Cisco Outlines "Smart Grid" Strategy

Cisco outlined its plan to deliver an end-to-end, highly secure network infrastructure solution for the "Smart Grid". The goal is to establish an intelligent, two-way IP communications network extending from electrical generation into businesses and homes. This is expected to result in greater energy conservation, lower greenhouse gas emissions and innovative end-user services.Cisco's Smart Grid solutions will address critical points within the...

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BT and Nortel Sign New Four Year Deal

BT and Nortel announced a new four-year global trading agreement for Nortel's enterprise equipment and services including its convergence portfolio. This new trading agreement builds on the success of a 15-year relationship that has provided the UK market with leading voice applications.http://www.btplc.com http://www.nortel....

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South Dakota's SDN Selects ECI Telecom for Carrier Ethernet

SDN Communications, a regional service provider based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is deploying ECI Telecom's CESR SR9700 Carrier Ethernet Switch Router to support its fiber optic network -- the largest in the upper midwest -- and expand its Carrier Ethernet-based services.ECI's CESR SR9700 is optimized for Carrier Ethernet transport. http://www.ecitele....

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OIF Advances Control Plane Interoperability

The OIF announced progress in its Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration 2009 - Enabling Broadband On-Demand Services, which is currently underway in the following Carrier labs since March 2009: China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Orange Labs -France Telecom Group, KDDI R&D Labs, NTT, Telecom Italia and Verizon. Leading optical networking equipment vendors are making control plane technology and Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) services a top priority during the testing. In particular, the companies are testing the interoperability of EVPL...

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Korea Telecom Freetel Install CloudShield for Real Time Billing

Korea Telecom Freetel (KTF) has implemented a new billing system that leverages CloudShield Technologies' CS-2000 platform for packet-by-packet real-time accuracy. Cloudshield specializes in deep packet inspection (DPI) technology. NGEN served as network integrator for the project. Financial terms were not disclosed.KTF is now able to efficiently collect subscriber data and analyze protocols in order to properly manage its session-based billing and provide the best customer experience possible. With the solution in place, KTF has improved the...

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Sycamore Enhances it Optical Switching/Transport with OTN

Sycamore Networks has added Optical Transport Network (OTN) capabilities to its suite of integrated switching and transport offerings on the SN 16000 Intelligent Optical Switching Platform. The new industry-standard (ITU-T G.709) interface module supports -- on a single card -- a wide range of client service rates and high-speed transport options, including Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, SONET, SDH, and in-service pluggable optics. Enhanced with the OTN G.709 Line Interface Module (LIM), the full-featured USC further simplifies the design,...

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Arima Leverages Telegent's Chip for Free-to-Air Mobile TV Handset

Arima Communications, a leading Taiwanese original design manufacturer (ODM), has integrated Telegent Systems' silicon into a mobile handset that enables consumers to send and receive SMS messages while watching live, free broadcast TV. The SMS-TV feature, which will be commercially available in selected handset designs this summer, is targeted towards consumers who want to chat with one another while watching their favorite programs as well as...

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TI Releases High-Efficiency Power-over-Ethernet controller

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced a high-efficiency, high-power Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) controller for 13-watt or 26-watt powered device (PD) applications, such as IP phones, wireless access points or security cameras. TI said its new device supports DC/DC converter topologies that can achieve higher than 90 percent power conversion efficiency, which reduces heat and increases reliability of the system. http://www.ti....

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Marvell Introduces Prestera 40 GbE Switching Chip

Marvell introduced a Prestera packet processor designed for datacenter switching and featuring multiple 40 GbE and 10 GbE ports. The chip boasts a line rate switching capability of 720 Million packets per second (Mpps) and support for Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Dynamic power management capabilities in the device provide an infrastructure for on-demand power draw reduction. It also features advanced congestion management capabilities, including Per-priority Flow Control and Enhanced Transmission Selection, to allow finer grained responses...

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Motorola Adapts GPON into Passive Optical LAN Solution

Motorola has adapted its last-mile GPON technology into a new Passive Optical LAN (POL) solution aimed at simplifying traditional in-building and campus local area networks and yielding significant capital and operational savings.Motorola's POL is an all-fiber enterprise LAN solution connecting any stationary Ethernet-based device or system across the enterprise into the wide area network. The architecture reduces the need for campus distribution...

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Bivio Acquires FlowInspect, Extending its DPI Reach

Bivio Networks, which specializes in deep packet inspection (DPI)-enabled networking platforms, has acquired FlowInspect, a Milan-based developer of protocol ID and classification technologies. Founded in 2003, FlowInspect offers a DPI-enabled multi-application service gateway. The company's products combine protocol identification and classification technologies with a range of DPI applications including content filtering, data retention, service protection, interception, and traffic and subscriber management services. FlowInspect's customers...

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Ovum Predicts 9.1% Drop in Mobile phone shipments in 2009

The economic downturn will have a significant impact on mobile phone shipments in 2009; Ovum predicts the volumes will be down globally by 9.1%. The downturn has artificially extended replacement rates for handsets during 2009.The consultancy expects that all regions, even those in emerging markets, will be hit to some extent by the downturn. Shipments will start to recover from 2010 onwards, although it will take until 2012 before global volumes are back to the level seen in 2008.Ovum further predicts that 2009 will witness the collapse of the...

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BigBand Supplies Media Service Platform for Taiwan's CHT

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), the incumbent operator in Taiwan, has selected BigBand Networks' MSP2000 (Media Services Platform) to deliver advanced advertising video solutions on High Definition (HD) and Standard Definition (SD) content, in both MPEG-2 and H.264 for its flagship Multimedia-On-Demand (MOD) IPTV service. The deployment with Chunghwa Telecom is aimed at boosting its IPTV revenues by providing a highly reliable, scalable carrier-class platform to rapidly turn-up and augment MOD services to meet the growing demand for personalized video...

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IP/MPLS Forum Merges with Broadband Forum

The IP/MPLS Forum has merged with the Broadband Forum (formerly DSL Forum) to create a single worldwide organization covering the core, aggregation, access and home network.United under the Broadband Forum name, the new organization has a membership of 220 service providers, equipment manufacturers, chip vendors and industry bodies. Its mission is to help define interoperable network equipment for local broadband access, advancing mobile backhaul...

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AT&T Announces Cloud-Based "Storage as a Service"

AT&T is launching a cloud-based, storage-on-demand service for enterprise customers. from any location, anytime, using any Web-enabled device. AT&T has selected EMC Corporation as its technology provider for the underlying AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service platform. The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly develop and market the service.AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service provides a business-class...

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