Alcatel-Lucent Selected for Submarine Cable Linking Angola to Brazil

eFive Telecoms, a South African telecommunications company, has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build a new submarine cable network linking the west coast of Africa to South America. The system will be composed of two trunks - the first one connecting South Africa to Angola and Nigeria, and the second trunk linking Angola to Brazil. Alcatel-Lucent will manage the project end-to-end, including the system design, manufacturing, installation and commissioning. The system will also be maintained by Alcatel-Lucent through its Atlantic Private Maintenance...

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Yota Deploys 4G in Kazan

Russia's Yota has deployed a 4G network in Kazan, capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan. The citywide network was installed in just two months and a trial underway has shown speeds of up to 100 Mbps. Yota said it has invested $20 million in building the Kazan network, which covers the city's whole population of over one million people with 147 base stations. http://www.yota...

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Cisco to Acquire Arch Rock for Wireless Energy Sensors

Cisco agreed to acquire privately-held Arch Rock Corporation, a start-up based in San Francisco that develops IP wireless network sensors for smart-grid applications. Financial terms were not disclosed.Arch Rock's HiNet architecture is a foundation for turning wireless sensing or metering points into IP- and web-enabled devices. The technology is designed to enable utilities to connect smart meters and other distributed intelligent devices over...

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euNetworks Extends Low-Latency Net from London to Frankfurt

euNetworks launched a new ultra low latency route from London to Frankfurt. The company route is optimized for connectivity into Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) and key data centers to support the bandwidth needs of financial clients.euNetworks' euTrade service portfolio delivers connectivity between all major Stock Exchanges and clearing houses across Europe. Services within this portfolio range from dedicated fiber, to wavelengths and Ethernet...

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Huawei Debuts "IDEOS" Android Phone with $150 Price

Huawei launched an entry-level, IDEOS smartphone powered by Android 2.2 (Froyo) and featuring a price point of between US$100 and US$200, depending on the market. The phone features WCDMA + WiFi dual network support, and functions as a WiFi hotspot router for up to eight other devices. It boasts a 2.8-inch capacitive touchscreen, a 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS, and a microSD slot. Huawei will offer several bright colors."We are proud to have already...

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BT Launches SIP Trunking Option

The BT Onevoice converged communications platform has been enhanced with SIP trunking in a number of countries, providing full connectivity between domestic country voice services and BT's Onevoice global VPN. The service offers local numbering for both outgoing and incoming call traffic that can be delivered anywhere on a user's network. Already available in the UK, the services will be rolled out to the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and...

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Tata Deploys Huawei's Mobile Softswitch in Mumbai

Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) has deployed Huawei's MSC Pool solution in Mumbai to improve the performance, reliability and disaster resilience of network. The solution transformed three existing sets of CDMA mobile softswitches into one MSC Pool without having to make any modifications to other parts of the network. In addition to gains in reliability, Huawei said its operator-controllable load balancing addresses the problem of unevenly distributed...

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XO Tests Infinera's Coherent 100G Transmission

Infinera and XO Communication have completed a field trial of 100 100G coherent transmission technology. The tests, which ran over a 1348km route between Denver and Dallas on XO's network, used Infinera's new 500 Gigabit per second (500G) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), which each integrate five 100G channels. The fiber route is built with Infinera's 100G-ready ILS WDM line system, which provides scalable fiber capacity up to 8 Tbps. During...

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Indonesia's TELKOM Converges IP and Optical Nets with ALU

PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (TELKOM) is deploying Alcatel-Lucent's Converged Backbone Transformation (CBT) solution to simplify its network and upgrade its capacity. The Indonesian carrier has experienced a spike in broadband subscribers and traffic. Between the first quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, TELKOM saw the number of its fixed broadband subscribers grow by 79% and that of its mobile broadband users grow by 607%.Under the project,...

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Alcatel-Lucent Completes First Call over LTE in Public Safety Band

Alcatel-Lucent has completed its first data call over LTE using Band 14 spectrum earmarked for public safety agencies in the United States. The FCC has designated 10 MHz of spectrum (paired 5 MHz carriers) in the upper 700 MHz band for Public Safety Broadband communications. This spectrum, together with the adjacent D block constitutes the 3GPP Band 14."This achievement represents an important step toward revolutionizing public safety networks as...

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