Bharti Airtel Launches Global Wholesale Services

India's Bharti Airtel is making a bid to become a top tier, global wholesale carrier with a network that will reach 50 countries across the continents of Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia. The company said it has invested of US$500 million made on building cable capacity, network infrastructure and international Points of Presence. Airtel's global network consists of capacity in SMW4, i2i- which is fully owned, APCN2, c2c, JUCN,...

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Sony Ericsson Appoints New President

Bert Nordberg has been appointed President of Sony Ericsson and Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman, CEO and President of Sony Corporation, will take on the role as Chairman of Sony Ericsson.Since 2008, Bert Nordberg has served as head of Ericsson Silicon Valley. Before that, he was Executive Vice President, Group Function Sales and Marketing at Ericsson.Carl-Henric Svanberg, President & CEO of Ericsson, and Chairman of the Board of Sony Ericsson,...

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BroadLight Awarded a Key PON Patent

BroadLight has been awarded a U.S patent (number 7,573,897) for a "method and grant scheduler for cyclically allocating time slots to optical network units." The patent applies to a grant scheduler and method for cyclically allocating time slots to traffic container (T-CONTs) included in one or more optical network units (ONUs) for transmitting respective data based on known respective service level agreements (SLA) for each T-CONT. http://www.broadlight....

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XO Adding 1.6 Tbps Nationwide Capacity with Infinera

XO Communications is embarking on its third nationwide network upgrade, which will more than double the capacity of the XO inter-city transport network. XO is using Infinera's ILS2 line system to deploy the ultra-long-haul nationwide network expansion, which will deliver 160 wavelengths on a single fiber and create 1.6 Terabits/second (Tb/s) of additional optical capacity. The network upgrade is expected to be complete later this year.XO said the...

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NETGEAR Announces Gigabit Firewall for SMBs

NETGEAR introduced its ProSafe 8-Port VPN Firewall (FVS318G) for small businesses with as many as 10 users. It provides IPsec VPN for secure remote connections, offers eight gigabit ports, one gigabit WAN port, and up to 25Mbps broadband throughput. Unique for its price point, the FVS318G also features a software-configurable hardware DMZ port to provide for server and other externally facing connections.It has a U.S. street price of $139. http://www.netgear....

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Verizon Wireless Connects Land Mobile Radios with Push to Talk

Verizon Wireless is expanding the reach of traditional Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems by interconnecting with Push to Talk users on the Verizon Wireless network. In September, Verizon Wireless' Push to Talk LMR Interoperability Solution will provide organizations with the ability to integrate the company's Push to Talk service with existing radio systems to create a broader LMR footprint that includes its nationwide wireless network. The solution requires the deployment of an LMR Gateway and software, provided by Catalyst or Link Communications,...

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JDSU Introduces 40G Field Test for OTN Multiplexing

JDSU has added support for 43G OTN multiplexing to its T-BERD /MTS-8000 40G Transport module. Specifically, the new functionality provides ODU multiplexing support, enabling service providers to test OTU containers within a 43G OTN circuit at service installation and generate test reports that verify service level agreements. JDSU's optical test platform now addresses all fiber characterization, optical spectrum analysis, service verification, and troubleshooting needs, from 1.5M to 43G. http://www.jdsu....

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AppTrigger Tunes its Service Broker for Voice Over LTE

AppTrigger is enhancing its "Ignite" Service Broker with the ability to deliver TDM Voice Services over Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband networks.Currently, the voice network architectural options for carriers planning to deploy LTE include: a) maintaining a separate 2G/3G network for voice and using the new 4G network for data services, b) accelerating the rollout of a full-blown IMS infrastructure, or c) deploy a TDM Voice over LTE via...

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BT to Boost Broadband to 20 Mbps

BT Retail will boost its top tier broadband downstream rate from 8 Mbps to up to 20 Mbps. Upload speeds will also increase from up to 448 Kbps to up to 1 Mbps. BT Retail is offering the faster speeds at no extra cost. Faster speeds will initially be available through 549 exchanges serving 10 million -- or 40 per cent - of the UK's homes and businesses. Coverage will increase to 55 per cent by March 2010. http://www.bt.com/broadb...

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Juniper's EX Switch Revenue Grew 44% in Q2 2009

Juniper Networks reported that its EX Series switch product revenue for Q2 09 grew 44 percent over the previous quarter, and 312 percent over the same quarter last year. This represents four consecutive quarters of revenue growth. Total shipments have passed the one million port mark."Based on the companies covered in the Dell'Oro report, over the past five quarters of revenue shipments, Juniper has grown its EX Series switch revenue faster than any enterprise Layer 2/Layer 3 switch vendor entering the market in the previous decade," said Mike...

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U.S. Busts Largest International Hacker Case

The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, Fla., for hacking into the networks of major American retail and financial organizations and stealing data relating to more than 130 million credit and debit cards. The case is described as the largest alleged credit and debit card data breach ever charged in the United States.Gonzalez and his co-conspirators are alleged to have researched the credit and debit card systems used...

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Interview: Ericsson's Hakan Eriksson on HSPA+, LTE, and Wireless Trends

Video interview with Håkan Eriksson, Chief Technology Officer, Ericsson.1. How fast will you be able to push HSPA+?  How does this compare to LTE?"HSPA and LTE are both mobile broadband technologies that have similar capacities in terms of bits per hertz, but LTE can operate with higher bandwidth and thanks to that you can offer higher peak rates. It is also possible to increase the peak rate with HSPA, which is called HSPA+. If you use all codes, you can go up to 14 Mbps. Then you can increase the modulation up to 64 QAM for another...

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