Obama Renominates McDowell for FCC Commissioner

President Obama will renominate Robert M. McDowell for another term as FCC Commissioner. McDowell was first nominated by President George W. Bush in 2006. Immediately prior to joining the FCC, Commissioner McDowell was senior vice president and assistant general counsel for COMPTEL, an association representing competitive facilities-based telecommunications service providers, emerging VoIP providers, integrated communications companies, and their...

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Vitesse Builds Ecosystem for 10G-PON Deployments

Vitesse Semiconductor has expanded its Next-Generation Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTx) Technology Ecosystem with the addition of three industry leading companies: ZTE Corporation; Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI); and CyOptics. The partners are working to accelerate the deployment of next-generation 10G-PON systems.In addition to Vitesse, the original FTTx Technology Ecosystem members included MAC vendor, Teknovus; test equipment supplier, Anritsu; and optical component manufacturer, Emcore. Working closely with the FTTx Ecosystem...

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Israel's 013 NetVision Deploys Veraz's I-Gate SIP Gateway

Israel-based 013 NetVision has chosen Veraz Networks' I-Gate 4000 EDGE SIP Gateway to support advanced voice and data services for its enterprise customers. 013 NetVision chose Veraz's I-Gate 4000 EDGE SIP Gateway because of its voice quality, handling of fax calls, high reliability and ease of management and deployment. The I-Gate 4000 EDGE SIP Gateway leverages Veraz's expertise in VoIP softswitching and media gateways and provides service providers a highly reliable, feature rich platform for enterprise VoIP applications. http://www.vera...

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Cortina Unveils Next Gen Optical Transport Platform

Cortina Systems, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, introduced its next generation optical transport processor platform designed for efficient multiplexing and transparent transport of a broad spectrum of 10G class clients including Ethernet, SONET/SDH, and storage over 10G or 40G optical transport networks. The platform offers analog integration, optical transport networking, and advanced forward error correction (FEC) technology. Cortina...

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Polatis Raises $8 Million for Optical Switching

Polatis, a start-up based in Andover, Mass., raised $8 million in venture capital, for its low loss, all-optical switching products. Polatis all-optical products operate at the transport layer of fiber networks, providing the intelligent foundation for switching massive amounts of data traffic in a precise and automated way. It develops and manufactures low loss all-optical switches that scale to the largest networks in telecommunications, data center,...

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Dell'Oro: Worldwide Router Market Dropped Sharply in Q1

The worldwide router market declined 23 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2009 as the global recession weakened sales across all geographical regions and market segments, according to a newly published report by Dell'Oro Group. Accounting for more than 90 percent of the worldwide router revenue are the top four vendors, in ranked order: Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei.The report includes a forecast for 2009...

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Huawei Launches CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev B -- Downlinks up to 9.3 Mbps

Huawei Technologies introduced a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) Revision B Solution, boasting a downlink rate of up to 9.3 Mbps and an uplink rate of up to 5.4 Mbps. Huawei said that with minimal capital investment to upgrade from Revision A, operators will be able to deliver much faster mobile broadband services in data-intensive, delay-sensitive applications such as VoIP, video telephony, multi-media and online gaming. http://www.huawei....

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Blue Coat Reports Revenue of $114 Million

Blue Coat Systems reported total net revenue for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 (ended 30-Apr-2009) of $114 million, an increase of 29% compared to net revenue of $88 million in the same quarter last year, and an increase of 4% compared to net revenue of $110 million in the immediately preceding quarter. Excluding net revenue associated with Packeteer, net revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 was $89 million, an increase of 1% compared to net revenue of $88 million in the same quarter last year, and an increase of 3% compared to net...

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TiVo Prevails in Patent Case Against EchoStar

A United States District Court in Texas ruled in favor of , in the lawsuit against EchoStar Communications. The court awarded an additional $103 million plus interest through April 2008 to TiVo.http://www.tivo....

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CenturyTel + EMBARQ = CenturyLink

The new company formed by the merger of CenturyTel and EMBARQ will be known as CenturyLink. Full deployment of the brand is expected to occur in the months following closing. As markets are converted to the new brand, customers will receive advance notification and CenturyLink will begin to appear on building signage, company vehicles and marketing materials.CenturyLink will have an operating presence in 33 states, nearly eight million access lines,...

