Starent Adds Policy and Charging Control for 3G and 4G

Starent Networks announced an end-to-end 3GPP Policy and Charging Control (PCC) solution to address mobile operators' need to manage network traffic and introduce new revenue generating services. The Starent PCC solution consists of Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF), Subscriber Profile Repository (SPR), Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) and On-Line and Off-Line Charging (OCS/OFCS). Starent integrates these elements in the mobile gateway function. Key services of the PCC solution include automated use notifications to prevent...

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Brocade Launches Compact NetIron MPLS Router

Brocade introduced its NetIron CER 2000 Series compact MPLS router, featuring double the routing capacity and triple the forwarding capacity of previous solutions while fitting into a compact 1U form factor.Brocade said it developed the new NetIron CER 2000 for service providers that are facing increased edge and aggregation routing demands. The platform is optimal for use as a Carrier Ethernet/Metro edge router, an MPLS Provider Edge (PE) router,...

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Liberty University Deploys Procera's PacketLogic DPI

Liberty University installed Procera Networks' PacketLogic PL7720 Evolved Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to gain visibility into network traffic and to balance the bandwidth consumption between academic and non-academic network traffic. Multiple PacketLogic systems are being used to balance academic and recreational Internet bandwidth consumption by the university's 800 faculty members, 11,800 residential and 36,000 distance-learning students.http://www.proceranetworks....

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Bill Gates Funds GSMA's Mobile Money Initiative

The GSMA awarded six additional grants under its the Mobile Money for the Unbanked Fund (MMU) initiative, which aims to use mobile phones to improve the lives of people without bank accounts. New grantees include AKTEL in Bangladesh, Dialog Telekom PLC in Sri Lanka, Grameenphone Ltd in Bangladesh, MTN Cameroon, MTN Uganda and Vodacom Tanzania. Grants are available for projects promoting the uptake of mobile money services for the unbanked and underbanked,...

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Nortel's Loss Deepens in Q3, Metro Ethernet Down 26%

Nortel reported Q3 2009of $1,045 million, with declines year over year in all segments, except Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions (CVAS), and in all regions. These revenues exclude third quarter revenues related to Equity Investees' revenues of $348 million and $353 million related to discontinued operations. This compares with total revenues of $2,319 million in the third quarter of 2008. There was a net loss of $508 million compared to net...

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GSMA's Mobile Green Manifesto Seeks 4.5X Lower Emissions

A this week's Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong, the GSMA unveiled its "Mobile's Green Manifesto" -- a position paper that sets out how the mobile industry plans to lower its greenhouse gas emissions per connection, and demonstrates the key role that mobile communications can play in lowering emissions in other sectors and industries. It makes specific policy recommendations for governments and delegates attending the United Nations Climate Change...

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Verizon: 80% of Security Products Do Not Perform as Intended

Nearly 80 percent of security products fail to perform as intended when first tested, according to ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business. Across seven product categories, core product functionality accounted for 78 percent of initial test failures -- for example, an anti-virus product failing to prevent infection or an IPS (intrusion prevention system) product failing to filter malicious traffic. ICSA Labs, which offers vendor-neutral testing and certification of security products, said failure of a product to completely and...

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Vietnam's VMS Selects Alcatel-Lucent's Convergent Payment Solution

Vietnam Mobile Services Company (VMS) selected Alcatel-Lucent's Converged Payment solution for its 54 million pre- and post-paid mobile subscribers. To support the rapid subscriber growth of VMS, Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its 8610 Instant Convergent Charging Suite (ICC) over 100% of the entire network. The ICC, which enables real-time rating and charging for voice and data services, will allow VMS to quickly bring to market new convergent mobile prepaid and post-paid services. Alcatel Lucent will also undertake the design, project management,...

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Sweden's TV4 Group Outsources to Ericsson

Sweden's TV4 Group awarded a ten-year contract to Ericsson to operate its nationwide playout services. In addition, Ericsson and TV4 Group will establish a joint technology and business development forum. As part of the deal, 40 employees from TV4 Group will be transferred to Ericsson. In the technology and business development forum, the two companies will evaluate new business opportunities as TV4 Group develops its offering from standard linear TV to on-demand TV, giving viewers a more personalized viewing experience.Since 2007, Ericsson has...

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Telenor Denmark Selects NSN for HSPA+ and LTE

Telenor Denmark has selected Nokia Siemens Networks for a full upgrade of its 2G and 3G radio network to provide nationwide EDGE, HSPA and HSPA+ services based on its award winning Flexi Multiradio base station. The network will also be ready for LTE services. The agreement is for 6 years. Financial terms were not disclosed."This is the largest network upgrade we have ever made. We are improving capacity, stability and speed and will be able to...

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F5 Enhances IP Geolocation with Quova

F5 Networks will integrate Quova's IP geolocation technology in order to provide more intelligent context-aware application delivery solutions. The Quova technology maps IP addresses and related data to geographic locations at various levels of granularity. The contextual location information solves many security problems, such as enforcing download and access restrictions based on locality. F5 said the addition of Quova's IP geo data will allow...

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Zhone Selected by Hardy in West Virginia

Hardy Telecommunications has selected Zhone platforms and SLMS Access Operating System to expand tiered broadband offerings to business and residential customers throughout its rural West Virginia serving area. Hardy will offer VoIP and high-speed data services using a combination of Zhone's ADSL2+ and DSL Reach technologies integrated via the SLMS Access Operating System. In addition to tiered broadband over copper and wireless services, Hardy plans to offer tiered bandwidth over fiber, VoIP over copper, VoIP over wireless and VoIP over fiber,...

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