Sunday, November 22, 2009

China Mobile Tops 513 Million -- 5 Million New Subs in October

China Mobile, already the world's largest mobile operator, added 5 million new subscribers in October, giving it a total of 513,466,000. The number of G3 subscribers who used 3G network services in this month is 2,309,000. However, in its previous financial statement, China Mobile noted that new customers added this year are mainly low-usage customers and ARPU as well as average revenue per minute of usage have declined this year while the voice...

Video Interview: Narus on Cyber Security

Presented by Greg Oslan, CEO, Narushttp://www.narus....

NSN Introduces Compact IP Optimized Transport Solution

Nokia Siemens Networks introduced its new hiT 7065 IP Optimized Transport Solution (IP-OTS) aimed at metro and core aggregation deployments. The compact hiT 7065 supports various interface types, including OTU interfaces to increase link length towards DWDM core, FC/1GbE/10GbE/ interfaces for Packet aggregation and Storage Area Networks (SAN), to support a operators existing services over a single network. While SDH interfaces provide the connection...

Verizon Builds Telehealth Collaboration Portfolio

Verizon is launching a portfolio of Telehealth Collaboration Services to help health care providers consult remotely with patients and other providers, offer continuing medical education and training to medical professionals, as well as help health care administrators avoid costly and time-consuming travel through the use of collaborative technology.As part of its consultancy, Verizon Business IT professionals work with health care organizations to assess their collaboration readiness, as well as design, implement and provide ongoing support for...

Motorola Offers Take-Back of its Branded Enterprise Mobility Equipment in U.S.

Motorola has established a take-back recycling program for its U.S. Enterprise Mobility Solutions (EMS) customers to help them responsibly dispose of used equipment. This includes all Motorola-branded enterprise mobility equipment, such as mobile and portable two-way radios; handheld mobile computers; barcode scanners; imagers; in-vehicle mobile workstations; accessories; network infrastructure equipment; and computers, laptops and monitors. Batteries are also included but must be removed from the equipment before they are shipped for recycling....

ARRIS Supplies DOCSIS 3.0 in Czech Republic

ARRIS has shipped its DOCSIS 3.0 C4 CMTS to four cable operators across the Czech Republic. The companies now deploying service are: Elsat s.r.o., BKS Capital Partners, Self Servis, and Kabelova Televize Koprivnice. Approximately 93% of the Czech Republic's 1.2 million homes passed by cable are served by Elsat, BKS, Self Servis and UPC Czech Republic. http://www.arrisi.com/get...

AT&T Launches Pay-as-you-Need it 3G Mobile Data Service

AT&T launched "DataConnect Pass" -- a pay-as-you-need it data service delivered over its 3G network. Self-provisioned and accessible from any Internet connection, DataConnect Pass(SM) offers multiple packages of mobile data perfect for travelers, vacationers or others on-the-go and in need of customized data access. Packages include:DataConnect Day Pass (75 MB) - $15DataConnect Week Pass (250 MB) - $30DataConnect Month Pass (500 MB) - $50The...

Telegent Systems Files for IPO

Telegent Systems, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, filed SEC papers for a proposed initial public offering of its common shares. The number of common shares to be sold in the offering and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. are acting as joint book-runners, and Jefferies & Company, Inc., Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and Piper Jaffray & Co....

Dell'Oro: Optical Market Declines 4% Sequentially in Q3

Worldwide optical market revenues were just under $3 billion in the third quarter of this year, a 4 percent decline over the second quarter of this year, according to a newly published report by Dell'Oro Group. The demand for optical transport equipment stabilized in North America where revenues have increased in the two most recent quarters. Asia Pacific continues to be the largest region for optical transport equipment with nearly 40 percent of...

Brocade Posts Quarterly Revenue of $521.8 Million, up 6% Sequentially

Brocade reported quarterly revenue of $521.8 million, increasing 31% year-over-year and 6% sequentially. For its full fiscal year ended October 31, 2009. Brocade's annual revenues increased 33 percent year-over-year to over $1.95 billion. "In addition, Q4 saw tremendous momentum as we exceeded the Street's consensus non-GAAP EPS estimates for the seventeenth consecutive quarter, delivered the fastest sequential revenue growth of any large networking...

Hurricane Electric Now Connect to over 600 IPv6 networks

Hurricane Electric, an IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider, has doubled the size of its IPv6 network over the past year and now connects to over 600 IPv6 networks -- - approximately twice as many as its nearest rivals, according to the company. In addition to expanding its own network, Hurricane Electric has expanded its free IPv6 Certification and Training program which allows network engineers, system administrators, and software developers to gain expertise in IPv6. Hurricane Electric has also released an IPv4 depletion App...

Klausner Files Visual Voicemail Patent Suit Against Motorola

Klausner Technologies filed suit a patent infringement lawsuit against Motorola for its new "CLIQ" mobile phone. Klausner Technologies claims Motorola's new device infringes its Visual Voicemail patented technology. Various other Motorola models with the Visual Voicemail feature are already covered under Klausner Technologies Visual Voicemail patent licenses granted to mobile operators. Klausner Technologies currently has 24 Visual Voicemail patent licensees, including major U.S. and European wireless service providers, cell phone manufacturers,...

Klausner Files Visual Voicemail Patent Suit Against RIM/BlackBerry

Klausner Technologies filed suit a patent infringement lawsuit against Research in Motion for its recently unveiled 3G "BlackBerry Bold 9700" mobile phones. Klausner Technologies claims the phones infringe its Visual Voicemail patented technology. Various Blackberry models with the Visual Voicemail feature are already covered under Klausner Technologies Visual Voicemail patent licenses granted to mobile operators.Klausner Technologies currently has 24 Visual Voicemail patent licensees, including major U.S. and European wireless service providers,...

Ciena Wins Nortel Optical Auction with $769 Million Bid

Ciena was the successful bidder in the auction of substantially all of the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business. Ciena has agreed to pay US $530 million in cash and issue US $239 million in aggregate principal amount of 6% Senior Convertible notes due 2017 for a total consideration of US $769 million for the assets.The assets to be acquired generated approximately $1.36 billion in revenue...