KDDI, Furukawa, and Teknovus Develop Clock Synch for Backhaul

KDDI R&D Laboratories (KDDI R&D), Furukawa Electric and Teknovus announced an end-to-end fiber-based backhaul transport solution that eliminates the need for GPS receivers at each base station throughout a cellular network. Accurate clock synchronization is required in cellular networks to prevent call drops as subscribers move from cell-to-cell, to ensure high-quality voice communications and to support accurate billing. The solution integrates one GPS receiver with the OLT (Optical Line Terminal), distributing carrier-grade clock signaling...

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Vitesse Announces Signal Conditioner for 10G

Vitesse Semiconductor introduced a flexible, high-performance Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) integrated circuit (IC) specifically designed to extend 10 Gbps data transmission in optical, copper cable, and backplane applications. This multiport CDR solves difficult high-speed signal integrity design challenges through the use of Vitesse's VScope waveform viewing technology and FlexEQ Electronic Dispersion Compensation (EDC) and adaptive equalization technology. Vitesse said its new CDR device extends optical transmission at 10G rates on single mode...

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Corning LEAF Fiber Passes 30 Million Kilometers Milestone

Corning has sold more than 30 million kilometers of its LEAF optical fiber since introducing the product in 1998. LEAF is used as the backbone of many of the world's most advanced long-haul networks and is the most widely deployed non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber (NZ-DSF) in the world."LEAF fiber is a great example of Corning innovation and has been one of Corning's most successful products, meeting customer needs over many years," said Martin J. Curran, senior vice president and general manager, Corning Optical Fiber. "The performance of this...

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mobilkom austria group Selects Starent for 3G and 4G/LTE Core

mobilkom austria group (mag) has selected Starent Networks' multimedia core solution for deployment in its mobile operator member companies across Europe for UMTS and LTE mobile broadband services. Starent is working with Kapsch CarrierCom, Austria for the solution deployment.mag will initially use Starent's GGSN solution on the ST40 multimedia core platform to enable high-speed multimedia services such as video and Internet on its 3G/UMTS networks....

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China Telecom Reports Tumultuous 2008 Changes

In 2008, China Telecom experienced the historic restructuring of the nation's telecommunications market, completed a major expansion through its wireless acquisition and responded to unprecedented natural disasters, including snowstorms and earthquakes. Nevertheless, the company said its operating fundaments remained robust and its underlying results solid.Excluding the amortization of upfront connection fees and the impact of one-off items including...

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ST-Ericsson Offers Single-Chip EDGE Handset Solution

ST-Ericsson introduced its 4910 and 4908 EDGE platforms for next-generation, low-cost handsets. The devices integrate both digital and analog basebands, RF transceiver and power management unit (PMU) in a single chip. In addition, these single-chip solutions provide multimedia, security and connectivity features while promising the industry's longest battery life. Mass productions is slated for early 2010.ST-Ericsson said these new chips are developed for emerging and cost-sensitive wireless markets. The company believes the new devices mark a...

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BT Selects Fanfare for Automating Network Testing

BT has chosen Fanfare's flagship iTest test automation product as a key component of the strategic testing platform it is putting in place to automate complex system testing. Specifically, BT will deploy iTest in an enterprise-wide initiative to standardize the communication of test assets across the company, as well as between BT and its suppliers.BT, which has already implemented Fanfare's products in a number of its divisions, is expanding its...

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Ixia Enhances its IxRave Monitoring for Carrier Ethernet, Mobile Backhaul

Ixia has enhanced its IxRave IP Service Verification solution to include Carrier Ethernet and Mobile Backhaul. The IxRave platform, which Ixia introduced in March 2008, actively monitors and isolate faults in a carrier's access network by using inexpensive probes that can be deployed along network edges, at customer premises and at key core points to perform real-time active network validation. The service measurement can then be integrated with...

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NASA and Microsoft to Share Terabytes of Data with the Public

NASA and Microsoft announced plans to make the most interesting NASA content -- including high-resolution scientific images and data from Mars and the moon -- explorable on WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft's online virtual telescope for exploring the universe.Under the joint agreement, NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., will process and host more than 100 terabytes, representing about 20,000 DVDs of data. WorldWide Telescope will...

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Sandvine Announces Three New Wireless Deployments

Sandvine announced three new wireless customer wins, all of which came through strategic reseller partner relationships. Two of Sandvine's newest wireless customers, one located in Korea and the second in Mexico, are among the top 100 largest wireless providers globally, by number of voice subscribers. The third new Sandvine customer is a European WiMax operator. Sandvine's PTS platform is being used along with products for congestion management and network intelligence. Names were not disclosed. "Sandvine is helping more than a dozen wireless...

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Telekom Malaysia Upgrades 10 GigE Network with Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded a EUR 7 million contract for the expansion of Telekom Malaysia's 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. The contract will see a network expansion in the central and northern regions of Peninsular Malaysia, two of the country's most densely populated regions. Specifically, TM is deploying Alcatel-Lucent's IP/MPLS portfolio which includes its 7750 Service Router, 7450 Ethernet Service Switch, 7250 Service Access Switch and 5620...

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Alcatel-Lucent enables IPTV Apps with Microsoft Mediaroom

Alcatel-Lucent has enhanced its digital media suite of products with support for the recently announced multimedia application environment for the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform, called the Microsoft Mediaroom Presentation Framework. By using Alcatel-Lucent's Multimedia Content Manager and Interactive Media Manager in conjunction with Microsoft's IPTV platform, service provides are able to offer more personalized multimedia, on-demand offerings...

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BridgeWave Unveils FlexPort 80 GHz Radio for Mobile Backhaul

BridgeWave Communications introduced its FlexPort family of high-capacity 80 GHz radios for mobile backhaul. The FlexPort operates in the high-frequency 80 GHz spectrum to provide up to 1.5 Gbps of capacity for backhaul of both native IP and TDM traffic. Bridgewave plans to release an update in Q3 that will boost this backhaul capacity to up to 2.6 Gbps. The company said that multi-gigahertz allocations in the 80 GHz frequency band make possible...

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