FCC Seeks Comments on National Broadband Clearinghouse

The FCC is seeking public comment on whether it should develop a national "Broadband Clearinghouse" of best practices across the industry. The aim of the broadband clearinghouse would be to "reduce information barriers for municipalities, agencies, businesses, and non-profits that want insights into more effectively utilizing broadband infrastructure, or into broadband deployment or adoption projects". Specifically, the FCC asks:Should the federal government, through either the Federal Communications Commission, or through another governmental...

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DOCOMO, NEC, Panasonic Mobile and Fujitsu Develop LTE Chipset

NTT DOCOMO, NEC Corporation, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Fujitsu are jointly developing an LTE-PF mobile-terminal chipset for super-fast downlinks above 100 Mbps and uplinks above 50 Mbps. The four companies have completed the first engineering sample and are now evaluating its main functions. The sample will be exhibited at the NTT Group stand at ITU Telecom World 2009 in Geneva this week.LTE-PF is a core system comprising software for...

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Telstra Activates its 100th ADSL2+ exchange in Tasmania

Telstra has upgraded its 100th telephone exchange in Tasmania to ADSL2+, extending the ADSL2+ coverage footprint to 88 percent of Tasmanian homes and businesses. The network offers downlink speeds of up to 20 Mbps depending on the customer's distance from the nearest exchange. http://www.telstra....

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Kyocera Develops Crystal Etalon Filter for WDM

Kyocera has developed a new Crystal Etalon Filter technology that prevents dense wavelengths of light from interfering with each other by sensing deviations between multiple wavelengths. The new product, which was created by Kyocera Kinseki, is able to assign arbitrary figures as a wavelength temperature coefficient ranging from 5.4 to 15.7pm/˚C. The company says this enables more flexibility in designing tunable laser modules, while contributing to higher precision, and better wavelength stability and reliability. http://www.kyocera....

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IPtronics Develops Components for Intel's Light Peak

IPtronics confirmed that it has begun sampling a key component for Intel's Light Peak optical fiber cable technology.Light Peak consists of a controller chip and an optical module that would be included in platforms supporting this technology. The optical module performs the conversion from electricity to light and vice versa, using miniature lasers and photo detectors. IPtronics supplies the driver and receiver silicon that goes into the optical module.IPtronics said its silicon has been developed in close collaboration with Intel as well as optical...

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Avago's Develops Optical Engine for Intel's 10 Gbps Light Peak Cable

Avago Technologies developed the embedded optical engine technology for Intel's newly announced Light Peak optical fiber cable technology. Light Peak is a new high-speed optical interconnect technology designed to run multiple existing I/O protocols on a single cable to connect electronic devices together. Light Peak is designed to deliver 10 Gbps with the potential ability to scale to 100 Gbps over the next decade. At 10Gbps, a full-length Blu-Ray...

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Nortel to Auction its GSM/GSM-R Business

Nortel is planning an open auction to sell substantially all of its global GSM/GSM-R business. In connection with this proposed sale, the company also expects to transfer specified patents predominantly used in the GSM business and grant non-exclusive licenses of other relevant patents. Qualified bidders are required to submit their offers by 05-November-2009. Competing qualified bids are then expected to proceed to an "open auction", which, under...

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NEC Debuts its ATCA-based Evolved Packet Core for LTE

NEC Corporation unveiled an ATCA-based Evolved Packet Core (EPC) system for controlling user sessions across LTE base stations.The platform incorporates Mobility Management Entity (MME) and Serving-GW)/PDN-GW functionality into 5U AdvancedTCA, chassis that fits a standard 19-inch rack. MME manages the location and paging process of LTE systems. Serving-GW processes users' voice and data packets for 2G/3G and LTE systems, while the PDN-GW functionality...

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BT Openreach to Test FTTP at Brownfield Sites

BT's Openreach local access network division will begin testing FTTP in "brownfield" sites for the first time in January 2010. Two locations - Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes and Highams Park, London - have been selected for the trial, which will see speeds of up to 100 Mbps delivered to up to 20,000 homes and businesses in each area by March 2010. The trial products will be available to all UK communications providers on an open, wholesale basis.Openreach is already using FTTP in certain "greenfield" housing projects. The company believes FTTC...

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