BTI Systems Debuts Low Latency Dual 10G Transponder

BTI Systems introduced its Low Latency Dual 10G Transponder optimized to ensure rapid system processing and transparent transmission for 10GE, 10G Fibre Channel and wavelength services. The 10G DTPR-L, along with EDFA amplifiers and FBG Dispersion Compensation Modules provides an optimized, engineered approach to low latency networking for campus, metro and regional applications.


Validated through customer network testing, BTI Systems said its 10G transponder adds a mere 20-30 nanosecond delay in transmission. This value is equivalent to 6 meters of fiber cable, adding virtually no latency into the network.
http://www.btisystems.com

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Cablevision Acquires Bresnan for $1.4 Billion

Cablevision Systems, which serves the NYC metropolitan market, will acquire Bresnan in a transaction valued at $1.365 billion. Bresnan is the nation's thirteenth largest MSO with cable operating systems in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Utah that pass more than 630,000 homes and serve more than 300,000 basic subscribers.


Cablevision's Chief Operating Officer Tom Rutledge will oversee the Bresnan properties.
http://www.cablevision.com
http://www.bresnan.com

• Bresnan was founded in 1984 by William J. Bresnan, a cable industry pioneer who, for more than 40 years until his passing in late 2009, was widely acknowledged as one of the cable industry's most admired and influential executives. Bresnan served for over 35 years on the Board of Directors of the National Cable Telecommunications Association. He served on the Board of Directors of The Cable Center in Denver since its inception and was Chairman of the Executive Committee and member of the Board of Directors of C-SPAN. He was a Board member of Cable Television Laboratories and the Cable TV Pioneers.

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HomePlug Powerline Alliance's Green PHY Spec for Smart Grid Published

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance announced the approval and publication of the HomePlug Green PHY (HomePlug GP) specification for Smart Grid applications.


HomePlug GP is a low power, highly reliable, cost-optimized powerline networking specification targeting Smart Grid connectivity for home energy management to devices such as HVAC, smart meters, appliances and plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. The spec was developed with direct input from major utility companies and appliance manufacturers including Consumers Energy, Duke Energy, GE, Pacific Gas & Electric, San Diego Gas & Electric, and Southern California Edison.


HomePlug GP is a key component of the HomePlug technology portfolio that includes the current HomePlug AV broadband powerline technology, and will include HomePlug AV2, the Gigabit-class next-generation powerline technology specification, due for completion in early 2011. All three specifications are fully interoperable with each other and with the IEEE's 1901 powerline standard, now completing ratification. HomePlug AV is baseline technology for the IEEE 1901 powerline standard. The HomePlug Powerline Alliance will serve as the compliance and certification body for IEEE 1901, much as the Wi-Fi Alliance certifies 802.11 products.
http://www.HomePlug.org

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picoChip Secures New Funding for Femtocell Silicon

picoChip, a start-up based in Bath, UK, has secured $20m of additional equity funding to support its s femtocell silicon products. As part of its growth plans, picoChip is adding engineers at its development centers in Bath and Beijing, and will move to a new headquarters in Bath, UK. The plans also include accelerated product development in key areas such as LTE, HSPA+ and self-organizing networks.


picoChip's femtocell solutions cover all the major 3G standards (WCDMA/HSPA+, TD-SCDMA and cdma2000/EvDO), as well as 2G (GSM/GPRS/EDGE) and LTE.


picoChip has secured over twenty-five femtocell customers including Alcatel Lucent, Sagem, Ubiquisys and ip.access.


The company also announced that it has passed the milestone of one million chips sold and is on track to achieve over 50% quarter-on-quarter sequential revenue growth this calendar quarter.
http://www.picochip.com

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JDSU Launches Managed Roaming Test Service

JDSU is launching a global managed roaming testing service for mobile operators. Specifically, the JDSU RoamerNet MaxG Service supports testing of advanced roaming services including video telephony and video streaming as well as existing tests for voice, data and Simple Messaging Service (SMS). The managed service also supports the testing of web applications, downloads and content verification.


The service enables operators to validate roaming Service Level Agreements and investigate any performance issues while assuring continued revenue streams from roaming. The service offers higher test throughput and capacity, improved reporting, dashboards and diagnostics.


