TI Debuts Multicore Femtocell DSPs, Partners with Continuous Computing, mimoOn

Texas Instruments unveiled a new new family of multicore DSPs (digital signal processors) enabling residential and enterprise HSPA femtocells. The solutions include a portfolio of complementary analog solutions, support for Linux, and software solutions from third party developers (Continuous Computing and mimoOn). TI's femtocell product family includes the TMS320TCI6485 with two high-performance 850MHz C64x+ DSP cores delivering 1.7 GHz of overall...

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Two Minute Video: Top Five Barriers to LTE

Top Five Barriers to LTE presented by Aswath MohanJargon Bus...

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Ericsson Confirms First LTE License Agreements

Ericsson has signed license agreements for LTE essential patents. The company said it is a strong advocate for reasonable aggregated royalties and will take a lead role in licensing its technology to promote a healthy market. This builds on Ericsson's present global licensing program for GSM/WCDMA, now composed of more than 80 agreements and generating significant revenue.Ericsson claims to hold the industry's strongest LTE patent portfolio with a substantial number of standard essential patents that are key to developing 4G/LTE products.htt...

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Alcatel-Lucent Appoints Christel Heydemann to Head HP Alliance

Alcatel-Lucent announced the appointment of Christel Heydemann as Strategic Alliance Vice President for HP. She will report to Tom Burns, President of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Product Group. Previously, she was the leader of the Sales Account Management in Alcatel-Lucent France. Prior that she has been holding various managerial positions such as key account manager for SFR and Orange among others.Last week, HP and Alcatel-Lucent announced that...

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AT&T Extends U-verse Integration contract with Alcatel-Lucent

AT&T has extended Alcatel-Lucent's contract for end-to-end multivendor network integration for AT&T U-verse. The AT&T U-verse portfolio brings together U-verse TV, U-verse High Speed Internet and U-verse Voice services all delivered using Alcatel-Lucent's Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA). AT&T U-verse services are now offered in 93 markets in 19 states, with more than 1.3 million U-verse TV customers. Financial...

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Nortel Builds UC Software Communication System

Nortel is expanding its Software Communication System (SCS) solution to accommodate enterprises beyond small and medium-size businesses. SCS brings solution simplicity, new applications, further plug-and-play interoperability and more opportunities for third-party development communities. A recognized leader in unified communications (UC), Nortel supports customers' evolutionary and transformational paths to UC with telephony UC solutions such as Communication Server 1000 and native UC solutions such as SCS.SCS, which is based on Session...

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Altair Semiconductor Announces LTE Baseband Processor

Altair Semiconductor, a fabless chip company based in Israel, introduced its FourGee-3100 LTE baseband processor.The chip, which will be available in Q409, is a fully optimized LTE CAT-3 baseband processor that will operate with devices from mobile handsets, data cards and USB dongles to various handheld consumer electronics devices. The FourGee(TM)-3100 is bundled with a complete LTE L1 and protocol stack. It supports LTE category 3 (CAT-3) throughputs (100Mbps/50Mbps DL/UL respectively) and offers two 20MHz MIMO receive chains and one transmit...

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Allot Tunes Deep Packet Inspection and Caching for Monetizing Internet Video

Allot Communications unveiled its "MediaSwift" solution -- a revenue- generating network and subscriber service designed to intelligently accelerate internet content delivery (HTTP streamed video and P2P traffic) to broadband subscribers. MediaSwift synergizes Allot's DPI and caching competences to provide a unified intelligent media caching solution which delivers improved quality of experience (QoE). MediaSwift is offered as an internal blade or...

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Mu Dynamics Defines VoIP/SBC Test Methodology

Mu Dynamics has published a "cookbook" of cooperative detailed VoIP testing methodologies providing best practices for product quality testing of Session Border Controllers (SBCs) throughout the software development life cycle. By incorporating the methodology, along with the newly announced Mu Studio custom and proprietary test module, leading SBC vendors can now improve the quality of their products and lower total development and test times by identifying and eliminating problems earlier in the development process.Veraz is among the SBC vendors...

