Force10 Networks Introduces ExaScale Switch/Router

Force10 Networks unveiled its ExaScale E-Series family of switch/routers aimed at virtualized data center and cloud computing environments.The ExaScale E-Series represents Force10's third generation technology that incorporates several innovations to boost its high-level of non-blocking line-rate Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet densities. The platform boasts total throughput of more than two billion packets per second across a switching fabric capacity...

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ADVA Optical Networking Demonstrates Serial 100 Gbps Transmission

ADVA Optical Networking has developed a novel DPSK-3ASK (Differential Phase-Shift Keying, 3-level Amplitude-Shift Keying) modulation format for serial 100Gbps transmission over a single wavelength channel. Engineers at the company's labs in Meiningen, Germany, have successfully demonstrated for the first time this new modulation scheme, which utilizes available 40 Gbps components and facilitates operation on a standard ITU (International Telecommunication...

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Chunghwa Telecom Deploys Harmonic's Content Management Solutions

Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom has deployed a broad range of Harmonic's content management solutions in support of its Multimedia-on-Demand (MOD) IPTV service expansion. The upgrade has enabled Chunghwa Telecom to offer its IPTV customers a number of advanced interactive services, including multi-channel digital mosaics and time-shifted access to major events and programming, such as the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The enhanced IPTV offering has been very well received; Chunghwa Telecom serves over 4.3 million broadband subscribers throughout Taiwan.Content...

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Opnext Introduces Optical Transceiver for 100 Gbps Ethernet

Opnext announced the industry's first 100 Gbps Ethernet (100GbE) optical transceiver for 10km transmission over standard single-mode fiber (SMF). The transceiver is compliant with IEEE P802.3ba 100GBASE-LR4 standard and with the CFP Multi-Source Agreement (MSA). This MSA is the first industry standard to support next generation high speed interfaces including 100GbE transmission. Opnext's 100GbE optical transceiver utilizes an in-house 1310nm wavelength...

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Mintera Ships 1000th 40 Gbps DWDM Adaptive-DPSKTM Module

Mintera Corporation shipped its 1000th 40 Gbps DWDM DPSK MSA transceiver module. The device uses patent-pending Adaptive-DPSK technology to enable 40 Gbps transport on 50GHz channel-spaced systems and transmission over agile ROADM networks without compromising critical ULH reach. The unit conforms to the industry standard footprint and incorporates an electrical Mux/Demux for compatibility with any 40 Gbps framer. "By packaging our solution into an industry standard format we have won 11 customers to-date, a rate of almost one per month since...

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Agilent Demos Optical Modulation Analyzer for 40/100 Gbps

Agilent Technologies is unveiling the industry's first optical modulation analyzer for 40 to 100G device test, a PXIT 10G DCA with PON Filter rates, and a unique smart post processing and photonic application suite for characterization and analysis of optical components and signals.Agilent said its optical modulation analyzer addresses the test and measurement gap for analysis of amplitude- and phase-modulated optical signals for 40/100G single wavelength transmission market. The solution provides flexibility in analyzing all broadly used modulation...

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Belgium's BASE Selects Alcatel-Lucent for Mobile Outsourcing

Alcatel-Lucent has won a new outsourcing contract with the Belgian mobile operator BASE, which is part of the KPN group. Through this agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will have end-to-end responsibility for all network operations and network rollout for BASE's network.The contract covers the end-to-end network rollout and network operations of the BASE mobile network in Belgium, comprising approximately 3,000 sites. It also involves the transfer of around 29 BASE employees to Alcatel-Lucent. BASE will continue to own its network and continue to carry...

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ARRIS Upstream Channel Bonding Enables Japan Cablenet to Deploy 160 Mbps

Japan Cablenet Limited, the nation's second largest cable operator, will begin wide-scale deployment of a 160 Mbps Super High Speed Data service, called "Speed Star 160", across its cable system footprint, beginning at its JCN Koala Katsushika site this month.ARRIS said the "Speed Star 160" rollout is especially significant in that it incorporates what is believed to be the industry's first deployed service using Upstream Channel Bonding technology. Japan Cablenet selected the ARRIS Cable Modem Termination System solution in 2009. This consists...

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Integra5 Partners with Sybase 365 on Multi-Device Mobile Messaging

Integra5 and Sybase 365 announced a partnership to allow mobile operators to extend their reach with the delivery of social, SMS-centric applications to multiple devices -- based on Integra5's new MediaFriends application suite.Deployed in the mobile operator's network, Integra5's platform is able to route SMS messages between the Sybase 365 mobile messaging platform and users' mobile phones, TVs, PCs and DECT phones. In addition to mobile operators, the partnership also benefits video providers and programmers, enabling the deployment of new TV-based...

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Alcatel-Lucent Wins China Unicom W-CDMA Contract in 14 Provinces

China Unicom has selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy 3G W-CDMA networks in 14 Chinese provinces. Under the terms of the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will provide its 3G/W-CDMA solutions, including about 11000 Node B (Base stations), Home Location Register (HLR) data base system as well network maintenance and optimization in 14 provinces -- Hebei, Fujian Guangxi, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Guangdong, Hunan,...

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NSN Enhances hiT 7300 Optical Platform

Nokia Siemens Networks released version 4.25 of its hiT 7300 optical platform featuring 40 Gbps capabilities in a compact (seven modules per sub-rack) chassis. The hiT 7300 is a DWDM platform capable of serving both metro and core needs. The enhancements increase flexibility to support more revenue generating services such as high definition video on demand and IPTV allowing operators to expand their services. In release 4.25, this flexibility...

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OKI Develops 160 Gbps Next Gen PON

OKI Electric Industry has developed a 160Gbps ultra high-speed optical next generation access (NGA) asymmetric PON system using hybrid Optical Time Division Multiplexing (OTDM) and Optical Code Division Multiplexing (OCDM).Existing passive optical access systems are operated at 1.25Gbps in Japan and 2.5 Gbps in the US, Europe and elsewhere. OKI noted that in such optical access systems, the communication capacity per user when 16 users are connected,...

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Skype Calling Now Open to Enterprise SIP-based PBX systems

Skype released a beta version of its software that opens its service to SIP-based enterprise PBX systems. Skype For SIP for Business allows SIP PBX owners to benefit from Skype's low cost calls to fixed phones and mobiles around the world, and to receive calls from Skype users directly into their PBX system.Key features include: Receive and manage inbound calls from Skype users worldwide on SIP-enabled PBX systems; connecting the company Web site...

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