China Unicom Connects with CENX in Los Angeles

China Unicom has established connections with CENX at its Carrier Ethernet exchange in Los Angeles. The connections with CENX's exchange in Los Angeles brings new business links between China Unicom's customers in more than 100 countries and is a driver for the buying and selling of services to and from China Unicom's network and the large number of existing CENX service provider members. http://www.cenx....

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Tyco Electronics Changes Name to TE Connectivity

Tyco Electronics Lwill be changing its name to TE Connectivity Ltd., subject to shareholder approval, next spring."We are changing the name of our company to better reflect the products and solutions that we provide to our customers," said Chief Executive Officer Tom Lynch. "In a world that is increasingly connected, we engineer a full range of connectivity solutions. From electronic connectors under the hood of a car, to fiber optic cables under the sea, to high-voltage connections in energy systems, our products protect and connect the flow of...

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BT Plans Trial of 1 Gbps FTTH

BT plans to conduct a technical trial of 1 Gbps fibre broadband speeds in Kesgrave, Suffolk and the inclusion of up to 40 rural market towns in the next phase of its FTTH deployment. The 1 Gbps trial will commence in early 2011 and will demonstrate the maximum speed capabilities of its Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) product. The trial will test the delivery of broadband speeds at 1 Gbps downstream and 400 Mbps upstream. BT said selected market towns...

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Level 3: Comcast Dispute Not About Peering

The dispute with Comcast is not primarily about Internet traffic peering but about the cable operator trying to defend its closed, cable TV distribution from online video alternatives, said Level 3 Communications in a statement released on Friday. Level 3 asserts that Comcast wants "to use its local access network dominance as leverage to force Level 3 to pay for traffic requested by Comcast customers that already pay Comcast for access to that...

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Alcatel-Lucent to Integrate CASSIS Trusted Service Manager for Mobile Wallets

Alcatel-Lucent will integrate CASSIS International's Trusted Service Manager (TSM) with its own mobile payment and marketing offering. The combination will enable mobile network operators (MNOs) to provide a secure mobile application warehouse for payment, ticketing, loyalty and other applications by allowing consumers to use their mobile phones as a wallet at the point of sale. The CASSIS Trusted Service Manager distributes, provisions and activates...

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Level 3 Adds 1.65 Tbps of CDN Capacity

Level 3 Communications added 1.65 Terabits per second (Tbps) of globally available capacity and five new network locations to its content delivery network (CDN) in Q3. The new facilities include Toronto, Montreal, Brussels, Munich and Hamburg. Level 3 said it has seen an uptick this year in event and steady-state demand from the media, entertainment and gaming industries. The company has seen traffic rise for its high-quality adaptive streaming...

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Tellabs Signs Russian Partner

Tellabs announced a partnership agreement with SITRONICS Information Technologies, one of the largest systems integrators in Eastern Europe and the CIS. SITRONICS Information Technologies is authorized to supply and provide services for installation and commissioning of Tellabs equipment. SITRONICS IT will focus on introducing a new line of Tellabs solutions for mobile communications. http://www.tellabs....

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ConteXtream Virtualizes and Optimizes Application Flows

ConteXtream, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California with R&D in Petach Tikva, Israel, unveiled a new platform that virtualizes how network operators connect subscribers to content and services.The goal is to leverage a cloud-based network virtualization framework to optimize every subscriber-application flow across wireline or wireless networks. Essentially, a network operator would leverage real-time awareness of subscribers and network...

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Verizon Appoints President of Global Business Unit

Verizon Communications appointed Bob Toohey as president-global enterprise. Toohey most recently served as senior vice president of global customer care and services for Verizon Business, responsible for customer service, delivery and ongoing management of the company's large-business, mid-tier, government, education and wholesale customers worldwide. Prior to that, he was the senior vice president of human resources and communications for Verizon Business. http://www.verizon....

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Overture Adds Carrier Ethernet Edge Platform

Overture Networks introduced its ISG 400 Carrier Ethernet edge platform -- a modular system aimed at simplifying the transition from traditional TDM infrastructure to an all-optical Ethernet network.Overture's ISG 400 supports a wide range of network interfaces for delivering Carrier Ethernet services over existing DS3 or SONET/SDH infrastructure/ It support hierarchical quality-of-service and up to eight classes of service for each Ethernet Virtual...

