Motorola secures major WiMAX contract in Ireland

Motorola has been selected by Imagine to design and deploy an end-to-end WiMAX network to replace Imagine's existing wireless infrastructure nationwide across Ireland. Motorola will provide deployment, integration and support services to Imagine in addition to WiMAX equipment. This will include WiMAX Access Points, such as the WAP 450 for increased coverage and capacity in a compact design and the WAP 800 with beamforming antenna techniques for enhanced performance. For customer premises equipment Imagine will offer the USBw 100 dongle for high speed mobile connectivity; the CPEi 775 which includes a built-in Wi-Fi router and ports for VoIP; and the CPEo 450 which extends the coverage of critical broadband and VoIP services, while reducing infrastructure and support costs. A portion of purchase price will be financed by Motorola.
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Bell Labs Collaborates with Korea's Gachon Energy Institute

Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs and the Gachon Energy Research Institute (GERI) of Korea's Kyungwon University have entered into a joint research agreement to design mission-critical communication infrastructure, comprehensive security systems, and develop innovative businesses models for the next-generation smart power grid (Smart Grid). The Grid 2.0 research project aims is to enhance the efficiency, reliability, security, and intelligence of electric power grids by exploiting the convergence between electric power systems and information and communications technologies.
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NTT DOCOMO Selects Alcatel-Lucent's 7450 Ethernet Switch

NTT DOCOMO has selected Alcatel-Lucent's 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS) for a nationwide, high quality, latency-sensitive network addressing voice and video traffic when transporting over its core IP network. It also provides a smooth evolution path for NTT DOCOMO to upgrade its network to 10Gig and - as network growth demands -- to 40Gig and 100Gig. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Fujitsu Releases MPEG-4 Encoder/Decoder for Remote Applications

Fujitsu Frontech North America released a set of compact MPEG-4 AVC encoders and decoders for real time transmission of high-definition (HD) and standard-definition (SD) content over IP networks. The IP-900 is designed formobile and transportable applications in news gathering and other remote event applications.


The Fujitsu IP-900E encoder utilizes advanced H.264 encoding for bandwidth-efficient real time transmission of digital content over IP networks. Error correction and retransmission (FEC/ARQ) technology enables the Fujitsu IP-900 series to deliver a error-free transport stream across private and public IP networks. http://www.frontech.fujitsu.com/en/

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Wi-Fi Direct Specification Nears Completion

The Wi-Fi Alliance is nearing completion of a new specification to enable Wi-Fi devices to connect to one another without joining a traditional home, office, or hotspot network. The Wi-Fi Alliance expects to begin certification for this new specification in mid-2010, and products which achieve the certification will be designated Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Wi-Fi Direct.


The Wi-Fi Direct specification, previously code-named "Wi-Fi peer-to-peer," can be implemented in any Wi-Fi device, from mobile phones, cameras, printers, and notebook computers, to human interface devices such as keyboards and headphones. The Wi-Fi Alliance plans to publish its peer-to-peer specification upon completion.

Significantly, devices that have been certified to the new specification will also be able to create connections with hundreds of millions of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED legacy devices already in use. Devices will be able to make a one-to-one connection, or a group of several devices can connect simultaneously.
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Brocade to OEM Motorola's 802.11 WLAN

Brocade is partnering with Motorola's Enterprise Mobility Solutions business unit on wireless LAN (WLAN), voice-over-WLAN, mobile unified communications/fixed mobile convergence (FMC), cloud computing and wireless broadband technologies. The companies established an OEM reseller agreement, through which, Brocade will rebrand and resell a number of Motorola's enterprise wireless LAN solutions and resell Motorola wireless security products as an extension of its own IP/Ethernet product portfolio.


"Working together, Brocade and Motorola can develop and deliver industry-leading integrated wired and wireless solutions," said Michael Klayko, chief executive officer, Brocade. "This clearly is an area of increasing importance to our customers as businesses continue to upgrade their network infrastructures to meet the demands of a mobile workforce who require ubiquitous access to any application, from anywhere at any time."
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AT&T Delivers Campus Application with Pyxis Mobile

AT&T introduced a new mobile application for colleges and universities that extends the college experience to students' mobile devices.


