Bridgewater Expands to LTE Subscriber Enablement

At last week's 4G World show in Chicago, Bridgewater Systems unveiled its Long Term Evolution (LTE) product suite. New products generally available include the Bridgewater Home Subscriber Server and Policy Controller which are both anchored by Bridgewater's Subscriber Data Broker and are compliant with 3GPP Release 8 Standards. Several global trials with major service providers are in the planning and implementation stages.Bridgewater's new products for the LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC) build on its subscriber, service, and policy control solutions....

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Verizon: Rethinking the Wireline Business with Internet Video in Mind

The FiOS architecture and Internet video competition have led to a fundamental rethinking of the wireline business, said Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon Communications' Chairman & CEO, speaking at Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference. The new business model calls for high penetration of fiber, with video being the anchor product in Verizon's wireline bundle. As FiOS gains scale, this allows Verizon to begin eliminating central offices, eliminate call centers, garages and fundamentally restructure the company. More importantly, the goal is...

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Harris Corporation Taps Level 3 to Support 2010 Census

Harris Corporation selected Level 3 Communications to provide voice and Internet network services for the 2010 Census local census offices. Under the two-year agreement, Level 3 will provide voice services to 494 Local Census Offices in the United States and Puerto Rico, supporting more than 500,000 census field workers. In addition, Level 3 will deliver high-speed Internet services to connect these offices and transmit information to census field data collection cente...

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Video Interview: BLADE Network Technologies' Vikram Mehta

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Cisco Launches Smart Grid Ecosystem

Cisco launched a Smart Grid Ecosystem to facilitate the adoption of Internet Protocol (IP)-based communications standards for smart grids. Initial members include system integrators, technology vendors, power and utility integrators, service providers, and services and sales vendors who represent various elements of the Smart Grid infrastructure.Members of the Cisco Smart Grid Ecosystem will collaborate on interoperability testing. The effort also aims to reduce the cost and complexity of deploying multivendor smart grid communications infrastructure...

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EU Adopts Guidelines for Public funding for Broadband Networks

The European Commission adopted a set of guidelines for public funding of broadband and Next Generation Access (NGA) networks in the European Union. The EC said it expects to see up to EUR 300 billion of investment in both high and very high speed European broadband networks in the coming decade.In general, the policy position is that investment should be made mostly by private companies. However, the EC believes there is an important role for public investment in achieving the widest possible access to broadband in underserved and non-profitable...

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Kineto Announces VoLGA SDK for LTE Device Developers

Kineto Wireless released a software developers kit (SDK) for mobile device vendors looking to support voice and SMS over LTE based on the recently released VoLGA specifications.In data-only LTE deployments, operators rely on embedded SMS to deliver critical management, provisioning and customer care messages. Kineto's VoLGA SDK is designed for USB dongle and netbook manufacturers to support the embedded SMS capability over LTE. It enables device vendors to quickly integrate VoLGA technology into their connection manager application and support...

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VoLGA Forum Publishes Voice over LTE Specifications

The Voice over LTE via Generic Access (VoLGA) Forum has published a set of specifications for delivering mobile voice and SMS messaging services over LTE access networks. The VoLGA documents are available for download at VoLGA-Forum.com. Key aims of VoLGA include:Bring voice and SMS services over LTE radio access networks and femtocells Support new revenue-generating applications over LTE, such as IMS combinational services and the Rich Communications...

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Motorola Rolls Out NBBS for Remote Mgt of WiMAX Devices

Motorola announced the rollout of its NBBS WiMAX solution, enabling carriers to accelerate the introduction of new revenue generating applications and solutions, while reducing operational and support costs.NBBS is part of Motorola's overall Service Assurance solutions suite - enhancing Quality of Service (QoS) at the edge of the network. Through automated service provisioning and comprehensive device management, NBBS enables operators to remotely activate, access, configure, and troubleshoot a full portfolio of fixed and/or mobile WiMAX devices;...

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WiChorus Adapts its Packet Core for HSPA & LTE

Currently in trials, the Smart GGSN solution turbo-charges HSPA/HSPA+ networks and prepares them for transition to LTE EPC without hardware replacement.WiChorus has extended its SmartCore packet core platform to enable mobile operators to build their 3G HSPA packet core networks while providing a software upgrade path to LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC). Specifically, WiChorus is enabling support for GGSN, LTE PDN Gateway and Serving Gateway network...

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Verizon Business Cites Effectiveness of Global, Undersea Cable Mesh Network

Verizon Business' global mesh network automatically rerouted restorable customer traffic when 10 submarine cable systems in the Asia-Pacific region were damaged in more than 20 locations as the result of Typhoon Morakot and earthquakes off the coast of Taiwan. Automatic rerouting occurred within milliseconds of the multiple cable breaks in August. From 2006 to 2008, Verizon Business invested $3 billion in its global network serving enterprise and government customers, and plans to invest at a similar level this year. The global mesh infrastructure...

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NSN Demos LTE Call on Commercial Software

Nokia Siemens Networks completed the first LTE call using commercial base station and fully standard compliant software. The successful call was made via base stations with fully compliant software to the 3GPP Rel.8 (March 2009 baseline) LTE standard, bringing LTE trials closer to the behavior of future commercial deployments.Nokia Siemens Networks said standard compliant LTE network products and terminals are a precondition for commercial network...

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