IDC: Strong Growth in Ethernet Switch and Router Sales in Q2

In the second quarter of 2010, the enterprise Ethernet switching business grew 32.7% compared to a year earlier and the Ethernet router market expanded 11.0% year-over-year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Networks Tracker. The strong performance was seen across all regions and key product segments. From a vendor perspective, Cisco's Ethernet switch market share increased to 65.8% in 2Q10 from...

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Vodafone Returns to Growth with Smartphones and Mobile Data

For the three months ended 30-June-2010, the Vodafone Group reported revenue increased by 4.8% to £11.3 billion and Group service revenue increased by 4.9% to £10.6 billion. On an organic basis, service revenue increased by 1.1% -- an improvement of 1.7 percentage points on the previous quarter -- as each of the regions delivered improved service revenue trends. "These are the first quarterly results to show service revenue growth since the global...

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T-Mobile's HSPA+ Network Operational in 50 Markets

T-Mobile USA announced that its HSPA+ network is now operational in 50 markets across the country and that the company is on track to deliver HSPA+ speeds in 100 major metropolitan areas with backhaul in place, covering 185 million people in the U.S. by the end of this year. In addition, 16 of T-Mobile's current 3G devices, including more than a dozen smartphones, can benefit from the HSPA+ network, including the newest smartphone available from...

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Video: Network Monitoring for 4G

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VSS Monitoring Targets 4G/LTE Monitoring

VSS Monitoring unveiled a new framework for monitoring traffic and services across 4G/LTE networks. Service providers have traditionally employed a flat architecture of probes and testers for monitoring their 2G and 3G network traffic locally. To handle more complex 4G networks, VSS Monitoring is developing a hierarchical framework capable of providing a network-wide view of traffic in real-time as well as packet-level visibility at any network node....

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Clearwire Expands 4G in 3 More Markets: Wash DC, Baltimore, Kansas City

Clearwire Communications launched its 4G service in parts of the Washington metro market with expanded coverage to surrounding areas expected in the months ahead. Within this central D.C. area, CLEAR covers nearly 1 million people in communities as far north as Chevy Chase and Silver Spring MD, south to Alexandria VA, west to Falls Church, VA, and east to College Park MD. Clearwire announced the launch of service in Kansas City, Kansas, and the...

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Qualcomm Debuts Dual-CPU Snapdragon Chip

Qualcomm has begun sampling its first dual-CPU Snapdragon chipsets designed for smartphones, tablets and smartbook devices. This represents Qualcomm's third generation in the Snapdragon series.The MSM8260 for HSPA+ and MSM8660 for multi-mode HSPA+/CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. B feature two enhanced CPU cores running at up to 1.2GHz for high levels of Web application and multimedia performance, including a powerful GPU with 3D/2D acceleration engines for Open GLES 2.0 and Open VG 1.1 acceleration, 1080p video encode/decode, dedicated low power audio engine,...

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Windstream Completes acquisition of Iowa Telecom

Windstream completed its acquisition of Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $1.2 billion.As of March 31, 2010, Iowa Telecom provided service to approximately 249,000 access lines, 96,000 high-speed Internet customers and 27,500 digital TV customers in Iowa and Minnesota. Windstream said the deal will provide it with increased scale and annual synergies of approximately $35 million in operating expenses...

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Internet Initiative Japan Acquires AT&T's Local Outsourcing Business

Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) has agreed to acquire AT&T's local network outsourcing service in Japan. Through this acquisition, IIJ will be providing WAN services to approximately 1,600 domestic corporate customers. IIJ's own client bases has over 6,500 corporate customers. Additionally, IIJ will also provide international services through business tie-up with AT&T Japan. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.iij.ad.jp/...

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Broadcom Announces 3x3 MIMO 802.11n

Broadcom introduced a single-chip 802.11n dual-band 3x3 wireless solution aimed at multimedia content distribution in their homes.The company said its BCM4331 Wi-Fi chip, which uses three transmitting and three receiving streams of data in either the 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz frequency bands, achieves 450 Mbps data rates in client devices and over 600Mbps throughput (TCP/IP) in 3x3 AP/router configurations. The BCM4331 is now sampling and will be demonstrated...

