Deutsche Telekom Reports No Impact Yet from Financial Crisis

Deutsche Telekom's reported revenue for Q3 2008 declined by 1.5 percent to EUR 15.5 billion. On an organic basis, i.e. adjusted for exchange rate effects and excluding changes in the composition of the Group, revenue decreased by 0.9 percent in the third quarter. On a cumulative basis, i.e. in the first nine months of 2008, exchange rate fluctuations reduced revenue by around EUR 1.5 billion. Reported net profit in the third quarter increased by...

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Ekinops Introduces 40G Wave Bonding Technology

Ekinops introduced 40 Gbps capabilities for its multi-reach long-haul, regional, and metro transport aggregation platform. The new 40G Wave Bonding technology provides the ability to transport both native 40G and 4 x 10 Gbps payloads.The first application of the Wave Bonding technology will target higher channel counts at 10G using a 4x10G Muxponder to multiplex four 10G payloads onto a 40G wavelength. Wave Bonding will allow Ekinops to achieve up...

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Sonus Sees Revenues Decline 18% YoY to $62 Million

Sonus Networks reported Q3 revenue of $62.2 million, compared to $87.8 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2008 and $75.8 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2007, a decrease of 18% year over year. The company's loss from continuing operations on a GAAP basis was $19.0 million, or $0.07 per share, for the third quarter of 2008, compared to GAAP income from continuing operations of $3.5 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2008, and a GAAP loss from continuing operations of $26.6 million, or $0.10 per share, for...

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AT&T to Acquire Wayport; Adding Thousands of Wi-Fi Hotspots

AT&T agreed to acquire privately-held Wayport, a provider of managed Wi-Fi services, for approximately $275 million in cash. The acquisition expands the AT&T Wi-Fi footprint to nearly 20,000 domestic hotspots, takes the company's global Wi-Fi presence to more than 80,000 locations, and creates thousands of new ways for customers worldwide to stay in touch. Key Wayport hotspots are in key locations, including select Wyndham, Marriott Vacation...

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AT&T to Offer New 18 Mbps U-verse DSL Service

AT&T is planning to boost its U-verse Internet service to a maximum downstream speed of 18Mbps beginning on November 9. The speed tier will be offered exclusively available for AT&T U-verse TV customers. AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet Max 18 will be available to eligible residential customers for $65 a month as part of a bundle with AT&T U-verse TV. Professional installation is included for new U-verse TV customers, and eligible existing U-verse Internet customers can upgrade their package at any time without additional installation...

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Alcatel-Lucent Names former Sun Exec to Head its EMEA Division

Alcatel-Lucent has appointed Adolfo Hernandez as head of the newly created Europe, Middle East and Africa Region effective December 1st, 2008. He will report to Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen. Most recently, Adolfo Hernandez was Senior Vice President of Sun's Global Services Practice, where he was accountable for global services revenue, margin and overall business objectives around the world. http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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Cisco Launches a Go-to-Market Program for Global Channel Partners

Cisco is launching a go-to-market program designed to help its channel partners collaborate with each other to better serve multinational customers. Up until now, many multinational customers expanding internationally have engaged in separate transactions with local Cisco resellers in each country of their operations. The new program is built around a transaction-based partner collaboration model.Specifically, the Cisco Global Resale Agent model provides each "host" partner with policies, processes and tools that enable it to select another Cisco...

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Cisco Debuts 20 Gbps ASR 1000 Embedded Services Processor

Cisco significantly boosted the performance of its recently-launched ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Router with a new 20-Gbps Embedded Services Processor (ESP). The release doubles the service processing rate and delivers software enhancements that increase application control and performance. The ASR 1000 Series, which was introduced in March 2008, is powered by the company's 40-core "QuantumFlow" processor and designed for massive scalability...

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AT&T Reports Largest Text Messaging Spike (+44%) on Election Night

AT&T reported that in the hour following the announcement, text messaging traffic across its network surged about 44% -- the highest spike in company history. The peak transactions per second following Tuesday's announcement was significantly higher than the peak transactions per second logged for the most recent New Year's Eve, a day that consistently ranks among the busiest texting days for AT&T."The spike on Tuesday night rang true for...

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Qualcomm Posts Quarterly Revenue of $3.33 billion, up 45% Year-over-Year

Qualcomm reported quarterly revenue of $3.33 billion, up 45 percent year-over-year and up 21 percent sequentially. Net income was $878 million, down 22 percent year-over-year and up 17 percent sequentially. Diluted earnings per share were $0.52, down 22 percent year-over-year and up 16 percent sequentially.For its full fiscal 2008, Qualcomm posted revenue of $11.14 billion, up 26 percent year-over-year, and net income was $3.16 billion, down 4 percent year-over-year."I am very pleased with the performance of our businesses this past year, particularly...

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Telefónica Deploys 40G Backbone with Huawei

Telefónica de España has deployed its first 40G transmission network using equipment from Huawei Technologies. The network' s WDM optical rings will enable high-bandwidth and intelligent transmission and more flexible dispatch. Deployment details were not disclosed.Huawei' s solution leverages ROADM technology, which guarantees flexible provisioning, and is ready to activate advanced network Control and Management Planes based on GMPLS.http://www.huawei....

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