ST-Ericsson Delivers TD-HSDPA Silicon to Samsung

ST-Ericsson and its Chinese subsidiary T3G have supplied a TD-HSDPA and EDGE platform for Samsung's high-end mobile devices for China. Specifically, ST-Ericsson's multimedia T7210 silicon powers Samsungs feature-rich Emerald (GC-I6320C) handset, which is a TD-HSDPA/EDGE dual-mode, dual-band device capable of supporting downlink speeds of up to 2.8Mbps. ST-Ericsson platforms' flexible dual-mode design enables seamless automatic handover between EDGE and TD-HSDPA networks. http://www.stericsson....

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Africa Coast to Europe Submarine Cable Anticipates 1.92 Tbps Capacity by 2011

Plans for the ACE (Africa Coast to Europe) submarine cable system, which was initially planned to stretch from France to Gabon, have been extended to include all of the west coast of the African continent. The ACE submarine cable system, which will be more than 14,000 km long, is slated for commissioning in 2011. It is expected to deliver a minimum initial capacity of 1.92 Tbps. The ACE consortium currently comprises seventeen telecommunications...

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Ericsson Secures First Managed Services Contract in Africa with Zain Nigeria

Ericsson won a five-year strategic managed services agreement to operate Zain's nationwide GSM/WCDMA networks in Nigeria. The deal is believed to be the first telecom managed services contract on the African continent. Specifically, Ericsson will be responsible for the network operations, field operations including optimization, third-party vendor management for Zain's GSM/WCDMA networks, and business support systems. Ericsson will serve more than...

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China Telecom chooses Alcatel-Lucent's GPON

Alcatel-Lucent announced that it has secured nearly 40% of China Telecom's 2009 FTTH trial projects. Specifically, Alcatel-Lucent will supply its 7342 Intelligent Services Access Manager Fiber-to-the-User (ISAM FTTU) platform along with the Alcatel-Lucent 5520 Access Management System (AMS). The contracts were secured through Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, Alcatel-Lucent's flagship company in China. http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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Open Patent Alliance Expands 4G WiMAX Membership

The Open Patent Alliance (OPA), an industry group dedicated to offering intellectual property rights (IPR) solutions that support the development and widespread adoption of WiMAX around the globe, announced its latest membership additions: Beceem Communications, GCT Semiconductor, Sequans Communications and UQ Communications. Existing backers of OPA include Acer, Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion, Cisco, Clearwire, Huawei Technologies, Intel Corporation and Samsung Electronics. http://www.openpatentalliance....

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NEC Introduces Video & Web Collaboration Tools

NEC Unified Solutions launched UC for Enterprise (UCE) Collaboration, a video and web conferencing and collaboration application designed to help enterprises make meaningful remote contact with customers and employees. Hosted Collaboration, a web-based service offering the same features and functionality to small- and medium-sized businesses, is also now available.NEC said its UCE Collaboration tools can facilitate scheduled or impromptu video or...

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Sunrise Telecom Unveils10 Gigabit Ethernet and IP Services Testing

Sunrise Telecom introduced its XTT 5000 compact 10 Gigabit Ethernet multi-function test system. The new, lightweight field test system is designed specifically to speed successful installation and maintenance of carrier-grade Ethernet and IP services. For the first time, field technicians can use a single, all-inclusive test system for installation and maintenance of both 1 GigE and 10 GigE networks. The XTT 5000 can perform simultaneous and independent...

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BT Opens Telepresence Centers in London, NY, Denver

BT is opening HD telepresence video conferencing demonstration centers in London, New York and Denver where customers can compare telepresence systems before they buy.The new centers showcase the HD telepresence video conferencing technology of BT's partners, Cisco, Polycom and TANDBERG as well as BT's software applications. The centers also showcase BT Global Video Exchange, which allows Cisco TelePresence connections between different companies....

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Telstra Renews Services Agreement With IBM Until 2014

Telstra has extended its information technology (IT) operations and services agreement with IBM until 2014. The five-year contract, which is an extension of an existing services agreement, is worth a total of AU$745million. Under the contract, IBM builds and manages Telstra's servers, software and systems. As part of the new services agreement, IBM will move to improve operational delivery while simplifying and streamlining server builds for Telstra,...

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British Columbia's BCNET Deploys Juniper Ethernet Routers

BCNET, which operates advanced networks for British Columbia's research and higher education communities, has deployed Juniper Networks' MX480 Ethernet Services Routers. Because of the large volume of data transmitted between various universities and research centers across the province, BCNET needed to migrate its 1Gbps Ethernet routed network to a higher capacity 10Gbps architecture. BCNET is also deployingMPLS related features such as Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs, virtual routing and virtual private LAN service (VPLS) to support their customers'...

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T-Mobile USA Finds No Trace of Breach

T-Mobile USA issued a statement saying it has found no evidence at this time that customer information, or other company information, has been compromised by an alledged hacker. The company said it continues to monitor this situation and as a precaution has taken additional measures to further ensure customers' information and its systems are protected. http://www.T-Mobile....

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Marvell Settles Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit for $72 Million

Marvell Technology Group reached an agreement to resolve a shareholder class action lawsuit filed on August 16, 2007 against Marvell and certain of its former and current officers and directors relating to Marvell's historic stock option granting practices. The settlement provides for a payment by Marvell to the class of $72 million. http://www.marvell....

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ETSI to Host IPTV – IMS Test Event

ETSI is organizing a joint interoperability testing event for IPTV and IMS core networks. The event, delivered under ETSI's "Plugtests" brand, will take place in Lannion, France, from 16 to 23 October. Two parallel, co-located testing streams will be arranged, providing separate interoperability testing environments for the two technologies. In both streams, test sessions will be scheduled between pairs of participating companies, and the overall results of all sessions will be published in a final report. Ad-hoc testing will also be permitted,...

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Cisco Forecasts Global IP Traffic to Increase Fivefold by 2013, Reaching 667 Exabytes

Cisco is now predicting that global IP traffic will increase fivefold by 2013 driven by expanded usage of interactive media, and the explosion of video content across multiple devices. This would put the total IP traffic volume at 667 Exabytes per year or 56 exabytes per month -- the equivalent of 10 billion DVDs worth of data per month traversing networks. The newly updated study, called the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast and Methodology,...

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One Minute Video: Dell'Oro's Set-top Box Report

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