Denmark's TDC Selects Aricent for Operational Support Systems Integration

Denmark's TDC, a leading provider of communications solutions in the Nordic business market, has selected Aricent's telecommunications system integration services to integrate and deploy multi-vendor enhancements to its operations support systems. Aricent's telecommunications system integration practice delivers advanced and reliable Operations Support Systems and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) solutions that facilitate fast roll out of innovative services, reduce operating expenses, improve the users' experience and loyalty, and create new...

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Cisco Forms Strategic Alliance with Tata Consultancy Services

Cisco and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have formed a strategic alliance to develop and deliver information technology (IT) service solutions to help customers build or evolve next-generation data centers. The companies also announced the formation of a Cisco Technology Lab at the TCS campus in Chennai, India. As part of the new practice, TCS will incorporate Cisco's Data Centre 3.0 technologies, with TCS' IT services, business solutions and outsourcing. The practice will focus on helping customers develop next-generation virtualized data centres...

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Telefónica Expands 3G in Spain with NSN

Telefónica Spain has undertaken a 3G network expansion which will extend its service reach by more than 25% in dense urban areas. The expansion, which will also improve energy efficiency and reduce environmental impact, has been carried out by Nokia Siemens Networks. Financial terms were not disclosed.The network upgrade features Nokia Siemens Networks' Flexi Base Station. As the industry's smallest, and most energy efficient base station, the Flexi can offer energy savings of up to 70 percent. Telefónica expects to reduce CO2 emissions by up...

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Nokia Siemens Networks to Demo ATCA-based Evolved Packet Core for LTE

At next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia Siemens Networks is launching two new products that will make up the key elements of its Evolved Packet Core (EPC) network solution for Long Term Evolution (LTE). The Flexi Network Server and the Flexi Network Gateway will both be based on an ATCA platform and will be available for early field deployment in the second half of 2009. NSN said its Evolved Packet Core offering will ultimately support a full range of 3GPP access, such as 2G, 3G, HSPA and LTE. This will allow it to be conveniently...

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France's RENATER Deploys Ciena CN 4200 for Extended Reach

RENATER, the national research and education network in France, has chosen Ciena's CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform to create a proprietary mesh WDM network spanning the entire country. The project, RENATER 5, showcases Ciena's CN 4200 regional and long-haul transport capabilities, which expand the platform's geographical range to more than 1500 kilometers.Ciena said the new extended reach features of Ciena's CN 4200 platform deployed...

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Occam Networks Announces New Operating System

Occam Networks unveiled a new operating system that manages its range of BLC 6000 Copper, Gigabit Ethernet and GPON products. Occam said its new OS 6.1 is ideal for service providers migrating from all copper to a mixed copper/fiber or all fiber network. Service providers eager to take advantage of GPON in a mixed copper/fiber network leverage direct Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) to soft-switch capabilities from copper and FTTP applications...

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IP Infusion Adds PBB-TE Features to its ZebOS

IP Infusion announced the upcoming release of its ZebOS Network Platform version 7.7 software, featuring new support for PBB-TE functionality, an essential ingredient to creating large Carrier Ethernet networks. ZebOS 7.7, which will be available in April 2009, provides full support for MPLS and for Carrier Ethernet, allowing router and switch OEMs to lower their software engineering costs and reduce time to market in delivering next-generation transport hardware to market. Specific features in ZebOS 7.7 include:Support for Provider Backbone...

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ZTE Tallies Growth in Global WiMAX Market

China's ZTE Corporation reported significant growth in the global WiMAX market in 2008. According to a report entitled 'Global WiMAX Market, Takes off in 2009' released by In-Stat, ZTE claimed 15 out of the 94 new WiMAX 16e commercial networks deployed last year. The company said it performed well in high-end markets including the United States and Western Europe.As of November 2008, ZTE has deployed more than 30 WiMAX 16e networks in Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. http://www.zte.com....

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Vendors Show TD-LTE Developments at MWC in Barcelona

China Mobile, Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, Datang, Nokia-Siemens Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, Potevio, Agilent, UT Starcom, Spreadtrum, MTK and Innofidei are among the companies expected to show TD-LTE on services, products, and technologies during the 2009 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week.The TD Industry Association said over 100 enterprises have been engaged in R&D of TD-SCDMA equipment. TD-LTE, the next evolution for TD-SCDMA. 3GPP's standards work for TD-LTE was completed by the end of 2008, after which interoperability and field trials...

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Qualcomm Adds Near Field Communication to Chipsets

Qualcomm has added support for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to certain chipsets in its product portfolio. NFC is a short-range wireless connectivity technology operating at 13.56 MHz and transferring data at up to 424 Kbps. The company is also engaged with leading NFC solutions providers to develop reference designs based on the company's Mobile Station Modem chipsets. http://www.qualcomm....

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Brasil Telecom Reaches 5.6 Million Mobile Users

Brasil Telecom reported consolidated gross revenue of R$17,007.1 million for 2008, up by 6.3% year-on-year. Consolidated net income came to R$782.2 million, 16.2% up on 2007 and equivalent to R$ 2.1579 per share.At the end of 2008, Brasil Telecom's mobile telephony client base reached 5.6 million users in service, a growth of 31.5% in comparison with 2007. Broadband users totaled 1.8 million in the 4Q08, 15.2% up on the previous year.In 2008, the...

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AT&T Mobility Employees File Federal Charges Against Union

The National Right to Work Foundation said it will provide free legal assistance to AT&T Mobility employees who are threatened with fines for exercising their right to go to their jobs during an imminent national strike. Communication Workers of America (CWA) union officials may order 20,000 AT&T employees to abandon their jobs at any moment. In a press statement, the foundation said it has already helped two New Jersey AT&T employees file unfair labor practice charges against the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1101...

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Motorola Extends Cable PON Portfolio with Alloptic's RFoG

Motorola will resell Alloptic's Radio Frequency over Glass (RFoG) solutions as part of its cable passive optical network (PON) portfolio. The agreement between Motorola and Alloptic provides Motorola with exclusive rights to offer Alloptic's RFoG solutions to leading cable operators worldwide. The RFoG product line gives cable operators the ability to launch existing video, voice and data services over an all-fiber network supporting residential...

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Intel to Invest $7 Billion in 32nm Fabs in U.S.

Intel announced plans to invest $7 billion over the next two years to build advanced manufacturing facilities in the United States. The investment funds deployment of Intel's industry-leading 32 nanometer (nm) manufacturing technology that will be used to build faster, smaller chips that consume less energy.Intel's investment will be made at existing manufacturing sites in Oregon, Arizona and New Mexico and will support approximately 7,000 high-wage, high-skill jobs at those locations -- part of a total Intel workforce of more than 45,000 in the...

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Alcatel-Lucent Extends Carrier Ethernet to the Enterprise

Alcatel-Lucent has expanded its Carrier Ethernet portfolio with introduction of the 7210 Service Access Switch, a family of next generation, small footprint customer edge devices that extends Carrier Ethernet to the enterprise site. The 7210 SAS, which is designed to be owned and managed by the service provider, could be deployed at the enterprise customer site or multi-tenant unit (MTU). With strong QoS capabilities, the 7210 SAS delivers fully...

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Cisco: Mobile Data Traffic will Double Every Year through 2013

Globally, mobile data traffic will double every year through 2013, increasing 66 times between 2008 and 2013, due mostly to video, according to the Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast. Mobile data traffic will grow at a CAGR of 131 percent between 2008 and 2013, reaching over 2 exabytes per month by 2013."More personalized services and applications are becoming available on a wide range of devices. The key to success will be delivering...

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