Orange UK to outsource Mobile Operations to NSN

Orange will also outsource its mobile network operations in the UK to Nokia Siemens Networks. Under the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will manage, plan, expand, optimize and provide maintenance services for the Orange UK 2G/3G mobile network for the next five years. The deal aims to deliver improved quality of service and enhanced coverage for Orange UK's 15.9 million mobile subscribers, while driving operational efficiency. Nokia Siemens Networks...

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ECI Telecom Debuts Compact ADM-64 for Metro-Access Aggregation

ECI Telecom launched its BroadGate-64 (BG-64), a new converged, packet-TDM, micro MSPP (Multi Service Provisioning Platform) designed for metro access and aggregation platform. The compact ADM platform offers 10 Gbps/STM-64 interfaces and is small enough to fit into street cabinets. It provides 40G of high capacity with a flexible architecture that support both TDM and pure Ethernet. The platform allows carriers to leverage their SDH installed...

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Telefónica Offers Discounts to Unemployed Customers in Home Market

Telefónica announced a new set of plans and special offers in its home market of Spain aimed at addressing the economic slowdown. Telefónica will offer discounts of up to 50% for residential customers who have become unemployed. There is a limit of EUR 20 per bill and up to a half million customers could benefit from this plan. http://www.telefonica...

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DASH7 Alliance Targets Low-Power Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Wirless

A new industry group has been formed to expand the use of a wireless data technology commonly used in the global defense industry but increasingly used by commercial customers. Initial backers include Michelin, Lockheed Martin's Savi Technology and Texas Instruments, along with the U.S. Department of Energy and three of its laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, as well...

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Vodafone UK Outsources Network Operations to Ericsson

Ericsson was awarded a seven year agreement to provide maintenance and operations for Vodafone UK's 2G and 3G radio access networks. The contract includes the transfer of approximately 350 employees from Vodafone to Ericsson, scheduled for the beginning of May. Financial terms were not disclosed."We see this as a strategic long-term relationship, offering real operational and financial benefits allowing us, over time, to reinvest savings in delivering...

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Orange Spain Selects NSN to Manage its Fixed/Mobile Networks

Orange Spain has awarded a network managed services contract to Nokia Siemens Networks covering both its mobile and fixed networks. Under a five year contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will implement an end-to-end managed services solution for Orange's networks, to increase efficiency and reliability of the operator's mobile and fixed network. Orange's fixed and mobile multivendor networks serve more than 11.3 million mobile customers and .,2 million broadband Internet (ADSL) customers across Spain. Nokia Siemens Networks said it will manage Orange's...

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WSJ: IBM in Talks to Buy Sun

Shares in Sun Microsystems surged nearly 80% after a report that IBM is contemplating an acquisition of the company was published in The Wall Street Journal. The deal could be valued at up to $6.5 billion, according to the article. Neither company commented on the report.http://www.wsj....

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Sun Microsystems Unveils Open Cloud Platform

Sun Microsystems unveiled its Open Cloud Platform, the company's open cloud computing infrastructure powered by Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and Open Storage technologies. Sun also outlined that a core element of its strategy is to offer public clouds and previewed plans to launch the Sun Cloud, its first public cloud service targeted at developers, student and startups. The company said its goal is to bring openness and interoperability to the cloud...

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Harmonic Introduces DiviCom Electra 8000 Universal Broadcast Encoder

Harmonic introduced its DiviCom Electra 8000 encoding and transcoding platform featuring support for MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) and MPEG-2 codecs in standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) formats at up to full frame-rate 1080p 50/60. The DiviCom Electra 8000 delivers four channels per rack unit (RU) and uses 40 percent less power than the industry average for HD AVC encoding.<>Harmonic said the new platform enables cable MSOs to deliver up to four HD MPEG-2 services in one QAM, satellite operators can increase channel count per transponder,...

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JDSU Enhances NetComplete with Empirix's Hammer Signaling Monitoring

JDSU will incorporate Empirix's Hammer XMS content traffic and signaling-layer monitoring capabilities with the JDSU NetComplete testing platform. With the addition of Hammer XMS, NetComplete provides a comprehensive service monitoring solution that addresses both signaling and media content, correlates across multiple protocols, quickly identifies network problems, and helps deliver a best-quality customer experience.JDSU's NetComplete service assurance platform includes NetAnalyst and NetOptimize OSS software and the QT-600 Ethernet triple-play...

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Orange Business to Offer Remote monitoring For Cardiac Patients

Orange Business Services is working with Sorin Group, a global medical device company, to develop and service a remote monitoring solution for patients implanted with cardiac rhythm management (CRM) devices. This new solution is based on Sorin's implanted CRM devices' ability to send data to a non-invasive monitoring system located at the patient's home and on Orange Business Services' capabilities to manage the transmission of the data to the physician....

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TANDBERG and BroadSoft Collaborate on Hosted Business Video

TANDBERG and BroadSoft announced new video communications solutions for telecommunications service providers serving business customers. Specifically, TANDBERG and BroadSoft have partnered to offer BroadSoft's BroadWorks Hosted Unified Communications (UC) application platform with TANDBERG's portfolio of visual communications solutions, including the E20 video IP phone, the 1700 MXP personal telepresence system, the Profile 6000 MXP, and the TANDBERG Codian MSE 8000 Series multipoint control units. The companies said that by combining BroadWorks'...

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Telefónica Offers Discounts to Unemployed Customers in Home Market

Telefónica announced a new set of plans and special offers in its home market of Spain aimed at addressing the economic slowdown. Telefónica will offer discounts of up to 50% for residential customers who have become unemployed. There is a limit of EUR 20 per bill and up to a half million customers could benefit from this plan.http://www.telefonica...

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