Cisco Prices $4 Billion of Senior Unsecured Notes

Cisco announced the pricing of two series of senior unsecured notes for an aggregate principal amount of $4 billion. The offering is expected to close on February 17, 2009. Of these notes, $2 billion will mature in February 2019 and will bear interest at an annual rate of 4.95%, and $2 billion will mature in February 2039 and will bear interest at an annual rate of 5.90%. The 4.95% notes due February 2019 and the 5.90% notes due February 2039 were priced to yield 4.979% and 5.916%, respectively.Cisco intends to use the net proceeds from this offering...

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Vodafone and Huawei Confirm Strategic Relationship

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown at Downing Street in London were present at a signing ceremony in which Vodafone formally recognized Huawei Technologies a key supplier of networking gear. One of the more recent agreements recognised was Vodafone Turkey' s decision to select Huawei to build its 3G network to deliver voice and fast speed data services to its customers. The project, which will run over the next five years,...

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Telefónica Latin America to Deploy Huawei's Service Delivery Platform

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodr�guez Zapatero attended a signing ceremony in Madrid where Telefónica agreed to deploy Huawei's new Service Delivery Platform (SDP) serving in all of its Latin American markets. The event occurred at the end of January. Financial terms were not disclosed.Under the agreement, Huawei will provide Telefónica with a service-oriented architecture (SOA) based centralized SDP solution...

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Wintegra Announces Next Generation Carrier Ethernet Processor

Wintegra introduced its next generation Carrier Ethernet Processor featuring performance over 5 times that of its previous processors and providing the foundation for next generation infrastructure products such as Metro Ethernet Access Devices, GPON OLT line cards, VDSL systems, and cell site aggregation. The WinIP3 processors are the first products utilizing Wintegra's 65 nanometer WinPath3 architecture. WinIP3 processors are available with a broad range of Ethernet interfaces supporting 10/100 Megabit, 1 Gigabit, 2.5 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit...

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Columbus Networks Deploys Juniper T1600 Core Routers

Columbus Networks, a leading wholesale service provider connecting the Americas with its undersea cables, has recently deployed Juniper Networks T1600 core routers. The routers are installed the heart of its various subsea networks including ARCOS, CFX-1, ECLink, which combined interconnect the United States and 20 countries in Pan-Caribbean Americas region. Columbus had previously deployed Juniper Networks M320 routers in the core with MX-series throughout the edge of the network. With the new T1600s, Columbus has increased the capacity of its...

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Packet Design Appoints AT&T Veteran Hossein Eslambolchi to Board

Packet Design, which specializes in route analytics solutions for managing large IP networks, has appointed Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi, former chief technology officer of AT&T, to its board of directors. Dr. Eslambolchi is currently chairman of 2020 Venture Partners, which provides technology and operations consulting to private equity and venture capital firms in the area of telecommunications IP software and infrastructure. In addition serving as AT&T's CTO from 2000 to 2005, he was president of the AT&T Global Networking Technology...

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Dell'Oro: 802.11n Enterprise Wireless LAN Revenue to Grow Over Ten-Fold by 2013

Revenue for 802.11n enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) equipment is expected to grow over ten times the current revenue level and exceed $2.5 billion by 2013, according to a recently published report from Dell'Oro Group. The report forecasts mass adoption of 802.11n among specific vertical industries such as education and healthcare, enabling the enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) market to approach $4 billion by 2013. The report also indicates the enterprise...

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TerreStar Advances its S-Band Application with European Commission

TerreStar Europe submitted a filing to the European Commission certifying that it had complied with the Critical Design Review milestone of the Pan-European 2GHz MSS S-band selection and spectrum authorization process.TerreStar Europe plans to create a pan-European integrated satellite and complementary ground component network that is designed to provide high quality, cost-effective, seamless wireless applications and services to urban, rural and...

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Juniper Networks Appoints William F. Meehan to Board

Juniper Networks announced the appointment of William F. Meehan III to its Board of Directors. Meehan is the Raccoon Partners Lecturer in Management at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and was a senior director of McKinsey and Company. http://www.juniper....

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Verizon Business Continues Global Network Expansion

Verizon Business announced an expansion of its MPLS network with new and diverse nodes in South Asia, North Asia, Singapore, Japan, Mexico, the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Currently, Verizon Business supports Private IP services in more than 120 countries around the world, including China and India.In 2008, Verizon's converged packet architecture (CPA) network reached 87 markets in 27 countries. The company will continue to add more...

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ARCHOS Internet Media Tablet to Use Android Telephony Stack

ARCHOS is preparing to launch a new ultra-thin Internet Media Tablet (IMT) with premium smartphone capabilities based on Google's Android telephony stack and the ARCHOS' multimedia framework. ARCHOS will use Texas Instruments' OMAP 3 silicon for the new product. Android provides the IMT with all the functionalities of a premium smartphone and access to its fast-developing applications environment. Other key features of the Internet Media Tablet...

