Netflix Leverages Amazon Web Services

Netflix has been using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for over a year to run a variety of mission-critical, customer-facing and backend applications. Now, Netflix is significantly expanding the set of applications that it is migrating from its existing technology infrastructure onto AWS. Netflix members' movie lists, website search, movie transcoding, recommendation system and other applications will all be powered by AWS, representing many of the most...

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Nokia's Ovi Life Tools Launched in China

Nokia launched its Ovi Life Tools (Nokia Ovi Sheng Huo Tong) in China, providing information services covering healthcare, agriculture, education and entertainment. The service addresses the needs of rural consumers with the vision to provide livelihood and life-impacting benefits to improve their economic prosperity and quality of life. The Nokia 1616 and the Nokia 1800 are the first two phones to support the new service.According to Sun Xiaoming,...

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Verizon Global Wholesale Offers VoIP Security Tunnel

Verizon Global Wholesale announced new VoIP security functionality for three of its product platforms -- SIP Gateway Service, Advanced Toll Free IP Termination, and Carrier IP Termination Transport. The new capability allows these services to share a single, secure virtual private network connection called an IP Security (or IPSec) tunnel. Verizon said it is the only major provider offering this connection, which provides additional security during...

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Infonetics: Asia-Pac PON Up by 38% in 2009

Asia Pacific PON equipment revenue totaled $1.1 billion in 2009, up 38% from 2008, according to the latest figures from Infonetics Research. The Asia Pacific region accounted for 63% of the world's PON equipment revenue in 2009, and strong growth in the Chinese PON market, particularly the GPON segment, is expected to continue. Huawei leads the Asia Pacific region for PON equipment sales. By 2014, Infonetics Research forecasts 10G EPON and 10G GPON will together make up about 1/3 of all PON equipment revenue in Asia Pacific. A slowdown in PON...

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Indosat Upgrades with Ericsson's HSPA at 42 Mbps

Indonesia's Indosat has commissioned Ericsson to modernize its network, including the deployment of Ericsson's HSPA Evolution technology, which is capable of reaching up to 42Mbps. Indosat is currently serving 39.1 million subscribers in Indonesia.The modernization will not only prepare the network to migrate to next generation LTE technology, but it will also gear it up with features that reduce energy consumption and footprint, making the network...

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Global Carrier Deploys Infinera on Transatlantic Route

A major global telecommunications service provider has deployed Infinera's optical transport platform on a transatlantic route of over 6,000 kilometers. The new route provides the service provider 1.76 Tbps of optical capacity on a single fiber pair. The Infinera Submarine Solution enables wavelengths to be implemented on a 25 Gigahertz channel grid, providing for doubling the density or capacity compared to traditional DWDM optical systems. Infinera said that in addition to increasing capacity, its optical transport solution is intended to enable...

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8x8 Acquires Central Host

8x8 has acquired Central Host, Inc., a Los Gatos, California-based provider of managed hosting services and cloud-based computing solutions, for $1 million in cash and 432,276 shares of common stock. Central Host claims approximately $1 million of annual revenue.Central Host has relocated to 8x8's Sunnyvale, California headquarters and will combine its operations with 8x8's existing Network Operations Center (NOC), sales, customer service and data center operations."Adding managed hosting and cloud computing services to our business service offerings...

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NEC Confirms SingTel's LTE Trial

NEC announced its participation SingTel's LTE field trials, which are scheduled to be carried out in Indonesia, Australia and the Philippines. NEC is participating in the trial through Globe Telecom in the Philippines.The trial will verify data capacity and throughput, as well as the handover of existing networks and interoperability with third-party devices, all of which within a high-speed transmission environment. NEC is implementing verification and interoperability tests via the provision of wireless base stations, EPC core network devices,...

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Whitepaper -- Aricent

5 Steps to Elevating the Android Experience Android is a true game-changer for the mobile space, more effectively addressing the two fundamental shifts in consumer electronics - all things connected, and exponential growth in consumer expectations on innovation and improved usability. This is the era of open operating systems and the growing market adoption of the Android OS on multiple devices and the emergence of an ecosystem...

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