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Motorola Offers Embeddable WiMAX, HSPA and LTE Cards for Mobile Internet Devices

Motorola is launching a new initiative to embed its WiMAX, HSPA and LTE data cards into consumer electronics. The Motorola WTM1100 is an IEEE 802.16e Wave 2 compliant, single-band Half Mini-PCIe wireless network adapter that operates in the 2.5 GHz or 3.5 GHz spectrum for WiMAX connectivity. Motorola's HTM1000 is a 3G/2G HSPA EDGE and GPRS Half Mini-PCIe WWAN adapter that supports HSPA data rates up to 10.1 Mbps downlink and 5.76 Mbps uplink. Motorola's LTM1000 is a single-mode LTE card, which is capable of speeds up to 100 Mbps downlink and 50Mbps...

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WiSpry Raises $10 Million for RF Silicon

WiSpry, a start-up based in Irvine, California, raised an additional $10 million in Series C funding for its programmable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products for the wireless industry. WiSpry is developing highly-integrated, programmable RF products for multi-band, multi-standard handsets including tunable antennas and tunable impedance matching networks using industry standard CMOS processes. The company said its technology enables the...

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Motorola's Mesh Vehicle Mounted Modem

Motorola's Enterprise Mobility Solutions business introduced a Vehicle Mounted Modem (VMM) 4300 as part of its Mesh Wide Area Network (MWAN) portfolio. Designed to deliver wireless broadband connectivity at highway speeds, the VMM 4300 provides public transportation organizations and public safety agencies with the opportunity to extend mobile applications and video to buses, trains, public works vehicles and police cars for increased productivity...

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IP Infusion Releases ZebOS 7.7 with PBB-TE Support

IP Infusion began shipping its ZebOS Network Platform version 7.7 software which supports PBB-TE functionality. Specific features in ZebOS 7.7 include:Support for Provider Backbone Bridge-Traffic EngineeringSupport for OpenSAF, the industry's leading high-availability (HA) middleware Hardened implementation of BGP Route Server for deployment in Carrier Networks utilizing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardwareEnhanced resiliency for IP routing with...

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Portugal Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent‘s GPON

Portugal Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy the country's largest GPON project. Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its 7342 Intelligent Services Access Manager Fiber-to-the-User (ISAM FTTU) and the related Alcatel-Lucent 5520 Access Management System for element management. In addition, Alcatel-Lucent is supplying the Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) to install at the end-users' premises. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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PingPing and Alcatel-Lucent Partner on Contactless Payments

Alcatel-Lucent's "touchatag" joint venture is working with PingPing, an independent brand by Belgacom for mobile & micro payments, to create an open model to encourage the development of new applications for contactless cards and mobile payment technology.Contactless applications are the next step in the evolution of the "electronic wallet." Among other things, this technology makes it possible to pay for a service, such as a theater ticket or...

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Alcatel-Lucent opens Alternative Energy Laboratory in France

Alcatel-Lucent has opened an alternative energy laboratory dedicated to the telecoms sector. Located on its Bell Labs research site in Villarceaux, France, this station forms part of an Alternative Energy strategic program launched by Alcatel-Lucent to respond to the growing demand from wireless operators for energy-autonomous and green wireless networking equipment that can provide advanced communications capabilities even in remote areas with no...

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NTT Com Surpasses 210 Gbps of TransPacific Capacity

Earlier this year, NTT Com Global IP Network surpassed 200 Gbps of installed capacity on its transpacific network. U.S. customers are using the NTT Com network to reach customers, suppliers and international offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Australia. http://www.nttamerica....

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NTT Com Plans "Setten" Cloud Service

NTT Communications is field-testing a network-based PC desktop environment on a cloud platform -- code named "Setten" (Japanese for contact point or interface). A total of 15 organizations, including logistics companies, educational institutes, non-profit organizations and other global operators, are jointly testing the platform as an alternative to conventional PC-embedded desktop environments. The aim is to provide a globally accessible, network-based...

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