DragonWave Supplies WiMAX Backhaul for Greece's Cosmoline

Cosmoline has selected DragonWave as its exclusive backhaul provider for a national 4G mobile WiMAX network across Greece. DragonWave's Horizon Compact and Horizon Quantum will deliver native-Ethernet backhaul across approximately 1,000 wireless links. Cosmoline, which holds a 3.5 GHz Band Fixed Wireless Access License covering all Greek territory, plans to migrate about 130,000 customers of traditional leased-line offerings to next-generation fixed...

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EXFO Enhances OTN Test Capabilities

EXFO has added new OTN testing capabilities to its Transport Blazer and Power Blazer product lines. The new capabilities support the OTU1f and OTU2f test interfaces which specifically target the transport of Fibre Channel services over OTN. In addition, as the performance of Fibre Channel is very sensitive to network latency, this new software release also offers service providers the ability to measure round-trip delay on OTN circuits. http://www.EXFO.comhttp...

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Harris Plans New Radio Manufacturing Facility in New York

Harris plans to develop a new state-of-the-art manufacturing and logistics facility in Henrietta, New York for the production of tactical and public safety radio systems by its RF Communications business. The plans call for the purchase of a 573,000-square-foot building from Xerox Corporation. A subsequent, total renovation will allow Harris to consolidate its manufacturing operations into a single site, improving efficiency.Harris RF Communications supplies secure radio communications and embedded high-grade encryption solutions for military,...

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CENX Carrier Ethernet Exchange Grows to 5M Accessible Locations

CENX, which operates a series of Carrier Ethernet exchanges, announced a new milestone in the development of Carrier Ethernet interconnection with the aggregate of over five million Carrier Ethernet Locations to be accessible through CENX Exchanges. Moreover, based on its sharp customer ramp, CENX expects the number locations to be accessible via CENX exchanges to double by the end of the 2nd quarter, topping 10 million locations."CENX has established...

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Deutsche Telekom Selects NetCracker to Drive Automation

Deutsche Telekom has chosen NetCracker's Service Inventory, Service Provisioning & Activation, Resource Inventory, and Discovery & Reconciliation modules to automate the fulfillment of fixed network-based Broadband Internet connections as well as next-generation IMS-based multimedia services and to manage their IMS-based infrastructure. Financial terms were not disclosed. NetCracker is a subsidiary of NEC.NetCracker's solutions and services...

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Cortina Debuts 2nd Gen Electronic Dispersion Compensation Device

Cortina Systems, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, has begun shipping its second generation 10GE Electronic Dispersion Compensation (EDC) device. The CS4315 EDC functionality supports two full duplex 10G links. Both transmit and receive paths include Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) circuits. The CS4315 EDC has a wide operating frequency range covering 1GbE, 1G FC, 2G FC, 4G FC, 8G FC, SONET (9.5 -- 11.3G), and 10GbE.Applications include 10G...

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Sprint Signs Four MVNO Partners

Sprint announced four Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) partners: Long Distance Consolidated Billing Company (LDCB), NPG Cable, Call One and Baja Broadband. Sprint's turnkey wholesale service provides the back-office solution for companies interested in offering wireless services under their own brand. These post-paid wireless services operate on the Sprint network but with private label of the MVNO partner.Sprint's new solution allows the...

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NOAA to Implement Luxtera's 40G Active Cabling in Data Center

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) selected Luxtera's "Blazer" 40G Active Optical Cable (AOC) to interconnect its multi-room data center, which is used to build environmental simulation models as well as predict short-term weather and climate forecasts. The AOC provides various interconnects within the data center at a much lower cost and longer reach than traditional multimode fiber VCSEL interconnects. Luxtera's Silicon...

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AirWalk Develops LTE Picocell with Mindspeed and Aricent

AirWalk Communications, which offers IP-based CDMA cellular radio network equipment, announced its first LTE picocell. The product was developed in collaboration with Mindspeed Technologies and Aricent. A proof-of-concept will be demonstrated at next week's CTIA Wireless 2010 conference in Las Vegas.The LTE picocell incorporates Mindspeed's Transcede wireless baseband processor and associated components. It combines the latest RISC processor technology...

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Avago Wins ITC Ruling in Parallel Fiber Optics Case

The International Trade Commission issued the Initial Determination in favor of Avago Technologies and uploading its patents in parallel fiber optics. The ruling, issued on 12-March-2010, found that Emcore Corporation infringes Avago's intellectual property by importing and selling certain optoelectronics products used in optical communication systems. The case involves Avago's U.S. Patent Numbers 5,359,447 and 5,761,229. http://www.avagotech....

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FCC Delivers it National Broadband Plan

James E. CarrollEditor-in-ChiefThe FCC delivered its National Broadband Plan to Congress, setting in motion the most significant reforms to the nation's telecommunications market in the broadband era. The plan was mandated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009 and produced by an FCC task force. The full plan will be released to the public on Tuesday.The National Broadband Plan seeks to influence the broadband ecosystem in...

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AT&T Looks to Quick Messaging Devices

AT&T is looking to a fresh line-up of lower cost Quick Messaging devices to bring smartphone-like experiences to a wider mass-market. AT&T's new line-up adds four new Quick Messaging Devices from Samsung and Pantech with enhanced messaging, video and photo sharing, and contacts management."Quick Messaging Devices are very important for us - it's a category that we defined for the industry and that we continue to lead in value, quality and...

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Australia's NBN Opens Proof-of-Concept Test Centre

The Australian government's National Broadband Network took another step forward with the opening of a Proof-of-Concept Test Centre in Tasmania and the announcement of the first retail service providers which will offer high speed broadband in Tasmania. The Test Centre will provide retail service providers with access to a live environment to test their services as part of the roll out of the National Broadband Network.The NBN will be an open access...

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Ruckus Wireless Introduces Sub-$500 Enterprise-class 802.11n AP

Ruckus Wireless introduced its new "ZoneFlex" 7300 series of midrange access points -- an enterprise-class 802.11n access point that includes both single-band (7343) and dual band (7363) products, priced at US $499 and $599 respectively. The single-band version offer maximum 802.11n capacity of 300Mbps, while the dual-band offers 600 Mbps. Both versions integrate the company's BeamFlex technology, a patented software-controlled multi-antenna array...

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