Carnegie Mellon Selects Motorola WLAN for Silicon Valley Campus

Carnegie Mellon University has deployed Motorola's enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure to provide seamless mobile connectivity indoors and outdoors to faculty and students at its campus in Mountain View, California. The campus specializes in graduate programs in software engineering, software and management, security, mobile technology, and engineering and technology innovation and management.Specifically, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley installed the Motorola RFS7000 WLAN switch in combination with 802.11a/b/g AP300 access ports (APs)...

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Sea Launch Prepares to Launch DIRECTV 11 on March 17

The Sea Launch team entered the final countdown window for the launch of the DIRECTV 11 broadcast satellite. Liftoff is planned at 3:49 pm PDT (22:49 GMT). Sea Launcshaid it will provide live coverage of the launch via its website.DIRECTV 11 is one of three recent Boeing 702-model spacecraft built for DIRECTV and is among the largest and most powerful Ka-band satellites built to date. The on-board technology of this direct-to-home satellite will enable DIRECTV to continue to expand its massive capacity expansion and further strengthen its position...

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Fastweb Selects Nokia Siemens Networks for MVNO Launch

Fastweb, which is currently serving 1.3 million fixed network customers in Italy, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks as a technological partner when it launches mobile services later this year. Nokia Siemens Networks will provide Fastweb with a suite of convergent core network products and network implementation services to facilitate the launch of mobile data services. Specifically, Nokia Siemens Networks will deliver the network control solution, featuring its Intelligent Service Node (Flexi ISN), during the first quarter of 2008, ensuring...

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Alcatel-Lucent to Integrate NextWave's WiMAX Broadcast Solution

Alcatel-Lucent will integrate NextWave's recently announced "MXtv" WiMAX broadcast technology into its WiMAX solutions portfolio. The two companies plan to perform a series of interoperability tests with Alcatel-Lucent's commercial WiMAX infrastructure starting in the second quarter of 2008.The goal is to enable WiMAX operators to deliver a broad range of rich and personalized multimedia services including mobile TV, interactive services and digital audio without having to invest in new spectrum or additional network infrastructure.NextWave's MXtv...

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Ixia Launches End-to-end Remote QoE and Service Validation Platform

Ixia introduced an end-to-end remote Quality of Experience (QoE) and service validation platform for Triple Play deployments. The new IxRave platform actively monitors and isolate faults in a carrier's access network by using inexpensive probes that can be deployed along network edges, at customer premises and at key core points to perform real-time active network validation. The service measurement can then be integrated with a carriers' operation...

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Fujitsu Tweaks Outside Plant Enclosure to Speed Deployments

Fujitsu Network Communications introduced a new outdoor enclosure that spins for full 180° product access. The enclosure is used for housing the FLASHWAVE 4100 Extension Shelf system. The design allows carriers to quickly deploy and maintain Fujitsu FLASHWAVE equipment.The new enclosure expands the full range of turnkey outside plant (OSP) solutions from Fujitsu.The FLASHWAVE 4100 Extension Shelf offers a compact 2RU (3.5") modular solution that...

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Microsoft/Nortel Partnership Delivers Four Unified Communications (UC) Solutions

Building on their Innovative Communications Alliance, which was first announced in July 2006, Microsoft and Nortel released four new joint unified communications (UC) solutions, including the Converged Office unified communications suite, Multimedia Conferencing, and solutions for branch offices and hosted service providers. The companies said customer adoption of their joint solution continues to accelerate with more than 600 wins for unified communications...

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Packeteer Unveils Smallest WAN Optimization Appliance

Packeteer introduced its PacketShaper 900 (PS900) appliance for providing visibility, control, compression and acceleration of application traffic across WAN links. The new PS900, which is billed as the smallest WAN Optimization appliance, delivers the same functionality of Packeteer's larger PacketShaper models for Intelligent Service Assurance in a small form-factor, energy efficient package that aligns with the needs of remote sites where space...