JDSU said a chief advantage of its service is that mobile operators can avoid the CAPEX and time required to implement a testing program with all its roaming partners. JDSU claims a footprint in 100+ countries served by 200+ mobile network operators.


"Mobile operators need to continue managing the critical revenue streams they derive from roaming customers," said David Opsahl, vice president in JDSU's Communications Test and Measurement business segment. "As the mobile customer base moves beyond simple voice roaming to advanced data services and video communications, our RoamerNet MaxG managed service addresses this need head-on."http://www.jdsu.com

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Dell'Oro: Rapid Growth in WLAN Market in Q1

The worldwide wireless LAN (WLAN) market grew 20 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2010, driven in large part by the continued strength of the enterprise market that achieved its highest quarterly revenue level in the first quarter of this year, according to a new report by Dell'Oro Group.


According to the report, each of the following WLAN vendors posted record quarterly revenues in the first quarter of this year: Alcatel-Lucent, Aruba, Meru, Motorola, NETGEAR, and Trapeze.


"Enterprise market revenues grew at twice the rate of the overall market and have now risen 5 straight quarters, showing that WLAN continues to grow in importance to businesses," stated Loren Shalinsky, Senior Analyst of Wireless LAN research at Dell'Oro Group. "First quarter enterprise WLAN revenues are traditionally the low point of the year, as we have seen every year since we started tracking this market in 2002. We forecast that the record enterprise revenues during the first quarter will help propel the overall market to over $5 billion this year, easily surpassing the previous annual high in 2008," added Shalinsky.
http://www.delloro.com

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Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems Interconnects Data Centers at 100 Gbps

T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom's corporate customer arm, has interconnected the data centers of the Dresden and Bergakademie Freiberg technical universities with a 60 km link using commercial 100 Gbps IP and optical technologies. The link uses a single 100G wavelength across Alcatel-Lucent's optical transport systems and IP Service routers.


Core elements of the 100G solution deployed between the technical universities of Dresden and Bergakademie Freiberg are the Alcatel-Lucent 1830 Photonic Service Switch, featuring 100G next-generation coherent technology, and the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router with 100G Ethernet interfaces.


In addition, Ixia assisted Deutsche Telekom in testing a pre-deployment 100 Gbps network link. Deutsche Telekom used Ixia's higher speed Ethernet (HSE) K2 test platform to generate and analyze full 100 Gbps line rate traffic. K2's routing and MPLS protocol emulation allows testing of control plane performance in parallel with layer 2-3 metrics such as real-time latency, inter-arrival time, packet loss, data integrity, and sequence checking. Ixia's K2 modules support unframed bit error ratio testing (BERT), allowing individual PCS lane BER test and error injection over a wide range of PRBS patterns, including support for PMD's in IEEE802.3ba draft standard.


The 100G technology is expected to improve the cooperation between research facilities and will be used to facilitate more advanced cloud service delivery options and pave the way for proliferation of collaborative multimedia applications. Researchers of both universities are using the installation to study the resource requirements of clustered virtual servers, Lustre wide-area file systems, network-attached storage and real-time video conferencing applications under heavy load.


"Research data centers, with their exceptional computing power and bandwidth demands, are excellent early adopters for this technological innovation", says Adolfo Hernandez, President of Alcatel-Lucent EMEA. "With Alcatel-Lucent's considerable experience in IP routing and optical technologies, and the timely availability of their commercial offerings, we are uniquely positioned to provide 100G across the IP and optical network for seamless, end-to-end high performance, even for the most advanced collaborative and cloud-based applications currently being developed."http://www.alcatel-lucent.com
http://www.ixiacom.com

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SingTel Picks ADVA FSP 3000 WDM

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has appointed ADVA Optical Networking as a vendor for its high-speed managed metropolitan optical network service known as GigaWaveLite (GWL).


SingTel's GigaWaveLite is a managed high-speed, point-to-point optical service for enterprise customers needing to connect two or more sites. It uses WDM to ensure that an enterprise's mission-critical data remains secure throughout transport at speeds of up to 10 Gbps. SingTel offers its GWL service to the banking, finance, healthcare, education, manufacturing and logistics industries, as well as to media content and other information technology solution providers.


