Vendors Set LTE Licensing Deal

Top network equipment suppliers reached agreement for licensing intellectual property rights (IPR) that relate to 3GPP Long Term Evolution and Service Architecture Evolution standards (LTE/SAE). The parties include Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson.The framework is based on the prevalent industry principle of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing terms for essential patents. This means that the companies agree, subject to reciprocity, to reasonable, maximum aggregate...

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Tata Communications Establishes MPLS Interconnect with Telecom Egypt

Tata Communications has expanded its Global VPN service to Egypt through a partnership agreement with TE Data, a subsidiary of Telecom Egypt . Specifically, the carriers have interconnected their respective MPLS infrastructures, setting up multiple, redundant network-to-network interconnection (NNI) points between the two companies connecting Tata's European and Indian network hubs with TE Data's facilities in Egypt. The NNI agreement allows Tata...

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MPLS-Inter-Carrier Interconnect (ICI) Spec Released

The IP/MPLS Forum has approved a new MPLS Inter-Carrier Interconnect (MPLS-ICI) specification that defines how carriers can link their networks on a global basis for the delivery of MPLS services. The specification includes methods for the establishment of Label Switched Paths (LSPs); signaling and routing protocols; resiliency; traffic management and QoS; Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM); as well as packet forwarding and security...

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Vendors Show SFP+ Optical Interface Interoperability

The Ethernet Alliance conducted a multi-vendor interoperability test of Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP+) short-reach (10GBASE-SR) and long-reach (10GBASE-LR) optical interfaces.The testing was recently held at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) by the Ethernet Alliance SFP+/EDC subcommittee and included AMCC, Avago Technologies, Broadcom, ClariPhy, Cortina Systems, ExceLight Communications, Finisar, Gennum, Inphi, Intel,...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Signs Gateway Deal with GENBAND

GENBAND announced a five-year OEM agreement under which Nokia Siemens Networks will be the preferred supplier of trunking media gateways for their global fixed network market. The companies have also reached a definitive agreement for GENBAND to acquire Nokia Siemens Networks' SURPASS hiG fixed line trunking media gateway product line. Nokia Siemens Networks will continue with its fixed core networks solution portfolio and provide service and support to its current installed base and future customers.GENBAND said the deal strengthens its position...

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ICO Successfully Launches G1 Satellite for Mobile TV

ICO Global Communications announced the successful launch of its North American geosynchronous satellite, ICO G1, on board an Atlas V 421 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. ICO G1, which was constructed by Space Systems/Loral using the Loral 1300 platform, has a total mass of 6634kg, making it the largest satellite ever launched by an Atlas rocket, and is the largest commercial satellite ever launched.ICO is planning to offer a converged mobile...

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Network Evolution -- Qwest Communications

1. Impact of Video Traffic -- Will an exa-flood of video traffic swamp the Internet? 2. Migration to 40 - 100 Gbps -- When will the transition from 10 Gps to 40 Gbps occur? 100 Gbps? 3. Carrier Ethernet -- What is driving the market for Carrier Etherner? ...

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Tiscali Int. Net Deploys Juniper T1600 Core Router

Tiscali International Network (TINet), the wholesale carrier division of the Tiscali Group, is deploying the Juniper Networks T1600 multi-terabit core router. TINet exclusively focuses on serving wholesale customers with high capacity IPv4 and IPv6 Transit, Layer 2 MPLS services for IPTV and data transport and with its global Ethernet private lines service. The 1600s will be installed in several Points of Presence throughout Europe and America to accommodate fast traffic growth and to support 40 Gbps technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.Juniper's...

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RAD Enhances Demarc Device for Carrier Ethernet Access and WiMAX/LTE Backhaul

RAD Data Communications introduced its ETX-A series of intelligent demarcation units designed to support managed Carrier Ethernet services and WiMAX/LTE backhaul traffic. The first product in the series, the ETX-202A, provides key functions at customer premises, multi-tenant units (MTUs), remote cell sites, and aggregating hubs. Specifically, it offers bandwidth control mechanisms to classify, police, schedule, and shape high-priority traffic to ensure that it is not delayed or discarded even when the link is congested. At MTUs or WiMAX/LTE hub...

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