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Qualcomm Acquires Xiam for Content Discovery/Recommendations

Qualcomm has acquired Xiam Technologies, a start-up offering a mobile content discovery and recommendations system, for approximately $32 million. Xiam, which is based in Dublin, Ireland, developed a "My Personal Offers System" (MPOS) that enables mobile operators and brands to make personalized recommendations to individual consumers that are tailored to their unique tastes and preferences using advanced profiling techniques. Consumers can receive...

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AT&T Partners on State-of-the-Art Facility in Qatar

AT&T is partnering with Qtel and NavLink to jointly develop and deliver advanced data communications services and solutions for Energy City Qatar (ECQ), a landmark business center in the Middle East. ECQ is a major US$2.6 billion development to create the Middle East's first integrated energy and business center for the oil and gas industry. Plans include a carrier class Internet data center (IDC) and a network operations center (NOC) built to AT&T's and Qtel's standards for these types of facilities. NavLink, (a company in which AT&T...

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Highwinds Raises $55 Million for its Content Delivery Network

Highwinds Network Group, a content delivery network operator based in Winter Park, Florida, closed a $55 million round of equity financing led by General Catalyst Partners and Alta Communications. The financing will fund the infrastructure build-out of Highwinds' "RollingThunder" network.Highwinds also announced a partnership with Digital Rapids Corporation and Knack Networks to create advanced IPTV solutions for professional media companies worldwide.http://www.highwinds.comIn...

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Altair Samples its Mobile WiMAX Processor for Handheld Devices

Altair Semiconductor, a start-up based in Israel, announced sampling of its mobile WiMAX baseband processor to leading handheld device and module manufacturers. The company said its design sets new standards in terms of power consumption, size and cost. The device implements full WiMAX Forum Wave-2 physical (PHY) Layer and Media Access Control (MAC) functionality. http://www.altair-semi....

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Xirrus Raises $26 Million for Wi-Fi Array Integrating Gigabit Switch

Xirrus, a start-up based in Westlake Village, California, secured $26 million in third round funding for its Wi-Fi "Power-Play" solutions. The company offers a Wi-Fi Array that integrates 4, 8, or 16 radios and high-gain directional antennas into a single device along with an onboard Gigabit Switch, Wi-Fi Controller, Firewall, and dedicated Wi-Fi Threat Sensor. The solution is designed as a replacement for Ethernet workgroup switches.The round...

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NEC to Offer Full Scale IPTV Solutions for International Markets

NEC announced plans to will launch full-scale IPTV solutions for international markets. The company will deliver end-to-End IPTV solutions and video delivery systems to service providers. NEC said it will draw on its NGN know-how and extensive experience with broadcasting technology. The company is targeting 50 billion yen in sales by 2010. NEC intends to adopt the following initiatives to further this goal:1. The delivery of End-to-End IPTV...

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University of Houston to Install 1,000 AT&T U-verse Connections

The University of Houston will deploy AT&T's U-verse IPTV and high speed Internet services every room of a new residence hall for graduate and professional students. The Calhoun Lofts, next to the University of Houston's C.T. Bauer College of Business, will contain more than 700 one- and two-bedroom apartments with 1,000 AT&T U-verse connections. AT&T said this represents the first planned of U-verse services into student housing on...

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AT&T Expands Ethernet Services with VPLS

AT&T has expanded its Ethernet service portfolio with the rollout of a global virtual private local area network service (VPLS) and expanded midband Ethernet connection speeds -- including speeds below 10 Mbps -- delivered over copper.AT&T's VPLS service, called "OPT-E-WAN", will enable businesses to link multiple locations using Ethernet interfaces. The service is expected to be available beginning this summer. Throughout 2008, AT&T...

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Verizon Business Outlines 2008 CAPEX Plans

Verizon Business outlined plans to expand its global network footprint in 2008 through a number of infrastructure projects in high-growth regions, including China, India, Mexico, Brazil and Australia. In India, the company is currently implementing a diverse five-city IP, Ethernet and Global Data Link network in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad. Verizon Business recently received its international and national long- distance licenses...

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