ADVA Selected for Slovenia's National Research Network

The Academic and Research Network of Slovenia (ARNES) has deployed ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000 to significantly expand its capacity. ARNES connects 200,000 users in over 1,100 education, research and cultural organizations throughout Slovenia. Built upon a single dark fiber, the new network offers its users a flexible IP backbone using dedicated point-to-point gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) links. Financial terms were not disclosed.Iskratel serves as system integrator on the ARNES account.http://www.advaoptical....

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Bel Fuse Teams with Teranetics, Packing 48 10GBASE-T in 1RU

Teranetics, a start-up specializing in high performance Ethernet silicon, and Bel Fuse introduced a high-density 10GBASE-T solution that enables switch manufacturers to design up to 48 RJ-45 ports into a single rack unit. The joint solution showcases Bel's G08-8NNR-031 2x4 MagJack connector along with the recently dual-port 10GBASE-T PHY IC from Teranetics.The Teranetics TN2022 features multi-rate capabilities, consuming only six watts of power per port at the full 10 Gigabit rate, and operates at cable lengths exceeding one hundred meters. Bel's...

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Germany's Media Broadcast Delivers Bundesliga in HD over Alcatel-Lucent's IP/MPLS

MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH will begin transmitting HD video of the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga, Germany's national soccer league, to the living rooms of millions of fans via DVB-H, DVB-T, DSL or cable. The new broadcast network supports the simultaneous transmission of multiple transparent HDTV signals and a wide range of interfaces. The IP/MPLS network is based on the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router, which manages voice, video and data signals and guarantees the network availability, which is crucial to the live transmission of soccer matches. To...

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NSN Takes Over Operations of EMBARQ's Voice Network

Nokia Siemens Networks has completed the transition of responsibility for Embarq's (EQ) voice network operation center (NOC) function. The seven-year agreement between the companies was announced June 12, 2008. Financial terms were not disclosed.Under the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will perform network operations for EMBARQ's voice networks, ensuring high network quality and providing ongoing technical assistance. Approximately 265 EMBARQ...

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Kenya Links its National Parks with RADWIN

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has deployed RADWIN's Multiple point-to-point (MPtP) wireless systems to connect its headquarters in Nairobi to eight national parks. UUNET Kenya, a leading systems integrator in Kenya, was in charge of project deployment. The network is being used to transfer E-Ticketing information, Safari Card data, Internet and VoIP from the parks to the KWS main office. It is also used for transmitting video from the closed...

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blinkx Employs NeuStar's UltraDNS Services

blinkx, a video search engine company based in San Francisco and London, has chosen NeuStar's UltraDNS Managed DNS Services to augment the performance, reliability, and scalability of its services. blinkx uses a combination of patented conceptual search, speech recognition, and video analysis software to efficiently find and qualify online video. The company has built an index of over 26 million hours of searchable audio, video, viral and TV content, and more than 350 media partnerships including national broadcasters, commercial media giants,...

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Alcatel-Lucent Supplies WiMAX Rev-e network in Azerbaijan

Delta Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy Azerbaijan's first commercial WiMAX 802.16e-2005 (Rev-e) network. This new network will provide Delta Telecom's customers with high-speed Internet access as well as other data services and VoIP. It will accommodate stationary, nomadic and mobile applications and will complement Delta Telecom's existing fixed broadband services in sparsely populated areas, where technical and economic factors sometimes make fixed broadband deployments impractical. Delta Telecom plans to launch the commercial services...

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Exalt Introduces 5 GHz Microwave Backhaul Radio

Exalt Communications introduced its EX-r GigE series of microwave radios, covering all three 5 GHz bands in a single carrier-class system and featuring native Ethernet and native TDM support integrated in a single system. Exalt said its new EX-r GigE series microwave platform provides sufficient capacity and resiliency to allow wireless operators, enterprises and broadcasters to deliver the bandwidth they need for campus connectivity, camera backhaul,...

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Arcadian Deploys 700 MHz Wireless Network with Freewave

Arcadian Networks, a wireless communications carrier serving energy companies with dispersed assets (electric, gas and water utilities, and oil and gas companies), announced the delivery of its new 700 MHz wireless radio to serve the energy industry. The announcement comes just six months after the two companies announced a joint strategic partnership back in March of this year. The service uses 700 MHz radios from FreeWave Technologies.The companies said the new network provides an opportunity for electric utilities and oil and gas companies...

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Spirent Launches Fibre Channel over Ethernet Test System

Spirent Communications introduced its Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) test solution to help assess the interaction of storage and data centre traffic over a common interface. Test engineers now have the ability to analyze a number of critical occurrences including the encapsulation of a native Fibre Channel frame into an Ethernet frame, the emergence of Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) to help ensure lossless fabric, and the effect of replacing a Fibre Channel link with MAC addresses in CEE environments. Spirent TestCenter FCoE provides support...

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Cisco Expands its Carrier Ethernet Portfolio

Cisco announced a number of enhancements to its Carrier Ethernet portfolio, including new line cards for its core Cisco 7600 chassis, two new access switches and a Carrier Ethernet platform for wireless backhaul applications.Cisco has doubled aggregation service capacity with a new Ethernet Series Plus 40G line card for the Cisco 7600 Series Routers. More than 70,000 units of the Cisco 7600 are deployed worldwide. The Cisco 7600 Series 40G line...

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One Minute Video: Multi-Gigabit 4G Backhaul with 80 GHz

One Minute Video presented by Gregg Levin, BridgeWave CommunicationsJargon Bus...

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Juniper Introduces Dynamic Services Architecture, SRX Gateways

Juniper Networks introduced its family of SRX dynamic services gateways based on a new "Dynamic Services Architecture" that aims to consolidate multiple specialized networking appliances while keeping pace with the scalability and performance requirements of next gen enterprise networks. The new SRX dynamic services gateways deliver up to 120+ Gbps firewall throughput -- an order of magnitude increase in processing speed compared to traditional...

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On2's Latest Codec Claims 50% Bandwidth Savings Compared H.264

On2 Technologies launched its latest video compression format, On2 VP8, designed for web TV, IPTV and video conferencing. On2 claims its eighth generation On2 video implementation surpasses the compression efficiency and performance of every other video format on the market by employing over 40 technical innovations, among them:Advanced prediction through constructed reference framesMacroblock row level threadingImproved small area referential encodingAdvanced...

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Harmonic Announces Wins with Portugal Telecom, Kabel Deutschland

Portugal Telecom has deployed Harmonic's IP-based MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) compression and stream processing solutions for its nationwide launch of satellite direct-to-home (DTH) television. The new service is offered as part of Portugal Telecom's triple-play Meo package and complements its IPTV offering, also powered by Harmonic. Financial terms were not disclosed.Portugal Telecom is one of Europe's first telcos to offer a MPEG-4 DTH service. The carrier has built a new digital video headend -- which was implemented by Novabase/OctalTV, a leading...

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Report: NTT DoCoMo Mulls Investment in India's Tata Teleservices

NTT DoCoMo is negotiating to acquire a significant equity stake in India's Tata Teleservices, according to India's Business Standard.http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=334...

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Ipanema Adds Intelligent Acceleration to its WAN Optimization

Ipanema Technologies introduced a major update to its WAN optimization solution, adding Intelligent Acceleration capabilities. Intelligent Acceleration leverages Ipanema's Autonomic Networking System, which provides the most complete traffic management feature set on the market. Ipanema's system by looking at layer 7 classification of data flows, intelligently inspecting traffic to differentiate between business critical and non-critical and recreational...

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