FCC Recommends Public Safety Network Leverage Commercial Rollouts

The FCC issued a detailed report recommending that the public safety network for first responders that is called for in the National Broadband Report be built alongside next gen commercial networks rather than as separate infrastructure. This approach would cost approximately $6.5 billion over 10 years, significantly less than the projected $15.7 billion in capital costs associated with building a stand-alone public safety network.In addition, the...

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FCC Establishes New Emergency Response Interoperability Center

The FCC has established a new Emergency Response Interoperability Center (ERIC) under the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) with the mission of promoting nationwide operability and interoperability inwireless broadband communications for America's first responders. Operating under the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB), ERIC will work closely with industry, commercial providers, manufacturers and standards setting...

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Ericsson's Q1: Network Sales Decline as Global Services Rises

Ericsson's Group sales in Q1 2010 declined 9% year-over-year with lower sales in Networks but with an increase of 3% year-over-year in Global Services. Sales for comparable units, adjusted for currency exchange rate effects and hedging, declined -16% year-over-year. Gross margin, excluding restructuring, improved year-over-year to 39% (36%) due to efficiency gains and product mix.Ericsson's share in earnings of joint ventures, before tax, amounted...

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SES-1 Successfully Launched from Kazakhstan

SES-1, a hybrid C- and Ku-band spacecraft that will provide coverage over the United States, was successfully roared into space on board a Proton Breeze M booster from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation and is owned an operated by SES WORLD SKIES. The spacecraft is poised to be the 42nd satellite in SES' global fleet.The spacecraft carries 24 active C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders of 36 MHz capacity each. Six of the channels in each band can be cross-strapped to the opposite band,...

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Equinix Opens Second IBX Data Center in Amsterdam

Equinix is ready to open its new Amsterdam (AM2) International Business Exchange (IBX) data center, which has been under development since November 2009. The first phase represents an expected investment of approximately $40.0 million and provides 480 cabinets equivalents. The second phase is targeted for completion during the third quarter of 2010 and is expected to provide an additional 520 cabinets equivalents. A third phase, to be timed to meet...

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Voltaire Enables Virtualized 10 GbE Data Center Fabric

At this week's Interop in Las Vegas, Voltaire will demonstrate the industry's first end-to-end, virtualized, scale-out data center across a multi-vendor 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric. In the demonstration, Voltaire's recently introduced Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) 3.0 software orchestrates physical and virtual switches delivering guaranteed levels of service per application. The demonstration will include 10 GbE networking products from Voltaire,...

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Mindspeed Offer Signal Conditioning for Enterprise Applications

Mindspeed Technologies released its "Amplif-Eye" line of signal conditioners designed specifically for enterprise storage, computing and networking applications.Optimal performance in PCI Express, SATA/SAS, RXAUI, Fiber Channel and Ethernet applications is often difficult to achieve because signal integrity could not be maintained across the systems' backplanes and cabling media.Mindspeed's products address these problems by correcting for insertion loss, crosstalk, reflections due to impedance mismatches and other channel impairments associated...

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Unions Seeks Employment Assurances in Qwest-CenturyLink Deal

The Communications Workers of America voiced its concern over the merger "cost synergies" that were described as a driving factor for the recently announced Qwest Communications + CenturyLink deal. In a press statement, the CWA said "Our nation is plagued by job cuts and Wall Street terms like 'merger synergies' that are often just shorthand for job cuts or pay cuts. President Obama's job summit and recent legislation put jobs front and center, not just at a conference but in all governmental decision-making.Just weeks ago, the Federal Communications...

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NTT Com to Acquire Major Stake in Emerio GlobeSoft

NTT Communications (NTT Com) will acquire a 70% stake in Emerio GlobeSoft (Emerio), a leading technology services and outsourcing company based in Singapore. Financial terms were not disclosed.Emerio offers application services, such as application development and maintenance; infrastructure services, such as IT service desks, server operation and maintenance, IT engineer dispatch, and end-user support; and business process outsourcing, such as...

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Nokia Builds TD-SCDMA Portfolio for China Mobile

At the World Expo Shanghai 2010,, Nokia is unveiling two new TD-SCDMA devices: the Nokia X5 and the Nokia C5 for TD-SCDMA. Both devices, which are customized for China Mobile, feature a jointly offered mobile application store -- the Mobile Market-Ovi Store.Connectivity to the Internet is provided through China Mobile's 3G (TD-SCDMA) network. They are offer preloaded applications such as CMCC Music, Mobile Video, Fetion IM, and the Mobile Market-Ovi...

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