Alcatel-Lucent to Market OKI's Mobile WiMAX Terminals

Alcatel-Lucent has agreed to market OKI's mobile WiMAX terminals worldwide. By joining the Open Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Program, OKI will work with Alcatel-Lucent to share market data enabling both companies to better define, test and introduce features earlier, ensure faster availability of end-to-end solutions and widen the offering of terminals.The two companies also agreed to collaborate on conducting interoperability tests to obtain WiMAX Forum Certification and focus on offering new devices, developing features and improving overall...

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NewStep Integrates its FMC with Oracle SDP

NewStep Networks has integrated its real-time communications session management capabilities with Oracle Communication and Mobility Server, a component of the Oracle Service Delivery Platform (SDP) and Oracle Fusion Middleware. TNewStep plans to leverage the Oracle SDP, starting with the Oracle Communication and Mobility Server, to deliver its services within deployment architectures for mobile and fixed networks, legacy and IP-based. NewStep said collaborating with Oracle provides it with the opportunity to include its Converged Services Node...

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Packeteer Appoints VP of Marketing

Packeteer named Roy Agostino to the position of vice president of marketing. Previously, Agostino was chief marketing officer at Integrien Corporation, a provider of integrity management solutions. Before Integrien, Agostino served as chief marketing officer at Elemental Security and has held key executive and marketing management positions with Information Builders and Crystal Decisions. Prior to that, Agostino spent 10 years at NIKE. http://www.packeteer....

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Media Broadcast GmbH Selects Corrigent for Optical Transport

Media Broadcast has selected Corrigent Systems' CM-100 and CM-4000 Carrier Ethernet transport solutions as a main network infrastructure building block for network solutions deployed by Deutsche Telekom's wholesale business unit, and leased to a leading cable operator in Germany. Deployments in Lower Saxony and Bavaria begin this year, and rollout in further regions for the leading cable operator are expected to span over the next years as part of a 15-year agreement. First shipments of the CM-100 have commenced. Financial terms were not disclosed.Corrigent's...

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Bell Canada Reports Growth in Wireless, Declines in Wireline

Bell Canada reported Q4 2007 operating revenues of $3,815 million, a 1.7% increase compared to Q4 of last year as revenue growth in wireless, video and data more than offset declines in local and access and long distance service revenues. For the full year, Bell's operating revenues grew by 1.4% to $14,743 million.Bell's EBITDA grew by 5.4% compared to Q4 2006 to $1,333 million due to cost containment, ARPU growth and lower pension costs, leading to an improvement in Bell's EBITDA margin of 1.2 percentage points to 34.9% this quarter. "This was...

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Extreme Networks Completes JITC Testing

Extreme Networks' Ethernet switching products have completed and passed the Department of Defense's (DOD) Joint Interoperability Test Command VoIP Assurance testing for Assured Services Voice Application Local Area Network (ASVALAN) and these products are now certified to be interoperable to operate in DOD VoIP networks.The JITC certification, validating functionality of attributes such as jitter, delay and packet loss, is required for all products that support voice, data or video communications connecting to the Defense Switched Network. Extreme...

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NETGEAR Shows Femtocell Residential Gateway

NETGEAR announced the availability of its first Femtocell Voice Gateway (DVG834GH) -- a single-box solution that includes a residential gateway with integrated ADSL2+ modem, router, 10/100 wired LAN switch, 802.11g wireless access point, VoIP, SPI double firewall, and 3G UTMS femtocell technology with HSDPA from Ubiquisys Ltd. The NETGEAR Femtocell Voice Gateway (DVG834GH)plugs into an ADSL line and enables consumers to share their broadband connection...

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Ericsson's U500 Mobile Platform Targets Consumer Markets

Ericsson announced its U500 mobile platform aimed at a new wave of consumer mobile services. Designed for mass market mobile devices, the U500 is capable of features such as high quality camcorder (MPEG4, H.264 D1@30fps), 12 Mpix camera, WVGA displays, advanced 3D gaming and 3D user interface, CD quality audio performance and high resolution mobile TV ((MBMS phase 2, DVB-H, Unicast). Connectivity options include WLAN 802.11, wireless USB(UWB) and high speed USB. The U500 supports quad-band WCDMA radio, 7.2/5.76Mbps HSPA broadband capabilities,...

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Fujitsu Launches "BroadOne" Mobile WiMAX Base Station

Fujitsu Network Communications introduced its "BroadOne" WX series of mobile WiMAX base stations designed for rapid installation and high-power output and global spectrum requirements. Fujitsu said its new base stations are designed to consume low levels of power while being small and light enough to be carried by a single technician during installation. This allows mobile WiMAX service providers to build and operate their wireless broadband infrastructure...

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Juniper Names Michele Goins as Chief Information Officer

Juniper Networks announced the appointment of Michele Goins to the position of chief information officer (CIO). Ms. Goins joins Juniper from Hewlett-Packard, where she served in a number of executive positions during her 25 year tenure. Most recently, she was vice president and CIO for Hewlett-Packard's Imaging and Printing Group (IPG).http://www.juniper....

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Cisco Posts Revenue of $9.8 Billion, Cautious Outlook

Cisco reported quarterly net sales of $9.8 billion, net income (GAAP) of $2.1 billion or $0.33 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $2.4 billion or $0.38 per share for its second fiscal quarter ended 26-Jan-2008. This compares with $8.4 billion in net sales a year earlier, an increase of 16.5%. However, citing a slow-down of sales in January and uncertainty in overall economy, Cisco issued a more cautious outlook for the upcoming quarter."Cisco...

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AT&T Expands 3G Rollout to Additional 80 Cities

AT&T will expand the deployment of its 3G service to more than 80 additional cities in the U.S. during 2008. This will make the AT&T 3G service available in nearly 350 U.S. markets by the end of 2008, including all of the top 100 U.S. cities. The 3G initiative will include the roll out of more than 1,500 additional cell sites nationwide.Other plans for the new year include completion of the nation's first High Speed Uplink Packet Access...

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