VZ Business Launches Cloud-Based Network Management, Monitoring and Reporting

Verizon Business introduced several new "cloud-based" capabilities for global enterprises. The new capabilities are:Asset Assurance -- a new suite of fault management and monitoring tools and reporting capabilities that provide a cost-effective solution for global network device management. The service is available immediately to Verizon Private IP customers in the U.S., with plans to expand availability to a number of countries around the world...

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Huawei Deploy WiMAX 802.16e in Italy for Retelit Group

Retelit S.p.A has selected Huawei to deploy its commercial WiMAX 802.16e network covering north and central parts of Italy where it owns a BWA 3.5 Ghz frequency license. Under this agreement, Huawei will provide an end-to-end WiMAX 802.16e mobile solution including Base Station, Access Service Network (ASN) Gateway, Hybrid TDM-IP Microwave equipment and Network Management Systems. Huawei has also delivered the first batches of its WiMAX terminals, which are already in use in the areas where the network has been activated. http://www.huawei....

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Huawei Builds Optical-Layer ASON Network for VietNam's VNPT

Huawei Technologies has deployed an optical-layer Automatic Switch Optical Network (ASON) network for Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT), covering Hanoi and the northern provinces. Financial terms were not disclosed.Huawei describes the project as the largest of its kind in the world, involving installation of hundreds of Huawei ASON products across Northern Vietnam. The network is able to ensure high carrier-class reliability of services even in the case of multi-point failures. The service level agreement (SLA) is also supported,...

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Alcatel-Lucent Teams with 1020 Placecast for Hosted Location-based Mobile Advertising

Alcatel-Lucent is working with 1020 Placecast, a start-up based in San Francisco specializing in location-based advertising, to launch a hosted location-based service for wireless network operators.As part of this service, 1020 Placecast leverages its unique ad engine to weave location information into highly relevant SMS or MMS messages delivered on an opt-in basis to mobile users. Alcatel-Lucent, leveraging its Geographic Messaging Services Platform (GMSP) as a hosted service, tracks opt-in subscribers' locations on behalf of the service provider...

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Zain Trials HSPA+ with NSN

Zain Saudi Arabia has completed an HSPA+ trial with Nokia Siemens Networks, paving the way for an all-IP flat architecture network of the future along with significantly improved data throughput speeds.The trial introduced a simple, flat architecture demonstrating how traffic can bypass the Radio Network Controller (RNC) and the Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN), to deliver improved data transmission speeds. Because of the re-routing, there is no...

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BH Telecom Selects NSN for Next Generation Network

BH Telecom, Bosnia and Herzegovina's biggest operator of mobile and fixed networks, has deployed Nokia Siemens Networks switching and broadband access solutions to optimize its legacy assets. The carrier is moving towards an all-IP network of the future.Specifically, NSN is providing efficient call switching and broadband access, and enabling "Triple play" services (Fast Internet, IPTV and VoIP services) for BH Telecom subscribers across the whole...

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Orange Business Services Builds Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Center with Mobistar

Orange Business Services has established an international machine-to-machine business center with Belgium-based Mobistar. The facility is aimed at developing real-time communication solutions to serve multinational businesses. On an international-scale, the IMC is aimed at both original equipment manufacturers (OEM), that include M2M technology with their products and services, and at national and multinational companies.Orange Business Services...

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Qwest Ensures Disaster Recovery for Sterling Savings Bank

Qwest Communications announced a three year agreement to provide disaster recovery capabilities and hosting space in its state-of-the-art Seattle CyberCenter to Sterling Savings Bank Service is backed by an industry-leading service level agreement. Spokane-based Sterling is the leading commercial bank headquartered in Washington and provides complete personal, small business, commercial and institutional financial services. http://www.qwest....

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Hibernia Atlantic Established POP in Equinix London Data Center

Hibernia Atlantic has expanded its network into Equinix's LD4 London Slough International Business eXchange (IBX) data center. This new Point of Presence (POP) reiterates the company's commitment to providing redundant, reliable connectivity solutions by-passing major congestion points generally located within major metro city centers. This POP also extends Hibernia's Global Financial Network (GFN), into Equinix Financial eXchange, a neutral electronic marketplace consisting of active financial market participants, which is located within the LD4...

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Empirix Releases Hammer Edge Emulation Tool

Empirix introduced a high performance realistic behavior emulation tool that network equipment manufacturers, service providers and large enterprises can use to emulate complex, unpredictable user behavior and multidimensional data traffic prior to network rollouts. The new Hammer Edge tool can emulate the realistic behavior of users, devices and network topology configurations; test realistic security scenarios; and predict user experience of data, video and voice applications, as an aggregate, in the pre-deployment phase. It emulates the behavior...

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AT&T Offers 3G Mini Laptops

AT&T is expanding its portfolio of embedded 3G mini laptops to its 2,200 stores nationwide. The expanded embedded device lineup will include Acer, Dell and Lenovo mini laptops. Pricing and availability of the new devices will be announced at a later date. Mini laptops embedded with AT&T 3G service are also available through other national retailers. http://www.att....

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Virgin America Implements Fleetwide WiFi

Virgin America is now offering Gogo In-flight Internet service on every one of its flights. Passengers have the option to surf the Web, check e-mail, or log on to their corporate VPN. Virgin America marked this in-flight WiFi milestone with another first for an airline: an air-to-ground Skype video call with Oprah Winfrey. http://www.virginamerica....

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ARRIS Enables Gigabit Ethernet PON Solution

ARRIS introduced an Ethernet Passive Optical Networking (EPON) solution designed to leverage the existing cable infrastructure and drive fiber to the premises.The ARRIS FTTMax EPON solution, which is comprised of the FTTMax EPON Optical Line Terminal (OLT) and Optical Network Unit (ONU), allows operators to add mixed use services incrementally without changing their existing back office operations. Operators already using the ARRIS CHP Max 5000 Head End chassis can add EPON to their service offerings by simply adding an ARRIS FTTMax EPON OLT to...

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Nokia Opens Ovi Maps to Social Location Interaction

Nokia announced of the latest version of Ovi Maps, featuring a dynamic and personalized canvas - synchronized and shared between the mobile and the web - upon which people will be able to add personal location-based content. The new release marks a shift from the one-size-fits-all static bitmap maps commonly found on the web, to using Nokia's dynamic vector-graphic maps as a browser.Nokia also announced the release of the Ovi Maps Player API, providing...

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Microsoft Offers Netflix Movies and TV via Windows Media Center

Microsoft is now offering more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes from Netflix via the Windows Media Center on PCs with Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate. The Netflix instant watching in Windows Media Center is powered by Microsoft Silverlight.Windows Vista customers who are also Netflix members can start Windows Media Center on their PC and then select the new Netflix tile under TV+Movies to begin streaming movies and TV episodes instantly. People can also search the entire Netflix library, manage both their instant and DVD Queues, and...

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Aricent Delivers Pre-Packaged Metro Switching Solution

Aricent released a new version of its Intelligent Switching Solution (ISS) specifically optimized for carrier and metro Ethernet product development. Aricent's ISS-Metro is a licensable, pre-packaged software framework targeted at networking and telecom equipment manufacturers building products and services to deploy high performance Ethernet in access, aggregation, edge and transport equipment. Applications include FTTH, FTTC, Ethernet DSL access, MSAN, mobile backhaul/cellular backhaul and VPNs over packet infrastructure.The ISS-Metro release...

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