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Fulcrum Microsystems Debuts 10/40 Gbps Ethernet Switch Chips

Fulcrum Microsystems introduced its FocalPoint FM6000 series of fully integrated wire-speed 10G and 40G Ethernet switch chips. The new devices, which incorporate the company's Alta high-speed Ethernet switching architecture, feature a "FlexPipe" low-latency packet-processing pipeline, which can parse, modify and apply multiple rules to traffic at more than 1 Billion packets per second in a deterministic manner. Fulcrum's Alta switch architecture also features flexible 10G and 40G Ethernet port logic and third-generation RapidArray output-queued...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Introduces Smart GSM Functionality

Nokia Siemens Networks introduced new functionality that enables simultaneous voice and data calls over GSM for smart device users. The new GSM network functionality also allows operators to manage up to four times more GSM devices on the existing networks.The new functionality addresses the problem of signaling traffic generated by smart devices that automatically connect far more frequently to the network. Nokia Siemens Networks said its Smart...

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Swisscom Selects Motorola's VDSL2 Gateways

Motorola Mobility announced a contract to supply its VDSL2 gateways to Swisscom. The new Motorola 7600 Series of ultra-broadband VDSL2 gateways will be used to deliver advanced services including HD video, high-speed data and VoIP to its subscribers. The 7600 gateways are based on the latest VDSL2 technology with integrated ADSL2+ fallback, featuring an integrated high-performance network processor and DMT-based VDSL2 modem. The 7600 series gateways also provide the advanced routing, quality of service (QoS), and TR-069 remote management capabilities....

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Mindspeed Reports Revenu of %58 Million, up 29% YoY

Mindspeed reported quarterly revenues of $57.6 million for its fourth fiscal quarter. Excluding patent sales of $12.8 million, product revenues were $44.8 million and increased sequentially by 3.6 percent from product revenues of $43.3 million in the prior fiscal quarter and increased year-over-year by 29 percent from revenues of $34.7 million in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2009.Product revenues from communications convergence processing solutions, formerly known as multiservice access, contributed 43 percent of fiscal fourth quarter of 2010 product...

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Etisalat Tests 10G GPON with Huawei

Etisalat has completed a 10G GPON full-service test over its existing network using Huawei's 10G GPON solution. During this test, Etisalat & Huawei verified the co-existance of GPON and 10G GPON over the current OLT platform, passing all of the required tests for successful co-existence of GPON and 10G GPON in an established ODN. http://www.huawei....

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Global Crossing Acquires Genesis Networks

Global Crossing acquired Genesis Networks, a global video services provider, for approximately $27 million, including $15 million in connection with the repayment of existing debt.Genesis Networks, which was founded in 2001, specializes in broadcast video over IP and satellite solutions. Its purpose-built network stretches across 70 cities on five continents and links important international media centers through 225 on-net locations. Global...

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ZTE Completes First CDMA2000 1x Advanced Call

ZTE successfully completed the world's first CDMA2000 1x Advanced call based on CDMA2000 1x system. The call features a four-fold increase in voice capacity and follows the specifications of CDMA2000 1x Advanced technology published by Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2).The CDMA2000 1x Advanced technology incorporates multi-technologies such as the 4th Generation Vocoder (4GV), Interference Cancellation, Mobile Receive Diversity and Radio...

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Softbank Proposes Fiber Broadband Highway for Japan

Softbank's Masayoshi Son outlined a bold initiative to create a far reaching fiber strategy for Japan under which NTT's access network would be divested into a new company in which Softbank and other competitors would invest. The plan follows the model of Singapore, where a single network access provider deploys and operates a fiber access network while providing equal access to competing ISPs. Under the Softbank plan, FTTH would be deployed rapidly...

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NTT DATA to Acquire Keane for IT Services Business

NTT DATA CORPORATION has agreed to acquire Keane, a U.S.-based IT services firm, for an undisclosed sum. Keane is majority owned by Citigroup Venture Capital International Technology Holdings. Keane, which is based in Boston, provides a broad range of IT services related to custom application development and management, enterprise application services, infrastructure solutions, and business process outsourcing. The company has approximately 12,000...

