Tellabs Posts Q3 Revenue of $389 Million

Tellabs' Q3 2009 revenue totaled $389 million, compared with $424 million in the third quarter of 2008. Almost half of overall revenue came from growth products, including the Tellabs 6300, 7100, 7300, 8600 and 8800 systems and professional services. Tellabs earned $29 million or 7 cents per share on a (GAAP) basis, compared with a loss of $999 million or $2.51 per share in the year-ago quarter, which included a non-cash goodwill charge of $988 million.For the third quarter of 2009, Broadband segment revenue was $206 million, Transport segment...

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Motorola Pushes Deep Fiber Architecture for Cable Operators

Motorola introduced new Deep and Cable Passive Optical Networks (CablePON) products -- including an end-to-end, radio frequency over glass (RFoG) offering -- that enable cable operators to migrate their networks to fiber deep architectures, while leveraging existing investments.The new additions to Motorola's portfolio include:GX2-EM1000 Family of High-Performance 1550nm Broadcast Transmitters - These transmitters, key components in RF Video Overlay,...

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Alloptic Announces Multivendor EPON ONT Interoperability

Alloptic has extended the capabilities of its edge10 OLT to interoperate with ONT designs that are based on EPON chipsets from PMC-Sierra and Teknovus. Interoperability of ONTs via a common OLT allows the network operator to support a wide variety of applications and customer segments over a common infrastructure. Multiple vendors can create ONTs for specific market requirements giving network operators tailored, yet cost-effective ONT solutions. Leveraging the Alloptic edge10 OLT allows those different ONTs to be deployed on a common fiber infrastructure,...

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Alloptic Releases Managed MicroNode RFoG ONUs

Alloptic released a new range of "MicroNode" RFoG optical networking units (ONU): the 1000 series Managed MicroNode RFoG ONU featuring remote monitoring and control capabilities.Alloptic said that even though the R-ONU is the critical optical enabler in an RFoG architecture, it has traditionally been an unmanaged device. Its new Managed MicroNode RFoG ONU gives service providers the ability to monitor ONU operating parameters as well as remotely...

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Alloptic Debuts Return Path Receiver

Alloptic announced the availability of high performance Return Path Receivers that provide 7 dB noise performance improvement over typical analog return receivers and almost 3 dB improvement over other Alloptic receivers. This ultra low noise performance translates into the ability to carry, with 15dB of margin, 4 bonded 64QAM channels in a DOCSIS 3.0 return path over an SCTE-standard, non-proprietary RFoG architecture operating with a 29dB optical budget.Alloptic's EVRRL410 series Return Path Receiver product line includes designs for both typical...

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Cable Operators Call for "Content Neutrality" Along with Net Neutrality

The American Cable Association, which represents cable network operators, is calling on the FCC to stop content providers from using wholesale arrangements to restrict consumer access to lawful content. ACA cited Disney's ESPN360.com as an example where the most powerful sports programmer denies access to content, unless a consumer subscribes to a particular broadband provider. "ACA believes that content distributors such as ESPN360 should live under the same Net Neutrality rules as broadband service providers," American Cable Association President...

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RadiSys Unveils 40G ATCA Chassis, Switch and Processor Modules

RadiSys introduced its 4th generation of AdvancedTCA (ATCA) products designed for next generation 4G and wireline broadband network elements.The RadiSys 4th generation ATCA platforms combine a 40G chassis, a 40G switch and other 10G and 40G assets in a pre--integrated platform. The 40G chassis includes enhanced per--slot power and cooling capability along with 40G backplane connectivity. The company said investment protection for its telecom equipment...

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Ericsson Appoints New CEO

Ericsson's in-coming CEO Hans Vestberg has appointed Jan Frykhammar CFO of November 1, 2009. Frykhammar will also become Executive Vice President as of January 1, 2010. Jan Frykhammar is currently head of business unit Global Services and Senior Vice President. He joined the company in 1991. http://www.ericsson....

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Hitachi to Acquire Packet Core Assets from Nortel

Hitachi agreed to certain assets from Nortel that are associated with the development of next generation packet core network components (excluding legacy packet core components for $10 million. The assets, which come from Nortel's GSM and UMTS businesses, include software to support the transfer of data over existing wireless networks and the next generation of wireless communications technology, including relevant non-patent intellectual property, equipment and other related tangible assets, as well as a non-exclusive license of certain relevant...

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Verizon Adds 1.2 million Wireless, 198K FiOS Internet Customers

Verizon's total Q3 operating revenues grew 10.2 percent to $27.3 billion, compared with the third quarter 2008, including revenues from Alltel, which Verizon acquired in January 2009. On a pro forma basis (consolidating the operating results of Verizon and the former Alltel as though the acquisition had occurred on Jan. 1, 2008), operating revenue growth was 0.6 percent. Diluted earnings per share (EPS) were 41 cents in the third quarter, compared...

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Qualcomm Establishes Subsidiary for Mobile Open Source Development

Qualcomm has established a separate wholly-owned subsidiary to optimize open source software with Qualcomm technology. The new Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC), which is brought together by a dedicated group of engineers, will be headed by Rob Chandhok, who previously served as senior vice president of software strategy for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies."Open source and community-driven software development is becoming increasingly important to the wireless industry," said Chandhok, "and QuIC is committed to meaningful participation in these development...

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Ceragon Posts Revenue of $44.7 Million, up 6% Sequentially

Ceragon Networks reported Q3 2009 revenue of $44.7 million, down 23% from $58.1 million for the third quarter of 2008 and up 6% from $42.2 million in the second quarter of 2009. Net income (GAAP) for the third quarter of 2009 was $1.1 million or $0.03 per basic share and diluted share, compared to net income of $3.5 million or $0.09 per basic and diluted share in the third quarter of 2008. http://www.ceragon....

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Motorola Adds Module for CMTS Enabling 150 Mbps Upstream

Motorola introduced a decoupled upstream module for its BSR 64000 Integrated Cable Modem Termination System (I-CMTS), enabling cable operators to meet their subscribers' demands for higher average and peak upstream bandwidth.The Motorola BSR 64000 I-CMTS solution, with the new RX48 decoupled upstream module, offers nearly 1.5 Gbps of upstream capacity per module. The upstream-only module is the "sister" card of the TX32 decoupled downstream module.When combined with S-CDMA, Motorola calculates that cable operators can unlock additional usable spectrum...

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Extreme Posts Quarterly Revenue of $66 Million

Extreme Networks reported net revenue of $66.3 million for its fiscal first quarter of 2010, compared to $89.5 million in the fiscal first quarter of 2009. Non-GAAP net loss was $4.9 million or a loss of $0.05 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $2.0 million or $0.02 per diluted share in the year-ago quarter. For the first quarter, net revenue in North America was $26.9 million, revenue in EMEA was $28.1 million, and revenue in APAC was $11.4 million. That compares to revenue of $35.7 million in North America, $41.6 million in...

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