Fujitsu Introduces 10G Ethernet LAN-PHY mapper for WDM

Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) introduced a 10G Ethernet LAN-PHY mapper targeting Ethernet mapping and transport applications.
The device enables transport of multiple service types (both synchronous and asynchronous) including 10GE LAN-PHY or WAN-PHY, SDH/SONET STM-64/OC-192 or OTN OTU-2 signals. Fujitsu said its 10G Ethernet LAN-PHY device provides maximum flexibility to manage Ethernet LAN/WAN transport over metro and core networks and complements its family of products for 10G SDH/SONET and Ethernet applications as well as 40G SDH/SONET/OTN applications. The mapper also functions as a multiple-standard interface converter (XFI/SFI-4/SFI-5s), 2.5G or 10G asynchronous cross-connect and has two full-duplex 10G channels for protected terminal applications. It supports seamless integration to XFP modules on the client side and to standard 10G and 40G FEC devices on the network side.

http://www.fujitsu.com/emea/news/pr/fme_20071119.html

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Nokia Siemens Networks Targets Energy Efficiency -- 70% Savings in Base Stations

Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled the first phase of its environmentally sustainable business solutions by announcing plans to significantly improve the energy efficiency of its wireless networks, particularly the base stations and base station sites.



The four main elements of the solution are:

• minimizing the number of base station sites;



• minimizing the need for air conditioning to cool the sites;



• using the latest base station technology; and,



• deploying software features that optimize the use of radio access for wireless communications.

The company estimates energy consumption of a base station site can be reduced by up to 70 percent. Building a network with a minimum number of base station sites further increases energy efficiency. This can be achieved with software features to increase coverage.



Reducing or eliminating the need for air conditioning for base station equipment is another opportunity to increase efficiency. By increasing the ambient temperature to up to 40˚C, energy consumption can be reduced by up to 30 percent in existing base station equipment.



Nokia Siemens Networks utilizes a wide range of software features to improve base station energy efficiency by balancing consumption according to load. For example, because nighttime base-station traffic is much lower than during peak daytime hours, part of the base station can be shut down or its capacity can be set on power save mode at night.



Finally, in terms of base station power consumption, Nokia Siemens Networks has achieved levels of 800W and 500W respectively for typical GSM and WCDMA base stations. Going forward, the company has set even more ambitious targets: to further reduce the energy consumption of its GSM and WCDMA base stations to the 650W and 300W respectively by 2010.

http://www.nsn.com

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Nokia Siemens Networks to Supply Energy-efficient Base Stations for China Mobile

Nokia Siemens Networks has signed a contract for the delivery of its energy-efficient Flexi GSM Base Stations to China Mobile Group Beijing Ltd. (CMBJ).



NSN said the Flexi GSM Base Station being used by CMBJ is the smallest and most energy efficient on the market. The company is also focused on minimizing the number of base stations sites in total; minimizing the need for air conditioning to cool the sites and deploying software features that optimize the use of radio access for wireless communications.



China Mobile Group Beijing will serve as the official telecommunications supplier at various venues during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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France's Neo Telecoms Deploys Juniper's MX960 Ethernet Services Routers

Paris-based Neo Telecoms, which operates a 100 Gbps European fiber network, has deployed Juniper Networks MX960 Ethernet Services Routers.
Neo Telecoms' IP transit network interconnects its regional data centers in major cities across Europe and is a critical component of its hosting, IP and MPLS-based connectivity services. Financial terms were not disclosed.

http://www.juniper.nethttp://www.neotelecoms.com

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picoChip Delivers Single-Chip WiMAX Wave 2 and IO-MIMO Femtocell

picoChip announced its PC6532 Wave 2 femtocell, the next version of its WiMAX base station reference design. The single-chip (PHY + MAC) reference design supports WiMAX Wave 2 and full IO-MIMO in both downlink and uplink.



Wave 2 is the latest version of the WiMAX standard, adding increased support for mobility, while MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output) increases data-rate and reliability by simultaneously sending and receiving data via multiple antennas.



picoChip said its WiMAX architecture is scaleable from femtocell access points to sophisticated multi-sector carrier macrocells with full support for IO-MIMO and beamforming. http://www.picochip.com

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Plato Networks Appoints CEO, Former Head of Exar

Plato Networks, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California that is developing physical layer solutions based on a unique approach in signaling technology, has appointed Dr. Roubik Gregorian as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Gregorian previously served as President and CEO of Exar Corp., where he was instrumental in transitioning the company into a major supplier of wire-line and optical products for the communications market. Roubik was also the Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer for Sierra Semiconductor, now PMC-Sierra. Gregorian has been issued 28 patents and authored two textbooks and 45 technical articles.

"Plato Networks has a unique mixed signal processing platform with immense potential. The application to 10 Gigabit Ethernet on copper twisted pair wiring should address the growing needs of the data center and establish Plato as a leading supplier of communications ICs. I am excited to join this world class team and have the opportunity to be part of enabling this market," said Gregorian.

http://www.platonetworks.com

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Charter Selects BigBand's Switched Digital Video

Charter Communications has selected BigBand Networks' switched digital video (SDV) solution to expand digital TV services in its Los Angeles-area system, including Malibu, Burbank and Glendale. The equipment is being used to expand HDTV and other programming options. Charter is the fifth operator to initiate commercial deployments of BigBand's SDV solution. The five largest cable operators in the U.S. have now selected BigBand's SDV. Financial terms were not disclosed.



