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Monday, September 29, 2008
Alloptic Gains Traction for its RFoG Solution
Alloptic cited growing customer traction for its RF over glass (RFoG) and passive optical networking (PON) solutions for CATV, telecom, and private network operators worldwide. The company has added 15 new RFoG customers this year. This brings Alloptic's base of tier 1 through tier 3 MSO customers to 44. Listed among their new customers are Midcontinent Communications in North and South Dakota, NPG Cable in Missouri, and Allen's TV Cable Service in Morgan City, Louisiana."Over the past six months, we have seen rapid growth in demand for our RFoG...
PMC-Sierra Expands WiMAX Silicon for Global Spectrum Coverage
PMC-Sierra has added four new multi-band devices to its WiZIRD family of highly integrated WiMAX RF IC solutions for broadband wireless subscriber equipment. The new silicon enables equipment suppliers to leverage a single radio design to provide Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and Network Interface Cards (NICs) for all popular broadband wireless radio bands (450-928 MHz, 2.3-2.7 GHz, 2.7-2.9 GHz, 3.3-3.8 GHz and 4.9-5.95 GHz) for worldwide WiMAX...
PMC-Sierra Announces 2nd Gen GPON Devices
PMC-Sierra announced the availability of its second generation GPON devices for Fiber to the Home (FTTH) deployments. The devices support the company's GigaPASS architecture, which integrates multiple hardware-based packet processing engine subsystems to deliver wire-speed packet processing at all packet sizes for gigabit connectivity. PMC-Sierra's new GPON System-On-Chip (SoC) solutions include the PAS7401 GPON ONT, the MSP7162 GPON Gateway and...
BT Launches Inter-company TelePresence Global Video Exchange
BT introduced a new service that enables Cisco TelePresence connections between companies. Both parties need to have Cisco TelePresence systems. BT recently became the first service provider to complete the Cisco TelePresence Global Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) program.BT Global Video Exchange offers:Full conferencing services, including set-up, live call monitoring and assistance and 24-hour help-desk supportA high level of multi-layered...
OIF Marks 10th Anniversary -- Starts 100G FEC Technical Work
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) marks the 10th anniversary of its founding next month. The Forum is gearing up to launch a new 100G Forward Error Correction (FEC) technical project. This follows close on the heels of the OIF's 100G Long Distance DWDM Integrated Photonic Components project announced in August.The FEC project addresses the propagation challenges facing the optical networking industry in the long-distance application for OTU4...
Nokia Media Network Offers Targeted Advertising in 10 U.S. Metro Markets
Nokia is introducing a service that lets advertisers target mobile campaigns to consumers in 10 major metro areas of the United States on the Nokia Media Network. The Nokia Media Network is a premium mobile advertising network. Nokia said it has the support of publishers such as Hearst and TV Guide, operator partners such as Sprint, and Nokia services such as Nokia.mobi.The service is being launched in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Ft.Worth, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York, San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, Seattle-Tacoma, and Washington,...
Nokia Re-focuses its Enterprise Mobility Strategy
Nokia announced a re-alignment of its business mobility strategy, saying it intends to focus on bringing best-in-class devices and solutions to market by further strengthening strategic relationships with leading enterprise technology vendors. Nokia will cease developing or marketing its own behind-the-firewall business mobility solutions. These resources will be reallocated to Nokia's new consumer push e-mail service. Going forward, Nokia plans...
Harris Stratex Networks Targets End-to-End WiMAX, Partners with Telsima
Harris Stratex Networks introduced its end-to-end network solution for WiMAX networks, including a set of services and integrated network management solutions designed to give service providers a single source for all their WiMAX network requirements. The company also announced a new partnership with Telsima to provide a full portfolio of WiMAX 802.16e products.Harris Stratex Networks is targeting mobile operators in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America that need to augment their mobile cellular services with fixed, nomadic and...
Nokia to Acquire OZ Communications for Consumer Email and IM
Nokia agreed to acquire OZ Communications, a privately held company based in Montreal, for its consumer mobile messaging solution, including instant messaging and email services on mobile devices. Financial terms were not disclosed.OZ can enable access to leading instant messaging and email services, including AOL, Gmail, ICQ, Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo!. With more than 5.5 million monthly paid users, OZ's solutions have...
Tunisian WiMAX provider Deploys Juniper's MX-series for Ethernet Backhaul
Divona Telecom, a satellite and WiMAX operator based in Tunisia, has selected Juniper Networks MX-series Ethernet Services Routers to create a backhaul network to meet growing demand for its wireless broadband services portfolio. The deployment is designed to address Divona's requirement to increase network capacity, reduce operational costs and accelerate the delivery of advanced fixed and mobile wireless broadband services to the operator's premium...
LG Electronics Selects Ericsson for HSPA Modules
LG Electronics has selected Ericsson to provide mobile broadband modules based on HSPA. LG Electronics notebooks and netbooks will include mobile broadband modules from Ericsson in Q3 2008. HSPA provides a DSL-like experience wirelessly with true mobility and there are currently more than 207 commercially deployed HSPA networks globally, serving more than one billion subscribers. Market projections indicate that in 2011, approximately 200 million notebooks will ship annually and Ericsson anticipates that 50 percent of those notebooks will feature...
Alcatel-Lucent Enhances IPTV Network Analyzer
Alcatel-Lucent announced enhancements to its 5530 Network Analyzer (NA) for testing solution for DSL-based broadband access networks. Enhancements include a customer care interface that enables service provider staff to provide immediate support when facing end-user issues, while the Dynamic Line Management (DLM) feature automatically sets DSL to work with their optimal parameters, resulting in a dramatic increase in stability and service quality.Alcatel-Lucent noted that is 5530 Network Analyzer, which was launched in May 2004 for the ETSI market...
Alcatel-Lucent Evolves its IP Access Platform -- ISAM
Alcatel-Lucent introduced enhancements to its Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) portfolio of IP broadband access products, which have now been adopted by more than 200 service providers worldwide. Since its launch four years ago, the ISAM family - a major building block of Alcatel-Lucent's Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) - has continuously evolved to support a flexible mix of future-proof access technologies (xDSL, VDSL2, GPON, P2P Ethernet) and a variety of network topologies (central office as well as remote architectures).Alcatel-Lucent...
