SMART 2020 Deutschland Study Predicts 25% CO2 Savings from ICT

Germany could reduce its CO2 emissions by 207 megatons by 2020 by employing smart ICT solutions, according to a newly published study by Deutsche Telekom, Huawei, SAP, Siemens and The Boston Consulting Group.First, the ICT sector can make a direct contribution towards climate protection by reducing its own emissions. By producing 23 Mt of CO2e in 2007, the industry was responsible for around 2 percent of emissions in Germany. With the aid of various...

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Starent Shareholders Approve Acquisition by Cisco

Starent Networks' shareholders approved the adoption of the merger agreement with Cisco Systems. As previously announced, under the terms of the merger agreement, Starent shareholders will receive $35.00 in cash for each outstanding Starent share, following the closing of the merger. The merger remains subject to regulatory approval and other closing conditions. http://www.starentnetworks....

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Wind Mobile Gets Green Light to Launch Service Across Canada

The Government of Canada has varied a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) decision thereby paving the way for Globalive's WIND Mobile to become Canada's first national wireless alternative in over a decade. "This is a new day for wireless in Canada. This holiday season we will start to provide Canadians with the competitive choice that they want and deserve," said Anthony Lacavera, Chairman of Globalive and WIND Mobile....

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AT&T Expects to Complete Asset Deal with Verizon Wireless in Q1 2010

AT&T anticipates its pending acquisition of wireless assets from Verizon Wireless to be completed in the first quarter of 2010. In addition, AT&T anticipates its pending sale of former Centennial Communications Corp. wireless assets to Verizon Wireless to be completed in the first quarter of 2010.On May 8, 2009, the two companies entered into an agreement under which AT&T would acquire properties from Verizon Wireless, including licenses, network assets and 1.5 million subscribers (as of signing) in 79 service areas across 18 states....

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T-Mobile Tests Femtocells from Ubiquisys and Huawei

Deutsche Telekom 's T-Mobile division, Ubiquisys and Huawei Technologies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to conduct femtocell Interoperability Testing (IOT) at T-Mobile's labs over the next 6 months. The tests will involve femtocells from both Ubiquisys and Huawei, which will communicate using the 3GPP's new Iuh standardised open interface. They will be connected to a Huawei Femto Gateway into T-Mobile's core network."To reach their full...

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China Mobile Leverages "Green Roof of the World" for Base Station Power

China Mobile has now completed its "Green Roof of the World' , a project begun in 2004 to install solar and wind power generating facilities in at least 1,000 sites on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at an average height of 4,000 meters above sea level. Huawei has been a lead supplier for the project, which has included installations on Mount Everest.By the end of 2008, no less than 683 villages and towns (over 70 % of the total) had wireless connectivity,...

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Apple Countersues Nokia

Apple filed a countersuit against Nokia claiming infringement of 13 Apple patents. http://www.apple.comIn October, Nokia filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple claiming that the iPhone infringes Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards. The ten patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption. Nokia said the patents are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007....

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Cisco Marks its 25th Anniversary

Cisco celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding.Cisco was founded on December 10, 1984 by husband and wife Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, two former Stanford University computer scientists whose efforts to enable email between computers on different networks led to the invention of the first multiprotocol router.Some interesting facts noted by the company:A quarter of a century ago there were just 1,000 "hosts" on the Internet, today there are...

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Vodafone and Alcatel-Lucent team on Smart Metering in Germany

Vodafone Germany and Alcatel-Lucent are collaborating on a smart meter solution for the German utility market.In this engagement Alcatel-Lucent, through its German subsidiary, is providing its Smart Metering Management System SMM 8617 as well as its services expertise to integrate all the components of the planned smart metering service into a seamless solution, including the connection to the operational management systems of energy suppliers (Enterprise Resource Planning - ERP and Energy Data Management -- EDM).Vodafone Germany provides a secure...

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ZTE Achieves 130 Mbps with TD-LTE

ZTE has demonstrated downlink speeds of 130 Mbps with its TD-LTE -- this is the theoretical limit of TD-LTE network technology. ZTE conducted the tests using its own system products including EPC, eNodeB, etc in Guangzhou in November. The company said its SDR Base Stations will offer a smooth, software upgrade path from TD-SCDMA to TD-LTE or to TD-S/TD-LTE dual-mode. At the present time, there are more than 200,000 sets of ZTE SDR products in operation with various operators throughout the world.In May 2010, ZTE and China Mobile will jointly...

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WiGig's 60 GHz Wireless Spec Supports 7 Gbps In Home Rates

The Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig), which promotes the use of 60 GHz wireless technology, announced the completion of its unified wireless specification, promising data transfer rates more than 10 times faster than today's wireless LANs while offering backward compatibility with existing Wi‐Fi devices. The WiGig version 1.0 specification includes the following key elements:Supports data transmission rates up to 7 Gbps -- more than ten times faster...

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Verizon Adds FiOS TV On-Screen Caller ID

Verizon has added a "Caller ID on TV" to its FiOS TV. Customers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Texas are the first to get the new service, which is being offered at no additional charge. Incoming caller ID information is displayed for several seconds in the corner of their TV screen. They can then decide if they want to pause the program they are watching and answer the call, or continue watching TV and let the call go to their voice mailbox....