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European Commission: Telecom Markets More Competitive

EU telecoms markets have become more competitive, however a single EU telecoms market is still far from reality, according to a new report from the European Commission.The Commission's recently launched Digital Agenda for Europe calls for swift and consistent enforcement of existing telecoms rules and indicates that the Commission intends to propose appropriate steps to reduce the cost of the absence of a Single Market in telecoms services. Problems...

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HP Targets New Era in Enterprise Services

Following on from its acquisition of EDS, HP announced a restructuring to align itself with the "New Era in Enterprise Services." Plans call for investing in fully automated, standardized, state-of-the-art commercial data centers built on its Converged Infrastructure and operated by its industry-leading management software. HP will consolidate dozens of data centers into perhaps half a dozen super centers. The company will also eliminate up to...

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Whitepaper: Network Monitoring 2.0

Whitepaper: Network Monitoring 2.0 The journey toward a converged all-IP network comes with a whole new set of performance and management philosophies toward which IT organizations must adopt and evolve. Real-time monitoring, troubleshooting and provisioning of the network must be implemented strategically and methodically, as they are driven by the need to maintain and manage the experience of the end user. In...

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Alcatel-Lucent Supplies CDMA/EV-DO Rev. B to China Telecom

Alcatel-Lucent has been selected as the sole equipment provider for China Telecom's CDMA/EV-DO Rev. B network at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Alcatel-Lucent's solution, which has been installed in the United States Pavilion, enables China Telecom to boost its mobile broadband network speeds by up to three times. The installation follows an earlier trial of the multi-carrier Rev. B technology with China Telecom in three districts of Shanghai. The...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Appoints Dr. Moiin as CTO

Nokia Siemens Networks has appointed Dr. Hossein Moiin as its chief technology officer. Moiin is currently responsible for mobile technology and architecture at BT. Prior to working for BT, Moiin held positions with T-Mobile including group vice president for Technical Strategy and chief architect. Moiin was also chief technologist for the Network Service Provider Group at Sun Microsystems where he spent several years in a variety of management...

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ZTE Completes TD-LTE S1/X2 Interface Conformity Test

ZTE and China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MII) completed the first S1/X2 Interface Conformity test for TD-LTE.<>Within LTE network infrastructure, the S1 interface is the communications interface between LTE eNB (base station) and EPC (packet core network), while the X2 interfaces between eNB and eNB. ZTE said the success of the S1/X2 Interface Conformity test validates that its TD-LTE system, including its wireless and...

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Telehouse Opens Flagship Facility in London's Docklands

Telehouse inaugurated its flagship Telehouse West data centre in London's Docklands. The opening event was hosted by BBC breakfast's Bill Turnbull, with speeches from: Mr Mitsui, Managing Director, Telehouse Europe; Mr Ishikawa, Vice President, KDDI; Mr. Hiroshi Oka, Minister of the Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom; and Mike Harris, co-founder, Egg plc. Telehouse was delighted to welcome key customers, including Ioka, Daiwa Capital Markets,...

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Juniper Research: Mobile VoIP users to exceed 100 million by 2012

Mobile VoIP services will develop significantly faster in developed markets due to the direct correlation between 3G roll outs and the take up of mobile VoIP, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The consultancy predicts that revenues from the circuit switched voice market will continue to diminish over the next five years, although this will not accelerate. Juniper Research advises that alliances between mobile VoIP players and traditional operators may provide the best option for today's incumbent operators to address the advent...

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SMC Networks Appoints Todd Babic as President

SMC Networks has promoted Todd Babic to the position of President of SMC Networks, effective immediately. Babic has served SMC since 2002, and spent the last two years as Vice President of Sales, Broadband Business Development for North America. In his new role, Babic will be responsible for aligning SMC's resources, internally and externally, to achieve the company's strategic vision and will have day-to-day responsibility for directing and managing sales, engineering, and product management. SMC Networks now focuses on supplying Customer Premise...

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China's Nebulae Ranks as No. 2 Supercomputer

China's Nebulae, a new supercomputer based on a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel X5650 processors and NVidia Tesla C2050 GPUs, has achieved 1.271 PFlop/s running the Linpack benchmark, which puts it in the No. 2 spoton the TOP500 list of supercomputers worldwide. The leading spot is retained by Jaguar, which is located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and which retains a record 1.75 petaflop/s performance...

