Sprint to Install Juniper SRX Gateways to Secure Mobile Data

Sprint will purchase Juniper Networks' SRX Series Services Gateways to securely deliver mobile data services. The SRX5800 Services Gateways, equipped with multiple 1 Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections, will be deployed in core and distribution data centers throughout the United States. The SRX Series will also enable Sprint to employ additional network and security capabilities. Financial terms were not disclosed.


Juniper's SRX Series offers firewall, intrusion prevention system (IPS), denial of service (DoS), Network Address Translation (NAT), and quality of service (QoS) capabilities.
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Ericsson's Microwave Backhaul Tops 2.5Gbps

Ericsson announced a new speed record for high-speed microwave backhaul -- 2.5Gbps. The 2.5Gbps connection uses the new 70-80GHz frequency band (E-band) to transport high levels of data on the air. Ericsson will release its first product in the 70-80GHz frequency band supporting 1Gbps during 2010.


Ericsson estimates that more than 60 percent of radio base stations are backhauled using microwave.


Georges Antoun, head of IP and Broadband at Ericsson, says: "Microwave has been a key component when it comes to fast and cost-effective rollouts of mobile networks, and will continue to be just that when the capacities take off in the networks. We have now delivered more than 2 million MINI-LINKs around the globe and we see that microwave will remain as the solution for mobile backhaul as it provides the lowest total cost of ownership."http://www.ericsson.com

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Marvell Targets the $99 Smartphone

Marvell introduced its Pantheon new platform for smartphone manufacturers. The company is aiming to significantly lower the bill of materials for mobile devices to the $99 threshold.

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Orange Rolls Out SMS and MMS Advertising

Orange will begin rolling out interactive SMS and MMS advertising across its European footprint in 2010.


The carrier will make all its interactive mobile advertising strictly "opt-in" for customer. The user will be offered localized, relevant rewards to partcipate, such as exclusive content, film and games reviews, celebrity gossip, free texts, prizes and other benefits like up-to-date sports information. The rollout is already underway in the UK. It will now be extended to other markets.


"Orange is at the forefront of giving advertisers exactly what they need - direct, targeted dialogue with customers. Supported by our global ad-sales network and combined with our unique multi-screen reach, our new mobile ad-models go beyond display advertising to create more value for advertisers, create a richer experience for customers and maximise the use of our networks with clever innovation," stated Paul Francois Fournier, Executive vice president in charge of audience and advertising.
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Bouygues Telecom Picks ip.access of 2G Picocells

Bouygues Telecom has selected the ip.access to provide 2G picocells for its enterprise customers across France. The deployments will use the on-premises ip.access nanoGSM system. http://www.ipaccess.com

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Orange Commits to Mobile HD Voice in Europe This Year

Orange will accelerate its roll-out of mobile HD voice services in Europe. The carrier announced a commitment to deploy mobile HD voice in France, Spain and Luxembourg in 2010. It's first mobile HD voice market -- Moldova -- is already live and Orange has previously disclosed plans to implement the technology in the UK and Belgium in this year. A UK customer trial of mobile HD voice is expected to start from Spring and run for three months.


HD Voice uses the AMR-WB (Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband) speech codec. Orange said this codec, this provides excellent audio quality due to a wider speech bandwidth of 50-7000 Hz compared to the current narrowband speech codec of 300-3400 Hz.


"As far as Orange is concerned, voice is not just a commodity. With mobile HD voice, we are delivering true customer innovation - one that will genuinely enrich and transform our customers' lives. By being the first to innovate and deliver a new mobile voice experience, we provide a compelling and differentiated proposition which sets Orange apart. High-definition voice is the future standard for mobile communication," stated Olaf Swantee, senior executive vice president for Orange's global mobile business.


Orange plans to rapidly extend the range of HD voice-compatible mobile handsets across Europe. Pricing and handsets will be announced at the time of launch locally.
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• In September 2009, Orange became the world's first operator to commercially launch a mobile HD voice service in Moldova, announcing plans to bring mobile HD voice to the UK and Belgium in 2010. In addition to mobile HD voice, Orange was also the first operator to launch HD over VOIP, first in France and shortly to be rolled out to Poland and Spain.