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Corning Cable and Case Western Team on FTTH in Cleveland

Corning Cable Systems will supply product and design assistance to Case Western Reserve University and its partners to offer FTTH Internet access in Cleveland's inner-city neighborhoods. The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Mandel School of Applied Social Science at Case estimates that as many as 72% of the households in and around the University in the city of Cleveland have no Internet access. "We believe that access to the Internet at the international gold standard of one Gigabit/sec, coupled with integrated training...

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Apparent Networks: 44 Minute Outage at Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Apparent Network's Cloud Performance Center issued a bulletin confirming Amazon Web Services experienced connectivity loss which caused an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud services outage in a single availability zone in their Northern Virginia Data Center. The outage occurred on December 9, 2009 beginning at approximately 3:34AM EST and lasted until 4:19AM EST or about 44 minutes. Amazon later confirmed the connectivity loss was due to a power failure. Apparent Networks' Cloud Performance Center offers a free service that tracks performance data...

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Sprint Appoints Matt Carter as President, 4G

Sprint Nextel named Matt Carter, 48, as President - 4G, to oversee its roll-out of fourth-generation broadband wireless services. He currently serves as Vice President - Sprint Prepaid. Carter joined Sprint in 2006 as Senior Vice President for base management, before taking the position at Boost in 2008. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Marketing at PNC Financial Services Group; Chief Marketing Officer for Leap Wireless International; and Chief Marketing Office for Security First Network Bank. Carter also held marketing positions...

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Dell Delivers New Data Center Products, Including 10GbE

Dell introduced new data center management, storage and networking solutions , including solutions that use 10GbE as the underlying fabric.Dell estimates that customers who adopt an end-to-end 10GbE architecture can decrease networking acquisition costs by approximately 50 percent and cut up to 76 percent of their network costs by using a unified fabric that brings together storage, networking, software and management tools.Some of the new infrastructure...

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NSN Completes Voice calls and SMS Texting over LTE

Nokia Siemens Networks announced the successful completion of voice calls and SMS text messaging over LTE using commercial, 3GPP-standardized user and network equipment. The test, which were carried out by researchers at the company's R&D centers in Germany and Finland, were meant to demonstrate the viability of the One Voice approach to voice over LTE (VoLTE).The call conducted by Nokia Siemens Networks used a configuration of commercially ready...

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Ciena Posts Revenue of $176.3 million, Up 7% Sequentially

Ciena reported revenue of $176.3 million for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2009, representing a 7% sequential increase from fiscal third quarter 2009 revenue of $164.8 million. For the fiscal year 2009, Ciena reported revenue of $652.6 million. Ciena's reported net loss (GAAP) was $(26.7) million, or $(0.29) per common share for the fiscal fourth quarter ended October 31, 2009. For the fiscal year 2009, Ciena had a net loss of $(581.2) million, or $(6.37) per common share. Ciena's GAAP net loss for the fiscal year 2009 includes a non-cash charge...

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Obopay Launches "Send Money" iPhone App

Obopay, a start-up based in Redwood City, California, released a free Mobile Payments application for the iPhone that lets users to send money to anyone with a U.S. phone number. The recipient can receive money free of charge, but must set up a bank account to automatically deposit the funds. The cost of sending money starts at $0.25 per transaction.Obopay leverages Apple's iPhone OS platform and alerting capabilities to let senders know that their...

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DISH Reaches its 4 Millionth Satellite TV Customer

DISH Network has passed the 14 million customer milestone. In Q3, DISH added more net subscribers than any company in the multichannel video distribution business. http://www.dishnetwork....

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EXFO Releases GigE Test Interface for VoIP/IMS Networks

EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering released an MCM Gigabit Ethernet Interface test module for VoIP and IMS networks. A single module can emulate up to 256 000 unique IMS/VoIP subscribers and 64 000 voice/video streams while performing quality analysis on every stream in real time.The MCM Gigabit Ethernet Interface Series can be housed in EXFO's InterWatch R14 and QualityAssurer QA-604 platforms, and is backward-compatible with existing software options. With the MCM Gigabit Ethernet Interface Series, a single 2U QA-604 platform can support 512 000...

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AT&T Wins $120-Million Contract Extension with Post Office

AT&T Government Solutions has been awarded a $120-million contract extension to support U. S. Postal Service facilities across the country. Under the four-year deal, AT&T will provide Managed Network Services such as IP address management, design and engineering, onsite installation, router, firewall, and Interactive Voice Response. The AT&T global MPLS-enabled network will continue to serve as the backbone. AT&T also provides BlackBerry...

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The Economic Times: BSNL Cancels Huge Order with Huawei

India's Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has canceled an equipment purchase order with Huawei Technologies covering 20 million GSM lines, according to a post from The Economic Times of India. The report cites a dispute concerning conditions of the contract. BSNL reportedly may solicit new bids for up to 93 million GSM lin...

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Microsoft Licenses its exFAT Flash Memory Technology

Microsoft has begun licensing its Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) technology, a new file system that delivers a significant leap forward in terms of the size of files that can be stored on a broad range of consumer electronic devices, and the speed with which they can be accessed. exFAT is an updated version of the FAT system. In specific terms, the exFAT file system does the following:Enables future growth in media capacities, increasing support from 32 GB up to 256 TBHandles more than 4,000 RAW images, 100 high-definition (HD) movies,...

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Juniper Interview: A Vision for the New Network

An interview with Kim Perdikou, Executive VP and GM, Infrastructure Products Group, Juniper Networkshttp://www.juniper....

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