Fujitsu Shows Improved Wireless Charging System

Fujitsu Laboratories has demonstrated a wireless recharging technology that enables the design of magnetic resonance-based wireless charging systems that can simultaneously recharge various types of portable electronic devices. Fujitsu said its technology promises more compact and more efficient power transmitters and receivers for mobile phones, digital cameras, notebook computers, and other portable electronics.Fujitsu said electromagnetic induction...

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SiTime Introduces First kHz Frequency Silicon MEMS Oscillator

SiTime introduced the industry's first kHz frequency silicon MEMS oscillator for audio, microcontroller and high reliability industrial applications. The Sunnyvale, California-based company already offers a portfolio of Silicon MEMS-based, megahertz (MHz) frequency, differential oscillators, clock generators, VCXOs, spread spectrum timing products and embedded resonators. The new SiT8503 offers programmable support for any frequency between 200...

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Cisco Intends to Issue Dividend

Cisco announced plans to issue a dividend during the current fiscal year ending July 30, 2011. Specifics were not disclosed. Cisco said it intends to provide shareholders with "a guaranteed dividend yield to complement Cisco's long term growth opportunity."http://www.cisco....

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GigOptix Samples Dual Channel SMT 100G Driver

GigOptix has begun sampling its new dual channel Surface Mounted Technology (SMT) GX62255 8Vpp Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM) driver designed for use in 100G optical transponders. The SMT device integrates two 32Gb/s 8Vpp driver channels into a single small form factor solution. A 100G transponder requires four drivers, while GigOptix' highly integrated dual channel solution significantly reduces both the area needed to implement the driver section and the Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) within the system. Each 100G transponder uses two GX62255...

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Telekom Austria Picks NSN to Upgrade Radio Networks

The Telekom Austria Group (TAG) awarded a five-year contract for Nokia Siemens Networks to replace and modernize its radio networks in Austria, Liechtenstein and Slovenia, and to further deploy 3G services in Serbia and Belarus. The new, energy-efficient network will be ready for HSPA+ and LTE via software upgrades.Nokia Siemens Networks will provide its Flexi BSC (Base Station Controller), Radio Network Controller and the small, modular and weatherproof...

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NSN to build Global Network Operations Center in Russia

Nokia Siemens Networks announced plans to set up a Global Network Operations Center (GNOC) near Moscow. GNOCs are the cornerstone of Nokia Siemens Networks' global service delivery model and the company currently has three existing centers -- two in India and one in Portugal. The company's managed services business currently supports more than 380 million subscribers around the world.NSN said the outsourcing of network management is gaining momentum...

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China's Centec Introduces 100 Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Centec Networks, a fabless silicon developer based in Suzhou, China, introduced its second-generation IP/Ethernet switching processor offering 100 Gbps performance and integrating Layer 2 through Layer 4 capabilities and advanced traffic manager and fabric interfaces. The device is aimed at Carrier Ethernet and Packet Transport equipment, including access, edge, and aggregation IP/Ethernet routing switches, Packet Transport Network (PTN) platforms,...

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FCC Opens Online Portal for License Info

The FCC activated a new online tool aimed at making its FCC license management information more transparent and accessible to a broad range of users. FCC License View is the latest release by the agency's Data Innovation Initiative, a long-term effort aimed at reforming the collection, use, and dissemination of FCC data. At launch, FCC License View lets users explore over 3 million total licenses, 2 million of which are active. "This data innovation...

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Oclaro Unveils Dynamic Spectrum Wavelength Selective Switch

Oclaro introduced a dynamic spectrum wavelength selective switch designed to support multiple and future modulation schemes for different filter widths. The new dynamic spectrum 2x1 wavelength selective switch (WSS) remains compatible with Oclaro's fixed 2x1 WSS modules currently shipping to customers. http://www.oclaro....

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Orange Delivers Trans-European Network for EC

The European Commission has renewed a two year contract under which Orange Business Services manages the pan-European sTESTA (secured Trans European Services for Telematics between Administrations) network. sTESTA is a private MPLS-based IP network that connects more than 250 sites in all EU member states, the European Free Trade Association states as well as candidate and potential candidate countries. In addition to the network, Orange manages...

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Conviva Raises $15 Million for Advanced Streaming Technology

Conviva, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, raises $15 million in Series C round of funding to accelerate its advanced streaming business. The company has optimized over a billion video streams for some of the largest broadcasters on the Internet and will use the new financing to expand the company's global footprint.Conviva provides real-time visibility into each viewer's video session as well as the entire online video ecosystem to predict...

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Mu Dynamics and UNH-IOL Accelerate IPv6 Testing

Mu Dynamics and the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) released a set of pre-packaged IPv6 test content for use by network equipment manufacturers, Tier-1 global service providers and government agencies. The set consists of ten of thousands of automated test cases including:Functional verification tests that ensure that IPv6 implementations are compliant with the IETF specifications and best practices. For example, ensuring...

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U.S. Bill Seeks 5 Year Moratorium on New Wireless Taxes

The U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law passed the Cell Tax Fairness Act (H.R. 1521, sponsored by Rep. Zoe Lofgren), which would place a five year moratorium on any new discriminatory state and local taxes and fees on wireless services. "As more Americans rely on their wireless devices as their only phone and on-ramp to the Internet, taxing their services at more than twice the rate applied to other goods and services is discriminatory. These types of taxes are regressive and make little sense in today's mobile...

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Deutsche Telekom Faces Bribery Inquiry

The public prosecutor's office in Bonn has initiated an investigation into Deutsche Telekom for suspected acts of bribery in Macedonia and Montenegro. The inquiry concerns eight people, including René Obermann, Deutsche Telekom's CEO, who is alleged by the Bonn prosecutor of approving dividend payments to MakTel at a meeting with the CEO of Makedonski Telekom (MakTel) in 2005 on the condition that the Macedonian telecommunications market not be opened up to other competitors. The public prosecutor's office is linking this to alleged bribery payments...

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ip.access to Develop WCDMA Femtocells with Qualcomm Chipset

ip.access announced plans to develop WCDMA residential and enterprise femtocell products using Qualcomm's Femtocell Station Modem (FSM) chipset platform. ip.access is also a licensee of Qualcomm's femtocell patent licensing program. AT&T is using a residential femtocell by Cisco using ip.access' Oyster 3G femtocell technology. http://www.ipaccess....

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Brocade Pushes Forward with 100 Gigabit Ethernet Router

Brocade introduced its MLXe Core Router and 100 GbE blade designed to address the exponential traffic surge that carriers are experiencing worldwide. Significantly, Brocade said its MLXe routers, which will be offered in 4-, 8-, 16- and 32-slot configurations, enable new 100 GbE price/performance points that drive the 100G market forward for carrier core networks as well as next-generation virtualized data centers. The new 100 GbE blade also integrates...

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Amsterdam Internet Exchange Deploys Brocade MLXe Core Route

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), one of the world's largest Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), has doubled its network capacity by deploying new Brocade MLXe Core Routers. As part of a single project, AMS-IX deployed seven Brocade MLXe-32 routers (leveraging new high-performance switch fabric modules) to complement the existing infrastructure of Brocade MLX-8, MLX-16 and MLX-32 routers. This includes the deployment of 120 8×10G Series blades,...

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