MobileAccess Develops In-Building 4G-over LAN Solution

MobileAccess, which supplies in-building wireless solutions, introduced its 4G distributed antenna system (DAS) for delivering cellular services over a LAN infrastructure. MobileAccessVE leverages existing building infrastructure, enabling carriers and enterprise customers to address indoor coverage needs at a significantly lower total installed cost and in less than half the deployment time of traditional DAS solutions. MobileAccess said its converged...

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Vodafone Doubles OPEX Savings Goals, Plans HSPA+ Upgrades

In its half year financial report, Vodafone reported that its group revenue increased by 9.3% to £21.8 billion. Group adjusted operating profit increased by 2.4% to £5.9 billion with a positive contribution from Verizon Wireless and foreign currency benefits offsetting lower profit in Europe. The company showed growth in data revenues and confirmed further cost savings measures. Vodafone said it will continue to reduce its OPEX costs by leveraging...

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BSNL Selects Dilithium for Mobile Video Services

BSNL, India's largest telecommunications company, has selected Dilithium solutions for the deployment of new mobile video & streaming services over 2G and 3G networks. BSNL South Zone will deploy 3G Live TV & other video services.Dilithium has partnered with Huawei Technologies in BSNL South Zone to provide end to end delivery solutions for BSNL's live mobile video services. The solution includes the Dilithium DTG 3021 multimedia gateway...

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Occam Showcases New BLC 6006 Chassis

Occam Networks is showcasing its new BLC 6006 chassis at this week's TelcoTV 09 in Orlando, Florida. The BLC 6006 chassis is a new deployment option for the BLC 6000 multi-service access platform and is optimized for small to medium density access networks in the midst of transition to high capacity broadband. The BLC 6006 incorporates Occam's distributed intelligence architecture which allows each BLC blade to function standalone or in system level...

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Cavium to Acquire MontaVista Software for Embedded Linux

Cavium Networks agreed to acquire MontaVista Software for $50 million, comprised of $16 million in cash and $34 million in Cavium Networks common stock. MontaVista Software supplies multi-core embedded Linux operating systems, virtualization, development tools and professional services to a broad array of Tier-1 customers. The company's Carrier Grade Linux is embedded in telecom gear from companies that include Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu,...

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Zeugma Partners with Skitter.tv to Optimize OTT Video

Zeugma Systems, which supplies an advanced service delivery router, has formed a partnership with Skitter, a developer of an Internet TV platform. The solution partnership combines the Zeugma Services Node (ZSN), a service delivery router providing subscriber management, edge routing, and broadband aggregation, Skitter.TV, a set of video technologies to encode, configure, deliver, and monetize internet and linear TV services. The ZSN automatically detects streaming content from Skitter.TV and, depending on subscriber policy, allocates bandwidth...

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Clearwires Adds 49,000 WiMAX Subs in Q3, Confirms $1.5B New Financing

Clearwire's total subscribers increased to approximately 555,000 at the end of the third quarter of 2009, up from approximately 469,000 on a pro forma basis at the end of the third quarter 2008. Total subscribers in the Company's 13 CLEAR 4G markets (both new markets and legacy markets recently upgraded to CLEAR 4G service) were approximately 173,000 at the end of September. On a consolidated basis Clearwire added approximately 44,000 net new subscribers...

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Broadcom Offers Royalty-Free Wideband and Narrowband Codecs

Broadcom has begun offering its BroadVoice family of voice codecs royalty-free and without any licensing fees. Specifically, Broadcom is releasing its wideband and narrowband BroadVoice codecs in both floating-point and fixed-point C code as open source software under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation. The company said that by eliminating the royalties and licensing fees it is driving a cost effective transition to HD VoIP applications by enhancing the quality of voice transmissions...

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Alcatel-Lucent Offers Triple Play Express for Regional IPTV Operators

Alcatel-Lucent introduced its Triple Play Express (TPE) solution for regional operators, utilities and municipalities in North America. The packaged end-to-end IP video solution is optimized to help these operators avoid installing a system that is too large, or too complex for their needs. The company said TPE is cost-effective starting with 5,000 IPTV subscribers and can be scaled up to 40,000 subscribers."Triple Play Express not only leverages Alcatel-Lucent's unsurpassed product and service portfolio and expertise; it builds on a wide ecosystem...

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Pillar Data Systems Selects Fanfare for Automated Testing

Pillar Data Systems, which develops application-aware storage systems, will use Fanfare's iTest software to automate the company's end-to-end testing process. iTest will provide a common platform from which test assets can be communicated across the developer chain for more effective documentation, test reproduction and defect resolution. Test cases can now be reused and referenced at any point during a product's testing cycle. iTest will also eliminate the time-intensive process of manually recreating testbeds. It also eliminates the use of manual...

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Telefónica Adds ZTE to its LTE Pilot

Telefónica has shortlisted ZTE to participate in its LTE trial project across six countries in Europe and Latin America.The six-month trials will take place in Spain, the UK, Germany, the Czech Republic, Brazil and Argentina and marks the start of Telefonica's LTE vendor selection process. By deploying LTE technology, the operator aims to reach a (theoretical) peak data transfer rates of 340Mbps, enabling data-rich services such as mobile video and TV. Telefonica has selected six vendors for its LTE (4G) trial project. In addition to ZTE, Ericsson,...

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Huawei Opens Regional Training Center in Egypt

Huawei opened a new Regional Training Center at Smart Village Cairo, Egypt's prime technology cluster and Business Park. The new facility, which replaces the previous training center in Nasr City, includes US$ 20million in new training equipment, allowing the latest technology training programs for WCDMA, GSM, CDMA, NGN, Datacom, Optical Networks, Broadband and Intelligent Networks, among others. With 11 classrooms and laboratories, the facility has increased its capacity, able to accommodate 150 trainees at a time. "Huawei is dedicated to the...

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Telenor Replaces its Mobile Net with Huawei and Starent

Huawei announced a major contract with Telenor to supply multi-base stations for 2G, 3G/UMTS and 4G/LTE. Telenor is going to replace its entire mobile services infrastructure in Norway during the next years, with the aim of creating a flexible and cost efficient platform for mobile services. Financial terms were not disclosed. Starent Networks has been selected for the mobile core."This is the biggest upgrade of the mobile network in Norway we have...

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Cisco Offers 0% Financing in Europe

Cisco is expanding its zero-percent financing program in Europe to include all Cisco products and solutions, while also doubling the maximum deal size up to £200,000 or EUR 250,000 until the end of July 2010. EasyLease financing is available through Cisco Certified Partners and enables partners to deliver a complete end-to-end technology solution to their customers. http://www.cisco....

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Alcatel-Lucent Selected for Angola LNG Project

Bechtel awarded a $12 million contract to Alcatel-Lucent for the deployment of a fully integrated telecommunications infrastructure to support onshore and offshore operations of Angola LNG Limited's new plant in the Republic of Angola. Under the contract, Alcatel-Lucent is responsible for the design, construction and commissioning of a turnkey communications solution, along with comprehensive network integration support to ensure the rapid rollout of Angola LNG process plant telecommunications system.Alcatel-Lucent will also provide a complete...

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