Ericsson Appoints Douglas Gilstrap as Head of Strategy

Ericsson has appointed Douglas L. Gilstrap as Senior Vice President and Head of Group Function Strategy.  Gilstrap has previously served with SITA (Societé Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques), a Paris based data network cooperative serving the airline industry. He was appointed CFO, then COO to Equant Network Services, a spin-off of SITA which was funded by Morgan Stanley private equity. In 2000, Douglas was named CEO of Radianz...

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Oregon's Stayton Coop Selects Occam for FTTH Upgrade

Oregon's Stayton Cooperative Telephone has purchased Occam Networks' BLC 6000 FTTH solutions to upgrade its entire network from an all-copper to an all-fiber packet architecture. In order to drive high-speed broadband to both densely and sparsely populated areas within Stayton's service footprint, the company will use Occam's BLC 6000 multiservice access platform (MSAP) and ON 2300 series optical network terminals (ONTs) to provide advanced voice and broadband services to Stayton's 8,500 customers. http://www.occamnetworks.com http://sctcweb....

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Aricent Launches Media Middleware for Next Gen Devices

Aricent introduced a new software framework for expediting the development of media applications in the next wave of multimedia-oriented consumer devices. The new Aricent Media EXP provides a performance and power optimized combination of essential middleware components necessary to deliver the most advanced multimedia experience for today's consumer electronics (CE), including mobile Internet devices (MIDs), smart phones, entertainment devices,...

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Mu Dynamics Labs Discovers, Remediates VoIP Vulnerability

Mu Dynamics announced the discovery and expedited remediation of a dangerous new 0-day vulnerability within Asterisk's implementation of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Specifically, Mu Dynamics Research Labs has discovered a critical SIP software vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated anonymous attacker to crash an Asterisk-based soft switch using only the very first SIP packet, for instance: An INVITE message. The company said other protocol implementations are likely vulnerable to similar failures since reading strings and interpreting...

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UNH-IOL Launches TR-069 Consortium

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) has formed a TR-069 Consortium to provide testing for and promote the interoperability of products that support Broadband Forum TR-069, which defines the CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP). The consortium will begin offering functionality testing immediately, utilizing CDRouter technology running on QA Cafe's NTA1000 test appliance. The UNH-IOL's custom test scripts will exercise...

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Vodafone Germany to Test Huawei's LTE

Vodafone Germany has agreed to test Huawei's LTE platform in the Digital Dividend Band. Specifically, the agreement calls for a joint initiative to validate LTE' s application within the Digital Dividend Band (790-862MHz) using Huawei' s end-to-end LTE solution. The tests will establish LTE' s ability to provide broadband coverage to rural and urban areas in Germany. It also seeks to prove the system's compatibility with adjacent technologies such...

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Sprint Supports Utility Smart Grid Initiatives across America

Sprint is boosting its efforts to support Smart Grid initiatives by electric utility customers by focusing on key applications such as Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), SCADA, Demand-Response (DR) Distribution Management System (DMS) and M2M applications. The underlying foundation of Smart Grid initiatives involves advanced communications, information technology, distributed sensing, and comprehensive data management overlayed to the electric...

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Sprint Adds 17 Additional Cities to 4G Rollout

Sprint announced 17 new markets to its national Sprint 4G roll-out plans. These additional markets join the previously announced markets of Atlanta; Chicago; Dallas-Fort Worth; Honolulu; Las Vegas; Portland, Ore.; Philadelphia and Seattle. The new additions for 2009 are: Abilene, Texas; Amarillo, Texas; Austin, Texas; Boise, Idaho; Bellingham, Wash.; Charlotte, N.C.; Corpus Christi, Texas; Greensboro, N.C.; Killeen-Temple, Texas; Lubbock, Texas; Maui, Hawaii; Midland-Odessa, Texas; Raleigh, N.C.; Salem, Ore.; San Antonio, Texas; Waco, Texas; and...

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Clearwire Adds Huawei as WiMAX Supplier

Clearwire Communications has added Huawei to a vendor list that includes Motorola, Samsung, Cisco, Ciena and DragonWave. Under the new agreement announced today, Huawei will supply WiMAX radio access network (RAN) equipment to facilitate Clearwire's rollout across the U.S. Specifically, Huawei will provide several key infrastructure pieces, including base stations, element management system (EMS) components, and related network hardware and software....

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Harris Stratex Networks to Supply Urban Mobile WiMAX in India

ICOMM, one of India's leading groups in the field of telecom, power transmission and distribution EPC, solar and infrastructure, has selected Harris Stratex to supply, install, commission and maintain an IEEE 802.16e mobile WiMAX network for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL). Under the multi-year contract, Harris Stratex will supply its StarMAX WiMAX solution to extend BSNL's public wireless access network to provide high-speed wireless mobility services to enterprise and retail customers in urban areas across the southern Indian state of Kerala....

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AboveNet's Gains MEF Certification for Ethernet Services

AboveNet has attained the Metro Ethernet Forum's MEF 9 and 14 certifications for its metro and wide area networking (WAN) services. These services include Long Haul (eXpressWave), Metro Ethernet (E-LAN), Metro Ethernet (E-LINE), VPN Services, and Metro Wave Services. http://www.above....

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Ericsson Expands Silicon Valley Presence

Ericsson has formed a new division headquartered in San Jose focused on IP & Broadband solutions with R&D focused on mobile broadband and Internet convergence. In addition, Ericsson hosted a press event to mark the opening of its newest Experience Center in San Jose. Ericsson's new IP & Broadband division is responsible for solutions that help service providers transform their legacy fixed and mobile networks to converged full service...

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H3C Tests 40/100G Data Center Switch with Spirent

H3C is using Spirent's TestCenter platform to evaluate the performance of its S12500 family of data center switches. Spirent TestCenter was selected specifically to test forwarding performance of the high-port-density S12500 platform. The S12500 is based on a 100 GigE platform and supports 40 GigE, 100 GigE and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) links. Tests performed by H3C included evaluating the forwarding performance of Layer 2, Layer 3 (IPv4 and IPv6), multicast and MPLS traffic on 128 10G ports, as well as cache testing with bursty traffic....

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Bivio Networks Unveils Application Services Gateway

Bivio Networks announced the launch of its Application Services Gateway (ASG), a DPI-based multi-application service platform targeted at wireline and mobile service providers. The ASG provides both powerful subscriber-based services such as content-based filtering, processing and billing, managed security and parental control, as well as essential network operation services such as traffic and service management, monitoring and protection. The...

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Clearwire Maintains Business Outlook for 2010, Confirms 4G Customer Uptake

Clearwire confirmed its business outlook for 2009 and 2010, expecting ARPU to be generally sustained at current levels over this period of significant development and expansion of its wireless 4G network. The company continues to anticipate that churn will increase in its pre-WiMAX markets as the company transitions these networks to mobile WiMAX technology and that CPGA will increase as new markets are launched, consistent with Clear wire's past...

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