Built with Application Studio, a mobile application platform from Pyxis Mobile, UpperClass from AT&T is a customizable application delivering a wide range of campus-related information to students, administrators, faculty, parents and alumni. The application provides a college community with real-time access to the information, including class information, student and faculty directories, scheduling, administration and community information, social networking, ticket purchasing and fundraising options, along with campus wide alerts such as weather conditions or class cancellations.
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TELUS Deploys Fujitsu's FLASHWAVE

TELUS has selected Fujitsu's FLASHWAVE Packet Optical Networking Platforms (Packet ONPs) for its next-generation converged Packet/TDM optical network. The deployment features the Fujitsu FLASHWAVE 9500 and FLASHWAVE 4100 ES Packet ONPs. Network planning, management, and professional services support are being provided by the complete line of Fujitsu NETSMART software solutions and Network Life Cycle Services. Financial terms were not disclosed.


The Fujitsu FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet ONP combines the functionality of Connection-oriented Ethernet and SONET/SDH with the flexibility of a ROADM in a single shelf. The pluggable ROADM option and patent-pending universal switch fabric of the FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet ONP allow both Ethernet and SONET/SDH traffic to be transported in their native framing formats to create a universal optical infrastructure. The FLASHWAVE 4100 ES micro Packet ONP offers a compact 2RU (3.5") modular solution for high concentrations of DS1, DS3, and Ethernet services. Both platforms include integrated Connection-oriented Ethernet technology that delivers the interface flexibility, statistical multiplexing and packet aggregation benefits of Ethernet with the QoS performance and security of SONET/SDH.
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Motorola Releases Wireless Ethernet Backhaul for Licensed Spectrum

Motorola introduced a licensed microwave point-to-point (PTP) Ethernet solution operating in the 11, 18, 23 and 26 GHz frequency bands and designed to backhaul IP data for a range of applications, including building-to-building connectivity, distance learning, last-mile access or wireless video surveillance.


The new Motorola PTP 800 delivers network speeds ranging from 10 to 368 Mbps, full duplex on a single channel, and offers user-configured channel bandwidths from 7 to 56 MHz. Motorola is offering a flexible pricing for the platform through software license key upgrades, enabling customers to gradually increase throughput capacity as their bandwidth demands grow.


The modem features adaptive coding and modulation, enabling transmitters and receivers to negotiate the best mutually sustainable data rate, helping ensure the highest spectral efficiency and top throughput possible for the radio path, while providing the maximum link availability. The PTP 800 also comes equipped with unique asymmetric throughput control, enabling customers to regulate down- and up-link data rates depending on the types of applications and traffic patterns on their networks.


Motorola said its PTP 800 is the smallest modem on the market, supporting wall or rack mount deployments and reducing the need for rack space.


Motorola also features LINKPlanner tool that helps network designers to project performance characteristics for multiple links prior to purchase, view the PTP links in Google Earth and obtain a bill of materials that lists all equipment required to deploy the network.


"Network operators want the flexibility to deploy both licensed and unlicensed fixed wireless broadband solutions, and seek technology providers that have the most complete portfolio to meet their current and future needs," said Scott Imhoff, director of point-to-point product management, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions.
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Internap Adds Hibernia Atlantic to Carrier Diversity Model

Internap Network Services has added Hibernia Atlantic's trans-Atlantic cable system to its diverse network of backbone providers. Internap's patented routing technology chooses the best path for content delivery. The company currently delivers and distributes applications and content for more than 3,000 companies over its managed Internet and Content Delivery Network (CDN). With the addition of Hibernia to the best-path options available within this architecture, Internap's private network backbone solution is even less susceptible to failures in the rather unlikely event that more than one of its other providers were to experience simultaneous outages.
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