Telstra Sees Mobile Data as Bright Spot

Telstra's sales revenue declined 2.2% or $558 million to $24,813 million (Australian) for its full 2009/10 financial year. EBITDA also declined by 0.9% or $101 million to $10,847 million. Net profit after tax declined by 4.7% to $3,883 million, however, free cash flow increased by $1.9 billion to $6.2 billion, exceeding the company's long-held target of $6 billion."2010 has been a challenging year, yet in the second half we started to see improving...

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Cisco Posts Revenue of $10.8B, up 27% YoY, Cites Mixed Economic Signals

Cisco posted quarterly sales of $10.8 billion, net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $1.9 billion or $0.33 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $2.5 billion or $0.43 per share. Net sales were up 27% year-over-year while net income rose 74% year over year. However, the figures were slightly below analyst expectations of $10.95 billion in sales and the company cited "mixed signals" for growth in the global economy."This...

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Bharti Airtel to acquire Telecom Seychelles

Bharti Airtel will acquire 100 % of Telecom Seychelles Limited, the incumbent operator of Seychelles, for US$62 million. Seychelles is an island nation in the Indian Ocean with an estimated population of 84,000. Telecom Seychelles began operations in 1998 by launching mobile services. Today, it offers 3G mobile and integrated wireline services across the island nation under the Airtel brand and has over 57% share of the mobile market. The operator...

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Ericsson Demos Open IPTV Set-top Box

Ericsson has demonstrated an IPTV set-top box based on specifications from the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF). The showcase was created in response to Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) and Media Development Authority (MDA) plan to minimize IPTV fragmentation across operators and enhance growth of interactive applications through a standards-based common featured IPTV STB over the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN). Ericsson said it believes the use of open standards for a common featured STB will encourage innovative...

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Alcatel-Lucent Supplies IP/MPLS to Washington Gas

Washington Gas, which is a utility company serving Washington, D.C., has selected Alcatel-Lucent's IP/MPLS solution for its new communications backbone.The new network will support mission-critical utility applications and data requirements throughout Washington Gas' service territory. For example, this new high-speed network will be able to monitor the company's 12,200 miles of pipeline, checking for any disruptions and alerting management immediately....

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SingTel Installs Huawei's Core Router Clustering System

SingTel has successfully deployed Huawei's NE5000E 1+2 router cluster system in its converged IP backbone.Huawei's NE5000E 1+2 router cluster system provides scalability to 2.56 Tbps and features a a resilient matrix design and in-service hardware expansion capabilities. Huawei said its NE5000E router cluster system also breaks new ground in terms of energy-efficiency due to its distributed power supply, highly-efficient power system, and cyclic...

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Microsemi Doubles Reach for PoE Midspans to 200M

Microsemi introduced a single-port Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) extender that doubles the powering reach of its PoE midspans to 200 meters. PoE midspans enable both data and power to be delivered over a single standard RJ-45 cable, eliminating the need for external power supplies and their associated AC/DC power cabling for Ethernet-connected cameras, IP phones, WLAN access points, etc.Microsemi is the first to deliver 25.5-watt, IEEE802.3at power levels...

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Ericsson Milestone: 2 Million Base Stations Delivered to Date

In 2007, Ericsson delivered its one millionth radio base station, some 20 years since shipping its first base station. It has taken only three years to deliver the next million. The two millionth radio base station was an Ericsson RBS 6000 unit, delivered as part of a mobile broadband network expansion project.Ericsson estimates that its base stations connect 1.5 billion people worldwide. http://www.ericsson....

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Google Inks Ad Sales Deal with DIRECTV

Google will become the sales representative for a broad selection of advertising inventory on several cable networks carried on DIRECTV. Under the deal, national satellite advertising inventory on Bloomberg, Fox Business, Centric, Fuel, G4, Current, Ovation, Fit, Sleuth, Chiller and TV Guide will be available through the Google TV Ads system.DIRECTV currently has 18.7 million satellite TV subscribers. http://www.google.com http://www.directv....

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NTT Com to Acquire Secode AB for Managed Security in No. Europe

NTT Communications will acquire Secode AB, a leading provider of managed-security and security-consulting services in Nordic countries, for an undisclosed sum.Secode provides managed-security and security-consulting services across northern Europe. The company offers 24/7 services for intrusion detection and prevention, log management, vulnerability analysis, data-loss prevention, anti-virus and anti-spam, managed VPN/firewall and mobile security....

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Talari Networks Secures $10 Million for WAN Virtualization

Talari Networks, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, raised $10 million in a second round of institutional funding for its enterprise WAN virtualization technology.Talari Networks' Adaptive Private Networking (APN) technology combines network bandwidth from the public Internet with RAID-like methods. It combines diverse sources of bandwidth and end-to-end algorithms to apply dynamic, real-time, per-packet traffic engineering. By continually...

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Motorola Says iDEN Continues to Grow Internationally

Motorola's proprietary integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) technology, which combines traditional mobile telephony with push-to-talk (PTT) for the enterprise market, has reached 10 million subscribers outside the United States. Motorola said iDEN technology is currently in operation with more than 30 network operators in 23 countries worldwide for the delivery of communications services. "Motorola continues to develop and support our iDEN...

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Synopsys Adds TDD Support to LTE Model Library

Synopsys has added Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode in its LTE Model Library for physical layer system simulation. This enables developers of semiconductors for LTE network equipment and devices to quickly and reliably extend their designs to support this important version of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) LTE standard. Synopsys already supported Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) for LTE. Synopsys' LTE library includes models of the transmitter...

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NETGEAR Provides Wireless for the Panasonic VIERA TVs

Panasonic has selected NETGEAR as the only third-party brand to support its VIERA line of TVs, commencing with its NETGEAR N600 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter (WNDA3100). The adapter features NETGEAR's Push 'N' Connect technology which allows consumers to connect their Panasonic VIERA TV and wireless router with the push of a button and wirelessly stream Internet content to the TV with the VIERA Cast IPTV technology. VIERA Cast, which requires no additional equipment or set up, allows consumers to enjoy online content through an easy-to-use web...

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Some Industry Reaction to Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Agreement

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps: "Some will claim this announcement moves the discussion forward. That's one of its many problems. It is time to move a decision forward--a decision to reassert FCC authority over broadband telecommunications, to guarantee an open Internet now and forever, and to put the interests of consumers in front of the interests of giant corporations."Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA): "We believe this is a step in the right direction towards consensus and a possible solution to the uncertainty created by the Comcast...

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