Charter is deploying BigBand's switched digital video management server to dynamically direct programming to areas where it is requested. The operator selected BigBand's universal edge QAM -- the BEQ6000 -- to deliver switched programming.

http://www.bigbandnet.com

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RMI Names Former Qualcomm Executive as President and CEO

Raza Microelectronics (RMI) named Behrooz Abdi as President and Chief Executive Officer, succeeding S. Atiq Raza, RMI's founding CEO, who will remain Chairman of the Board of Directors.



Prior to his appointment at RMI, Mr. Abdi held the position of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm's CDMA Technologies (QCT). During his tenure, QCT became the driving force behind the transition to 65nm and 45nm technologies, successfully acquired and integrated several product and technology companies and moved into the top ten list of semiconductor companies. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Mr. Abdi held leadership and engineering positions of increasing responsibility at Motorola in its Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS). His last role at Motorola was Vice President and General Manager for the radio products division, in charge of RF and mixed signal ICs for the wireless mobile market.

http://www.RazaMicro.com

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BT Conferencing Selects Sonus

BT Conferencing has selected Sonus Networks to develop customer conferencing solutions. The companies said deployment of the Sonus platform within BT Conferencing's global infrastructure will allow for existing customer reservationless solutions to be expanded and scaled to meet demand, whilst retaining their existing call access numbers.



The first deployment, which includes the Sonus GSX 9000 Open Services Switch and the PSX Call Routing Server, will be in Boston.
http://www.sonusnet.com

http://www.bt.com/conferencing

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AT&T to Acquire Ingenio for Pay Per Call Search and Directory

AT&T agreed to acquire privately held Ingenio, a start-up based in San Francisco specializing in "Pay Per Call" search technology, for an undisclosed sum. Ingenio's Pay Per Call service is an advertising platform. The platform uses proprietary technology to provision unique published phone numbers to track calls to businesses generated by those ads, and advertisers' fees are based on the volume of these leads.





AT&T plans to integrate Ingenio's Pay Per Call into its directory service and local search advertising portfolio, including the YELLOWPAGES.COM Network, AT&T Real Yellow Pages and 1-800-Yellow Pages. The company said Pay Per Call technology will provide another lead generation tool for advertisers to reach customers. Integrating Ingenio's Pay Per Call technology will enable AT&T to take advantage of a growing trend toward performance-based advertising.

http://www.att.com

http://www.ingenio.com

• Ingenio was founded in 1999 and has 120 employees. Investors include Benchmark Capital and the Carlyle Group.

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Verizon Completes 100 Gbps Field Trial using FiOS Feed

Verizon completed a field test of 100 Gbps optical transmission technology on a live, in-service 312-mile (504 kilometer) network route in Florida between Tampa and Miami.



Verizon said the test, which utilized a live video feed from its national FiOS TV network as the "payload," was successfully completed on a Verizon Business ultra long-haul optical system carrying other live traffic at 10 Gbps. The test demonstrated that by deploying advanced electronics, an existing network system can easily and quickly be upgraded to 100 Gbps.



The test used Alcatel-Lucent's 1625 LambdaXtreme Transport system on existing fibers that were initially conditioned for 10 Gbps service. Unlike other trials that used 10 separate 10 Gbps wavelengths to carry 100 Gbps, the Verizon test utilized a 100 Gbps signal on a single wavelength, demonstrating Verizon's drive to promote "true" 100 Gbps in a serial fashion on just one transmission wavelength.



"This is another critical milestone on our way to ensuring that we have the most advanced telecom network technology at the right time, in the right place, to serve our customers," said Mark Wegleitner, Verizon's senior vice president for technology. http://www.verizon.com

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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Ixia's Chairman of the Board Retires

Jean-Claude Asscher will retire as Ixia's Chairman of the Board of Directors and as a Director, positions he has held since 1997. The Board of Directors has elected Errol Ginsberg, a founder and CEO of Ixia, to succeed Mr. Asscher as Chairman of the Board, effective January 1, 2008.

http://www.ixiacom.com

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Aruba Selects Cavium's OCTEON Processors

Aruba Networks has selected Cavium Networks' OCTEON MIPS64 Processor family for use in its enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) products. The Cavium processors, with one to sixteen cnMIPS cores on a single chip, integrate processor peripherals, next-generation networking interfaces, a memory controller, advanced hardware acceleration for packet processing, QoS, TCP, multi-core scaling, pattern matching, compression/decompression, storage, and security. Additionally the OCTEON processor family provides throughput and general purpose programmability for Layer 2 through Layer 7 processing.
http://www.caviumnetworks.com

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Telstra Deploys Alcatel-Lucent's ISAM for "Next IP" Network

Telstra has deployed close to 900,000 DSL ports in its "Next IP" network using Alcatel-Lucent's IP DSLAM (ISAM) platform, which provides speeds of up to 24 Mbps. Alcatel-Lucent is one of Telstra's strategic suppliers and the end-to-end network integrator for the first phase of their wireline transformation project.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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Amazon's WhisperNet Leverages Sprint EVDO on Per-Transaction Basis

Amazon.com's new "Kindle" portable reader will use Sprint Nextel's EVDO network for downloading electronic books and magazines from the company's online bookstore. Kindle users do not need to subscribe to a data plan. Amazon said the access fee is built into the price of the e-books it sells.

http://www.amazon.com

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One Minute Video: What is ATCA?

One Minute Video presented by Anthoy Ambrose, RadiSys -- What is ATCA?



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