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Hawaiian Telcom Exits Chapter 11, Reduces Debt by $850M

Hawaiian Telcom Communications completed its reorganization and has emerged from its Chapter 11 proceedings. Through its reorganization, Hawaiian Telcom has reduced its debt by over $850 million, or approximately 74 percent, and has emerged with $300 million of debt. The process began in December 2008."Thanks to the dedication of each of our employees statewide, the ongoing support of our customers and suppliers, and the cooperation of our lenders,...

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CLEAR 4G Goes Live in NYC

Clearwire officially launched its 4G service in New York City. http://www.clearwire....

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Verizon FiOS Begins 3D Films

Over the next two months, Verizon will launch 10 feature films in 3D. The 3D VOD movies are available to all FiOS TV customers across the country who have a 3D television set, 3D glasses and a high-definition set-top box. http://www.verizon....

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RADCOM Cites Expanded Rollouts in South Asia

RADCOM announced that a Tier 1 operator customer in South Asia is expanding their deployment of RADCOM equipment, adding 3G monitoring to their current implementation. The expansion will provide GPRS/UMTS mobile data services, including mobile broadband and smart phones. "We are very pleased that this operator has selected RADCOM to monitor its 3G network. We believe that by using Omni-Q, this operator will be able to improve its network performance for the various wireless broadband services it provides," said Yoram Sherman RADCOM's VP Sales...

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Telefónica O2 Employs NSN's Security-as-a-Service

Telefónica O2 has chosen to deploy Nokia Siemens Networks' security-as-a-service at a fixed monthly fee for its customers in the Czech Republic. Under the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks has integrated its security-as-a-service into Telefónica's operational support system/business support system (OSS/BSS) platforms. The security service is delivered to Telefónica O2's enterprise customers from the operator's secure, centralized, and continuously...

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Infinera Names Kambiz Hooshmand Board Chairman

Infinera appointed Kambiz Hooshmand as its new Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Hooshmand has more than two decades of experience in optical transport, routing, access, and related technologies. He was President and CEO of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation from 2005 to 2009. Before that, he held a number of senior positions at Cisco Systems Inc. including VP and General Manager of Cisco's Optical and Broadband Transport business unit.The company also named Infinera co-founder Dr. David Welch to the Board of Directors. Dr. David Welch...

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Hughes Gets Loan Guarantee for Ka-band "Jupiter" Satellite

BNP Paribas and Societe Generale have agreed to provide a $115 million loan guarantee to Hughes Network Systems for the launch of Jupiter, its next generation, high-throughput, Ka-band satellite. The loan is guaranteed by COFACE, the French Export Credit Agency, and Arianespace has been contracted by Hughes to launch Jupiter in the first half of 2012.http://www.hughes.comSwitching capacity aboard the next-generation Jupiter satellite is expected to be 100 Gbps -- ten times the current generation SPACEWAY 3 with 10 Gbps of capacity....

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GSA and DISA Award Satellite Contract to Hughes

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) selected Hughes Network Systems to provide commercial satellite communications under new a new contract created by the GSA and Defense Intelligence Systems Agency's (DISA) Future COMSATCOM Services Acquisition (FCSA) program. Under the terms of the contract (GS-35F-0907P), Hughes may provide government agencies within the continental United States with satellite-based Internet, voice, data, and video...

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Eutelsat Declares Newly Launched W3B Satellite a Total Loss

Eutelsat declared its new W3B satellite a total loss, after a propellant leak was detected on the satellite's propulsion subsystem. The W3B satellite was launched on October 28 by an Ariane rocket from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Initially, the launch was declared a success. Separation of the satellite from the launch vehicle took place 28 minutes after lift-off. Operations needed to circularise the new satellite's orbit, place...

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IBM Completes Acquisition of BLADE

IBM completed its previously announced acquisition of BLADE Network Technologies, a privately held company based in Santa Clara, CA. Financial details were not disclosed. BLADE will become part of IBM Systems and Technology Group. The company specializes in software and devices that route data and transactions to and from servers.BLADE provides blade server and top-of-rack switches, as well as software to virtualize and manage cloud computing and...

