Motorola Invests in Zenverge for Transcoding Chips

Motorola has made an equity investment in Zenverge, a start-up developing advanced media integrated circuits (ICs). Financial terms were not disclosed. Zenverge's media ICs support transcoding, decoding and encoding of multiple formats at up to four times HD performance or for up to four simultaneous HD streams. Zenverge ICs are being incorporated into HDTVs, Blu-ray/DVD players and recorders, set-tops, media gateways, portable device adapters,...

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BT Lands $370 Million UK Govt Contract

BT was awarded a three-year contract extension with The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), worth a minimum of $370 million, to provide voice, data network and contact centre solutions to the UK government department. The deal builds on the existing contract between the DWP and BT Global Services, which has seen the networked IT services company help transform the department's voice and data networks by installing an IP network and telephony...

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Oracle Acquires Convergin for Real-time Service Brokering

Oracle has agreed to acquire Convergin, an Israeli start-up specializing in real-time service brokering solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed.Convergin offers a J2EE-based Service Broker platform that enables communications service providers (CSPs) to manage services for a wide range of networks and application platforms, including pre-paid charging. The solution can be used for migrating pre-paid voice from IN- to IP-based networks. ...

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LSI Announces Next-Gen Processor for Wireless Backhaul

LSI Corporation unveiled its next-generation link communication processor (LCP) for multiservice applicationssuch as wireline access network, 2.5G/3G and 4G/LTE wireless access, and pseudowire emulation (PWE) applications. The new LCP is a significant addition to the LSI(TM) family of multiservice processors and a key part of the LSI asymmetric multicore processor portfolio that enables any-to-any communications in wireless infrastructure.It supports...

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ARRIS Posts $300 Million in Q4 Revenue

ARRIS reported preliminary Q4 2009 revenues of $300.0 million, compared to third quarter 2009 revenues of $275.8 million and fourth quarter 2008 revenues of $292.4 million. Full year 2009 and 2008 revenues were $1,107.8 million and $1,144.6 million, respectively.GAAP net income for the fourth quarter 2009 was $0.26 per diluted share, as compared to the third quarter 2009 of $0.17 per diluted share, and the fourth quarter 2008 loss of $(1.33) per...

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Lantiq Expands DECT and CAT-iq Silicon Products

Lantiq announced major additions to its DECT/CAT-iq portfolio, including the introduction of an end-to-end CAT-iq 2.0 home gateway and handset system, as well as Korean DECT gateway and handset silicon products.Lantiq said the introduction of the first CAT-iq 2.0-capable handsets and home gateways is a major milestone for carriers and vendors alike. It signals the official introduction of wideband-capable CAT-iq systems. This is the inflexion point...

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Juniper Creates Junos Ready Software Group

Juniper Networks has formed a new business group called Junos Ready Software dedicated to creating and delivering an ecosystem of software and applications built on the Junos platform for Service Providers. The Junos Ready Software group will deliver Juniper and partner-built applications, all running on the Junos platform. It will include the following specific operating components:Project Falcon - Disclosed in October 2009, this program is focused...

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Facebook Mobile Passes 100 Million Milestone

The Facebook Mobile app now has over 100 million users. The milestone was passed only six months after the company announced that it reached 65 million users for its mobile app.Facebook said it is working with every major device manufacturer and many operators around the globe to ensure the best possible mobile experience.Some recent developments:Facebook mobile sites m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com have been redesigned, enabling people to...

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AT&T Selects Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent for LTE RAN

AT&T has selected Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson as the primary suppliers of radio access equipment for its planned rollout of LTE beginning in 2011. AT&T's first LTE field trials are planned for later this year. The multi-year agreement covers radio access network equipment needed to deliver LTE service.This equipment will be deployed at cell sites across AT&T's network to enable LTE speeds and functionality. Financial terms of the supplier...

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Google to Rollout Gigabit FTTH in Test Markets

Google announced plans to rollout an "experimental" fiber-to-the-home network in test markets across the United States. Specifically, Google plans to offer a 1 Gbps home service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people. The locations of these deployments have not been disclosed.The company said its goal with the experimental service would be to test: Next generation apps: to see what developers and users can...

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GSMA: HSPA Connections Pass 200 Million

Global HSPA connections have passed the 200 million milestone, according to the GSMA. HSPA connections have seen phenomenal growth in all markets since 2007, and this is set to continue in 2010 with the investment operators will make in Mobile Broadband technology. There are currently more than 1,800 HSPA enabled devices available from more than 150 suppliers. Across 123 countries, there are currently 294 commercially live networks, of which 183...

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