IDC: Strong Growth in Ethernet Switch and Router Sales in Q2

In the second quarter of 2010, the enterprise Ethernet switching business grew 32.7% compared to a year earlier and the Ethernet router market expanded 11.0% year-over-year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Networks Tracker. The strong performance was seen across all regions and key product segments. From a vendor perspective, Cisco's Ethernet switch market share increased to 65.8% in 2Q10 from...

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Vodafone Returns to Growth with Smartphones and Mobile Data

For the three months ended 30-June-2010, the Vodafone Group reported revenue increased by 4.8% to £11.3 billion and Group service revenue increased by 4.9% to £10.6 billion. On an organic basis, service revenue increased by 1.1% -- an improvement of 1.7 percentage points on the previous quarter -- as each of the regions delivered improved service revenue trends. "These are the first quarterly results to show service revenue growth since the global...

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T-Mobile's HSPA+ Network Operational in 50 Markets

T-Mobile USA announced that its HSPA+ network is now operational in 50 markets across the country and that the company is on track to deliver HSPA+ speeds in 100 major metropolitan areas with backhaul in place, covering 185 million people in the U.S. by the end of this year. In addition, 16 of T-Mobile's current 3G devices, including more than a dozen smartphones, can benefit from the HSPA+ network, including the newest smartphone available from...

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Video: Network Monitoring for 4G

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VSS Monitoring Targets 4G/LTE Monitoring

VSS Monitoring unveiled a new framework for monitoring traffic and services across 4G/LTE networks. Service providers have traditionally employed a flat architecture of probes and testers for monitoring their 2G and 3G network traffic locally. To handle more complex 4G networks, VSS Monitoring is developing a hierarchical framework capable of providing a network-wide view of traffic in real-time as well as packet-level visibility at any network node....

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Clearwire Expands 4G in 3 More Markets: Wash DC, Baltimore, Kansas City

Clearwire Communications launched its 4G service in parts of the Washington metro market with expanded coverage to surrounding areas expected in the months ahead. Within this central D.C. area, CLEAR covers nearly 1 million people in communities as far north as Chevy Chase and Silver Spring MD, south to Alexandria VA, west to Falls Church, VA, and east to College Park MD. Clearwire announced the launch of service in Kansas City, Kansas, and the...

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Qualcomm Debuts Dual-CPU Snapdragon Chip

Qualcomm has begun sampling its first dual-CPU Snapdragon chipsets designed for smartphones, tablets and smartbook devices. This represents Qualcomm's third generation in the Snapdragon series.The MSM8260 for HSPA+ and MSM8660 for multi-mode HSPA+/CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. B feature two enhanced CPU cores running at up to 1.2GHz for high levels of Web application and multimedia performance, including a powerful GPU with 3D/2D acceleration engines for Open GLES 2.0 and Open VG 1.1 acceleration, 1080p video encode/decode, dedicated low power audio engine,...

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Windstream Completes acquisition of Iowa Telecom

Windstream completed its acquisition of Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $1.2 billion.As of March 31, 2010, Iowa Telecom provided service to approximately 249,000 access lines, 96,000 high-speed Internet customers and 27,500 digital TV customers in Iowa and Minnesota. Windstream said the deal will provide it with increased scale and annual synergies of approximately $35 million in operating expenses...

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Internet Initiative Japan Acquires AT&T's Local Outsourcing Business

Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) has agreed to acquire AT&T's local network outsourcing service in Japan. Through this acquisition, IIJ will be providing WAN services to approximately 1,600 domestic corporate customers. IIJ's own client bases has over 6,500 corporate customers. Additionally, IIJ will also provide international services through business tie-up with AT&T Japan. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.iij.ad.jp/...

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Broadcom Announces 3x3 MIMO 802.11n

Broadcom introduced a single-chip 802.11n dual-band 3x3 wireless solution aimed at multimedia content distribution in their homes.The company said its BCM4331 Wi-Fi chip, which uses three transmitting and three receiving streams of data in either the 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz frequency bands, achieves 450 Mbps data rates in client devices and over 600Mbps throughput (TCP/IP) in 3x3 AP/router configurations. The BCM4331 is now sampling and will be demonstrated...