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NetLogic Posts Q3 Revenues of $100M. up 5% Sequentially

NetLogic Microsystems reported revenue for the third quarter of 2010 of $100.1 million, a 5.3% sequential increase from $95.0 million for the second quarter of 2010 and a 136% increase from $42.3 million for the third quarter of 2009. Net income (GAAP) was $5.2 million or $0.08 per diluted share, compared to a GAAP net loss of $3.9 million or $0.09 per diluted share for the third quarter of 2009. "We recently marked another significant milestone in our technology roadmap with the transition of our product portfolio of multi-core processing, knowledge-based...

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Alcatel-Lucent Announces Latest ISAM, Contract with Denmark's TDC

Alcatel-Lucent released its latest Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) offering support for both fiber and copper services through the same node. The ETSI-based 7302 ISAM and 7330 ISAM FTTN access nodes offer high-capacity GPON and point-to-point fiber capabilities, allowing service providers to offer a mix of access technologies. Alcatel-Lucent's new ISAM platform release also introduces an application enablement processor along with local...

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Michigan's Agri-Valley to Roll out 700 MHz LTE with NSN

Michigan-based Agri-Valley Communications, a rural internet service provider, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks for a regional rural LTE deployment using 700 MHz spectrum. The contract includes core and radio elements as well as network management and related services.Nokia Siemens Networks will supply its Flexi Multiradio Base Stations and Evolved Packet Core (EPC) using Flexi NS (Network Server) and Flexi NG (Network Gateway). It will also provide...

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Australia's NBNCo Picks NSN for Optical Gear

Australia's NBN Co. has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to supply optical data transmission infrastructure for the country's National Broadband Network. The initial purchase order with Nokia Siemens Networks will be for $10 million and include the acquisition of test laboratory equipment and systems to support early release sites. The potential value of the contract is up to AU$400 million over ten years.Under the scope of the frame agreement, Nokia...

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France Telecom Group Reaches 203.4 million Customer Lines

As of 30-September-2010, the France Telecom Group was serving 203.4 million customer lines, up 5.1% on a comparable basis compared to a year earlier. Revenues for the Group rose 1.1% in the third quarter of 2010 compared with the third quarter of 2009 -- following a 0.3% increase in the second quarter and 0.3% decrease in the first quarter. Including the effects of regulation, revenues fell 0.6% in the quarter on a comparable basis.Some highlights:Mobile...

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FCC Grants Build-out Extension to FiberTower

The FCC has granted an extension of time to FiberTower for on deadline for the build-out on 102 of its 24 GHz spectrum licenses. The deadline is postponed through June 1, 2012. FiberTower now plans to file renewal applications in mid-January 2011 referencing the build-out extension. FiberTower also has one additional 24 GHz license that does not expire until 2015.Previously, FiberTower's 39 GHz licenses with 2007 build-out deadlines and license...

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Motorola Posts its First Growth Quarter since Q4 2006

Motorola reported Q3 2010 sales of $4.9 billion , up 13 percent from the third quarter a year ago. Financial results related to the portion of the Company's Networks business expected to be acquired by Nokia Siemens Networks are reported as discontinued operations. GAAP net earnings in the third quarter of 2010 were $109 million, or $0.05 per share, compared to $12 million, or $0.01 per share, in the third quarter 2009. On a non-GAAP basis, including...

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China Telecom Reaches 83 Million Mobile Subscribers

China Telecom reported revenue of RMB 163 billion for the first nine months of 2010, up 5.4% for the year. The company reported continued growth in mobiles and broadband, but continued local line losses and churn in its Personal Handyphone System (PAS) subscribers.Facing the challenges from the intensified mobile substitution and churn of Personal Handyphone System(PAS) subscribers, the Group continued to record negative growth in its number of...

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Verizon Wireless Settles Data Charge Issue with FCC

Verizon Wireless and the FCC reached a settlement regarding "mystery fees" the company charged its customers over the last several years. The settlement includes a record $25 million payment to the U.S. Treasury and refunds amounting to a minimum of $52.8 million to approximately 15 million customers. Verizon Wireless will also ensure that consumers are no longer charged the mystery fees for unwanted or inadvertent data sessions.Verizon Wireless said that the single largest problem, involving the vast majority of credits, was caused by a very...

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GSMA Video: TD-LTE vs. Mobile WiMAX

Presented by Jaikishan Rajaraman, Senior Director, GSMAhttp://www.gsma....