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CyberSecurity Survey

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Union Ratifies Contract for AT&T Mobility Southeast

AT&T Mobility announced that wireless employees in its Southeast Region (CWA District 3) have voted to ratify a four-year agreement with the Communications Workers of America. The agreement covers about 11,200 CWA members in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. http://www.att....

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Intel's 22nm "Knights Corner" CPU to Scale to 50 Cores

Intel unveiled plans for new supercomputing silicon based on a Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture that will create platforms running at trillions of calculations per second while retaining the benefits of standard Intel processors.The first product, codenamed "Knights Corner," will be made on Intel's 22-nanometer manufacturing (nm) process and will use Moore's Law to scale to more than 50 Intel processing cores on a single chip. The CPU is...

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GENBAND Completes Acquisition of Nortel's Carrier VoIP Division

GENBAND completed its acquisition of substantially all assets of the Nortel Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions Business (CVAS). The deal combines GENBAND's next-generation media, session and security gateway technologies and Nortel's softswitch, media gateway and application technologies. The combined company will have products deployed with over two-thirds of the world's top 100 service providers and will cover broad markets including fixed,...

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Skype's iPhone App Runs over 3G

Skype released a new version of its iPhone application that enable calling using the 3G connection. Skype-to-Skype calls are free until the end of 2010, after which the company plans to introduced a monthly fee. Pricing details have not been disclosed. Operator data charges still apply.Skype said is able to achieve near CD-quality sound for Skype-to-Skype calls over 3G using the iPhone because it leverages a wideband audio (SILK) codec. This is...

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NSN and Partners Test Smart Grid in Helsinki

Helsingin Energia - a public utility of the City of Helsinki, ABB - and Nokia Siemens Networks will jointly develop, test and install a smart grid in the new Kalasatama district of Helsinki. The project will create sustainable, high efficiency electric power distribution and services based on modern communication, information and energy technologies. The consortium partners envision a smart grid based on industry-wide standards supporting a stable,...

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Avaya to Sell Stake in AGC Networks to Essar

Avaya has agree to sell its approximate 59% ownership interest in AGC Networks Ltd. (formerly Avaya GlobalConnect) to affiliates of the Essar Group for approximately US$44.5 million.AGC Networks, established in 1986, is a converged communication solutions provider focused on the India and Australia markets. The Essar Group is a multinational conglomerate spanning steel, oil & gas, power, communications, shipping ports & logistics, construction and minerals. Its communications group is focused on the customer care and acquisition market...

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TD-LTE Call Completed from Shanghai to Taipei

A high resolution live video call has been completed between TD-LTE devices connected to separate TD.-LTE networks. The call occurred between China Mobile's pre-commercial TD-LTE network for the Shanghai World Expo and National Chiao Tung University's (NCTU) TD-LTE trial network in Taipei, set up by Nokia Siemens Networks. The company provided all the necessary TD-LTE equipment including core network and multiple base stations, along with the corresponding...

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Verizon Wireless Sees LTE Changing Usage and Pricing Patterns

Pricing structure is one of the ways that LTE will change the mobile broadband game, said Lowell McAdam, Verizon Communications - EVP, President and CEO Verizon Wireless, speaking at the Barclay Capital conference this week.The 700 MHz C-Block spectrum will prove to a strategic advantage for the company, said McAdam, especially since it will not have to piece together different bands for different markets across the country. Verizon Wireless has...

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ACCESS and OKI ACCESS Offer VoIP Solution for Smartphones

ACCESS CO. and OKI ACCESS Technologies Co. introduced an IMS-based VoIP solution for mobile operators, ISPs and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs). The NetFront IP-Phone system provides both 3G and WiFi air interfaces, and it supports all three major smartphone operating systems: iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile. The solution, which will be available from ACCESS worldwide as of June 2010, uses a "NetFront IMS Client" to enable the smartphone...

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Juniper's SSL VPN Gains Military Certification

Juniper Networks' SA Series SSL VPN (Secured Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network) appliances have been tested and certified by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) for interoperability with Defense Department Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) requirements. JITC interoperability testing and certification are required by the U.S. Department of Defense for all IT equipment that attaches to U.S....

