Telstra Plans LTE Trials with Ericsson, Huawei and NSN

Telstra unveiled plans to begin LTE trials in May. The Australian carrier will spend the next three to six months testing the feasibility and technical capability of LTE. Three vendors were named for the LTE trials: Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia Siemens Networks. Ericsson has been the lead supplier of Telstra's Next G HSPA+ network.In Hong Kong, Telstra's subsidiary company CSL is already testing LTE equipment from ZTE. Telstra said its LTE tests...

Read More

Indonesia's ICON+ Deploys NSN's Optical Transport

PT Indonesia Comnets Plus (ICON+), a subsidiary of the National Electricity Company, is expanding its backbone network to Sumatra using hiT 7300 DWDM optical transport platform. Nokia Siemens Networks' managed services business is implementing and managing the network. The DWDM roll-out undertaken by Nokia Siemens Networks started in January 2010 and is expected to be completed in April 2010, covering most of Sumatra. http://www.nsn.comhttp...

Read More

Fujitsu Adds 40 Gbps to FLASHWAVE 7500 ROADM

Fujitsu has added third generation 40 Gbps optical interfaces to its FLASHWAVE 7500 Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) platform. The new 40 Gbps coherent interfaces for the FLASHWAVE 7500 ROADM include individual transponder, muxponder, and regenerator units. Combining advanced coherent detection technology with dual polarization quadrature phase shift keying (DP-QPSK) modulation, these new units enable enhanced performance on ultra-high...

Read More

Broadcom Pushes Ethernet Switching Silicon to 64x 10GbE

Broadcom introduced a new series of multi-layer Ethernet devices providing up to 64-ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) with the flexibility to also support 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE). The BCM56840 series supports Layer 2 / Layer 3 (L2 / L3) switching with dynamic access control lists (ACLs). It also support Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) IEEE P802.3az draft standard. Sampling is underway.The new Broadcom BCM56840 series, which represents the...

Read More

PT. Telkom Indonesia Selects Level 3 for US Services

PT. Telkom Indonesia International (TII) will use Level 3's landing station connectivity at the Asia America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable system. Level 3's services provide a diverse and scalable extension of TII's network to data and Internet traffic in the United States. Financial terms were not disclosed.Level 3 is providing TII with U.S. wavelength and high-speed IP services. TII will use Level 3 wavelength transport services to backhaul data and Internet traffic between the AAG cable landing station and the Level 3 gateway in Los Angeles....

Read More

BridgeWave Adds QoS to its 80 GHz FlexPort Mobile Backhaul

BridgeWave Communications has added QoS capabilities to its FlexPort family of high-capacity 80 GHz radios for mobile backhaul. The gigabit backhaul solution now natively supports both legacy TDM traffic along with IP-based 4G traffic. As more and more real-time applications appear on consumer mobile devices, carriers must ensure subscribers get the right application performance at the right time, even in times of network strain. Bridgewave said...

Read More

CoreOptics and EXFO Demo 40G on CP-QPSK Transponder

CoreOptics and EXFO will jointly demonstrate the interworking of a 40G coherent transponder module from CoreOptics and EXFO's FTB-8140 Transport Blazer test module. This live demonstration achieves 40G error-free traffic on a next-generation multihaul DWDM line card, using EXFO's 40G Transport Blazer client-side test module with CoreOptics' 40G CP-QPSK line-side transponder, which includes advanced dual polarization, DQPSK modulation and coherent detection with digital signal processing (DSP) technologies.The live demo will comprise a test setup...

Read More

Alcatel-Lucent Unveils Ultimate Wireless Packet Core

Alcatel-Lucent unveiled the "Ultimate Wireless Packet Core" -- its key product set to help mobile service providers address the explosion in mobile data services on 3G networks and coming LTE networks. The solution leverages the flagship Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router and the company's "High Leverage Network" strategy. Significantly, Alcatel-Lucent is positioning its evolved packet core solution alongside policy and DPI analytics tools to...

Read More

Network Test Automation Forum Names VZ Exec as President

The newly formed Network Test Automation Forum named Verizon's Keith Kidd as its president. Kidd, who is a director in Verizon's Network and Technology Labs, said "Automated testing is no longer a luxury. Every organization engaged in defining, developing and delivering new services must automate as much as possible to improve the speed to market and reduce the overhead of delivering their product or service. That's what the forum will promote."The...

Read More

China Mobile Reaches 460,000 Base Stations, 96% Fiber-fed

China Mobile now has over 460,000 base stations and a population coverage rate of 98%. Over 96% of China Mobile's base stations are now served by fiber. In 2009, China Mobile has completed the upgrading of its core network to be fully IP-based. In 2009, China Mobile's 3G network was extended to include 238 cities across the country, witha 70% coverage rate among prefecture-level cities. China Mobile's total customer base at the end of 2009 reached...

Read More