Portugal Telecom Selects Alcatel-Lucent's HLN Strategy

Portugal Telecom has awarded a three-year agreement to Alcatel-Lucent to extend the capacity of its IP/MPLS network to support existing and new services to its growing customer base. PT will evolve its converged IP/MPLS network based on Alcatel-Lucent's High Leverage Network (HLN) architecture.The architecture will leverage an all-IP network layered with embedded intelligence and application awareness that improves the end-users experience as well...

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HomePlug AV2 Spec to Support Gigabit-class Powerline

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance announced major advancements by its Technical Working Group (TWG) on the HomePlug AV2 specification, which will be fully interoperable with current HomePlug AV and future HomePlug Green PHY and IEEE 1901 products. Key powerline enhancements the TWG selected for inclusion in the developing HomePlug AV2 specification include:MIMO (Multiple-Inputs Multiple-Outputs) offers significant increases in link throughput and range...

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Pacific Crossing Boosts Capacity

Pacific Crossing, which is a division of NTT Communications, has again boosted the capacity of its PC-1 trans-Pacific undersea cable network and expanded its Ethernet service capability. The newly added capacity will come into service at the end of July. A third upgrade of the PC-1 system is scheduled for later in 2010.Following its upgrade of the PC-1 system in 2008, which pushed the lit capacity of the cable over the 1Tbps mark, Pacific Crossing...

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Dell'Oro: Ethernet Microwave Market Forecast

The point-to-point microwave equipment market is forecast to grow 30 percent over the next five years to $6.6 billion in 2014, according to a newly published report by Dell'Oro Group."Mobile data traffic is expected to nearly double each year in the near future and by 2014, the vast majority of traffic backhauled from cell sites will be data packets and not voice circuits," said Jimmy Yu, Sr. Director of Microwave Transmission research at Dell'Oro...

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Korea's LG U+ Teams with Microsoft on Cloud Services

LG U+, the new Korean telecommunication service provider formed by the merger of LG Telecom, LG Dacom and LG Powercomm, will partner with Microsoft to offer a broad range of cloud services. By leveraging Microsoft Online Services, LG U+ will be able to deliver enterprise-class solutions and rich user experiences to small and midsize enterprises and consumers through its Smart Workplace offering. Additional services contemplated under the alliance...

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ARRIS Posts Q2 Revenue of $280 Million

ARRIS reported Q2 2010 of $280.4 million, up approximately $1.9 million as compared to second quarter 2009 revenues of $278.5 million, and up $13.7 million as compared to first quarter 2010 revenues of $266.7 million. Through the first half of 2010 and 2009, revenues were $547.1 million and $532.0 million, respectively. GAAP net income in the second quarter 2010 was $0.15 per diluted share, as compared to second quarter 2009 GAAP net income of $0.18 per diluted share and the first quarter 2010 GAAP net income of $0.15 per diluted share. Year to...

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Meru Networks Reports Rapid Sales Rise

Meru Networks, which supplies enterprise WLAN solutions, reported Q2 2010 revenue of $20.9 million, up 22% from $17.1 million in the second quarter of fiscal year 2009. Products and services revenues for the second quarter of fiscal year 2010 were $18.0 million, up 47% from the $12.3 million reported in the second quarter of fiscal year 2009. Net income as reported in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) was $0.9 million for the second quarter of 2010, or $0.05 per fully diluted share, compared to a net loss of $2.3...

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GENBAND Adds Automated Cutover to Softswitch

GENBAND introduced a new Automated Cutover capability to its C15 Compact Softswitch that eliminates downtime normally associated with network transitions to IP. The Automated Cutover capability is an embedded software utility that equips services providers to migrate legacy networks to IP without having to shut-down their network or perform time-consuming flash cutovers, which can result in loss of service for end users. It enables service providers to migrate multiple Central Offices on a site-by-site, frame-by-frame and line-by-line basis. During...

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NetLogic Posts Q2 Revenue of $95 Million

NetLogic Microsystems reported Q2 revenue of $95.0 million, a 10.2 percent sequential increase from $86.3 million for the first quarter of 2010 and a 192 percent increase from $32.5 million for the second quarter of 2009. Second quarter 2010 net loss (GAAP) was $4.8 million or $0.08 per diluted share. By comparison, GAAP net loss was $2.2 million or $0.05 per diluted share for the second quarter of 2009. "This is a very exciting time for us," said Ron Jankov, president and CEO. "When we announced the merger with RMI last June, we were committed...

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Telefónica gains control of Brazil's Vivo

Telefónicareached an agreement with Portugal Telecom to purchase 50% of Brasilcel held by the Portuguese operator. The entity to result from the Telesp-Vivo business combination, to which Telefónica will bring its extensive track record in integrating acquisitions and capturing synergies, will be the largest integrated operator in Brazil by all key metrics: by customer numbers (69.2 million to March 2010), revenue/OIBDA (11.8 and 4.1 billion euros...

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Sprint Nextel Adds 111K Subscribers in Q2

Sprint gained a total of approximately 111,000 net subscribers in the quarter. The company cited steady demand for smartphones like HTC EVO 4G and BlackBerry Curve combined with its best ever postpaid churn of 1.85 percent for the positive net postpaid subscriber growth of 136,000 on the CDMA network and 285,000 for the Sprint brand. The company also posted its best ever year-over-year quarterly net postpaid subscriber loss improvement of 763,000....

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Comcast Report Q2 Revenue of $9.5 Billion

Comcast's revenue increased 6.1% in Q2 2010 to $9.5 billion, while Operating Cash Flow increased 5.7% to $3.7 billion and Operating Income increased 10.9% to $2.1 billion. This growth was due to solid operating results in the Cable and Programming segments, partially offset by $22 million of NBC Universal-related transaction costs."We delivered healthy operating and financial results in the second quarter, reflecting overall customer growth, double-digit...

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NTT and Mitsubishi Electric Develop Advanced Encryption Scheme

NTT and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. have developed a new advanced encryption scheme that uses a mathematical approach called the "dual pairing vector spaces. The companies said their new encryption scheme will play an important role in achieving secure environments for cloud computing and other advanced network services. The two companies now plan to study how to efficiently implement and utilize this scheme for various applications. http://www.ntt.co...

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Alcatel-Lucent Tests 100GE Performance with Isocore and Ixia

Isocore has tested and verified the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router's (SR) 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GE) performance using Ixia's K2 100 GE test solution. The tests validate the Service Router's ability to handle high-touch service connections at 100 Gbps line-rate speeds. The companies said the test results also demonstrate the viability of 100 GE for broad deployment throughout carrier networks, extending beyond the IP core and into the service...

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