FCC Finds 14-24 Million Americans Lack Access to Broadband

In its newly issued Sixth Broadband Deployment Report, the FCC has found that between 14 and 24 million Americans still lack access to broadband, and the immediate prospects for deployment to them are bleak. Many of these Americans are poor or live in rural areas that will remain unserved without reform of the universal service program and other changes to U.S. broadband policy that spur investment in broadband networks by lowering the cost of deployment.The...

Read More

NTELOS to Acquire FiberNet for $170 Million

NTELOS will acquire One Communications' FiberNet business for approximately $170 million in cash.The FiberNet fiber optic network of approximately 3,500 route miles covers all of West Virginia and extends into surrounding areas in Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky. FiberNet service revenues and adjusted EBITDA for 2009 were approximately $76 million and $25 million, respectively. Capital expenditures for 2009 were approximately...

Read More

China's FiberHome Selects Siverge for Packet Transport Chip

FiberHome Communications, a leading Chinese supplier of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has selected Siverge Networks' Griffin chipset for use in a packet transport and wireless backhauling platform. Siverge's Griffin product family provides a Packet/TDM-on-a-Chip solution that can be used for a Universal Gateway Line Card. Siverge's processors supports the full range of layer 1 and 2 protocols including HDLC, PPP, ATM, IMA,...

Read More

Nigeria's Gateway Business Deploys Cisco MPLS

Gateway Business, a Vodacom Group company, has selected Cisco for a national MPLS network. Gateway Business is rolling out wireless broadband services across 36 different states in 2010 and 2011. Gateway Communications, the groups Carrier Services and Wholesale division, is also an investor in the West Africa Cable System (WACS), which will bring additional capacity in to Nigeria by June 2011. Through this agreement with Cisco, Gateway will be able...

Read More

Taiwan's Far EasTone selects Alcatel-Lucent's Carrier Ethernet

Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), a major telecom operator in Taiwan, has selected Alcatel-Lucent for an IP network transformation that will converge its exiting metro network with IP/MPLS-based Carrier Ethernet infrastructure. Specifically, Alcatel-Lucent will supply FET with a Carrier Ethernet solution that includes its 7750 Service Router, 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR), 7210 Service Access Switch (SAS) and 5620 Service Aware Manager....

Read More

Bivio Networks Enters Japanese Information Leakage Project

Bivio Networks supplied its deep packet inspection (DPI) platform for an information leak prevention research project commissioned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan (MIC). Hitachi served as the representative research center and the project lead on behalf of MIC. Japan's MIC commissioned the information leakage research project in January 2010 to study network information transfers initiated by P2P file-sharing software...

Read More

Juniper Posts Q2 Revenue of $978 Million, up 24% YoY

Juniper Networks reported Q2 2010 revenue of $978.3 million, up 24% year-over-year. Net income (GAAP) was $130.5 million, or $0.24 per diluted share, and non-GAAP net income of $164.0 million, or $0.30 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2010. Juniper's operating margin for the second quarter of 2010 increased to 18.9% on a GAAP basis from 17.6% in the first quarter of 2010, and increased from 12.2% in the prior year second quarter. Non-GAAP...

Read More

Ethernet Alliance Plans 802.3ba 40 an 100 Gbps Interoperability Test

The Ethernet Alliance Higher Speed Ethernet Subcommittee (HSE) will host an IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps interoperability test event on September 13 in Santa Clara, California at Ixia's iSimCity lab.The Ethernet Alliance invites both members and non-members to participate in this first 40G and 100G Ethernet interoperability test event for equipment designed to the IEEE 802.3ba standard. The goal of the event will be to perform testing across...

Read More

Spiceworks Upgrades its Free IT Management Software

Spiceworks announced the beta release of an updated version of its free IT management software, which includes new capabilities that allow users to automatically backup, compare and restore configurations for networked devices. In addition, the upgraded version of Spiceworks offers a newly tuned network map that enables IT managers to track bandwidth information for individual end points, such as desktops and laptops. Spiceworks currently claims over 1 million users for its IT management application, supporting 35 million workers, and 60 million...

Read More

Transtelco Deploys Ciena Along US-Mexico Border

Transtelco, a regional operator serving businesses and carriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, has deployed a 400 km high-capacity network span using Ciena's WDM transport technology. Transtelco provides metro and long-haul transport, dedicated IP access, co-location and voice termination services as a wholesale carrier and directly to end-user customers, ranging from small and medium businesses to enterprises. The new link is the longest span in...

Read More

FireEye and Solera Enter Security Analytics Partnership

FireEye and Solera Networks announced a technology partnership to provide visibility into cyber incidents before and after they occur in enterprise networks. The alliance combines FireEye's Malware Protection System and Solera Networks' network forensics platform into a single solution for capturing detailed analytics of cyber security attacks, including zero-day and advanced persistent attacks to enable swift, intelligent response. http://www.FireEye.com http://www.soleranetworks....

Read More

Spirent Verifies LTE to CDMA Handover

Spirent Communications has enhanced its testing capability to verify LTE to CDMA handover of mobile device signals, also known as Inter-Radio Access Technology (I-RAT) handover. Specifically, this I-RAT handover testing functionality has been added to Spirent's 8100 family of automated device testing solutions. The 8100's eAirAccess network emulator features powerful enhanced packet core (EPC) emulation for simultaneous support of multi-technology (LTE, CDMA/EV-DO, UMTS), multi-cell networks. This enables the broadest possible test coverage of...

Read More

Fujitsu Packet Optical Networking Platform Gains U.S. Approval

Fujitsu's FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet Optical Networking Platform (Packet ONP) has been added to the U.S. government's Unified Capabilities (UC) Approved Products List (APL). The FLASHWAVE 9500 joins the FLASHWAVE 4100 ES micro Packet ONP and FLASHWAVE 4500 Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP), among other Fujitsu platforms, on this list of approved products for deployment by the U.S. government.The FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet ONP simultaneously supports Connection-oriented Ethernet (COE), ROADM and SONET/SDH transport technologies. By combining circuit...

Read More

Exalt Introduces 4G/LTE-Ready Microwave Backhaul Platform

Exalt Communications introduced its "ExploreAir" microwave backhaul platform -- featuring speeds exceeding 500 Mbps full duplex along with a built-in compression option that delivers speeds up to 1000 Mbps with a single carrier and in a single channel. Link capacities can also be increased using the system's built-in capacity aggregation capability. Exalt designed its ExploreAir platform for 4G/LTE mobile and WiMAX backhaul applications. It could...

Read More

LightSquared Plans $7 Billion National LTE Network with NSN

LightSquared, a new company backed by Harbinger Capital Partners, unveiled its plans to launch a wholesale-only, 4G-LTE network across the U.S. complemented by satellite coverage. LightSquared will provide wholesale wireless broadband capacity to a diverse group of customers, including retailers; wireline and wireless communication service providers; cable operators; device manufacturers; web players; content providers; and many others. The LightSquared...

Read More