Huawei Wins Contract with Kenya's Safaricom

Huawei announced a contract to supply its convergent billing solution to Kenya's Safaricom. The solution supports various infrastructure networks and services and provides online rating, real-time control and express billing, thus greatly shortening time to market. Financial terms were not disclosed.The deal represents Huawei's first CBS sale in Africa. The solution has been deployed by China Mobile, China Telecom, Vodafone, ETEtisalat, MTN,...

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TDC Sells its Sunrise Share in Switzerland

TDC will sell Sunrise Communications, its subsidiary in Switzerland, to CVC Capital Partners for CHF 3.3 billion. TDC held Sunrise for nearly ten years during which Sunrise. Sunrise is the leading challenger to Swisscom and currently has 2.86 million customers. It operates an HSPA network with coverage across Switzerland and a fiber optic network with a total length of 10,000 km.http://tdc.com/http://www1.sunrise....

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BT Promises Fibre Upgrade for Bundle Customers

BT Retail will offer a fibre upgrade to customers who take a broadband + calling bundle. The upgrade would be provided as soon as FTTH is available in their area.BT has previously announced plans to bring fibre broadband to two thirds of UK premises by 2015. The company said it is already making significant progress with its rollout and is now making the service available to the equivalent of the number of premises in Singapore every quarter.John...

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Bharti Airtel Picks IBM for African Network Integration

Bharti Airtel has selected IBM to manage the computing technology and services that power its mobile communications network spanning 16 African countries. Bharti Airtel aims to scale its network and systems to more than 100 million African customers by 2012. n June 2010, Bharti Airtel acquired Zain's mobile operations in 15 countries across Africa for an enterprise valuation of US$10.7 billion. These networks had a total customer base of over 42...

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Sumitomo Electric 40GbE Optical Transceiver to 40km

Sumitomo Electric Industries introduced a 40GbE optical transceiver with a 40km reach. The device complies with the CFP Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) hardware and software specification and is capable of supporting 40km link distance over standard single mode fiber.Sumitomo Electric has already released the 40GbE CFP optical transceiver for 10km reach and in addition, developed the world's first 40GbE CFP for 40km reach by using a high speed 4-wavelength...

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NeoPhotonics Releases 100G Integrated Coherent Receiver (ICR)

NeoPhotonics announced general availability of its Integrated Coherent Receiver (ICR) for 100 Gbps DWDM transmission systems. The ICR is an integrated intradyne receiver based on NeoPhotonics' Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) technology. NeoPhotonics said its ICR supports the requirements of the OIF Implementation Agreement on 100G Integrated Polarization Intradyne Coherent Receivers. The device provides advanced demodulation to analyze the...

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