Telstra Completes DOCSIS 3 Upgrade in Melbourne

Telstra has completed the upgrade of its hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) network in Melbourne. From 1 December nearly one million Melbourne homes will benefit from the upgrade to the cable network. The network download capacity increases to up to 100Mbps and the upload capacity to up to 2Mbps. Telstra also revealed a new television set top box incorporating two digital television tuners. This provides the ability to view and record free to air television...

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GSMA and World Bank Partner on Renewable Energy Base Station Market

The GSMA is working with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, to support mobile operators in exploring the use of renewable energy base stations as a means of optimizing capital and operating expenditures. The goal is to assist mobile operators in developing markets to deploy large scale renewable energy powered networks. Specifically, the IFC plans to identify and pursue green power investments...

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BT Builds MPLS VPN for Italy's Roberto Cavalli Group

BT Global Services announced a three-year contract to provide a global MPLS VPN for the Roberto Cavalli Group, one of Italy's most prestigious fashion brands. The agreement includes the construction, deployment and management of a full IP convergence network supplying fixed line services and VoIP. The new network will link the Group headquarters in Florence with other Italian offices and subsidiaries via a fully redundant broadband infrastructure. http://www.btplc....

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picoChip Secures $20 Million for Femtocell Silicon

picoChip, a start-up based in Bath, UK, secured $20 million in new venture funding for its femtocell silicon products. picoChip's femtocell solutions cover all the major 3G standards (WCDMA/HSPA+, TD-SCDMA and cdma2000/EvDO), as well as 2G (GSM/GPRS/EDGE) and LTE. Announced customers include Alpha Networks, AT4 Wireless, Airspan (partnered with Fujitsu), Intel, ip.Access, Ubiquisys (supplying NEC and Motorola), Willtek, Xinwei Telecom, Zyxel and a number of other major OEMs and ODMs. picoChip's investors include financial investors, Atlas Venture,...

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NSN Demos TD-LTE with China Mobile

At this week's GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong, Nokia Siemens Networks and China Mobile jointly demonstrated a TD-LTE femtocell. The demonstration showed a live streaming video downlink application achieving throughputs which exceed the typical xDSL speed currently possible via residential broadband connections. "Successful TD-LTE commercial deployments warrant efficient, seamless and uniform coverage" said Tommi Uitto, Head of Wireless Access Product Management at Nokia Siemens Networks. "That's why it is imperative to think beyond macro...

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Ericsson Pushes EDGE Evolution to 1 Mbps

Ericsson published a whitepaper recommending EDGE Evolution technology as an inexpensive means of delivering mobile data services over existing GSM networks at rates of up to 1 Mbps. The solution adds 3G-like capabilities to GSM, more than doubling end-user bit-rates and reduces latency significantly. Ericsson is the first vendor to offer EDGE Evolution capabilities.Currently, EDGE offers user bit rates up to 250kbps, with end-to-end latency of...

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Aruba's Revenue Rises 8% Sequentially

Aruba Networks reported quarterly revenue of $57.6 million, an increase of approximately 10% over the $52.4 million for the same period last year and up 8% over the preceding quarter. In the fiscal quarter, the company had a $19.75 million litigation settlement expense. Including this cost, GAAP net loss was $24.7 million, or $0.28 per share, compared to a net loss of $6.4 million, or $0.08 per share, in the same period last year."We are pleased to report record revenues and both sequential and year-over-year revenue growth," said Dominic Orr,...

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Alcatel-Lucent Completes LTE Data Call in 800 MHz "European Digital Dividend" Band

Alcatel-Lucent completed the first LTE data call on the 800 MHz "European Digital Dividend" (EDD) spectrum band in a live network. The call was completed in October at Alcatel-Lucent's 4G/LTE end-to-end solutions center in Stuttgart, Germany, and involved transmitting HD video streaming over the air using Alcatel-Lucent's commercial infrastructure platforms and prototype mobile devices.For several months Alcatel-Lucent has been testing 4G/LTE mobile...

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CA Completes NetQoS Acquisition

CA completed its $200 million acquisition of NetQoS, a provider of network performance management and service delivery management solutions.Initially, NetQoS will operate as an independent entity within CA. CA plans to continue to make the NetQoS portfolio available as stand-alone products. CA also plans to proactively extend its leadership position in network and systems management, application performance management, and cloud management by offering...

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Deutsche Telekom Seeks Merger of T-Home and T-Mobile in Germany

Deutsche Telekom has asked its shareholders to approve the merger of its T-Home and T-Mobile division in Germany into a single company in order to increase their competitiveness. "Now is the right time to merge our mobile and fixed-network business. Two healthy, competitive business areas will become even stronger by joining forces," said Chairman of the Board of Management René Obermann. This is the Group's response to the challenges facing the...

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Intel to Build European Exascale Computing Research Center

Intel announced a multi-million Euro investment to build a European Exascale Computing Research Center in partnership with Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.The term "exascale" refers to computers that are able to process 1018 instructions per second -- roughly one thousand times faster than today's fastest supercomputer.The research agenda of the Exascale Computing Research Center will include integrating multi petaFLOPS systems, developing advanced...

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