Cisco TelePresence Planned for U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

Cisco has established a Global Climate Change Meeting Platform (GCCMP) powered by a network of Cisco TelePresence and conferencing technologies to extend the reach of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15). Specifically, the COP15 main conference facility, the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, will feature four Cisco TelePresence rooms, specially designed to make local and remote meeting participants feel as if they...

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Nortel and Ericsson Expect to Close Wireless Sale this Month

Nortel Networks and Ericsson announced an amendment of their previously announced asset sale fir substantially all of Nortel's CDMA business and LTE Access assets. Under the amendment, Nortel and Ericsson have extended to November 30, 2009 the date by which to close the sale. The parties expect to close the sale prior to such date. The parties agreed to the extension in order to allow more time for the satisfaction of closing conditions, including regulatory approvals. http://www.nortel....

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Alcatel-Lucent Posted Q3 Revenue of EUR 3.687 billion, down 9.3% YoY

Alcatel-Lucent reported Q3 2009 revenues of Euro 3.687 billion, down 9.3% year-over-year and 5.6% sequentially. At constant currency exchange rates, revenue decreased 11.0% year-over-year and 3.5% sequentially. The adjusted operating income was Euro (11) million or (0.3%) of revenue, and the reported net loss (group share) was Euro (182) million or Euro (0.08) per share.Alcatel-Lucent's CEO, Ben Verwaayen, state: "Our company continues its transformation...

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NTT Comm Completes Acquisition of Pacific Crossing Limited

NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) completed its previously announced acquisition of Pacific Crossing, which operates the PC-1 trans-Pacific undersea cable network. The deal was first announced in May.By combining PC-1 capacity with NTT Com's vast domestic and international network, NTT Com can offer customers, both in the enterprise and carrier markets, the highest quality network services between Asia, Japan and the United States.NTT Com...

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Corning Cable Systems Standardizes on Bend-Insensitive ClearCurve Multimode Fiber

Corning Cable Systems, part of Corning's Telecommunications segment, has standardized on Corning ClearCurve multimode fibre as its new standard product offering for all 50 micron LANscape cables and cable assemblies.LANscape cables with ultra-bendable performance offer a minimum bend radius as small as five times the outer diameter of the cable in some designs, compared to 10 times in traditional cables. Thus, tight bend situations experienced in LAN and data centre environments that would result in elevated attenuation with traditional 50 micron...

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UTStarcom Unveils MPLS-TP Transport Solution

UTStarcom has expanded its NetRing Transport Network product portfolio (NetRing TN), which includes new MPLS - Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) solutions designed to overhaul existing mobile backhaul networks, provide Ethernet services and deliver broadband aggregation applications. MPLS-TP is pre-standard technology being jointly defined by ITU-T and IETF. UTStarcom's NetRing TN packet-based optical transport system is designed for applications such as carrier mobile backhaul, metro Ethernet services for enterprise and DSLAM and X-version of passive...

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Chunghwa Telecom Reaches 1.5 Million FTTH Subscribers, ADSL Declines

Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom reported Q3 revenue of NT$50.1 billion, down 1.7% compared to a year earlier. Mobile communications business revenue decreased by 2.5% to NT$22.1 billion, while Internet business revenue decreased by 0.1% to NT$5.8 billion. Domestic fixed communications business revenue decreased by 2.6% to NT$17.7 billion. International fixed communications business revenue increased by 4.0% to NT$4.1 billion.For the first nine months...

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