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LSI and IP Infusion Team on Mobile Backhaul and Carrier Ethernet

IP Infusion has collaborated with LSI to develop an advanced carrier-grade solution for mobile backhaul and Carrier Ethernet. The solution combines LSI's multicore communications processors and IP Infusion's ZebOS Network Platform and is standards-compliant and pre-tested for interoperability. http://www.infusion....

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Cisco Ships its 30 Millionth IP Phone

Cisco recently shipped its 30 millionth IP phone to one of the world's largest financial institutions -- HSBC. The company released its first IP phone 12 years ago. http://www.cisco....

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Portugal Telecom Tests 10G GPON with Alcatel-Lucent

Portugal Telecom will conduct a trial of symmetrical 10 Gbps GPON technology in conjunction with Alcatel-Lucent. The 10G GPON technology will be able to co-exist with standard GPON on the same access network - meaning that the existing optical fibre outside plant is not impacted when the massive usage of the technology occurs. "Portugal Telecom has been leading systematically in services and technology innovation, strongly investing in fiber-to-the-home...

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The Carlyle Group to Privatize CommScope

The Carlyle Group has agree to acquire all of the outstanding shares of CommScope for $31.50 per share in cash -- a transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion. The deal will result in CommScope becoming a private company. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2011.CommScope, which includes brands such as Andrew, SYSTIMAX and Uniprise, offers a range of telecom infrastructure products. "As a private company, we believe...

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Verizon Business Integrates Carrier Ethernet into Managed Services Portfolio

Verizon Business is adding Global Managed Ethernet to its Managed Services portfolio, enabling multinational organizations to place Verizon Ethernet services in a managed network environment containing just those services, or in combination with other network services for a complete end-to-end, global managed network solution.The new capabilities allow the combination of MPLS and Ethernet services in a fully-managed, end-to-end solution. Supported...

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Starbucks Expands Mobile Wallet Program in NY

Starbucks is expanding its Starbucks Card Mobile payment test to nearly 300 company-operated stores in New York City, and Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island. The Starbucks Card Mobile App for BlackBerry smartphones, iPhone and iPod touch devices enable customers to pay electronically. "Mobile technology is part of our customers' daily routine and with the expansion of mobile payment in our test cities, we're seeing more and more customers...

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ASSIA Secures $20.8 Million for Dynamic Spectrum Mgt

ASSIA, which supplies software for Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) of DSL networks, has secured $20.8 million in strategic investment financing. New investors Telefonica, AT&T, and Sandalwood Partners join current investors Mingly China Growth Fund, SFR Development, Sofinnova Partners, Stanford University, Swisscom Ventures, and T-Ventures. ASSIA previously announced an early close of $10 million in this financing round."ASSIA is pleased to...

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Sprint Adds 644,000 Total Wireless Subscribers

Sprint Nextel added 644,000 wireless subscribers in Q3, its best total company wireless subscriber net additions since 2006. This includes a positive net postpaid subscriber growth of 354,000 for the Sprint brand. The company cited growing demand for smartphones like Samsung Epic 4G and HTC EVO 4G.Sprint announced third quarter consolidated net operating revenues of almost $8.2 billion, a net loss of $911 million and a diluted loss per share of...

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ZTE Reports 7.5% Rise in Nine-Month Revenue

ZTE reported a 7.51% increase in operating revenue to US$6.87 billion for the nine months ended 30 September 2010. In the same period, net profit attributable to shareholders of the parent company grew 14.21% to US$203.1 million year-on-year. The company noted that revenue from terminal products grew by 30.53% due to China's expanding 3G market, the popularity of Android handsets in Europe and the U.S., as well as the data card products. http://www.zte.com.cnIn...

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Ciena Supplies 40G in VietNam

Vietnam Telecoms National (VTN) will deploy Ciena's coherent 40G optical networking solution to support growing capacity demands on its nationwide optical backbone. VTN, which is an exclusive state-owned subsidiary of Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT), is upgrading an existing network based on 10G links. Ciena said its 40G solution was selected because of its coherent and electronic dispersion compensation technology, which allows VTN to upgrade its existing 10G national backbone across country sites to 40G with the simple addition...

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du Implements GENBAND's IP Switching

du, the UAE's integrated telecom service provider, has expanded its next-generation fixed network with GENBAND's IP Switching solutions to offer more reliable and advanced Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communications. http://www.genband....

