Infinera Targets 100G Coherent System for 2012

Infinera disclosed plans to release next-generation optical systems based on 100 Gbps coherent transmission in 2012. The company's product development team has been working on both 40G and 100G solutions, including key optical and electrical enabling technologies. Recently, the engineering team demonstrated the transmission of a 100G signal over 1600 kilometers of fiber using coherent modulation technology. This milestone has enabled Infinera to...

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FCC Issues Pole Attachment Order

The FCC issued an Order clarifying the statutory right of communications providers to use the same space- and cost-saving techniques that pole owners use, such as placing attachments on both sides of a pole. The Order also establishes that attachers have a statutory right to timely access to poles.The FCC is also seeking public comment on revising pole attachment rates to make them as low and as close touniform as possible, reducing the disparity...

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Tektronix Debuts Iris Performance Intelligence

Tektronix Communications unveiled its Iris Performance Intelligence (IPI) solution for end-to-end analysis and reporting capabilities combined with a KPI/KQI modeling engine that allows operators to better link desired business outcomes to events that occur at the network level.The IPI is designed to provide multiple departments within an operator the ability to monitor and report on applications using a real-time and historic KPI dashboard. This...

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Alcatel-Lucent's LTE Supports Live Video Feed for Sail Boat Race

Alcatel-Lucent LTE network solution is supported a live, broadcast video feed of the World Match Racing Tour's German Grand Prix, an international sailing boat race being held this week on Lake Constance, Germany. Live feeds from Formula-1 and cycling races, soccer games or track and field events are common today. However, the effort involved to get all video shots transmitted to the production studio is significant. Expensive satellite links,...

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The SIP Forum and i3 Forum Partner on Fax Interoperability

The SIP Forum and the i3 Forum are collaborating to spur the interoperability of SIP-based carrier services, including Fax-over-Internet-Protocol (FoIP) interoperability on a global basis. The partnership brings together two premier organizations tasked with similar missions -- to accelerate the deployment of IP-based communications worldwide -- but with different stakeholder communities. The SIP Forum features a broad membership of primarily telecom applications, services, and infrastructure vendors, as well as a growing list of US-based cable...

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FCC Releases Wireless Competition Report

Average monthly mobile voice usage in the U.S. has declined as data usage has soared, according to the FCC's newly released 14th annual report on the state of competition in the mobile wireless industry. Industry concentration has increased over the past five years, with the two largest providers, AT&T andVerizon Wireless, now controlling 60 percent of both subscribers and revenue and gaining share(accounting for 12.3 million net additions...

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Brocade Posts Revenue of $501 Million, Down 7% Sequentially

Brocade recorded quarterly revenues of $501 million, down 7.1% sequentially or a decrease of one percent year-over-year, resulting in a diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.05 on a GAAP basis and $0.13 on a non-GAAP basis. "Q2 was highlighted by a strong recovery in our Ethernet business, particularly in the Federal sector, which grew over 160% sequentially. The quarter highlights also included robust end-user demand for our storage networking...

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SITA Selected BroadSoft's BroadWorks

SITA, which provides communications and IT solutions for the air transport sector, has selected BroadSoft's BroadWorks platform for its hosted communications services. SITA provides services to around 550 members that represent over 90 percent of the total worldwide airline business, and 3,200 customers in more than 200 countries and territories. It includes airlines and all major computer reservation systems, as well as airports, aerospace companies,...

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Google Gives Away 5,000 HTC EVO 4G Devices to Developers

At the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco this week, Google gave away 5,000 HTC EVO 4G devices to developers. The phone is the first 4G mobile in the U.S. and it operates on Sprint's CDMA and WiMAX networks.Sprint also released a 4G developer guide that includes sample apps and source code for forward-facing camera, HDMI output and network detection (3G, 4G, Wi-Fi). "The EVO 4G experience is much like going from TV to HDTV. But EVO has more...

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Google TV Gathers Partners for Fall Launch

Google TV hopes to create a new experience in the living room by overlaying web functionality with existing channels. Unlike earlier approaches to this challenge, Google said its enormous advertising inventory combined with its search and cloud computing capabilities will prove to be a decisive factor in transforming television. The company announced its first three technology partners, including Sony, Logitech (offering a STB and input devices) and Intel. The first products will hit the market this Fall. Best Buy has signed up to be a retail...

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Pakistan Blocks Facebook and Other Sites

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) confirmed that it has officially directed all concerned operators in Pakistan to block Facebook till further orders. The ban has been extended to include YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia. http://www.pta.gov...

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Cisco to Acquire CoreOptics for 40/100G Electronic Distortion Equalization

Cisco will acquire CoreOptics, a designer of digital signal processing (DSP) solutions for high-speed optical networking, for approximately $99 million in cash and retention-based incentives.CoreOptics supplies 10G and 40G Distortion Tolerant MSA Modules and IC solutions for optical networking. Its Electronic Distortion Equalization (EDE) technology leverages Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE)to address the physical layer challenges of...

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