Verizon Business Extends Cloud Services with VMware

Verizon Business is testing VMware's vSphere virtualization platform to expand its Computing as a Service (CaaS) portfolio. Specifically, Verizon's CaaS enabled by VMware's vCloud Datacenter solution will allow enterprises to decide which applications to move to the cloud so they can react more quickly to changing business conditions. This would enable companies to pay only for IT resources consumed (server, connectivity, storage) while delivering...

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Occam Networks Signs Greek Reseller

Occam Networks has signed Optronics Technologies S.A. of Athens as part of its rapidly growing EMEA reseller network. Optronics is known across Greece and Cyprus for its installation of fiber optic-based LAN and WAN networks for both publicly and privately-owned networks. It also has its own production facilities for fiber optic accessories and components and can develop customized solutions for its customers through its own laboratories if required. http://www.occamnetworks....

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T-Mobile USA Plans 42 Mbps HSPA+ for 2011

T-Mobile USA announced plans offer dual-carrier HSPA+ with peak theoretical speeds of 42 Mbps by 2011. The company said its mobile broadband network now covers 100 million people in more than 55 major U.S. metropolitan areas. T-Mobile's HSPA+ network, which currently offers theoretical peak throughput speeds of 21Mbps, is now available in Boston; Erie, Penn.; Fresno, Palm Springs and San Diego, Calif.; Miami, Fla.; Richmond, Va.; Spokane, Wash.;...

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Singapore's M1 Offers 1 Gbps Residential Service

Singapore's M1 is launching fibre broadband over the NGNBN infrastructure. Four new broadband plans for residential customers with downlink speeds of 1Gbps, 100Mbps, 50Mbps and 25Mbps will be offered. Residential broadband customers also have the option of signing up for free incoming and outgoing calls on M1 Fixed Voice, which is M1's new fixed line service. Students who sign up for any M1 mobile plan will enjoy a special subscription rate...

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Ridgemont Equity to Acquire Majority Stake in Unite Private Networks

Ridgemont Equity Partners will acquire a majority equity stake in Unite Private Networks (UPN), which operates fiber infrastructure in 12 U.S. states, primarily in the mid-West. UPN, which is based near Kansas City, specializes in providing high-capacity data communications networks and related services to schools, government, carriers, data centers and enterprise business customers. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.upnllc.com http://www.ridgemontep....

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SingTel Launches Services over NGNBN Fibre

SingTel launched a set of high-speed, consumer and business communication services in its home with downlink speeds of up to 200 Mbps using Singapore's new Next Generation National Broadband Network (NGNBN) and its own fibre infrastructure."The availability of an ultra high-speed fibre network through the NGNBN and our own fibre infrastructure presents SingTel with significant opportunities to break new grounds in terms of service innovation and...

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Singapore's Next Gen Nationwide Broadband Network Launches

Singapore's Next Gen Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN) officially began commercial operations.Under the NBN structure established by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) in 2008, the NetCo (OpenNet) is responsible for deploying fiber and maintaining the passive infrastructure while the OpCo (Nucleus Connect) is responsible for the active network and for delivering wholesale services to Retail Service Providers (RSPs). A structural...

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Dell'Oro: Weakness in the Microwave Transmission Market

The point-to-point microwave equipment market experienced a second consecutive quarter of decline in what is typically a seasonally strong quarter, as it dipped to a little over $1 billion during the second quarter of 2010, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. The report indicates that Ericsson continued to hold the largest market share in the quarter, trailed closely by Huawei. Huawei gained 5 percentage points of market share year-over-year,...

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NTT DOCOMO Works with WiSpry on RF-MEMS Technology

WiSpry, a fabless RF semiconductor company based in Irvine, California, has signed an agreement with NTT DOCOMO, Inc. to jointly develop tunable filters for mobile phone applications based on WiSpry's RF-MEMS technology. The companies are using the technology to design and develop new and enhanced tunable filters for mobile phones. WiSpry will supply tunable RF-MEMS technology, and DOCOMO will provide system and application technology. http://ww...

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Motorola Tunes its Remote Mgt for Multi-Screen Digital Homes

Motorola Mobility is introducing a new "EDGE" Service Assurance Software Suite for activating, provisioning, maintaining and supporting all broadband services in multi-screen digital homes.Motorola's EDGE Manager remote management software platform (formerly Motorola NBBS) is a multi-protocol management solution that supports Broadband Forum's TR-069, SNMP, OMA-DM,WIB, Telnet and HTTP DL Server protocols. This provides operators with expanded visibility...

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NTT America Deploys VMware for Offering Cloud Services

NTT America is using VMware vCloud Director to offer cloud services to customers. VMware vCloud Director software extends the resource pooling capabilities of VMware vSphere to enable enterprises and service providers to create pools of compute, networking and storage resources with defined management policies and performance levels -- helping establish a common model for provisioning IT services with consistent security, compliance and manageability across public and private cloud environments. NTT Communications has data centers strategically...

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F5 Integrates with VMware vCloud Director for "Cloudbursting"

F5 Networks introduced a solution developed in conjunction with VMware that enables enterprises to more easily augment the capacity of their data centers with external cloud resources -- a process called "cloudbursting". The solution ties F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager and its BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager with VMware vCloud Director and the VMware vCloud API to monitor application response times and apply business policies that can augment local resources with on-demand cloud-based resources when predetermined thresholds are met. The solution...

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VBrick Wins U.S. Patent for Real-Time Video Compression

VBrick Systems has been awarded U.S. patent No. 7,751,482 for its real-time, encoding algorithms used during the compression of streaming video. VBrick said the issue faced when compressing streaming video is how to best optimize the quality of the final image given its real-time nature. In a typical real-time encoder, there is limited CPU power to efficiently compress incoming video streams. VBrick's patented technology, which specifically addresses...

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