IBM Announces Densest, Fastest On-Chip Dynamic Memory in 32-nm

IBM has developed a prototype of the semiconductor industry's smallest, densest and fastest on-chip dynamic memory device in next-generation, 32-nanometer, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology that can offer improved speed, power savings and reliability for products ranging from servers to consumer electronics.The company said its SOI technology can provide up to a 30 percent chip performance improvement and 40 percent power reduction, compared to standard bulk silicon technology. SOI protects the transistors on the chip with a "blanket" of insulation...

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Philippines' Globe Telecom Streamlines with IBM + NSN

Globe Telecom, a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines with 26 million mobile subscribers, has implemented a new Service Delivery Platform, delivered by IBM and Nokia Siemens Networks, to streamline its business operations, generate new revenue and reduce the time it takes to bring new services to market. The Service Delivery Platform is helping Globe to reduce its time to market for new services by more than 80 percent. The solution removes many of the traditional cost and complexity inhibitors by providing a Service Oriented...

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NeoPhotonics Ships Coherent Mixers For 40 and 100 Gbps Receivers

NeoPhotonics announced the general availability and volume shipment of its "photonic integrated circuit" (PIC) based Coherent Mixer for 40 and 100 Gbps optical transmission systems. Coherent mixers enable ultra high-rate optical transmission by revealing additional information about the amplitude and phase of the received optical signal over traditional intensity-level receivers, allowing transmission of multiple bits in each optical data pulse. Specifically, the Coherent Mixer product provides advanced demodulation to analyze the state-of-polarization...

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F.C.C. Chairman to Outline Net Neutrality Goals

On Monday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will discuss Net Neutrality principles in an address to the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. Genachowski is expected to back President Obama's campaign promise to ensure Net Neutrality principles.At the event, Darrell West, Brookings vice president and director of Governance Studies will discuss his new study on what consumers in four countries, including the United States, want from mobile communications.Additional speakers on the program include Ben Scott, Policy Director of Free Press; Josh...

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Huawei Ships Over 60 Million Mobile Broadband Units Worldwide

Huawei announced a company milestone -- the worldwide shipment to date of over 60 million mobile broadband units, including data cards, dongles and embedded modules, across more than 133 countries. Huawei predicts the number of mobile broadband subscribers will soar to over 2 billion within the next five years. To help telecom operators is translate the growth in mobile broadband traffic into a proportionate increase in revenue, Huawei has outlined what it sees as the key success factors that operators should follow:New business models: As data...

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Indosat selects Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS Mobile Backhaul

PT Indosat, an Indonesian cellular provider serving more than 28.9 million subscribers, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build an IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul infrastructure to support next-generation mobile broadband services and offer premium IP services to its mobile customers. Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its 7750 Service Router, 7450 Ethernet Service Switch and 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR), all managed end-to-end by the 5620 Service Aware Manager. The Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS-based mobile solution enables Indosat to fully exploit the scalability...

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Flextronics Sells Stake in Aricent to KKR for $255 Million

Flextronics has sold its equity investment in Aricent for $255 million in cash.KKR is a leading global alternative asset manager. Together with its initial investment in 2006, KKR entities now own 79 percent of the company. Paul Read, chief financial officer of Flextronics, said "as we have previously announced, it is our intention to monetize non-core assets and benefit from the cash generated from those dispositions. We are pleased to have successfully executed this transaction, which increases our cash position and further strengthens our...

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