BT to Continue Investments across Asia Pacific

BT announced plans to further increase its capabilities across the Asia Pacific region. Under the investment plan, BT will invest in additional portfolio and resource capability as an overlay on the footprint the company has already established. This will be carefully aligned to the growth plans of its multi-national customers as they continue to expand across in Asia Pacific. BT sees the addressable market for its services in Asia Pacific at around...

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ZTE Builds its Engineering Team in India

ZTE Corp. announced plans to boost its resources in India with a new Indian Engineering Centre (IEC) located in Delhi. In 2009, the company increased its Indian headcount by more than 1000 employees nationwide, only in Delhi almost 100 employees were recruited and trained during this period. This expansion follows the establishment of the National Network Operation Center (NNOC) announced by ZTE India last year to showcase its long-term development and localization strategy. ZTE said it remains focused on India as a key market and is committed...

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Frontier Wins Approvals in West Virginia

Frontier Communications' pending acquisition of Verizon Communications' local wireline operations in West Virginia has been approved by the Public Service Commission of West Virginia (PSC). The parties are awaiting regulatoryapproval from the FCC. http://www.frontier.c...

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Sri Lanka's Dialog Telekom Deploys Huawei's ngHLR

Dialog Telekom, the largest mobile carrier in Sri Lanka, has deployed Huawei's next-generation Home Location Register (ngHLR), which can serve up to 10 million subscribers. Huawei replaced four traditional HLRs in Dialog' s network with one pair of Huawei ngHLRs, which were deployed in two strategic locations: Union Place and Malabe. Huawei said its solution enables seamless geographical redundancy and gives reliability of 99.9999%, thus greatly...

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Australia's vividwireless Launches First MIMO BeamForming WiMAX

Australia's vividwireless has deployed the first WiMAX network with 4T4R (4 transmitter and 4 receiver) and Beamforming technology, delivering wireless access speeds comparable to most ADSL2+ connections.

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Nokia Siemens Networks Advocates SOA Data Model for OSS/BSS

Nokia Siemens Networks is advocating a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based environment as common data model for carrier OSS, BSS and customer management platforms. As a step towards that goal, the company recently received TM Forum's Information Framework (SID) certification to its open, process-led OSS/BSS architecture and its business analysis application suite. SID conformant interfaces help operators avoid time consuming point-to-point...

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Telstra Activates 40G Trunk between Melbourne and Sydney

Telstra has activated its first 40 Gbps connection between Melbourne and Sydney. The capacity upgrade was delivered by augmenting its existing DWDM system and required no changes to the underlying infrastructure. The Marconi MHL 3000 platform is capable of delivering up to 80 channels at 40Gbps per channel over a single fibre pair. Telstra has also tested Ericsson's 100Gbps system and plans to move ahead with this technology as well. http://ww...

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NSN Develops Tools for Mobile User Data Analysis

Nokia Siemens Networks introduced new "charge@once" business analytics software helps to measure whether an operator is genuinely improving the experience for its customers and enhancing the business value of its customer relations. The software provides a set of predefined reports and dashboards for revenue analysis, customer segmentation, service and product use. The dashboards can be customized and personalized providing a user-friendly presentation...

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Corning Introduces Ultra-Low-Loss Submarine Optical Fiber

Corning introduced an ultra-low-loss, large-effective-area fiber that is optimized for the next-generation, high-data-rate submarine networks. Corning's "Vascade" EX2000 optical fiber has a typical effective area of 112 square microns (µm2) and average attenuation of 0.162 decibel of loss per kilometer (dB/km) at 1550 nanometers (nm). This enables extended system reach with fewer amplifiers in repeatered submarine networks. In unrepeatered submarine...

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Radvision selects Freescale DSP for Video conference Server

Radvision has selected Freescale Semiconductor's MSC8144 multicore digital signal processor (DSP) for use in its latest high-definition SCOPIA Elite 5000 Unified Communications Video Infrastructure Multiparty Conferencing Unit. The platform delivers multi-channel 1080p processing, telepresence connectivity, dynamic resource allocation and individual video layouts per participant.Freescale's MSC8144 combines four high-performance 1 GHz DSP cores based on SC3400 StarCore technology with 10 MB internal memory and high-speed interconnects such as Serial...

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tw telecom Teams with Cisco and BT on TelePresence

tw telecom is collaborating with Cisco and BT Conferencing to deliver high-definition business videoconferencing in the U.S. This solution will help enable companies with the Cisco TelePresence equipment to communicate and collaborate within and between companies.Under this arrangement, tw telecom is provisioning its nation-wide business broadband Ethernet and MPLS IP VPN services to connect the enterprise customer to BT's Global Video Exchange conferencing...

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Cox Business Expands With Phoenix NAP

Cox Business and Phoenix NAP, a new, next generation datacenter and network access point, announced an alliance focused on small and medium-sized businesses across Arizona.Phoenix NAP features 148,000 square feet of raised-floor datacenter space supported by divergent network feeds and extensive physical security systems. Cox Business built dual fiber entries into the building, supported by redundant network switching centers. The connections reside...

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