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Singapore's M1 Completes 100 Mbps Data Call on LTE

Singapore's MobileOne (M1) completed a 100 Mbps data call on its Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial network. The first call was placed from the operator's flagship store, where the operator is trialing and showcasing applications over LTE together with its partner Nokia Siemens Networks. The demonstrations feature high-speed file sharing as well as HDTV over LTE.
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• In January, Nokia Siemens Networks announced a contract to upgrade M1's 2G network.

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Continuous Packet Connectivity (CPC) Promises Greater Energy Efficiency

Nokia Siemens Networks has completed the world's first call using "continuous packet connectivity" (CPC), a technology that once incorporated into an operator's HSPA+ radio access network could yield significantly longer battery life for smartphones. The CPC data call was made using network equipment from Nokia Siemens Networks and a device supplied by Qualcomm using the QSC6295 chipset.


Nokia Siemens Networks calculates that CPC can mean up to 100 percent longer battery life when devices are used for data applications, and up to 50 percent during voice calls. The company explains that during extended HSPA data sessions, there are typically long periods of idle time between transmissions of data packets, during which a device continues to use its battery. The CPC feature of 3GPP Release 7 uses the"discontinuous transmission and reception" method to shut down the device's transmitter and receiver during the idle phases to reduce power consumption. It has no effect on the actual data rates experienced by the end-user.


"With CPC, subscribers will enjoy an improved mobile data experience, while operators will benefit from enhanced network capacity -- even with heavy smartphone use -- due to less interference in the radio connection, not to mention higher revenues due to increased usage of the service," said Tommi Uitto, head of Network Systems product management at Nokia Siemens Networks.


"At Qualcomm, we are committed to driving the evolution of technology features that provide the maximum benefit to end-users," said Alex Katouzian, vice president of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies."The CPC feature further enhances the HSPA+ mobile broadband experience for end-users by allowing them to enjoy these services without worrying about device battery life."


Nokia Siemens Networks noted that its Flexi Base Station and radio network controller can support the CPC feature with a simple software upgrade. The company is the leader in driving Evolved HSPA, also known as HSPA+. In May 2009, Nokia Siemens Networks and Elisa Finland made the world's first circuit-switched call over HSPA, which allows operators to simplify and cost-effectively increase voice capacity of their 3G networks.
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NSN Pushes HSPA+ to 112 Mbps

Nokia Siemens Networks is demonstrating an HSPA+ data call with a peak throughput of 112 Mbps. The demonstration at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona uses four Flexi Multiradio Base Station radio transceivers, or "carriers", simultaneously for one data connection. The terminals are supplied by Qualcomm. A commercial version is expected by 2011.


Nokia Siemens Networks said multi-carrier technology enables better speeds, better use of base station resources, and higher spectrum efficiency. The four-carrier technology will be standardized in 3GPP Release 10. A base station feature that uses two carriers per data connection will be available from Nokia Siemens Networks already in the first half of this year.


Nokia Siemens Networks' Flexi Base Stations and radio network controller (RNC) can support four-carrier HSPA with a simple software upgrade. An HSPA+ network can theoretically support speeds of 28 Mbps or 42 Mbps with a single 5 MHz carrier.
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Juniper Offers SSL VPNs for Secure Smartphones

Juniper Networks introduced a security system that enables service providers to embed security throughout their infrastructure -- across mobile devices, applications and networks. Specifically, Juniper Mobile Secure leverages the company's SRX Series Services Gateways and Junos Pulse software to protect mobile data traffic.


Junos Pulse is a downloadable client software that uses SSL VPN technology to provide secure connections across smartphones, notebooks and netbooks to a broad range of corporate applications. The technology is both location-aware and identity-aware. Juniper plans to release Junos Pulse in Q2 2010 for popular mobile devices.