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MRV Announces 10 Gigabit, High Density Physical Layer Switch

MRV COMMUNICATIONS introduced a high-density 10 Gigabit physical layer switch that can be used to automate topology management in test labs and data center network monitoring applications. The High Speed Media Cross Connect (HS MCC) system fills the requirement for greater number of 10G ports in one system, by providing 144 simultaneous bi-directional, uni-directional or multipoint mappings. It uses a 10.7 Gbps switching matrix allowing 10 Gbps signals...

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Sierra Wireless Adds Automotive-grade Wireless Modules

Sierra Wireless introduced a suite of embedded wireless modules designed specifically for automotive manufacturers. The units, which could be used for in-vehicle wireless connections to enable telematics, navigation, and infotainment applications, are built to withstand extreme temperatures, thermal shocks, constant vibration, and humidity over many years. Sierra Wireless expects telematics, infotainment, navigation assistance and remote vehicle diagnostics to become standard features in new cars within the next few years, requiring reliable built-in...

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Broadcom Introduces DOCSIS EoC for EPON

Broadcom introduced a customized DOCSIS Ethernet over Coax (EoC) for Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) solution in support of China's Next Generation Broadcast (NGB) initiative. The highly integrated DOCSIS EoC for EPON solution that will allow Chinese cable operators to take advantage of the benefits of DOCSIS while providing an economical architecture for implementing triple play services to MDUs throughout the country. The Broadcom DOCSIS EoC for EPON solution is a family of products, includingCMC, DOCSIS 2.0 and 3.0 cable modem and...

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ECI Debuts Integrated OLT for GPON + Active Ethernet

ECI Telecom introduced its 1Net fiber access solution -- a next-generation integrated OLT (I-OLT) platform supporting GPON, active Ethernet (point-to-point), and full traffic aggregation capabilities -- all from a single chassis. The new I-OLT, which is a member of the company's Hi-FOCuS family, is being deployed by a number of operators including Openreach, part of the BT Group. ECI said its I-OLT allows operators to deploy any mix of FTTx architecture,...

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Juniper Extends Security to Mobile Devices

Juniper Networks is extending its security expertise from the network edge directly to mobile devices -- including all flavors of smartphones and tablets -- both for enterprise users and consumers. At a press event in San Francisco, company officials unveiled the Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite, which provides a number of tools for securing and managing smartphones against a wide range of threats.The software suite includes anti-virus, personal...

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Broadband Forum Rolls Out BroadbandSuite 3.2

The Broadband Forum released its BroadbandSuite 3.2, adding enhanced remote management capabilities for service providers who need to support advanced residential gateways and CPE. The new tools provide the ability to manage gateways in new ways, including downloading, installing and activating new software/applications. BroadbandSuite™3.2 provides enhanced CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP) and establishes a converged Device and Gateway Root Data...

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ADTRAN Targets "Ultra Broadband Ethernet"

ADTRAN outlined plans for an "Ultra Broadband Ethernet" architecture positioned as the next step in network access.This new Ethernet-based architecture and associated products will initially deliver a 100 Mbps symmetrical broadband service scaling to 1 Gbps with ultra-low power requirements and low latency characteristics. The strategy leverages bandwidth capacity gains achieved through vectoring and pair bonding techniques. The architecture enables...

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Cavium's NITROX III Packs 16-64 Cores for 40 Gbps Security

Cavium Networks unveiled its NITROX III family of security processors that integrate 16 to 64 purpose-built security RISC cores with high performance compression engines, virtualization hardware and a PCI-Express Gen 2 interface. The processors, which are aimed at secure and virtualized cloud computing and the borderless enterprise applications, deliver performance is up to 10 times greater than alternative multi-chip solutions within the same power...

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Verizon Expands its Infrastructure-as-a-Service to Europe, Asia-Pac

Verizon is expanding its Infrastructure-as-a-Service to wholesale customers in Europe and Asia-Pacific, on an individual-case basis. The service has been available to U.S. wholesale customers since June.Verizon's IaaS is a highly resilient on-demand infrastructure delivery platform that allows wholesale customers to quickly change resources in the quantity and duration necessary to meet changing business needs.A customer management portal enables...

