Ericsson Shows Green Base Station + Tower Designs

Ericsson unveiled a series of towers for wireless base stations and antennas that are more environmentally friendly and better able to blend in with a community than typical communication masts. The Ericsson Tower Tube, designed by renowned Scandinavian architect Thomas Sandell, takes a new approach to site architecture - the 5m-diameter, 40m-high flexible concrete tower encapsulates all radio base station equipment, including the antennas. The...

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Ixia Joins Nortel's Carrier Ethernet Ecosystem

Ixia has joined Nortel's Carrier Ethernet Ecosystem initiative as a key test solution supplier. Ixia and Nortel will cooperate to ensure cross-vendor compatibility with new protocols for Carrier Ethernet deployments including PBB (Provider Backbone Bridging) and PBB-TE (PBB-Traffic Engineering).The promise of Carrier Ethernet is to provide high-speed, low-cost, easily managed core networks operating at Layer 2 that provide all of the services that have been performed by IP networks. Current Metro Ethernet networks allow customer-separated services,...

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OPNET Develops "Live" User Monitoring Solution

OPNET Technologies introduced a solution for passive end user experience monitoring. The new "ACE Live" will integrate with OPNET's ACE for rapid diagnosis of detected application performance problems in high-speed environments. ACE provides analytics for in-depth troubleshooting of application performance. The new offering is planned to be available in the second calendar quarter of 2008.OPNET said its solution will offer both agent-less monitoring and optional active monitoring. These two approaches are complementary. Live monitoring tracks the...

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Microsoft Debuts Silverlight 1.0

Microsoft officially released Silverlight 1.0, its cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering video and richer user experiences on the Web. Silverlight provides enhanced Web audio and video streaming and playback using Windows Media technologies. Microsoft said it is committed to supporting multiple Operating Systems and browsers, including the Mac. Microsoft is also working with Novell to deliver Silverlight support for Linux, called...

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KDDI Deploys Bytemobile for Wireless Downlink Optimization

KDDI Corporation has deployed Bytemobile's Unison Optimization Services Node (OSN) solution for the acceleration of its new Kaisoku (High-Speed) CDMA Packet Access (CPA) service. Bytemobile said its technology accelerates website access and file transfer for CPA service on laptops by up to 5x. The in-network deployment was managed by NEC Corporation, Bytemobile's new reseller partner in Japan. Bytemobile's Unison OSN Monaco Edition uses proprietary data reduction, protocol acceleration and content caching techniques for the dynamic optimization...

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AT&T U-verse TV Reaches 100,000 Customer Milestone

AT&T now has surpassed the 100,000 customer milestone for its "U-verse" TV service, making it the largest IPTV deployment in the U.S. AT&T also announced a couple new features for the service, including:AT&T U-bar, which brings Internet-like content to the television screen in the form of customized weather, stock, traffic and sports information.YELLOWPAGES.COM TV, an intuitive new way to search for local businesses and other information...

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JDSU's Photonic Integrated Circuit Combines Tunable Laser + Optical Modulator

JDSU has demonstrated a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that combines a tunable laser and optical modulator, using a technology known as the Integrated Laser Mach Zehnder (ILMZ). The company said this paves the way for smaller, higher performance and more cost-effective tunable solutions that support faster network speeds.The new PIC includes a widely tunable laser and Mach Zehnder modulator on a single chip that is small enough to fit on the tip...

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TerreStar Selects Nokia Siemens Networks' Internet-HSPA

TerreStar Networks, which is planning to build North America's first 4G integrated mobile satellite and terrestrial communications network, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks' Internet-HSPA solution. This will be Nokia Siemens Networks' first commercial I-HSPA network deployment, a significant milestone for a standardized technology for which Nokia Siemens Networks has been a pioneer. Financial terms were not disclosed.Specifically, Nokia Siemens Networks will provide its Flexi WCDMA Base Station as an integrated part of an Internet-High Speed...

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LSI to Acquire Tarari for Content Processor

LSI agreed to acquire Tarari, a developer of content processors, for $85 million. Tarari's silicon solutions are designed to offload and accelerate compute-intensive, complex algorithms used for content inspection in XML/Web services, network security and digital media environments. These content-aware networking applications could include anti-virus, anti-spam, intrusion detection and prevention, XML security and advanced network control. Additional...

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ARRIS Supplies CMTS for WOW!

WOW!, an MSO serving communities in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, has selected the ARRIS C4 CMTS to provide primary-line voice and High Speed Data service to subscribers in its regional systems. WOW! is also an ARRIS Touchstone Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapter (E-MTA) customer and has been using Touchstone E-MTAs to provide voice service since it began offering VoIP. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.arrisi....

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