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EXFO Acquires PicoSolve for 40/100G Oscilloscopes

EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering has acquired PicoSolve, Inc., a private test and measurement company offering optical sampling oscilloscopes for 40G and 100G R&D, manufacturing and deployment applications. Financial terms were not disclosed.PicoSolve, founded in 2004 by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, provides ultra-high-speed optical sampling oscilloscopes to network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) involved in the design and production of next-generation optical networks. Network service providers (NSPs)...

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RAD Data and Ipanema Partner on Application-Aware Services

RAD Data Communications, which supplies intelligent access devices, and Ipanema Technologies, which specializes in application traffic management systems for WANs, have announced plans to co-develop a joint system for enhancing added value services in Layer 3 and Layer 2 VPNs while laying the foundation for future business services. This cooperative solution will be based on RAD's intelligent customer premises equipment and Ipanema's Autonomic Networking System (incorporating advanced application-awareness capabilities). The companies said their...

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Bookham Marks 300 Million Field Hours for its Pump Laser Chip

Bookham's flagship high performance generation eight (G08) optical chip, which provides signal amplification in telecommunications networks, has achieved a combined total of 300 million field hours. The G08 chip is manufactured in the company's Zurich facility, and underpins the industry leading 750mW pump laser module and the OceanBright submarine pump. The ultra high power 750mW pump laser module has been shipping in volume since March 2007. Bookham...

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ZTE Launches WiMAX 16e Remote Radio Unit

ZTE introduced what it calls the industry's smallest WiMAX 16e RRU (Remote Radio Unit) product. The product leverages BF4*8 Multi-Antenna technology, which effectively improves signal quality from a single base station, allowing extensive network coverage and enhanced network performance. Compared with traditional devices using MIMO technology, ZTE said its RRU R9110 further minimizes the number of base stations from 35%-50%, helping telecom operators...

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Acme Packet Delivers SBC Functionality for the Verizon Hub

Verizon Wireless is using Acme Packet's Net-Net session border controllers (SBCs) to deliver secure and seamless network services for the Verizon Hub and its users. Specifically, Acme Packet's session border controllers provide Verizon Wireless with a secure border using a hosted NAT traversal capability. The Net-Net SBCs also help maintain a secure environment and help connect to other service providers, including e911 providers, enabling Verizon Hub customers to have full access to emergency services from their home.http://www.acmepacket....

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Verizon Hub Connects to Verizon Wireless' Navigator GPS App

Verizon Wireless' recently introduced Hub can now synchronize locations with the company's VZ Navigator service. VZ Navigator provides customers with visual and audible directions to thousands of destinations. Networks In Motion powers the VZ Navigator service and makes the integration between the Verizon Hub and VZ Navigator possible through its "Web-to-App API" technology.The Verizon Hub is available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores across...

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Bytemobile Teams with F5 to Scale T-Mobile's 3G Network Capacity

Bytemobile and F5 Networks have teamed up to provide a network capacity scalability solution for T-Mobile International, which serves approximately 95 million subscribers across its European operating companies.Specifically, Bytemobile has integrated the F5 VIPRION on-demand Application Delivery Controller with its Unison Mobile Internet Platform installed in the core data path of the network to provide increased network scalability, availability...

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Texas Instruments Expands its LTE Solution with 1.2 GHz DSP

Texas Instruments has extended its LTE (Long Term Evolution) wireless portfolio with the introduction of a three core digital signal processor running at 3.6GHz coupled with a software library. Sampling begins this quarter.The TCI6487, which is designed for LTE base stations, contains three DSP cores, each running at 1.2 GHz. Each core has its own dedicated 1 Mbyte of L2 with 32k of L1 data and program cache minimizing off-chip memory access and...

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Senate Stimulus Bill Expected to Have $7 Billion for Broadband, plus Tax Credits

The economic stimulus bill being considered by the U.S. Senate is now expected to allocate $7 billion in grants for broadband deployments in rural and underserved areas along with various tax credits for other broadband projects. Specifically, the Broadband Tax Credit creates a tiered investment tax credit for broadband infrastructure. The proposal provides a 10 percent credit for current generation broadband in underserved and rural areas, and a 20 percent credit for current generation broadband in unserved areas. The proposal also provides...

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Amazon Kindle's Whispernet Leverages Sprint's EVDO Network

Amazon.com unveiled its Kindle 2 reading device featuring a slimmer design, longer battery life, faster page turns, over seven times more storage, sharper images, and a new read-to-me feature. Kindle 2 offers a high-resolution 6-inch electronic paper display that aims to minimize the eyestrain caused by reading electronic displays. More than 230,000 books are now available in the Kindle Store. The device costs $359.As with the previous generation,...

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