Juniper will also offer customers optional protection against malware from Internet security leader Webroot. Juniper will seamlessly integrate Webroot's detection engine into Junos Pulse for Windows to enable customers to restrict access to corporate data and applications when security threats are detected, and to automatically eradicate threats so that employees can stay connected and productive.


Junos Pulse works closely with the SRX Series Services Gateways to secure the carrier network at multiple points from malicious internet traffic, rogue devices and other carrier networks.


Juniper is also delivering large-scale role-based application policy enforcement with 'follow-me' user access policies. This combined solution allows companies to enable security services such as AppSecure and IPS at all locations which enhances mobile security at the network and application level -- detecting and stopping application misuse and sophisticated attacks before damage occurs to protect mobile data users and effectively preventing security breaches before they happen.


Juniper Mobile Secure also takes advantage of the Junos Space network application platform to manage security policies across mobile devices, applications and networks. Junos Space provides integrated threat and device management through a single central interface that ensures security correlation and manageability. Together, Junos Space and Junos Pulse extend intelligence across the network and to endpoint devices -- enabling fully programmable networks that can deliver a superior mix of experience and economics.
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Juniper's Project Falcon Optimizes 4G/LTE Edge

Juniper Networks unveiled key elements of its "Project Falcon" initiative to transform the edge of 4G/LTE networks by supporting more bandwidth, more services and more subscribers than ever before. Project Falcon leverages the Junos software platform and Juniper's MX 3D Series Universal Edge Routers, which are powered by a new generation of proprietary silicon with more than 1.5 billion transistors.


At Mobile World Congress, Juniper announced three elements of Project Falcon:

• Juniper Traffic Direct, which relieves bandwidth stress on current 2G/3G networks by offloading bulk data traffic directly to the Internet. This is done combining intelligent subscriber and application policies with MX 3D Series routing. Expected to be available in Q2 2010, Traffic Direct will help providers reduce network congestion, minimize impact on their mobile infrastructure, and lower their total cost of ownership.



• Juniper Media Flow, a caching solution developed by Ankeena Networks that optimizes mobile and fixed networks for fast, efficient video and rich media delivery. Media Flow software enables smooth adaptive bit streaming at the service edge of the networks. Expected to be available in Q2 2010, Media Flow will include a Juniper VXA Series content delivery engine and Ankeena software to provide video and content delivery up to 10Gbps per engine.



• Juniper Mobile Core Evolution
, an open and secure mobile packet core based on MX 3D Series routers and Junos software. Juniper said its packet core implementation will offer uncompromised scaling across bandwidth, subscribers and services, while enabling new capabilities via a Junos SDK. Juniper also promises strong built-in security features to protect subscribers from the vulnerabilities present in wireline IP networks. Juniper expects to begin trialing this solution for selected customer in Q4 2010.

"Mobile operators face a difficult challenge as they try to improve the mobile experience and deliver new services, while simultaneously reducing service delivery costs," said Stefan Dyckerhoff, executive VP and general manager of Juniper's Infrastructure Products Group. "With today's news, Juniper is fueling the mobile broadband evolution with groundbreaking technology and an open ecosystem that paves the way for cost-effective migration to 4G technologies. No one else can offer immediate TCO relief for mobile operators, while delivering unmatched 3D scale, built-in security, and open platforms to monetize new services."http://www.juniper.net
• In October 2009, Juniper Networks unveiled its "Junos One" family of processors that will be embedded into routing, switching and security products. The first product in the set is the "Junos Trio" chipset that features 3D Scaling technology that enables networks to scale dynamically for more bandwidth, subscribers and services while using half as much power per gigabit. Built in 65-nanometer technology, Junos Trio includes four chips with a total of 1.5 billion transistors and 320 simultaneous processes, yielding total router throughput up to 2.6 terabits per second and up to 2.3 million subscribers per rack. Junos Trio also incorporates significant power efficiency features to enable more environmentally conscious data center and service provider networks.

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