ADVA's FSP 3000 supports a range of data center protocols, including multiple Fibre Channel line speeds, 10Gigabit Ethernet, FICON, ESCON and others, and has been qualified interoperable with most of the industry's major storage solution vendors.
http://www.advaoptical.com

• In February 2010, ADVA Optical Networking released a new version of its flagship FSP 3000 product optimized for cloud computing applications. With cloud computing, data center operators must deliver reliable storage and compute resources at often very short notice. The new capabilities are designed to help operators provide ultra-high bandwidth between data centers and remote backup locations.
  
  
  ADVA's FSP 3000 is a multi-service metro and regional transport platform supporting optical access, backhaul and wavelength services. It is also used private enterprise networks over dark fiber. As a WDM system, it offers up to 80 protected wavelength carried over various topologies.
  
  ADVA said its enhanced FSP 3000 empowers an operator to choose any transport protocol at any rate and transport it over a fully tunable long-haul DWDM channel. Specifically, the FSP 3000 can deliver speeds that range from 1, 2, 4, 8 to 10 Gbps, while addressing all storage interfaces currently in use in today's data centers, including Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and Ethernet, among others.
  

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Dell'Oro: Wireless LAN Market Report - June 2010

Presented by Loren Shalinsky, Senior Analyst, Dell'Oro Grouphttp://www.delloro.com

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FCC Launches Universal Service Working Group

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski launched a Universal Service Working Group that will provide a comprehensive, collaborative approach to the FCC's reform of universal service programs to better support broadband.


The working group will be led by Sharon Gillett, Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau, and will include participation by the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, the International Bureau, the Office of General Counsel, the Office of Managing Director, the Office of Strategic Planning, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, and the Wireline Competition Bureau. Smaller inter-bureau and inter-office working groups will work
collectively to propose concrete solutions to realize the universal service vision set forth in the
National Broadband Plan.
http://www.fcc.gov

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NetLogic's Multi-Core Processors Power Equipment in NTT DOCOMO's LTE Network

NetLogic Microsystems is supplying its multi-core, multi-threaded processors in multiple equipment designs, from eNodeB base stations to Gateways, that are deployed in NTT DOCOMO's LTE mobile network in Japan.


NTT DOCOMO's 2GHz network system comprises dual-mode WCDMA and LTE base stations, LTE core network equipment and LTE-enabled mobile devices. Compatibility with W-CDMA will enable seamless handover for devices as they move between LTE and W-CDMA service areas in the network.


DOCOMO expects to confirm 5MHz-bandwidth throughput for 37.5 Mbps downlinks and 12.5 Mbps uplinks, followed by 10MHz-bandwidth throughput for maximum 75 Mbps downlinks and 25 Mbps uplinks in selected test areas.


NetLogic Microsystems' multi-core, multi-threaded processors integrate up to eight high-performance MIPS64 cores, each with four-way simultaneous multi-threading, for a total of 32 fine-grain processor threads to mitigate latency, improve computational efficiency and throughput for network data plane and control plane processing in base stations, eNodeB, RNCs, gateways, switches, routers, ATCA and AMC service cards. The processors also offer a packet management, packet distribution and network accelerator engine, an intelligent Fast Messaging Network to maximize on-chip communications bandwidth, a superior memory sub-system, high-speed interconnects, and a broad set of acceleration engines. http://www.netlogicmicro.com

• Earlier this month, NTT DOCOMO confirmed that it has begun verification of its new commercial mobile network system based on the LTE protocol in the Tokyo area, and is expected to enter full-scale launch of the extra-high-speed LTE commercial service in December 2010.

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Orange Business Services joins VMware vCloud Initiative

Orange Business Services has joined the VMware "vCloud" initiative, an industry program enabling cloud computing providers to develop a common platform based on VMware vSphere for cloud interoperability and portability.


Orange noted that it already manages some 12,000 servers for its enterprise customers.


"The main point of cloud computing is to bring more flexibility to enterprises, enabling them to use what they need, when they need it, at optimized and variable costs," said Didier Jaubert, senior vice president, Global Services, Orange Business Services.
http://www.orange-business.com

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