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Infonetics: Telco CAPEX to Bottom-Out this Year

Despite the economic crisis, telecom service providers reduced their capital expenditures by only 5.9% worldwide in 2009, according to a new report from Infonetics Research. Two reasons are cited for the relatively modest decline: "service providers are operating with clean balance sheets, having learned that lesson from the great telecom crash, and the demand for broadband today is very real indeed." Infonetics expects that telco CAPEX will bottom-out...

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DISH First to Offer Local Broadcast Channels in All 210 Local Markets

Next week, DISH Network plans to launch local channels in 29 new markets across the U.S., becoming the first and only pay-TV provider to offer local channels to consumers in every market nationwide. The announcement coincides with the signing of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 (STELA) by President Obama, which paved the way for DISH Network to take this historic step. http://www.dishnetwork....

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Fujitsu Develops Super Hi-Vision Encoder for NHK

Fujitsu has developed codec equipment for systems transmitting Super Hi-Vision (SHV) video, with resolution 16 times higher than Japan's current Full Hi-Vision video. SHV offers a resolution of 7,680 x 4,320 pixels. This compares to 1,920 x 1,080 pixels for 1080p HD.The new codec equipment was delivered as a prototype to NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories. The codec equipment utilizes the H.264 encoding format and can efficiently...

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Huawei Supplies Video Interworking Gateway for Beijing Unicom

Beijing Unicom, a subsidiary of China Unicom, has deployed an integrated solution from Huawei for providing multi-media video communications between mobile callers and traditional fixed-line customers using a VIG (video interworking gateway). The solution uses Huawei' s mobile softswitch and allows multi-media video interworking between fixed and 3G mobile networks.Huawei said its integrated VIG solution simplifies operation and maintenance for...

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Eutelsat Focuses Four Satellites on 2010 FIFA World Cup

Eutelsat Communications has four satellites ready for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Eutelsat's W2A, W3A, W4 and W7 satellites will provide high-power capacity over Africa, Europe and the Middle East.The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) will reinforce its existing permanent capacity on Eutelsat satellites with two extra 72 MHz transponders booked on the W2A satellite. This satellite will enable the games, summary reports and highlights of the championship...

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PMC-Sierra Releases Pluggable GPON ONT Design

PMC-Sierra introduced a pluggable GPON Optical Network Terminal (ONT) reference design that can connect any Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) equipped with a standard Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) port to a high-speed Passive Optical Network. The low-power, plug-and-play ONT allows carriers and system vendors to upgrade existing service-oriented home and small/medium business equipment, including gateways, routers, and integrated access devices,...

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Vietnam's VTN Deploys ADVA for Managed Wavelength Services

Vietnam's largest telecommunications carrier, Vietnam Telecoms National (VTN), has deployed ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000 to provide managed Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) connectivity services to enterprises across the country. The VTN network traverses the entire length and width of Vietnam, boasting a network of 1,000 customers across more than 3,000 kilometers. Major financial institutions in Vietnam are using the managed WDM...

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Infonetics: Cisco's Q1 Boost in IP Core and Edge Router

Cisco's service provider IP core and edge router revenue rose by 6% in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the previous quarter, and up 33% compared to the first quarter of 2009, according to a new report from Infonetics Research. Meanwhile, other vendors reported declines in Q1 due to supply constraints.Some highlights: Combined worldwide revenue from service provider IP edge routers, IP core routers, carrier Ethernet switches, and multiservice...

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TeliaSonera Carries 127 Gbps Single Wavelength over 1,700km

TeliaSonera, in partnership with Opnext, demonstrated a single wavelength, real-time coherent 127G PM-QPSK (Polarization Multiplexed Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) modem running over a 1,700km span. The trial conducted over a long haul link with 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps mixed traffic ran from Uppsala, Sweden to Olofström, Sweden and back for a total distance of 1700km and represents the longest un-regenerated real-time test to date. The TeliaSonera...

