Beceem Ships More Than 1 Million WiMAX Chips this Quarter

Beceem Communications announced that it is shipping more than 1 million WiMAX terminal chips in the third quarter of 2009. The company said mobile devices volume shipments are accelerating in the US and Japan markets, Russia, Mexico, Malaysia and many others countries. Beceem is the major supplier into the Clearwire/Sprint ecosystem, the leading supplier into the Japan market, and the preferred partner for a majority of OEMs and ODMshttp://www.beceem....

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MetroPCS Announces Vendors for 2010 4G LTE Launch

MetroPCS Communications, a U.S. mobile operator known for its unlimited, flat-rate, no signed contract wireless services, announced its infrastructure and initial handset vendors for its second half 2010 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadband service launch. MetroPCS has selected Ericsson as its infrastructure vendor for the launch of its LTE service. In addition, MetroPCS has selected Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) to provide...

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Wyde Voice Releases HD Audio and Web Conferencing Bridge Tech

Wyde Voice released new High Definition (HD) audio and web conferencing bridge software that eliminates the need for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) cards. The company claims is software enables audio conferencing providers to use off-the-shelf hardware to deploy software bridges that scale from 2 to 10,000 concurrent user ports.Wyde Voice's HD SoftBridge supports leading HD voice technology such as G.722.2 (AMR-WB), iSAC and a full-feature menu of conferencing capabilities.The HD SoftBridge starts at $130/port and supports an extensive list of...

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Cyan Shows its Packet Optical Transport Platform

Cyan, a start-up based in Petaluma, California formally introduced its Z-Series of multi-layer transport platforms and CyMS multi-layer management system .The new multi-layer transport platforms modularly combine packet, TDM and optical add / drop multiplexer, cross-connect and transport functionality in highly integrated platforms supporting over 100 Gbps per slot. The systems can be configured as basic 10G Ethernet, SONET or SDH edge aggregation and add/drop multiplexer systems or modularly scaled when and where needed to enable DWDM with highly...

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Qwest Launches New Mobile Ethernet Backhaul Service

Qwest Communications has launched a fiber-based, Ethernet backhaul service designed for wireless service providers (WSPs). The Qwest Mobile Ethernet Backhaul service leverages Qwest's fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) deployment, extending fiber to cellular sites. Qwest Wholesale said it is ready to provide incremental, scalable bandwidth to WSPs, enabling them to increase capacity to cell sites on an as-needed basis. Bandwidth to cell sites is managed primarily through software, rather than equipment upgrades in the field, which helps to contain costs,...

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Sequans Expands Chip Portfolio from WiMAX to LTE

Sequans Communications, which is a leading WiMAX chipmaker, confirmed that it intends to develop products for both the LTE and WiMAX markets in parallel.Sequans expects to continue adding resources to its LTE organization this year and will demonstrate its first LTE solutions beginning early 2010, in support of pre-commercial operator trials."Our success in WiMAX has enabled us to expand naturally into LTE, and we are ready to meet the needs of LTE equipment manufacturers with outstanding silicon and software solutions, building upon our significant...

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Hitachi Selects Kabira Transaction Core for Mobile WiMAX

Kabira Technologies' Provisioning and Service Activation (KPSA) and its Kabira Transaction Platform (KTP) have been incorporated as essential components for Hitachi's WiMAX Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) service platform. The use of Kabira's KTP and KPSA products provides an event integration layer or network service bus for this MVNE platform. The Hitachi MVNE platform integrates provisioning workflows, charging functions, billing systems, contact centers, and OSS functions. This enables Hitachi to provide MVNE offerings that are specifically...

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Motorola Launches WiMAX Device Partnership Program

Motorola announced the launch of its WiMAX Device Partnership Program for helping device providers to qualify their WiMAX products. This program works with device vendors and 4G operators to increase future WiMAX growth by offering broader end-to-end solutions to include a range of devices for market compatibility.Motorola said its WiMAX Device Partnership Program, while primarily targeted at ODM's and OEM's, is also uniquely positioned to assist operators. Through this partnership, operators will have access to a greater selection of pre-qualified...

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ZTE Selects LSI StarPro Media Processor

LSI Corporation confirmed a design win with ZTE, which will use the LSI StarPro SP2600 family of multicore media processors in its next-generation wireless platform. ZTE chose the SP2600 because it will enable them to develop their next-generation media gateway.LSI StarPro multicore media processors are scalable to 12 DSP cores per SoC. http://www.lsi....

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Telstra Responds to Break-up Proposal

In a press response to the Australian government's separation proposal, newly-appointed Telstra CEO said the company was deeply disappointed the government felt it necessary to introduce this legislation."It is Telstra's view that many aspects of this package are unnecessary and need never be implemented if a mutually acceptable outcome can be reached on the National Broadband Network. Telstra supports the Government's NBN vision. We are willing to discuss options around separation," stated Telstra Chief Executive Officer David Thodey. http://...

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Australian Government Proposes Break-up of Telstra

The Australian government proposed fundamental reforms to structurally separate Telstra on "a voluntary and cooperative basis."The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy stated that the reforms were aimed at boosting competition and said it is "possible to achieve a win-win outcome in the interests of Telstra, its shareholders and, more broadly, all Australians."Specifically, the proposed legislation...

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