Infinera Gains Department of Defense JITC Approval

Infinera's DTN platform has been approved for Department of Defense (DoD) network deployments after passing extensive conformance and interoperability tests with the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC). The JITC certification supports potential Infinera DTN deployments with the U.S. Department of Defense and related agencies.Infinera noted that it is the first DWDM system to be certified by JITC for carrying 40 Gbps services. http://www.infinera....

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Cisco Builds its Collaboration Portfolio

Cisco expanded its collaboration portfolio of TelePresence, Unified Communications, and WebEx solutions with new tools for video and voice-based communications. . The company also announced its entrance into two new markets, enterprise social software and hosted email. The rollout includes: Intercompany Cisco TelePresence Directory -- a Cisco-hosted directory of endpoints, organizations and people with access to Cisco TelePresence endpoints. The...

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Zain Kuwait Rolls 22 Mbps HSPA+ with Motorola

Motorola announced a contract with Zain Kuwait to expand and upgrade the operator's 3G HSPA mobile broadband network to HSPA+, which supports increased download speeds of up to 21.6 Mbps, as well as implementing enhancements to the uplink. This network expansion and upgrade builds on Motorola's existing supply contract for Zain's 3G network announced in 2007 and subsequent upgrade that enabled increased data speeds of 14.4 Mbps as announced in mid...

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AppTrigger Enhances its Ignite Service Broker

AppTrigger has enhanced its Ignite Service Broker with support for five additional interworking (IM-SSF) solutions, helping service providers to extend revenue-producing voice services across next-generation IP infrastructure. The enhancement brings the total of predefined application interworking solutions to 17.Service Brokers, a network element that resides between the service layer and the converging network, are traditionally decoupled from...

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Occam Supplies MSAP for Polar Communications

Polar Communications, which serves more than 12,000 subscribers in North Dakota and Minnesota, has begun deploying a full FTTH network using Occam Networks MSAP platform. To accommodate the expected growth in last mile traffic, Polar is also deploying Occam's resilient 10 Gigabit Ethernet aggregation solution. Because DSL continues to play an important role in Polar's broadband network, they will use Occam's BLC 6000 MSAP and the platform's common OS to simplify the hybrid copper, FTTP and 10 Gigabit aggregation network. http://www.occamnetwo...

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Charter Posts 3.8% Revenue Growth in Q3, ARPU at $115

Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, reported Q3 revenue of $1.693 billion, up 3.8% on a pro forma1 basis and 3.5% on an actual basis, driven by increases in telephone, high-speed Internet (HSI) and commercial revenues. Third quarter adjusted EBITDA of $606 million grew 7.8% on a pro forma basis and 7.6% on an actual basis.Some operational highlights for Q3:Total average monthly revenue per basic video customer (ARPU) for the quarter increased 8.2% year-over-year to $115.26, driven by increased sales...

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Calix Debuts E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform

Calix introduced its E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP), a modular, 1 RU Ethernet platform with a 100 Gbps backplane. The E7's two slot chassis supports any mix of GPON, point-to-point gigabit Ethernet (GE) or Active Ethernet (AE), and 10GE transport for business and residential services.Calix said its new E7 leverages a standards-based Ethernet kernel built for access, called Ethernet eXtensible Architecture (EXA). The EXA Powered E7 delivers...

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Sprint Nextel to Eliminate 2,000 - 2,500 Jobs

Sprint Nextel will cut 2,000 to 2,500 positions during Q4 in a bid to reduce internal and external labor costs by at least $350 million on an annualized basis. The reduction impacts positions companywide, including those previously announced this month in the Wholesale organization, as well as a reduction in contractor and other outside labor.Sprint also noted that it has seen a notable reduction in calls per subscriber to customer care and increased customer satisfaction resulting from customer service improvements for seven sequential quarters....

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Ciena Receives Regulatory Clearance for Acquisition of Nortel's Optical and Carrier Ethernet

Ciena has received regulatory clearances regarding its proposed acquisition of substantially all of Nortel's optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets. In the United States, Ciena was granted early termination of the antitrust waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. In addition, Ciena also has received from the Canadian Competition Bureau a no action letter, terminating the applicable waiting period for the proposed transaction under the Competition Act.As a result of Nortel's restructuring process, the proposed transaction remains...

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Nokia Recalls Mobile Phone Chargers

Nokia is recalling certain mobile phone chargers due to a manufacturing defect. The product safety issue concerns certain chargers manufactured by one of Nokia's third-party suppliers. The plastic covers of the affected chargers could come loose and separate, exposing the charger's internal components and potentially posing an electrical shock hazard if certain internal components are touched while the charger is plugged into a live socket. Nokia is not aware of any incidents or injuries related to these chargers.An estimated 14 million devices...

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Verizon Business Launches Enhanced IT Security Consulting

Verizon Business launched a new Data Discovery, Identification and Security Classification (DDISC) service to help businesses address the heightened risk they face because they often do not know where all of their data resides.The DDISC services -- which are immediately available in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region -- discover, identify and classify data stored on a business' servers and extended network linking customers, partners...

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AT&T Provides Network Integration for Cummins

Cummins, which designs, manufactures, sells and services diesel engines, has awarded a multi-million dollar contract for network integration services to AT&T. Under the agreement, AT&T, in collaboration with EMC, will integrate Cummins' global networks with new content management, software and storage services. Specifically, AT&T's integration solution will virtualize Cummins' computing infrastructure, more efficiently using hardware resources to consolidate devices, facilitate business continuity and more readily serve high-priority...

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WSJ: Sprint and Partners to Invest $1.5 Billion More in Clearwire

The Wall Street Journal reported that Sprint Nextel and its partners are preparing to invest a further $1.5 billion in Clearwire to accelerate its nationwide WiMAX rollout. The company has not yet commented on the report. http://www.wsj....

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