eircom Announces FTTH Trials

eircom is preparing to launch two open access FTTH trial for up to 10,000 residential and business customers in Wexford town and Sandyford, Co. Dublin. The FTTH will offer broadband speeds of up to 150 Mbps. Open access will be provided by eircom to any other operator who wishes to participate in the project. eircomm plans to invest up to EUR 20 million in the project. Work is already underway with tenders issued to suppliers for a number of elements...

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Tellabs 7100 Optical Transport System Gains RUS Acceptance

The Tellabs 7100 Optical Transport System (OTS) and its smaller version, the Tellabs 7100 Nano Optical Transport System, have gained RUS (Rural Utilities Service) acceptance by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This clears the products for use on projects funded by the Rural Telecom Infrastructure and by the Broadband Loan and Loan Guarantee Programs. In addition to the Tellabs 7100 OTS, the Tellabs 1000 and 1100 Multiservice Access Series and the Tellabs 8800 Multiservice Router also have RUS acceptance. http://www.tellabs....

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Huawei Launches New Metropolitan 40/100G OTN Platform

Huawei Technologies introduced its OSN8800 T16, a next-generation metropolitan OTN system with 640 Gbps system capacity and designed for efficient wavelength utilization in the transport of bandwidth-heavy services such as data, video, and storage.The OSN8800 T16 offers 40G/100G transport with full-service cross-connection capabilities of ODUk wavelength and packet connections. The system capacity is upgradeable to 1.6 Tbps. Maintenance and service...

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WiMAX Forum Publishes Femtocell Standard

The WiMAX Forum and the Femto Forum have published the first WiMAX femtocell standard. The specifications incorporate a security framework that allows WiMAX networks to support a large number of access points via standard commercial IPSec based security gateways. This phase of specifications also contains simple Self Organizing Network (SON) capabilities to allow automatic configuration of large numbers of femtocells. Future revisions will further...

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BridgeWave Partners with Provigent on SoC for 4G Backhaul in 70/80 GHz

BridgeWave Communications is collaborating with Provigent, a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designer, to develop a chipset that provides increased spectral efficiencies supporting multi-gigabit rates in up to 1 GHz RF channel bandwidth. As part of this strategic cooperation BridgeWave will pay Non Recurring Engineering (NRE) to Provigent and Provigent will grant BridgeWave favorable terms. The companies said this partnership supports Provigent's mission to provide advanced chipsets to the broadband wireless market and BridgeWave's mission to offer a complete...

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RadiSys Extends Convedia Media Servers with RFC 4117 SIP

RadiSys announced support of RFC 4117, a SIP-based interface for real-time transcoding services control, for the RadiSys' Convedia Media Server product family. RFC 4117 defines transcoding services between two SIP User Agents (UAs) using Third Party Call Control (3PCC), resulting in a simple yet effective interface for rapid transcoding application development. In addition, RadiSys also announced a new Transcoding Processor Card (TPC-I) for the RadiSys Convedia CMS-9000 media server. The new Transcoding Processor Card (TPC-I) blade is hosted...

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Level 3 Offers Enhanced End-to-End Service Level Agreements

Level 3 Communications is now offering enhanced end-to-end service level agreements (SLAs) that simplify the contract process and provide a more complete performance guarantee. The company said its approach addresses the complex nature of SLAs in an environment where various fiber-optic network segments are often operated by multiple. "We have seen strong customer demand for simpler end-to-end service level agreements, and this new initiative enables...

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JDSU Adds OTN to 100GE Test Suite

JDSU has added Optical Transport Network (OTN) capabilities to its 100GE test suite. The test platform now offers OTU3 (43GE) and OTU4 (112GE) test features to help transport Ethernet over longer distances for high speed networks.Optical Transport Networks running on OTU3/4 add the framing, management layer and forward error correction (FEC) on top of Ethernet that is needed for longer distance transmission and for OTN management in a carrier network....

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BT Signs 5-Year 21CN Contract with Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent signed a major five-year agreement with BT for an evolution of its 21st Century Network (21CN) that leverages the Alcatel-Lucent High Leverage Network (HLN) architecture. Specifically, Alcatel-Lucent will provide an end-to-end transport solution which tightly integrates IP and optical transport resources along with professional services such as project management, design, installation and commissioning, repair and return and software...

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FCC Seeks Public Input on Regulatory Framework

The FCC voted 3-to-2 to open a new proceeding to identify the legal approach it should follow in regulating broadband. The Notice of Inquiry seeks public input to the challenge created by the Comcast court case. Options include pursuing a Title I regulatory path, a full Title II path, and a middle-ground solution -- the Third Way approach proposed by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. Specifically, the Notice of Inquiry asks the public to consider:Whether...

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Telegent appoints Ford Tamer as CEO

Telegent Systems, which supplies silicon solutions for mobile TV devices, appointed Dr. Ford Tamer as its new CEO, replacing co-founder Samuel Sheng , who will resume his position of chief technology officer.Tamer most recently has been a partner at Khosla Ventures, where he expanded the firm's cleantech efficiency practice. Prior to Khosla, Tamer served as senior vice president and general manager of Broadcom's Infrastructure Networking Group, which...

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