Aricent and Frog Design Create Idea-to-Market Business Unit

frog design and its parent company Aricent have created a new business focused on innovation in communications, energy, retail, and healthcare. The new Idea-to-Market unit will integrate frog's 550 designers, researchers, strategists, mechanical engineers, and technologists with Aricent's Mobile Devices and Solutions (MDS) and Experience Engineering (XE) groups, which are comprised of more than 1,000 software architects, developers, and quality assurance...

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Aculab Releases Application Development Platform

Aculab introduced its AMS Server application development platform for helping developers access the telephony and media server functionality of its Prosody S Host Media Processing (HMP) platform using high-level object-oriented programming languages.The AMS Server enables the use of high-level languages, such as C# for the .Net environment and Python for open-source and Linux, in conjunction with application programming interfaces (APIs) into the...

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Hong Kong's CSL Shows Dual Cell HSPA+/LTE

Hong Kong's CSL Limited announced plans to become the first carrier to simultaneously deploy DC HPSA+ (42 Mbps)/LTE technologies on an entire network. CSL currently operates a GSM / WCDMA and UMTS 900 network in Hong Kong. In July 2010, CSL and ZTE announced the deployment of the world's first commercial 1800 MHz/2600 MHz dual-band LTE network and the upgrade of the 3G network to the Dual Cell technology with peak speeds of 42Mbps. The dual-band...

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Aricent Offers Mobile Service Assurance for 4G

Aricent has added a Mobile Service Assurance focus to its OSS practice to help global service providers optimize network and service quality, especially as they transition to 4G networks. The company said its approach to Service Assurance is to provide a unified, integrated approach for managing service quality and user experience based on events, service and network performance. Currently, 7 of the top 10 communication service providers leverage...

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Procera Updates its PacketLogic Subscriber Manager

Procera Networks released an updated version its PacketLogic Subscriber Manager (PSM) suite, featuring a significant increase in performance that enables 50,000 subscribers to be provisioned per second. Version 5 of the software adds a new administration user interface (GUI) for intuitive configuration, integration setup, creation and modification of service packages, and adjustments to accommodate new network conditions.Core functionality in PSM...

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Australia's Nextgen Networks Tests 100G with Alcatel-Lucent

Nextgen Networks, which owns and operates Australia's third largest fibre network, has tested 100 Gbps over its backbone network in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent. The demonstration leveraged Alcatel-Lucent's High Leverage Network (HLN) architecture and its Converged Backbone Transformation (CBT) solution to enable interaction between optical transport systems and IP service routers using 100G links. Core elements of the 100G solution demonstrated...

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NTT Communications Selects Crossbeam Security Platform

Crossbeam Systems confirmed that NTT Communications has deployed its X-Series security platform in its data centers as part of a network consolidation initiative. This project involved migrating approximately 50 different systems from five different data centers into one data center in Tokyo. Crossbeam said that since deploying the X-Series in January, NTT Com has been able to cut the number of network security devices by more than half. NTT Com...

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DT Targets Smart Grids, Smart Vehicles, Networked Healthcare

Deutsche Telekom's CEO René Obermann introduced the three top managers for new business focus on smart grids, smart vehicles and networked healthcare. The company believes these verticals can grow from zero to one billion Euros in revenue by 2015."With smart grids and innovative Internet solutions, we want to seize digitalization as an opportunity for sustained growth. Thanks to their personal experiences and technical expertise, the new heads of...

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Continuous Computing and NetLogic Partner on 40G ATCA Platforms

Continuous Computing and NetLogic Microsystems are collaborating on 40G AdvancedTCA (ATCA) packet processing platforms using NetLogic Microsystems' XLP multi-core, multi-threaded processors with 64 NXCPUs, the NL11k knowledge-based processors and 10GE PHYs solutions. Continuous Computing's flagship FlexPacket ATCA-PP80 packet processing blade, which is based on NetLogic Microsystems' new XLP832 multi-core processor, is targeted at core and edge elements...

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Hurricane Electric Notes Growth in IPv6 Backbones

Hurricane Electric, which operates colocation facilities in the U.S., noted rapid growth in its IPv6 network. Hurricane Electric now connects to more than 900 associated IPv6 backbones. The company first deployed IPv6 on its global backbone in 2001, and is one of the few global Internet backbones that is IPv6-native and does not rely on internal tunnels for its IPv6 connectivity. IPv6 is offered as a core service and every customer is provided IPv6...

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Ericsson Acquires inCode Group for Professional Services Team

Ericsson has acquired certain assets of inCode's Strategy and Technology Group, a professional services firm providing strategic business and consulting services to leading clients in telecommunications.The acquisition brings approximately 45 highly skilled strategy, business, and technical consultants in the United States and Canada in addition to contracts, technology and intellectual property. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ericsson.com...

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Pareto Networks Names Daniel Ryan as CEO

Pareto Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, named Dan Ryan as CEO. Previously, he was the executive vice president and general manager for the network security business unit of McAfee. He joined McAfee in 2008 when it acquired Secure Computing (SCUR) for $465M. Ryan was president and CEO of Secure Computing.Pareto has developed a cloud-based service aimed at simplifying branch office network deployment and operations. Pareto's service...

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China Mobile Shaanxi Selects Juniper for New Data Center

China Mobile Shaanxi has deployed Juniper Networks MX960 Universal Edge Routers for its data center core routing, offering a high level of redundancy with total system capacity of up to 2.6 Tbps. Juniper Networks EX4200 Ethernet Switches, deployed in a Virtual Chassis fabric configuration, provide the data center with a scalable, high-density Gigabit Ethernet switching fabric, while Juniper Networks SRX3600 Services Gateways provide a highly-reliable...

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Motorola and Ericsson Partner on Public Safety LTE Solutions

Motorola Solutions and Ericsson will collaborate to offer an LTE-based solution for public safety mobile broadband. The alliance will combine Motorola's public safety optimized LTE core and interoperability platform with Ericsson's LTE access equipment as well as parts of its packet core and related services.Motorola's advanced devices, video security and command and control solutions will leverage these platforms to offer public safety officials...

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