Telstra Announces New Corporate Structure

Telstra announced a new corporate structure aimed at helping the company to grow in key markets, invest in innovation, and provide better customer service. The key changes include:The creation of two new product units, headed by Justin Milne and Philip Jones, to enable Telstra to compete effectively in fixed and mobile markets. The creation of a new International unit, headed by Tarek Robbiati, that will take geographic and operational responsibility...

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Dell'Oro: Edge Router Market Stable in Q3

The worldwide service provider edge router market grew 2 percent to $1.2 billion in the third quarter this year, according to the latest "Routers Quarterly Report" from the Dell'Oro Group . This marked the second consecutive quarter of growth for the worldwide market for edge routers, indicating that demand has stabilized following a strong contraction in the first quarter of the year. The leading edge router manufacturers Cisco Systems, Alcatel-Lucent,...

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AMCC Becomes AppliedMicro with Focus on Telco, Data Center and Enterprise

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) has changed its name to AppliedMicro to reflect the company's drive for breakthrough energy efficiency and cost optimized semiconductor devices that will propel the company into new growth markets.In keeping with the 30-year AMCC heritage, the company said it will remain dedicated to its customers in the telco, datacenter and enterprise markets, while increasing market share by striving to reduce the power...

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NSN Targets the Energy Sector

Nokia Siemens Networks will pursue a partnership strategy to address opportunities in the energy sector. Areas of interest include the transformation of power grids into intelligent smart grids, and managing user demand and consumption via smart metering.Nokia Siemens Networks aims to apply its existing charging, mediation, service management and network management solutions, and to work with third parties, to exploit opportunities in the intelligent...

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Rogers Launches On Demand Online

Canada's Rogers Communications launched its On Demand Online, a web-based destination for aggregated primetime and specialty TV programming, movies, sports and web-only extras. The service is available online exclusively to Rogers customers from any Internet connection within Canada.The initial BETA roll out will feature more than 1,000 hours of aggregated content from 17 broadcast and production partners and 30 channels. Those Rogers Cable customers...

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Charter Emerges from Chapter, Cutting $8 Billion in Debt

Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company said its financial restructuring significantly improves its capital structure by reducing debt by approximately 40 percent, or approximately $8 billion.Charter said it is positioned to generate positive free cash flow through the reduction of more than $830 million in annual interest expense. "This successful financial restructuring is a significant accomplishment and makes Charter a stronger company for the...

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BT Openreach Deploys ADVA's FSP 2000 for Optical Services

Openreach, BT's UK-based access network arm, is deploying the ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 2000 to support its nationwide Optical Spectrum Access (OSA) services, which provide very high-bandwidth connectivity between two end-user sites. Launched earlier this year, OSA services are particularly well-suited for WAN and Storage Area Network (SAN) applications where multiple client interfaces are involved. The services offer a range of client protocols and interfaces over 2.5- and 10 Gbps DWDM wavelengths. ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 2000 is a...

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Intelsat 15 Successfully Launched

The Intelsat 15 satellite was successfully launched by a Zenit-3SLB rocket from the Land Launch facilities at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan. The satellite, built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, will provide video and data services through its high power Ku-band payload. Once IS-15 is operational, it will replace Intelsat's 709 satellite at 85º E, and is expected to have a useful life of at least 17 years.Of the IS-15's 22 Ku-band transponders, five are owned by SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. http://www.intelsat....

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Milestone for Hughes: 2 Million Satellite Terminals Shipped

Hughes Network Systems announced a milestone for satellite networks and services -- the company has shipped an aggregate of over 2.1 million satellite terminals as of Q3 2009. The achievement continues the company's leadership of the global very small aperture terminal (VSAT) market which began in the mid-80s when Hughes shipped the first VSAT network to Wal-Mart.http://www.hughes....

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Broadcom to Acquire Dune Networks for $187 Million

Broadcom agreed to acquire Dune Networks, a privately-held developer of switch fabric solutions for data center networking equipment, for approximately $178 million in cash. Dune Networks, which is based in Yakum, Israel, offers a scalable chipset that supports bandwidth speeds of up to 100Gbps per port and can connect more than ten thousand servers (ports) in a single deployment. Its SAND chip-set includes a family of Fabric Element (FE) devices and a family of line-card devices named Fabric Access Processor (FAP) devices. Target applications...

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EXFO Raises Financial Guidance

Citing a stronger-than-anticipated US dollar versus Canadian dollar and higher sales volume, EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering now expects GAAP net earnings to finish between US$0.00 and US$0.01 per diluted share for the first quarter of fiscal 2010. The company had previously forecasted a GAAP net loss between US$0.06 and US$0.02 per share, partially based on an anticipated pre-tax, foreign exchange loss of US$0.03 per share to account for the significant weakness of the US dollar in days preceding the issuing of company guidance on October 13,...

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