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Italy's Aria Selects Alvarion for Nationwide WiMAX Network

Aria, the only telecom operator in Italy with a national WiMAX license, has selected Alvarion to deploy Mobile WiMAX network throughout Italy. Under the agreement, Aria will build a network at the 3.5 GHz frequency to offer broadband services to all 21 Italian regions using Alvarion's 4Motion Mobile WiMAX solution incorporating the WiMAX Forum Certified BreezeMAX platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.http://www.alvarion....

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NSN and Juniper to Integrate IP + Optical

Nokia Siemens Networks and Juniper Networks are collaborating to integrate their respective high-performance optical and IP networking technologies. The scope of cooperation includes the development of cost-optimized 10G, 40G and 100G IP over DWDM solutions with management integration and GMPLS control plane interworkingThe companies said the implementation of long-haul DWDM optics on router line interface cards will increase network efficiency by...

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Mu Dynamics Develops Automated Test Case Methodology

Mu Dynamics, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, introduced a new "Mu Studio" that expands the breadth and depth of it flagship Test Suite by automating the creation and application of complex, custom and proprietary test case scenarios. The automated test case generation helps pinpoint critical software weaknesses in networking systems and services.Until now, operators and vendors working under strict time constraints to deploy new services...

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Calix Appoints Four Vice Presidents

Calix announced the appointment of four new executives to sales, marketing, and business and market development positions. The company said it is also expanding its field and corporate operations to enhance its direct customer engagement model to capitalize on the company's current strong rate of growth and to better prepare it for the potential impact the broadband stimulus component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will have on its service provider customers. The new appointments include:Ken Grelck joins Calix as vice president...

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Equinix to Build Fourth Data Center in Zurich

Equinix is planning to build a new data center in Zurich, Switzerland, adding 1,200 square meters (12,920 square feet) of sellable data center space. The new center, part of Equinix's continuing program of measured global expansion to meet demand, will add to the company's three other International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in Zurich, doubling the company's data center footprint in one of the largest markets for Equinix's interconnection...

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Via Licensing Issues Patent Call for Power over Ethernet

Via Licensing Corporation issued a call for patents that are essential to the practice of Power over Ethernet (PoE). Via Licensing is seeking to identifying the owners of patents that are determined to be essential to the practice of the IEEE 802.3af standard and IEEE P802.3at draft standard. A patent is essential if it contains at least one independent claim that is necessarily infringed by the implementation or use of the standard.PoE technology enables a system to transfer electrical power along with data to a wide range of remote devices, including...

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IEEE Ratifies 802.1Qay (PBB-TE) for Connection-Oriented Ethernet

The IEEE has ratified IEEE 802.1Qay -- a packet-based connection-oriented Ethernet technology for next-generation service provider transport networks. It incorporates determinism and resiliency capabilities.The IEEE 802.1Qay standard, "IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks--Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks--Amendment: Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering," is based on the existing IEEE 802.1ah standard for Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB). IEEE 802.1Qay defines Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE), a...

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Fujitsu Provides Hosted EMS for Tennessee's DTC

DTC Communications, a telephone cooperative serving rural areas of Tennessee, has chosen and deployed the Fujitsu's new NETSMART 1500 Hosted Element Management System (HEMS) service to manage and monitor their network of approximately 20 network elements. Fujitsu hosts the NETSMART 1500 software in Richardson, Texas, at the company's Network Operations Center (NOC), running on a dedicated server with redundancy in Sunnyvale, California. The Hosted EMS service offers Fujitsu customers access to the NETSMART 1500 application as a client, and provides...

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Intel and Nokia Partnership Targets Mobile Computing

Intel and Nokia announced a strategic alliance to develop a new class of Intel Architecture-based mobile computing device and chipset architectures that combine the performance of personal computers with high-bandwidth mobile broadband communications and ubiquitous Internet connectivity. The new mobile platform is described as the next step beyond today's smartphones, notebooks and netbooks in a user-friendly pocketable form factor. Product specifics...

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One Minute Video: Carrier Ethernet Framework

Presented by: Umesh Kukreja, Alcatel-Luc...

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CEO Pitch: Who is Mu Dynamics?

CEO Pitch: Who is Mu Dynamics? presented by Dave KressJargon Bus...

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