BT Employs "SmartWater" Invisible Paint to Deter Cable Theft

BT's Openreach division has begun to deploy an invisible, "SmartWater" forensic ink in its cabling across the UK as a deterrence to metal thieves. Driven by the recent surge in scrap copper prices, metal theft is a growing problem. BT's Metal Theft Taskforce is using the SmartWater as a means to tag anyone tampering with its lines. SmartWater is a forensic marking liquid that is unique to a particular location. It will be used to mark the outer...

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Global Crossing Posts Q2 Revenue of $630M, Down 3% Sequentially

Global Crossing reported consolidated revenue was $630 million in the second quarter of 2010, a decrease of 3 percent sequentially and essentially flat year over year. Compared with both prior periods, wholesale voice revenue declined $20 million due to pricing actions taken to improve margin performance. In addition, the sequential decrease included a $9 million unfavorable foreign exchange impact and the year-over-year decrease included a $7 million favorable foreign exchange impact. In constant currency terms, consolidated revenue decreased...

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CENX Partners with EXFO for SLA Monitoring of Carrier Ethernet Exchange

CENX, which operates Carrier Ethernet exchanges, will begin providing off-net service-level SLA monitoring for Carrier Ethernet services. The new monitoring service is a result of a collaborative partnership between CENX and EXFO, which specializes in test and service assurance solutions for network operators. CENX said it system enables buyers and sellers of Ethernet virtual connection to monitor key performance indicators across its exchange....

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NXP Acquires Jennic for Wireless Controllers

NXP Semiconductors has acquired Jennic, a leading developer of low power RF solutions for wireless applications in smart energy, environment, logistics and consumer markets. NXP paid approximately $12.2 million to acquire 100% ownership of Jennic shares, plus up to $7.8 million in additional consideration over the next two years if Jennic meets certain performance targets. Approximately 50 UK-based employees will transfer to NXP. Jennic specializes...

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New DMCA Exemptions Allow Mobile Phone Jailbreaking, Carrier Unlock

The Library of Congress announced a number of exemptions from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), including the "jail breaking" of mobile phones. These exemptions from the copyright law are based on whether the prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works is causing or is likely to cause adverse effects on the ability of users of any particular classes of copyrighted works to make noninfringing uses of those works. Specifically, the Library of Congress named six classes of works for which...

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NetLogic Packs 128 CPUs for 240 Million PPS Performance

NetLogic Microsystems unveiled a multi-core communications processor solution that integrates 128 NXCPUs and over 160 programmable processing engines to deliver 160Gbps throughput and 240 million packets-per-second (Mpps) of intelligent application performance for next-generation 3G/4G mobile wireless infrastructure, enterprise, storage, security, metro Ethernet, edge and core infrastructure network applications. The new NetLogic XLP8128S multi-core...

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Pace to Acquire 2Wire, Consolidating STB Market

Pace, a leading global supplier of set-top boxes for satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms, agreed to acquire 2Wire for $475 million in cash. The consideration includes 2Wire's balance sheet cash at closing, expected to be approximately $55 million. 2Wire supplies residential gateways and multi-service IPTV STBs. The company's key customers include AT&T for its U-verse rollout, as well as Bell Canada, Telmex, BT, SingTel, and others....

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Clearwire Sells WiMAX Operations in Ireland to Imagine

Imagine Communications Group has acquired Clearwire's Irish operations. As part of the transaction, Clearwire will become a minority shareholder and will nominate a representative to Imagine's board of directors. Other specific financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Imagine gained 50mHz of spectrum when purchasing Irish Broadband in 2008, added more spectrum in a Comreg process in 2009, and with Clearwire Ireland Limited's spectrum...

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Ceragon Acquires Advanced Carrier Ethernet NMS Technology

Ceragon Networks announced an agreement to acquire the right to use and further develop advanced Ethernet network management software which will accelerate enhancements to its end-to-end network management system (NMS). Ceragon did not name the developer of this technology but said the deal will enhance its FibeAir platforms and its PolyView management solution. The development effort is expected to simplify the design and management of complex...

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AT&T Expands its Wi-Fi Hotzone Pilot Project

AT&T is expanding its pilot project to create large outdoor Wi-Fi hotzones in areas with consistently high 3G traffic. In May, AT&T has launched a Wi-Fi hotzone in New York City's Times Square to provide a mobile broadband offload option. Customer usage has been better than expected. Now, the company has created an AT&T Wi-Fi hotzone in downtown Charlotte, N.C. AT&T plans to further expand the pilot project with the launch of a...

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Dell'Oro: 40/100 Gbps DWDM Revenue to Exceed $3B by 2014

Total worldwide DWDM Optical Transport equipment revenue is forecast to be $9.3 billion in 2014, of which just over $3 billion will come from 40/100 Gbps, according to a newly released five year forecast report from Dell'Oro Group."The demand for 40 Gbps DWDM was resilient in 2009 even as the market for optical equipment was under extreme pressure," said Jimmy Yu, Sr. Director of Optical Transport research at Dell'Oro Group. "40 Gbps DWDM revenues...

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