Aricent Offers Outsourced Development Expertise for the Wireless Industry

At the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona. Aricent will be showcasing its portfolio of wireless consulting, products and services for mobile operators, device manufacturers and network infrastructure manufacturers. At the heart of the wireless revolution today, Aricent is helping customers develop innovative new user experiences, productize new infrastructure, and evolve operational and business systems.In particular, Aricent will be...

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Ixia Ships World's First 100 GE Test System

Ixia introduced a 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) Development Accelerator System (DAS) for developers of high-speed Ethernet FPGAs and ASICs. Ixia's 40 and 100 GE test systems include a unique implementation of the 100 GE physical coding sublayer (PCS) layer with the underlying multilane distribution (MLD) architecture which is compliant with the draft 1.1 standard published in December 2008 by the IEEE 802.3ba task force.Ixia said it is developing 40...

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Blue Coat Outlines its Application Delivery Networking Vision

Blue Coat Systems unveiled its vision for the Application Delivery Network, an application-aware infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the delivery of business-enabling applications across the distributed enterprise.The Application Delivery Network integrates visibility, acceleration and security technologies to provide the in-depth application intelligence required to securely and...

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Mformation Delivers Advanced Device Management to Telefónica Spain

Telefónica Mobile Business in Spain is using Mformation's device management technology to provide advanced enterprise mobile management as a service to their business customers. Enterprises obtain advanced mobile device management from Telefónica through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. The solution was rolled out to Spanish enterprises during 2008 and is now being used by many of Telefónica's enterprise customers.The solution enables enterprises to:Diagnose device and service problems on employee devices in real time, over the air Set...

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InnoPath's ActiveCare Matches Smartphones with Customer Care

InnoPath Software introduced its next-generation ActiveCare Mobile Device Management solution for providing customer support for smartphones and advanced feature phones. InnoPath's ActiveCare provides mobile operators with an "active" connection between the subscriber's phone and frontline care. The solution, which build's on InnoPath's MDM server and client products, is applicable to both featurephone and smartphones using the InnoPath Smart Client...

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Skype 4.0 Debuts with Better Audio/Video Codecs

Skype 4.0 for Windows was officially release. The new version improves a number of features, including call quality, full screen video conferencing and better IM controls. Skype said its new audio codec achieves wideband audio quality using 50% less bandwidth than previously required. Moreover, it introduces super wideband audio for clearer, richer and warmer sound to those using a compatible headset and a high quality broadband connection. A bandwidth...

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Orange Business Service Expands in Latin America

Orange Business Services has increased the capacity of its next generation IP network in Latin America by two and a half times. The expanded network capacity has been implemented in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela. Additional upgrades are planned for Honduras and Panama in 2009. In addition, Orange is deploying new network equipment to offer new services, such as Multicast, Telepresence and Network...

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Zeugma Debuts SmartMeter for the Broadband Edge

Zeugma Systems, a start-up based in Vancouver, Canada, has enhanced its Zeugma Services Node (ZSN) broadband edge aggregation device with new "SmartMeter" capabilities to help service providers define and enforce fair and flexible broadband policies.Zeugma's hardware platform integrates routing, subscriber, and service management in a single platform powered by high-performance, multi-core packet processors. The new Smart Series applications run...

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Juniper Supplies WAN Acceleration for Korea's Donghee

Donghee Industrial, one of Korea's leading automobile parts manufacturers, has boosted the capacity and performance of its wide area network (WAN) with the Juniper Networks WXC 500 application acceleration platform by six-fold. The WXC platform replaces Donghee's legacy WAN optimization solution and is accelerating the company's data sharing with its Eastern European affiliates, which has resulted in dramatically increased organizational efficiency and productivity. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.juniper....

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Wavesat Raises C$11.7 million for its Multi-Protocol 4G Silicon

Wavesat raised $11.7 million (CAD) for its broadband wireless semiconductor solutions. Wavesat's Odyssey 4G multi-protocol architecture supports multiple broadband wireless technologies such as WiMAX Wave2 and XG-PHS while offering a migration path to LTE. In recent months, Wavesat announced that Compal, a leading ODM for handheld devices, selected the Odyssey for mobile WiMAX USB dongles. Also, Willcom, a large wireless network operator in Japan, has chosen Wavesat to help develop XG-PHS services and equipment in that country. The new funding...

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Zarlink Surpasses 50 million voice lines shipped to ARRIS

Zarlink Semiconductor has shipped over 50 million voice lines to ARRIS for use in its Touchstone Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adaptor (E-MTA) cable modems. "We congratulate ARRIS for this milestone of 20 million modems shipped. Their success is an indication of the continuing expansion of cable networks, and the increasing market opportunity for Zarlink's carrier-grade voice solutions."http://www.zarlink....

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Dell'Oro Group Forecasts Steepest Ethernet Switch Market Decline Since 2001

The Ethernet Switch market is forecasted to decline almost 10 percent in 2009, the sharpest decline since 2001, according to a recent report by Dell'Oro Group. This recent decline will likely result from the slowing or contracting of the three pillars that drove the market to record levels in 2008, namely, emerging markets, wiring closet upgrades, and datacenter consolidation.The report indicates that macroeconomic conditions will lead to a more...

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ECI Telecom Selected to Manage Transmission Network in the Philippines

Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART), the largest wireless services provider in the Philippines, has awarded ECI Telecom a two-year managed services contract for its nationwide transmission network. Under the agreement, ECI will provide SMART with multi-vendor network management services for the operator's transmission Network Operations Center (NOC), including 24/7 network surveillance, fault management and maintenance. The agreement follows a...

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Silver Spring Networks Wins Smart Grid Contract with Pepco

Silver Spring Networks (SSN) has been selected by Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI) to provide advanced networking products and services to build a Smart Grid network that will serve its 1.9 million customers in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Washington D.C. Under the multi-year agreement, Silver Spring Networks will provide network infrastructure, devices, software and a variety of services in support of PHI's efforts. Financial terms were not disclosed.Initial deployments will occur in the Delmarva Power & Light service territory in Delaware,...

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Ericsson and STMicroelectronics Joint Venture Gets Underway

Ericsson and STMicroelectronics complete deal to create world leader in semiconductors and platforms for mobile applications. The JV begins as a major supplier to four of the industry's top five handset manufacturers, who together represent about 80 percent of global handset shipments, as well as to other exciting industry leaders. Ericsson contributed USD 1.1 billion net to the joint venture, out of which USD 0.7 billion was paid to ST. Prior...

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Vodafone Reaches 289 Million Users

Vodafone Group's revenue increased by 14.3% for the quarter ended 31-December-2009, including favourable exchange rate movements of 12.8 percentage points and a2.5 percentage point benefit from merger and acquisition activity, primarily in India. On an organic basis, revenue and service revenue declined by 1.0% and 0.3%, respectively, with Europe's decline partially offset by Asia Pacific & Middle East and Africa & Central Europe. Pro forma...

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