Industry Alliances Collaborate on Internet of Things

The IPSO Alliance, which promotes IP for smart object communications, has formed partnerships with the IPv6 Forum and the ZigBee Alliance to more quickly accelerate the adoption of IP networked devices for use in energy, consumer, healthcare and industrial applications, often referred to as the "Internet of Things."Specifically, IPSO and the ZigBee Alliance will collaborate on wireless home area networks (HAN) using the ZigBee IP specification and...

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PMC-Sierra Picks up GPON ONT Win with TECOM

TECOM, a broadband equipment manufacturer based in Taiwan, has selected PMC-Sierra's solutions for its new GPON Optical Network Terminal (ONT) designs. TECOM's Mini GPON Gigabit ONT is built around PMC-Sierra's PAS7400 SoC and targets residential and SOHO deployments that require maximum performance, high quality of service and small form factors.TECOM's new Mini GPON ONT targets European FTTH markets, which require triple-play quality of service to the customer at Gigabit Ethernet wire speed to the home. The ONT features a GbE user interface and...

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HP and Alcatel-Lucent Partner on Unified Communications

HP and Alcatel-Lucent announced an alliance to deliver end-to-end UC&C solutions to clients. These solutions use the convergence of telecommunications and IT to transform the way customers use UC&C services. The offerings include:Migration from multivendor and legacy PBX to an IP voice integration layer that uses Alcatel-Lucent's open IP Telephony architecture for UC&C. HP will help clients achieve a greater return on their UC&C investments by using the Genesys Customer Interaction management Platform, UC connect solutions and...

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India's Broadband Wireless Spectrum Auction Takes Off

India's Ministry of Communications & Information Technology is reporting strong bidding in its auction for broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum. This new BWA auction is offering 2 blocks of 20MHz in the 2.3GHz band across the same 22 service areas. Bidding has already topped Rs 2,300 crore (about US$ 540 million), well above the reserve price of Rs 1,750 crore. http://www.dot.gov....

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Global Crossing Adds Capacity

Global Crossing is adding capacity on both its North American terrestrial network and its Atlantic Crossing 1 (AC-1) subsea network. Specifically, the carrier is adding incremental capacity on strategic routes to its existing footprint, as well as two new routes: Seattle to Sacramento and Indianapolis to Atlanta. The upgrade will provide customers with lower latency routes, diversity options, 10Gbps and 10GigE wavelengths, and competitive pricing....

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CENX Carrier Ethernet Exchange Reaches 10M Milestone

CENX, which operates a series of Carrier Ethernet exchanges, announced another new milestone in the development of Carrier Ethernet interconnection with the aggregate of over ten million Carrier Ethernet Locations to be accessible through CENX Exchanges. The company reached the five million milestone in March 2010.Each Ethernet Service Location is an Ethernet serviceable physical location/address, readily searchable, for example, via the CENX Market...

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Vitesse Debuts 65nm EcoEthernet SparX-III Silicon

Vitesse Semiconductor introduced its new SparX-III family of Gigabit Ethernet (GE) switching silicon designed for green-enabled Ethernet SMB and enterprise equipment with substantially lower power consumption and higher density.The launch includes a two chip 25-port GE switch solution that can be paired with Vitesse's recently launched SimpliPHY 12-port Gigabit Ethernet PHY with dual media copper and fiber support. Both devices feature Vitesse's...

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Avago Readies Amplifiers for Cellular and LTE Base Stations

Avago Technologies announced two next generation, low noise amplifiers (LNAs) for cellular infrastructure base station applications, such as transceiver radio cards, tower mounted amplifiers (TMAs), combiners, repeaters and remote/digital radio heads. Avago said its designs are optimized for ensuring best signal quality in crowded spectrum, where receiver sensitivity is one of the most critical requirements. Proper LNA selection, in particular...

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Nokia and Yahoo! Form Global Strategic Alliance

Yahoo! and Nokia announced a worldwide strategic alliance aimed at integrating their e-mail, instant messaging and maps and navigation services on both PC and mobile devices. Select, co-branded service offerings are expected to become available from the second half of 2010, with global availability expected in 2011.Under the deal, Nokia will be the exclusive, global provider of Yahoo!'s maps and navigation services, integrating Ovi Maps across Yahoo!...

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Verizon Tunes its 40 Gbps Optical Wave Service for Wholesale Customers

Verizon Global Wholesale is rolling out a number of enhancements for its Optical Wave Service, including new 40 Gbps on OC768c Point-to-Point Link capabilities, 10 Gbps Channelized Wave with Muxing and a versatile interconnection offer.Verizon's Optical Wavelength Service provides a fully managed, point-to-point circuit over a dedicated wavelength that runs across its ROADM-based shared network infrastructure. The wholesale service enables other...

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First U.S. Cyber Command Begins Operations

Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander has been appointed as the first U.S. Cyber Command commander. The new CYBERCOM will centralize cyberspace operations for the Department of Defense.The command is charged with pulling together existing cyberspace resources, creating synergy that does not currently exist and synchronizing war-fighting effects to defend the Department of Defense information security environment. The U.S. Cyber Command is based at Fort...

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IBM Agrees to Acquire Sterling Commerce from AT&T for $1.4 Billion

IBM will acquire Sterling Commerce from AT&T for approximately $1.4 billion in cash. Sterling Commerce, which is based near Columbus, Ohio, provides solutions for B2B integration, community management, secure file transfers, selling, order management, and logistics management. The company says 80 percent of the FORTUNE 500 use its solutions for business process integration, secure file transfers, multi-channel selling, supply chain fulfillment,...

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