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Cable&Wireless Opens Second NOC in India

Cable&Wireless Worldwide has inaugurated a new India Centre of Excellence (ICE) in Chennai. It will serve as the company's second Network Operating Center (NOC) in India. The first NOC is located in Bangalore and together these two centres will manage and support communication networks of over 6,500 enterprise and carrier customers across Asia, Europe and the Americas. This represents a 55% increase in C&W Worldwide's India operations' capacity to support the Company's customer base. http://www.cw....

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Verizon Tests 10 Gbps XG PON2 Technology on FiOS

Verizon has successfully tested pre-standard XG-PON2 technology capable of delivering a 10 Gbps connection both downstream and upstream. The tests were conducted at a customer's business in Taunton, Mass., using the same optical fiber that provides that business with its existing FiOS network connection. None of the FiOS TV connections were affected by the trial, and there was no impairment to the business customer's data service as the GPON and...

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NETGEAR's Q3 Revenue Rises 38% YoY

NETGEAR reported Q3 2010 net revenue of $236.0 million, compared to $171.1 million in the comparable prior year quarter, 38% year-over-year growth. Non-GAAP net income was $16.1 million, compared to net income of $11.0 million in the comparable prior year quarter. Patrick Lo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NETGEAR, commented, "For the third quarter of 2010, we are extremely pleased with our strong back-to-school performance in North America,...

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Broadcom's Revenue Jumps 44% from Prior Year

Broadcom reported record Q3 2010 net revenue of $1.806 billion, an increase of 12.6% compared with the $1.604 billion reported for the second quarter of 2010 and an increase of 44% compared with the $1.254 billion reported for the third quarter of 2009. Net income (GAAP) was $327 million, or $.60 per share (diluted)."Broadcom continues to execute exceptionally well with record revenue and earnings in the third quarter of 2010. I am particularly pleased...

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AT&T Wins $18 Million Telepresence Award From U.S. GSA

AT&T Government Solutions has been awarded a task order valued at up to $18 million by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to implement a Cisco TelePresence solution. AT&T will initially deploy 15 telepresence rooms at GSA office locations across the United States, creating a Managed Network Service (MNS) Telepresence. The telepresence rooms will be installed at the 11 GSA regional headquarters and 4 Washington, D.C. area locations,...

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Video: Next Gen Access - GPON or Active Ethernet?

Presented by Rafael Francis, ECI Telecomhttp://www.ecitele....

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ZTE Purchases $3 Billion from U.S. Silicon Vendors

ZTE signed purchase agreements valued at a total of US$3 billion over the next three years with five U.S. silicon vendors: QUALCOMM, Texas Instruments, Freescale Semiconductor, ALTERA and Broadcom. In the past, ZTE noted that it has paid over US$4 billion to U.S. vendors for intellectual property and hardware products."As a publicly traded and transparent company with more than 18.72% equity owned by European and American investors, we believe it...

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Sigma Designs Shows its G.hn Chipset

Sigma Designs unveiled its G.hn chipset for home entertainment. The device, which is expected to start sampling early next year, will enable home networks that can run up to 3 Gbps using any wire (coax, phone lines and power lines) that is available in the home. Sigma Designs notes that this level of in-home networking performance far exceeds the throughput of existing wireless technologies and is well-suited for media-rich applications, such as...

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Tellabs Debuts Ethernet Access Switches for Mobile Backhaul

Tellabs introduced two new Ethernet access switches aimed at providing backhaul for 4G and LTE networks. Both products complement the Tellabs 8600 managed edge system of MPLS-based multiservice solutions. Both switches will be integrated under the Tellabs® 8000 Intelligent Network Manager. Tellabs 8609 Access Switch -- a 1RU multiservice device with an enhanced switching and routing capacity of 10 Gbps. The compact Tellabs 8609 switch is designed...

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Ikanos' NodeScale Vectoring Delivers 100 Mbps Boost to DSL

Ikanos Communications introduced its "NodeScale Vectoring" technology for mitigating crosstalk in copper access network and thereby enabling 100 Mbps DSL performance and above on loops within typical distance ranges. Other impediments including AM radio signals, power lines, lightning and other atmospheric elements inject even more noise into the copper network.Ikanos' NodeScale Vectoring technology employs advanced algorithms and compression in...

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