Apollo and Alcatel-Lucent Carry 3 Tbps over Trans-Atlantic Cable

Apollo Submarine Cable System, in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent, has successfully transmitted approximately 3 Tbps of data using 40 Gbps channels over a fiber pair across the north Atlantic. The test was performed over Apollo's north cable system linking the US and the UK, a distance of 6,221 km, and almost quadrupled the original design capacity of the system (72 channels at 40 Gbps, all error-free). Specifically, the Alcatel-Lucent 1620 Light...

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NSN: HSPA/LTE Costs Can Be Below EUR3 per GB per Month

Even without voice services, mobile broadband operators can keep their monthly capital and operating expenditure to EUR 3 per subscriber and profitably provide up to 5 GB of data per month for every subscriber, according to a new techno-economic study published by Nokia Siemens Networks. The study examines the costs and opportunities of using HSPA and LTE radio technology in existing sites and by using spectrum on multiple frequency bands. Nokia...

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Comcast Media Center Introduces Fiber-Based Content Distribution

HITS, a business unit of the Comcast Media Center, introduced a national terrestrial fiber distribution service for delivering video programming to cable MSOs. The service features conditional access from Verimatrix and video processing and delivery powered by Harmonic. It uses the Comcast network to deliver video content to cable affiliates. The HITS fiber-based service is positioned either as a primary delivery vehicle of video content or as...

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Motorola Boosts Power Efficiency of its CMTS

Motorola has enhanced its long-running BSR 64000 Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) with new power efficiency capabilities that provide a more than three-fold decrease in wattage required per port. This makes the Motorola BSR 64000 the most power efficient I-CMTS on the market on a per-DOCSIS-channel basis, according to the company. Motorola also calculates that the high-density of ports on its I-CMTS chassis, gives it the lowest I-CMTS power...

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BelAir Pushes Wi-Fi Policy Enforcement to the Access Point

BelAir Networks introduced a Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) module that integrates directly with a carrier's edge (routing and tunneling) and core (policy management) systems. The BelAirOS PEP embeds policy enforcement, traditionally an edge-based function, into any BelAir Networks Access Point (AP). The BelAirOS PEP complements the BelAirOS Carrier Security Module (CSM), which enables network security and access control to be enforced on any BelAir...

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BelAir Delivers Better Wi-Fi in Stadiums and Crowded Sites

BelAir Networks introduced an improved solution for delivering Wi-Fi in crowded stadiums, concerts, fairs and other locations with very high user density. The BelAirOS Very High Capacity and Interference (VHCI) solution, which is engineered for 10x the wireless density of a typical enterprise, encompasses Wi-Fi access point (AP) software, monitoring and management features, and network planning guidelines. The company said its BelAirOS VHCI delivers...

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Comcast Increases On Demand Movie Library

Comcast is adding nearly 9,000 movie titles to its On Demand library -- giving it more than 11,000 total movie choices for customers monthly, with 3,000 available in HD. The expanded movie offering brings the total number of Comcast On Demand choices to more than 25,000.The new movie content will begin launching in Comcast's Xfinity markets in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, and will continue rolling out to Comcast Digital Cable customers across...

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Hitachi Moves Forward with 10GEPON, 10G DOCSIS PON

Hitachi Communication Technologies America introduced 10GEPON and 10G DePON Optical Network Units and Line cards for its Salira product line. The new offerings, which are aimed at North American cable operators, support business access over fiber infrastructure.Hitachi said it expects 10G-DePON will become the primary technology for cable operators building new high bandwidth access networks because of the combination of high bandwidth, lower cost...

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Tellabs Hires Nortel China's President of Carrier Sales

Tellabs named Dr. Chenhong Huang as vice president for Tellabs in China. Most recently he has been Nortel China's President of Carrier Sales, responsible for both the wireless and wireline carrier business in China. In previous Nortel roles, Chenhong has held various leadership positions in sales, marketing and technology. He started his Nortel career in Richardson, Texas, where he was responsible for wireless systems engineering and 3G standards and development. http://www.tellabs....

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FCC to Address Bill Shock

The FCC's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) kicked off an initiative on "bill shock" -- seeking input on ways to alert consumers about potential high charges for mobile service.In the European Union, carriers are required by law to send text messages to consumers when they are running up roaming charges or getting close to a set limit for data roaming. The FCC is now considering whether the same practice should be enforced in the U.S....

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Texas-New Mexico Power Deploys Exalt Microwave Backhaul

Texas-New Mexico Power (TNMP), a community-based electrical power generation and distribution company serving more than 216,000 subscribers in Texas and 490,000 subscribers in New Mexico, has deployed Exalt Communications' microwave systems to upgrade its legacy analog microwave network to handle Ethernet as well as T1 traffic. The utility company is using Exalt all-indoor microwave backhaul systems operating in the 2.4 and 6 GHz frequency bands....

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