CWA Union Ratifies Wireline Agreement in AT&T's West Region

Wireline employees represented by the Communications Workers of America in AT&T's West Region (CWA District 9) voted to ratify a three-year agreement with the Communications Workers of America. The agreement covers about 23,000 employees in California and Nevada.A total of about 57,500 employees -- roughly half of those covered under AT&T's core wireline contracts -- now have ratified or tentative agreements. AT&T noted that negotiations are continuing in other regions where contracts expired on April 4, as they did in Midwest, West,...

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BT Deploys ADVA's FSP 150 for National Ethernet Access

Openreach, BT's UK-based access network arm, is deploying the ADVA FSP 150, featuring Etherjack technology, throughout its national Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) services. Using a range of intelligent Ethernet services, Openreach's customers will now be able to perform last-mile test and diagnostic.Designed to supersede Openreach's current Ethernet offerings, EAD will deliver point-to-point fixed symmetrical Ethernet bandwidth services ranging from 10 Mbps to 1,000 Mbps. Stretching across distances of 35km radial and up to a maximum of 66km route...

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Nortel Carries 40G Across 12,000km Submarine Cable

Nortel has demonstrated 40G optical transmission across Reliance Globalcom's Atlantic cable FA1. The recently completed trial was conducted over a 6000 km submarine segment between the United Kingdom and the U.S. During the trials Nortel equipment was simply added to both ends of the third-party submarine cable, with Nortel able to demonstrate the ability to provide over two times the bandwidth capacity without the need to replace or upgrade the...

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Qwest Readies 100 Gbps Upgrade with Alcatel-Lucent

Qwest Communications announced plans to upgrade its nationwide network to deliver speeds of up to 100 Gbps to its customer edge sites. This build-out has begun on Qwest's network and is planned through 2010. Qwest's evolving backbone capabilities will deliver 100 Gbps across its national network directly to customers in markets where the company offers its Ethernet-based iQ Networking and QWave data networking services. Qwest's upgraded backbone...

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Dell'Oro: Supply Shortages Dampen Wireless LAN Market in Q2

The worldwide Wireless LAN market sales were constrained by supply shortages affecting a number of equipment manufacturers, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group.. The most significant impact on sales levels came from the enterprise class of products, followed by products targeting the Small Office Home Office users. "The overall Wireless LAN market sales were about flat quarter to quarter at just under $1.0 billion," said Tam Dell'Oro President...

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Occam Networks Introduces New GPON ONTs

Occam Networks introduced three new GPON optical network terminals (ONTs) designed to accelerate the transition to FTTP. The ON 2541, 2543 and 2544 ONTs offer a wide range of features allowing for maximum flexibility to fit subscribers' needs as well as the providers' network architecture. All ONTs are compatible with Occam's award winning BLC 6000 MSAP featuring the 6322 GPON OLT. The new ONTs will be available in late 2009. All ONTs in the ON 2540 series provide a 2.5Gbps downstream and 1.2Gbps upstream GPON optical uplink and two POTS ports....

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Broadcom Adds DSM L3 Cross-Talk Cancellation VDSL2

Broadcom unveiled a VDSL2-compliant Fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) line termination reference design featuring advanced chipset-level crosstalk cancellation technology. Vectoring or far end crosstalk (FEXT) cancellation significantly increases line performance by reducing the interference that originates from subscriber lines located in the same cable binder. Broadcom said its technology accurately estimates and significantly reduces such crosstalk noise by processing feedback information from receivers located at the customer premises. The Broadcom vectorized...

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Broadcom Adds GPON to its Carrier Access Portfolio

Broadcom announced its first GPON products for optical network terminals (ONTs) or optical network units (ONUs) . The new designs feature Broadcom's existing 400 MHz dual core processor architecture, hardware-assisted gigabit bridging and routing, hardware-assisted IPsec security for virtual private network (VPN) termination, gigabit switch and PHYs, VoIP, support for USB 2.0 host and devices, and support for Broadcom's latest wireless LAN (WLAN) devices utilizing PCI Express . The BCM6800 family includes TR-069 and OMCI management software.Broadcom's...

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Clearwire Selects WiChorus for 4G Packet Core

Clearwire has selected WiChorus, a start-up based in San Jose, California, to supply its SmartCore platform. WiChorus said its platform was selected for its performance, massive service flow capacity and network optimization & content monetization capabilities. SmartCore provides a key interface to millions of constantly moving mobile devices with their multiple service flows to the IP world, managing security, dynamic services, seamless mobility,...

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America Movil and Nokia Customize the Mobile Experience for Latin America

America Movil and Nokia have formed a partnership to bring the Ovi Store to mobile customers in Latin America. In an innovative effort to extend mobile device and technology choices to more users in the region, America Movil customers will be able to download and purchase apps, videos, ringtones or games from Ovi Store in a seamless way. The Ovi Store service will be available to America Movil customers in Latin America later this year through Nokia's...

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AT&T Opens Dedicated Certification Lab for Emerging Devices

AT&T has opened a new lab dedicated to emerging device certification thereby accelerating the entry of innovative consumer electronics and M2M devices into the marketplace.Located in Austin, the new lab will serve as the hub for testing network compatibility, data performance and audio quality for a broad range of non-traditional, wirelessly-enabled devices, such as netbooks, eReaders, portable navigation devices, utility products, and healthcare-related...

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NYT: iPhones are Over Stressing AT&T's Network

iPhone usage has cause such a spike in mobile data traffic on AT&T's network that the result is dropped calls, spotty service, delayed text and voice messages and glacial download speeds, according to an article published by The New York Times. The problem is especially acute in New York and San Francisco, where access to the 3G network is routinely congested at peak hours. The latest iPhone 3GS models appears to be exacerbating the problem.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/technology/companies/03att.html?_r=1&...

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Spirent Tech-X Flex Adds Copper, DSL Modules to Handheld Tester

Spirent Communications introduced new wideband copper and ADSL/VDSL2 modules for its Spirent Tech-X Flex. The DSL module offers a single solution for field testing ADSL-based and VDSL2 services with multi-vendor interoperability for many chipsets including Infineon, Broadcom, Ikanos and Conexant. As service providers migrate from ADSL-based services to VDSL2, Tech-X Flex allows for the continued use of a single solution helping to reduce or even eliminate additional purchases of test equipment. In addition Tech-X Flex provides technicians with...

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