Nokia Siemens Networks Spins Out its OTN Team

Nokia Siemens Networks announced a deal with GIMV, a Belgian investment company specializing in private equity and venture capital, to spin-out its Open Transport Network (OTN) into an independent company. The newly formed company will be majority owned by GIMV and have approximately 80 employees. Nokia Siemens Networks plans to continue to sell OTN products through direct channels and open up its Value Added Reseller network to OTN.http://www.nsn....

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Nortel Realigns 4G Strategy, Teams with Alvarion on WiMAX

Nortel announced a re-alignment of its 4G wireless broadband strategy including plans to focus its own wireless R&D resources on 4G LTE and wireless applications, while partnering with Alvarion to address WiMAX opportunities. Nortel is targeting its 4G portfolio to capitalize on the rapidly growing market opportunities associated with wireless broadband - and to help operators meet these needs quickly," said Richard Lowe, president, Carrier...

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KPN Selects RADCOM for Monitoring IMS Network

that KPN, the Netherlands' major telecom operator, has selected RADCOM's Omni-Q solution for end-to-end monitoring of its IMS network. Specifically, KPN will deploy the distributed system, based on RADCOM's new R70 probes, to facilitate fault management, service performance analysis, troubleshooting and pre-mediation.Omni-Q offers the ability to correlate network-wide sessions involving TDM, VoIP and IMS protocols in a multi-vendor environment. KPN's new IMS platform is expected to replace the existing SS7 technology over the next few years.KPN's...

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Nortel Confirms Financial Guidance

Nortel reconfirmed its full year 2008 outlook. The company continues to expect:Revenue to grow in the low single digits compared to 2007 Gross Margin to be about the business model target of 43 percent of revenue Operating Margin as a percentage of revenue to increase by about 300 basis points compared to 2007In addition, the company held a full day conference with the investment community. Some notes from the presentations (which are posted online):In Unified Communications, Nortel claims 800+ customers13 wins in 40Gthere have been 40+ wins...

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Verizon Selects Nortel's Metro Ethernet Routing and PBB

Verizon Telecom has selected Nortel's Metro Ethernet Routing Switch (MERS 8600) to expand its metro Ethernet backbone.The platform provides Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) technology, MPLS related technology, and the Metro Ethernet Manager (MEM) system. Verizon will be testing all the MERS technologies in its laboratories for use with its Ethernet-based networks, including the Switched Ethernet Services (SES) network. The Nortel solution also includes Ethernet OAM technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.Nortel's said its PBB-based solution...

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Fujitsu Announces Connection-Oriented Ethernet Transport based on PBB-TE

Fujitsu Network Communications announced Provider Backbone Bridging with Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) support for their newly announced FLASHWAVE CDS and existing FLASHWAVE 9500 packet optical networking platforms. PBB-TE fits into the metro aggregation network where it serves the critical need of collecting and backhauling Ethernet circuits from access locations back to the multi-service edge, which is the gateway to the backbone IP/MPLS network....

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BroadLight Award Patent for Native Service Transport Over PON

BroadLight has been awarded a patent for natively transporting voice and data over Passive Optical Networks (PONs). This patent, which was filed in 2002 with a Foreign Application Priority Data in 2001, defined the infrastructure for a PON frame length of 125usec which led to an overall decrease in deployment costs, increase in bandwidth and improvement in quality of service for the triple play. BroadLight said its patent describes a method of how to natively transport services such as voice and data over PON. This method eliminates the need to...

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Salira Develops Multi-wavelength PON, DOCSIS-over-PON

Salira Systems, which offers an MEF-certified EPON platform, has unveiled a multi-wavelength EPON solution that enables carriers to quadruple their PON capacity using CWDM, and a DOCSIS-over-EPON ("DePON") solution that will enable cable operators migrate from an HFC architecture to FTTx while maintaining their existing DOCSIS and OSS operating procedures. Salira's Multi-Wavelength PON (or "MW-PON") solution enables carriers and operators to quadruple...

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