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European Commission: Telecom Markets More Competitive

EU telecoms markets have become more competitive, however a single EU telecoms market is still far from reality, according to a new report from the European Commission.The Commission's recently launched Digital Agenda for Europe calls for swift and consistent enforcement of existing telecoms rules and indicates that the Commission intends to propose appropriate steps to reduce the cost of the absence of a Single Market in telecoms services. Problems...

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HP Targets New Era in Enterprise Services

Following on from its acquisition of EDS, HP announced a restructuring to align itself with the "New Era in Enterprise Services." Plans call for investing in fully automated, standardized, state-of-the-art commercial data centers built on its Converged Infrastructure and operated by its industry-leading management software. HP will consolidate dozens of data centers into perhaps half a dozen super centers. The company will also eliminate up to...

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Whitepaper: Network Monitoring 2.0

Whitepaper: Network Monitoring 2.0 The journey toward a converged all-IP network comes with a whole new set of performance and management philosophies toward which IT organizations must adopt and evolve. Real-time monitoring, troubleshooting and provisioning of the network must be implemented strategically and methodically, as they are driven by the need to maintain and manage the experience of the end user. In...

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Alcatel-Lucent Supplies CDMA/EV-DO Rev. B to China Telecom

Alcatel-Lucent has been selected as the sole equipment provider for China Telecom's CDMA/EV-DO Rev. B network at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Alcatel-Lucent's solution, which has been installed in the United States Pavilion, enables China Telecom to boost its mobile broadband network speeds by up to three times. The installation follows an earlier trial of the multi-carrier Rev. B technology with China Telecom in three districts of Shanghai. The...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Appoints Dr. Moiin as CTO

Nokia Siemens Networks has appointed Dr. Hossein Moiin as its chief technology officer. Moiin is currently responsible for mobile technology and architecture at BT. Prior to working for BT, Moiin held positions with T-Mobile including group vice president for Technical Strategy and chief architect. Moiin was also chief technologist for the Network Service Provider Group at Sun Microsystems where he spent several years in a variety of management...

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ZTE Completes TD-LTE S1/X2 Interface Conformity Test

ZTE and China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MII) completed the first S1/X2 Interface Conformity test for TD-LTE.<>Within LTE network infrastructure, the S1 interface is the communications interface between LTE eNB (base station) and EPC (packet core network), while the X2 interfaces between eNB and eNB. ZTE said the success of the S1/X2 Interface Conformity test validates that its TD-LTE system, including its wireless and...

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Telehouse Opens Flagship Facility in London's Docklands

Telehouse inaugurated its flagship Telehouse West data centre in London's Docklands. The opening event was hosted by BBC breakfast's Bill Turnbull, with speeches from: Mr Mitsui, Managing Director, Telehouse Europe; Mr Ishikawa, Vice President, KDDI; Mr. Hiroshi Oka, Minister of the Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom; and Mike Harris, co-founder, Egg plc. Telehouse was delighted to welcome key customers, including Ioka, Daiwa Capital Markets,...

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Juniper Research: Mobile VoIP users to exceed 100 million by 2012

Mobile VoIP services will develop significantly faster in developed markets due to the direct correlation between 3G roll outs and the take up of mobile VoIP, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The consultancy predicts that revenues from the circuit switched voice market will continue to diminish over the next five years, although this will not accelerate. Juniper Research advises that alliances between mobile VoIP players and traditional operators may provide the best option for today's incumbent operators to address the advent...

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SMC Networks Appoints Todd Babic as President

SMC Networks has promoted Todd Babic to the position of President of SMC Networks, effective immediately. Babic has served SMC since 2002, and spent the last two years as Vice President of Sales, Broadband Business Development for North America. In his new role, Babic will be responsible for aligning SMC's resources, internally and externally, to achieve the company's strategic vision and will have day-to-day responsibility for directing and managing sales, engineering, and product management. SMC Networks now focuses on supplying Customer Premise...

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China's Nebulae Ranks as No. 2 Supercomputer

China's Nebulae, a new supercomputer based on a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel X5650 processors and NVidia Tesla C2050 GPUs, has achieved 1.271 PFlop/s running the Linpack benchmark, which puts it in the No. 2 spoton the TOP500 list of supercomputers worldwide. The leading spot is retained by Jaguar, which is located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and which retains a record 1.75 petaflop/s performance...

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