks will expand Airtel's GSM network in eight circles; its National Long Distance and International Long Distance network with 1.8 million Next Generation Network (NGN) ports -- the largest ever NGN contract in the country -- and...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Develops 3G Femto Home Access solution

Nokia Siemens Networks announced plans for a 3G Femto Home Access solution with open interfaces and a new network element, Femto Gateway. The new 3G Femto Home Access solution is a new way of enhancing WCDMA 3G coverage in homes, giving consumers a strong signal with any standard WCDMA terminal. The Femto CPE will use IP broadband backhaul. It will incorporate 3G Node B and RNC, with xDSL and Wi-Fi capabilities optionally available.On the network...

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China Mobile Yunnan Awards GSM Contract to Nokia Siemens Networks

China Mobile Group Yunnan awarded a contract valued at about EUR 70 million to Nokia Siemens Networks for expansion of its GSM network in 11 across Yunnan province. Under the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will provide GSM coverage for the urban and rural areas of Yunnan province and upgrade the Chinese operator's network to support EDGE. Nokia Siemens Networks will supply radio networks including the UltraSite BTS Mini Outdoor and implementation services, its mobile soft switching solution including MSC (Mobile Switching Center) Servers, Media...

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Google Acquires GrandCentral for Advanced Calling Features

Google has acquired GrandCentral Communications, a start-up developing a service that integrates a user's multiple telephone numbers and multiple voicemail boxes into one account, and then adds advanced capabilities. GrandCentral's mission has been to offer "one number that you keep for life," tying together landline and mobile accounts delivered by other carriers. The service is currently in beta testing. Financial terms of the acquisition were...

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China Unicom Selects Alcatel-Lucent IP Service Routers for Nationwide Network

China Unicom has selected Alcatel-Lucent's IP Service routers as the foundation of a nationwide network transformation that will encompass 65 cities across 13 provinces in China and will be completed by the end of 2007. Financial terms were not disclosed.The Alcatel-Lucent IP solution, based on its 7750 Service Router, will enable China Unicom to better serve its customers, as it expands its service offerings towards 3G. Alcatel-Lucent's solution...

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BT Selects Alcatel-Lucent to Help Migrate Customers to 21CN

BT has selected Alcatel-Lucent to support the automation of end-user customer migration from its legacy telephone network to the 21st Century Network (21CN). Specifically, Alcatel-Lucent will assist BT in ensuring that its 21CN Migration Control Centre (MCC), which oversees the upgrade of customers from the legacy network to the new IP network, is operational and ready to meet the challenges of migrating 20 million customers over to the new all-IP network. Alcatel-Lucent will also develop a workflow tool that will provide the management tracking...

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ShoreTel Rises 28% in IPO -- Enterprise IP Telephony

ShoreTel, a provider of enterprise IP telephony solutions, completed the initial public offering of 7,900,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $9.50 per share. In its first day of trading (July 3), the shares rose $2.65 to close at $12.15, up 28%.img align="right" border="0" src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11402824/CND/v12n165-shoretel.jpg">ShoreTel's common stock is now traded on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker "SHOR".Lehman...

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Zarlink Expands its Voice Echo Canceller Line

Zarlink Semiconductor has expanded its VEC (voice echo canceller) product portfolio with a hardware and firmware platform aimed at helping network equipment manufacturers simplify design, speed time-to-market and lower bill-of-material and resource costs.Zarlink's ZL38015 voice processing platform is built on a voice optimized 100 MHz (200 effective MIPS) DSP with an integrated 1024 tap filter co-processor, 16 KW instruction and 8 KB data memory, hardware accelerators, SPI (serial peripheral interface), UART (universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter)...

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EchoStar Sign a Multi-Year Hotel TV Deal with Guest-Tek

EchoStar Communications announced a multi-year deal to provide its DISH Network satellite TV service to Guest-Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd., which provides networking services to major hotel brands. The agreement will provide a package of television programming services called Free-to-Guest (FTG), which includes a wide range of premium content and more HD channels than previously available.Guest-Tek brings additional value to the hotelier through its ability to provide the FTG programming over a converged network along with its video-on-demand...

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