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ClariPhy Raises $24 Million for its 10/40/100G ICs

ClariPhy Communications, a start-up based in Irvine, California with engineering in Argentina, has raised $24 million in series C funding for its high speed communications ICs. ClariPhy's portfolio includes mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for 10, 40 and 100 Gbps optical networking and communication applications. ClariPhy plans to use the funding to deliver a new class of single chip MXSP ICs that significantly increase an optical network's reach and tolerance to impairments (such as chromatic dispersion, polarization mode dispersion...

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Level 3 Teams with GlobeNet

Level 3 Communications has formed a partnership with GlobeNet, an international provider of submarine cable transmission capacity, to offer transport and high-speed Internet services between North and South America. Through the relationship, Level 3 will be able to offer its high-speed Internet protocol (HSIP) services packaged with GlobeNet's sub-sea cable capacity on routes between South America and North America. GlobeNet will be able to offer...

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NetApp Posts Revenue of $1.17 Billion

NetApp reported quarterly revenue of $1.17 billion compared to revenues of $880 million for the same period one year ago. GAAP net income was $145 million, or $.40 per share compared to GAAP net income of $68 million, or $0.21 per share for the same period in the prior year. NetApp estimates revenue for the coming quarter to be in the range of $1.10 billion to $1.14 billion."With 50% growth in product revenue this quarter, NetApp significantly outperformed the competition. With accelerating revenue growth every quarter, we culminated our fiscal...

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SiTime Builds Market in MEMS-based Timing

SiTime, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, has 85% share of the MEMS-based timing market, according to a recent report from Yole Développement, a leading MEMS technology consulting firm. The report also forecasted that the MEMS-based timing market will grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 80% from 2010 to 2015. SiTime's portfolio of MEMS-based silicon timing solutions include high performance differential and spread spectrum...

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Quantenna's 4x4 MIMO Wi-Fi Powers In-Home Video Distribution

Quantenna Communications introduced its third-generation Full-11n 4x4 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) chipset, enabling whole-home video distribution of multiple HD streams using 802.11n Wi-Fi. Quantenna's newest 802.11n Wi-Fi chipset breaks ground in several ways. First, the design has been optimized for volume production and the company estimates it is approaching the 3x3 MIMO price range. Device size has been cut in half and power consumption...

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Cortina Builds its Integrated Access Portfolio

Cortina Systems, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, has expanded its Integrated Access silicon portfolio with the addition of EPON ONU, GPON ONU, and OLT devices. Cortina Systems' CS8017/CS8210 ONUs are consolidated EPON/GPON ONU solutions with integrated VoIP processors and Ethernet switches. Cortina Systems' CS8022 OLT is the 2nd generation quad EPON OLT with integrated switch. The devices include a device driver, software applications,...

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Ookla Clocks Average Global Broadband Speed at 7.6 Mbps

The average global download speed is 7.6 Mbps, according to a newly release study from Ookla, the company that operates the popular speedtest.net bandwidth testing service. Ookla conducts more than one million speed and quality tests daily, primarily through its Speedtest.net and Pingtest.net sites, and has completed more than 1.5 billion tests to date. Using data from its servers, Ookla is able to capture specific broadband metrics than can be...

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Video: Ribbit's Voice Innovation Platform

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AT&T Hit with Nationwide U-Verse Voice Outage

AT&T's suffered a widespread outage of its U-Verse residential voice service beginning on Tuesday morning. Most of the service was restored on Tuesday afternoon. AT&T has approximately 1.15 million U-verse voice customers. http://www.att....

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Aricent's Broad Daylight Program Offers Design Expertise

Aricent introduced its Broad Daylight product development program created specifically for small and mid-sized telecommunications equipment manufacturers to hasten their entry into new telecom equipment markets such as LTE, Home Networking, Data Center Ethernet and Cloud Computing. Aricent's Broad DayLight offers technology consulting, product design, pre-packaged software frameworks and product development services for equipment manufacturers....

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AT&T Uses Wi-Fi to Boost Smartphone Coverage in Times Square

AT&T has launched a Wi-Fi hotzone in New York City's Times Square to provide an additional mobile broadband option in an area with consistently high 3G traffic and mobile data use. The company said it is considering deploying Wi-Fi in similar high-traffic sites across the country.The AT&T hotspot is installed in the north central part of Times Square, near 7th Avenue between 45th and 47th Street, and can be accessed by AT&T smartphone, 3G LaptopConnect and broadband customers using any Wi-Fi enabled device at no additional charge."With...

