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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Legend Silicon Releases Digital Terrestrial TV Chips for China
Legend Silicon, a fabless semiconductor company based in Fremont, California with operations in Shanghai and Beijing, introduced two new high-performance terrestrial demodulators for the China market. The devices are aimed at handsets and other portable devices able to tune into China's digital terrestrial television broadcasting service. The LGS-8G75 and LGS-8G77 demodulators, which are compliant with China's GB20600-2006 digital terrestrial television...
T-Mobile Signs New Backhaul Agreements for Six Major U.S. Markets
T-Mobile USA announced backhaul agreements with Bright House Networks, FPL FiberNet, IP Networks Inc. and Zayo Bandwidth. The agreements cover sites in Tampa, Fla., Orlando, Fla., South Florida, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Memphis, Tenn., respectively.T-Mobile said these backhaul arrangements, when fully implemented over the next six to 18 months, will help to enable it to deliver 3G services in a significantly less expensive manner. They will...
Sumitomo Develops 10Gbps 80km Transceiver
Sumitomo Electric Industries introduced a 10 Gbps integrated direct modulation laser diode (DML) featuring built-in electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) and a range of 80 km. Previously, DMLs were used in transceivers up to data rates of 2.5 Gbps. Sumitomo Electric Industries noted that for 10Gbps ZR applications, DMLs previously were not a reliable light source because transmission distance was limited by chromatic dispersion due to optical...
Ericsson Opens Global Service Delivery Center in Pakistan
Ericsson opened a new Global Service Delivery Center (GSDC) in Lahore, Pakistan. The new center will support Ericsson's global managed services and form a regional base for offerings in consulting and education for emerging markets - contributing to the expansion of the company's services business. Ericsson said the Pakistan center is another evolutionary step in its strategy for developing global and local service and delivery capabilities. This follows the recently announced openings of GSDCs in Lebanon and Romania. "Pakistan has the sixth largest...
Orange Launches with Telkom Kenya
Orange has launched services in Kenya as the commercial brand for Telkom Kenya, the country's historical operator. The launch follows France Telecom's acquisition of 51% of its capital in December 2007. Since then, EUR 58 million has been invested in network infrastructure. The companies said the launch of the new GSM network, alongside new mobile and broadband Internet offers under the Orange brand constitutes a decisive step in Telkom Kenya's...
Harris Stratex Networks Increases Revenue Guidance for Q1 FY 2009
Harris Stratex Networks reported revenue of $186.8 million for its fiscal Q4, which ended June 27, 2008, representing an increase of 7 percent compared to $174.1 in the year ago period. GAAP net loss was $13.7 million or $0.23 per share, which includes $21.0 million in pre-tax charges associated with inventory impairment, amortization of purchase related assets, merger integration and restructuring, and stock compensation expense. The net loss for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 was $7.2 million.North America microwave revenue was $55.1 million...
RADCOM Announces Contract with Major Chinese Mobile Operator
RADCOM Ltd. has been selected by a ttier-1 Chinese NGN mobile operator to troubleshoot softswitching on its core network. At the beginning of this year, RADCOM announced that it had extended the capability of its monitoring and troubleshooting solution, which already provides operators with full end-to-end monitoring of their core network, to include Softswitch monitoring. This sale marks the first success for RADCOM in the new technology. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.radcom....
A Green Energy Push for Mobile Networks
A new Green Power for Mobile Programme has been launched with the goal of helping the mobile industry use renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, or sustainable biofuels, to power 118,000 new and existing off-grid base stations in developing countries by 2012. The initiative is backed by The GSM Association along with 25 mobile operators, including Telecom Holding, Roshan, Safaricom, Smart, Telefonica, Telenor Pakistan, Vimpelcom, Vodacom...
Customer Experience Becomes Top Priority at Sprint
In the mobile market, the customer experience is the No.1 factor for success, said Dan Hesse, CEO or Sprint Nextel, speaking at Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference. Hesse has called "all hands on deck" to improve Sprint's overall customer experience. The impact of this company-wide initiative will be measured in terms of customer churn and the volume and length of customer-care calls. Incentive plans are being tied to improvements.Another critical...
TI Increases Dividend by 10 Percent
Texas Instruments plans to raise its quarterly cash dividend 10 percent. TI's new quarterly dividend rate will be $0.11 per share, resulting in annual dividend payments of $0.44 per share. TI's current quarterly dividend rate is $0.10 per share. The company said this marks the fifth consecutive year it has increased its dividend rate. The company has paid dividends to its shareholders on an uninterrupted basis since June 1, 1962.http://www.ti....
GXS and Verizon Business Tackle Supply Chain Automation
GXS, which provides B2B e-commerce solutions, is working with Verizon Business on solutions that can help supply chain management. These solutions would enable businesses to securely convert manual, paper-based processes into automated electronic transactions among vendors, partners and customers, reducing the use of paper and making business transactions more efficient. The companies cite a number of ecological benefits to supply chain automation. Each electronic document sent via GXS Trading Grid, the company's global B2B integration services...
Verizon Sees Steady Progress So Far in Q3
Verizon is on target for achieving its long-range plans, said Denny Strigl, Verizon's President & COO, speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVII Conference. This confidence led Verizon to recently increase its dividend. Moving forward, Strigl said he continues to look at how to take cost out of the business while improving the product mix, especially in wireless and broadband. He remains bullish about long-term opportunities.Commenting...
Video Reaches 40% of Traffic on AT&T's IP Backbone
AT&T's challenge is to deliver more bandwidth in more places while scaling rapidly, said John Donovan, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), AT&T, speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVII Conference. There are two key drivers for AT&T's network: Mobility and Video.As recently as three years ago, video was a negligible factor of overall traffic. Last month, video exceeded 40% of total traffic across the AT&T IP backbone.The proliferation...
Cisco Meeting
multimodalCisco is not starting from scratch. A decade of investment for Cisco -- from the early days of VoIP up through its acquisition last year of WebEx.market transistions and technology transitions. The market transition can be about the nature of work, changes in organizational hiercharchies,will services be rendered locally or in the cloud? For most companies, the answer is not yet clear.on the verge of true inter-company collaboration.Working across the firewallsWebEx Meeting center, WebEx Connect, which integrates conferencing, IM,...
