Alcatel-Lucent Enhances Triple Play Architecture with Intelligence, Control, Lots of Queues

Alcatel-Lucent has enhanced its Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) with more capacity, better control and higher scalability for mass-market multimedia services. New capabilities are aimed at providing distributed, fine-grain policy enforcement with centralized policy control to deliver multiple services to subscribers, including managed services such as IPTV and voice as well as unmanaged services such as High Speed Internet (HSI)....

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ECI Telecom and Ceragon Partner on Wireless Backhaul

ECI Telecom and Ceragon Networks announced a partnership to provide a multi-service transport radio solution for carriers. The joint multi-service transport radio combines ECI's XDM and Broad-Gate Multi-Service Provisioning Platforms (MSPP) with Ceragon's FibeAir IP & SDH microwave technology.The partnership, which strengthens the long-term cooperation between the two market-leading companies, addresses the demand for an end-to-end integrated wireline and wireless backhaul solution, and offers reduced time-to-market, improved manageability...

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ADC Raises 2008 Annual Guidance

adc reported quarterly sales of $403 million up 16% from Q2 2007 and 19% from Q1 2008. Gross margin improved to 36.3% in the quarter compared to 34.5% a year earlier."We are very pleased with our second quarter results where we again exceeded our financial and operating targets. The momentum and success we achieved in 2007 has not slowed in the first half of 2008," said Robert E. Switz, president and CEO of ADC. "Our results demonstrate the successful execution of our strategy to position ADC in the high growth segments of fiber-based and wireless...

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Helio Deploys Foundry's 10GbE MPLS Metro Router

Helio, the U.S. mobile operator backed by SK Telecom, has selected Foundry Networks' 10GbE NetIron MLX-16 MPLS metro routers and FastIron GS Power over Ethernet (PoE)-ready Layer 2/3 edge switches to power their mobile service over a nationwide high-speed 3G network. Foundry's NetIron MLX-16 routers and FastIron GS switches are being used to deliver and manage the mobile multimedia content that Helio members create, consume and share. Financial...

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NTT Joins Mobile WiMAX Trial for Taiwan's High-Speed Rail

NTT will join a mobile WiMAX trial serving Taiwan's new High Speed Rail, which has served over 24 million since launching a year ago. The mobile WiMAX trial, which is backed by the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan.NTT's specific technical contributions to this project include:Design wireless area for intra-car communication so as to provide WLAN access serviceStudy inter-car communication and conduct network planning for the carsDesign the WiMAX connection between high speed THSR trains running at 300 km/hEvaluate the...

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BroadLight Awarded Key GPON Patent

BroadLight was awarded U.S. patent number 7,370,127, which enables high-speed interconnect communication in a GPON design. The patent describes internal bus architecture capable of providing high speed inter-connection and inter-communication between modules connected in an integrated circuit. The company said its concept enables non-blocking with virtually unlimited capacity of data traffic between peripherals and processing elements without the...

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MEF Launches Global Services Directory

The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has launched an on-line Global Service Directory (GSD) with data on service coverage and availability across the globe. The Global Service Directory allows enterprise users to pinpoint which service providers are providing what Carrier Ethernet services in locations around the world. The launch phase features 16 of the MEF's 46 service provider members covering Europe, Middle East, Asia-Pacific and the Americas --...

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Atheros Provides 802.11n for New AMD Turion X2 Ultra Notebook Platform

Atheros Communications' most compact and power-efficient, single-chip XSPAN 802.11n solutions are featured in the next-generation AMD notebook platform featuring AMD Turion X2 Ultra Processors. Atheros XSPAN designs will provide wireless connectivity to new notebooks based on this platform. Atheros said its AR9280 dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) 2x2 MIMO and AR9281 single-band (2.4GHz) 1x2 MIMO PCI Express (PCIe) designs integrate the radio, baseband/MAC...

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AT&T Boosts 3G LaptopConnect Speeds to 1.7 Mbps, up 20%

AT&T announced a more than 20% increase to the top end of the company's typical 3G network downlink speed range and a 50 percent increase to the top end of the typical uplink speed range for wireless laptop card customers.The new typical wireless broadband speeds for LaptopConnect customers:Downlink - Between 700 Kbps and 1.7 Mbps, formerly 600 Kbps to 1.4 MbpsUplink - Between 500 Kbps and 1.2 Mbps, formerly 500 to 800 KbpsAT&T's 3G mobile...

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AT&T Net Reach Picks Strongest GSM, 3G, or Wi-Fi Signal

The latest AT&T Communication Manager software, which is provided to residential and small business customers who subscribe to AT&T High Speed Internet and AT&T LaptopConnect services, automatically detects the strongest available AT&T signal from a nearby network -- 3G, EDGE, Wi-Fi or one's AT&T High Speed Internet connection at home.AT&T Net Reach provides high speed Internet service at home, access to AT&T's 3G wireless...

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Verizon Wireless Considers Bid for Alltel

Verizon Wireless is considering making an offer to acquire Alltel in a deal potentially worth $27 billion or more, according to media sources.Together, the companies would have over 80 million wireless subscribers.Headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, Alltel has nearly 13 million customers and annual revenues of nearly $9 billion. Alltel completed its merger with an affiliate of TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners in November 2007 and ceased trading...

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Provo City Council Approves Sale of iProvo to Broadweave

The Provo City Council voted 4-3 to approve the sale of the iProvo fiber-optic network to Broadweave Networks, creating the largest private municipal network in the U.S. The acquisition will officially close on June 30, 2008 with Broadweave's service going live July 1, 2008.Last month, the city of Provo announced an agreement to sell the iProvo fiber-optic network to Broadweave Networks for $40.6 million. The network, now owned by Broadweave, was...

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Verizon Business Enhances Security Management Program

Verizon Business announced significant enhancements to its Security Management Program (SMP), including the incorporation of the ISO 27002 Code of Practice for Information Security Management as the basis for evaluating customer security programs and the launch of a new at-a-glance Web-based dashboard that enables organizations to immediately assess the status of their compliance efforts across an expanded set of standards.The internationally recognized...

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