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Netflix Goes With Microsoft for PlayReady DRM

Netflix has selected Microsoft PlayReady technology and the Protected Interoperable File Format (PIFF) for use in new Netflix ready devices and applications. Netflix already uses the Microsoft technology for streaming on Windows-based PCs and Macs. The company expects the first Netflix ready devices beyond computers to incorporate Microsoft PlayReady as early as this summer.Microsoft PlayReady DRM can be applied to various forms of digital content, including videos, games and images, and a wide range of audio and video formats, including MPEG...

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Motorola Supplies HD-STB for KDDI's "au Hikari"

KDDI has deployed Motorola's HD IPTV set-top (model VIP2060 ) for its "au Hikari" service, which supports 1 Gbps fiber broadband connections. The Motorola VIP2060 is am IPTV set-top with a built-in 500 GB HDD to support DVR functionality. Its standard quad tuner enables users to watch and record IPTV programs provided by KDDI as well as terrestrial and satellite (BS/110CS) broadcast services via a connected external antenna, with support for both...

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Verizon Global Wholesale's VoIP minutes Grow 200%

Verizon Global Wholesale's VoIP minutes of use grew more than 200 percent in 2009, compared with the previous year. "Since we launched our VoIP portfolio 10 years ago, we've seen steady growth reflecting customer desire for reliable, cost-effective IP voice services," said Mike Millegan, president of Verizon Global Wholesale. "And, as this market grows, we continue to add new VoIP services while enhancing our existing portfolio."Verizon confirmed...

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Sprint Expands its Carrier Ethernet Footprint

Sprint has expanded its U.S. Ethernet footprint to Central and Northern New Jersey, Stockton, Calif., and Baltimore, Md., and has deepened its coverage in 10 U.S. markets. The carrier now offers Ethernet access in 28 markets nationwide and 35 countries globally. Sprint expects to further enhance and expand coverage in an additional 16 U.S. markets later this year.Sprint's Ethernet access solution connects from the customer's premises to the Sprint...

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IBM and Force10 Networks Extend Resale Agreement

Force10 Networks' ExaScale E-Series virtualized core switch/router will be integrated into IBM's iDataPlex servers and Intelligent Cluster. IBM will also provide support for the ExaScale switch/routers -- including implementation and technical support -- for enterprise customers worldwide. http://www.ibm.com http://www.force10networks....

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ASSIA's Optimization Software Garners 80% of U.S. DSL Lines

ASSIA, which supplies software for Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) of DSL networks, noted that it has now established sales with U.S. service providers representing 80% of the nation's DSL footprint. ASSIA's U.S. customers collectively provide DSL service to 27 million subscribers. "We are extremely pleased with our customer traction over the past year," said Dr. John Cioffi, Chairman and CEO of ASSIA. "DSL service providers are increasingly recognizing the significant value that ASSIA can bring to their DSL networks. ASSIA is very active in...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Publishes Wireless Access Energy Efficiency Rating

The measured power consumption of Nokia Siemens Networks' Flexi EDGE Base Station in a typical configuration, with three sectors and four carriers per sector, averages 978 watts in a basic mode of operation. With software energy saving features, high performance can be maintained but power consumption can be reduced to 833 watts. In some instances this can be further reduced to 562 watts with a reduced configuration of two, instead of four, carriers...

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BT Enhances Onevoice with its Ribbit Softswitching Platform

BT is enhancing its Onevoice unified communications service by opening up its network and integrating capabilities of its Ribbit platform.Ribbit, a Silicon Valley-based start-up that BT acquired in 2008, operates a softswitching infrastructure that ties advanced voice services into web applications.The integration with BT Onevoice connects the worlds of the web and traditional corporate voice networks, providing corporate users with a single direct...

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U.S. Congress Schedules Hearings on Update to Communications Act

U.S. Congressional leaders are calling for new legislation to update the nation's communications laws, particularly in wake the the recent court ruling that overturned the FCC's authority to regulate Comcast's network management practices. The initiative is supported by Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy...

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