Bharti Airtel Selects Ericsson, NSN and Huawei

Bharti Airtel has chosen Ericsson India, Nokia Siemens Networks and Huawei Technologies as network partners to launch 3G Services in India. Financial terms were not disclosed.Ericsson was selected to supply the majority of the 3G License Circles held by Bharti. With the new contract, Ericsson continues to be Bharti's largest network partner across 2G and 3G circles in the country.On the same lines, Bharti has also expanded its relationship with Nokia...

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Infinera Enables Programmable Multi-Service OTN Switching

Infinera is enabling new OTN (Optical Transport Network) capabilities the introduction of both hardware and software enhancements to its family of optical platforms. The hardware enhancements are new Tributary Adapter Modules for the DTN digital ROADM core WDM system and new Service Interface Modules for the ATN metro/access WDM system. These new modules enable OTN, Ethernet, FibreChannel, SONET/SDH, and wavelength services with per-port programmability....

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New Measures for Europe's Digital Agenda

The European Commission adopted several measures aimed at boosting the roll-out and take up of fast- and ultra-fast broadband as part of its Digital Agenda for Europe. The goal is to ensure that every European citizen could access basic broadband by 2013, and fast- and ultra-fast broadband by 2020. The newly adopted measures include:A recommendation on access to next-generation networks, so that telecoms operators would know what EU laws will apply...

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Ceragon Acquires Elxys Innovations for RF Designs

Ceragon Networks has acquired Elxys Innovations, a designer of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFIC). Elxys, which has been Ceragon's design partner for a number of years, specializes in analog, RF, millimeter-wave and mixed signal integrated circuit design spanning from baseband up to 77 GHz. Total consideration was $1.6 million plus 200,000 restricted share units to Elxys founders who are now Ceragon employees. The company is based in...

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Broadband Passes 500 Million Subscriber Mark

The number of broadband subscriber lines installed worldwide passed the 500 million mark in July 2010, according to the Broadband Forum and research from Point Topic.As of the end of Q2 2010, global broadband subscribers reached 498 million lines (497,768,162), representing a 2.63% growth in the quarter and 11.99% in the last 12 months to end of Q2 2010. The number of IPTV subscribers has risen to 38.5 million, up by 2.3 million new IPTV subscribers...

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Verizon Promotes Lowell McAdam

Lowell C. McAdam has been named president and chief operating officer of Verizon Communications, reporting to Chairman and CEO Ivan G. Seidenberg, where he will have responsibility for the operations of Verizon's network-based businesses - Verizon Wireless and Verizon Telecom and Business - as well as Verizon Services Operations. In addition, McAdam is expected to take over as CEO of the company when Seidenberg retires. McAdam currently serves...

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IBM to Acquire Netezza for Performance Monitoring Appliance

IBM will acquire Netezza, a publicly held company based in Marlborough, Mass., in a cash transaction at a price of $27 per share or at a net price of approximately $1.7 billion, after adjusting for cash. Netezza offers a data warehousing appliance that handles complex analytic queries 10 to 100 times faster than traditional systems. Netezza claims over 350 clients across a variety of industries, including eHarmony, Neiman Marcus, Time Warner, Estee...

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Tail-f and IP Infusion Team on Networking Protocols

IP Infusion and Tail-f Systems announced a strategic alliance to provide advanced communications software configured by a single carrier-grade management system with support for CLI, Web, SNMP, and NETCONF management interfaces.The alliance between the two companies includes collaboration on product integration, sales and marketing initiatives. IP Infusion will integrate and license Tail-f Systems' ConfD on-device management software with its ZebOS...

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Telco Systems Intros Service Mgt for CE and MPLS

Telco Systems announced a new service management platform which addresses full life cycle deployment of services in Carrier Ethernet and MPLS edge networks. Telco Systems' EdgeGenie Service Management System allows providers to visualize how services are being transported across the network end-to-end. It also shows how changes to the network will affect the existing operational network and how services are being delivered. "When multiple networks and services are consolidated over a single infrastructure, the size and complexity of the network...

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Mellanox and Arista Tout 10GbE Latency for Financial Applications

Mellanox Technologies and Arista Networks announced that IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging maintained a latency of 4μs at rates up to 100K messages/second and 6μs at one million messages/second using Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN NICs with RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) and Arista 7100 10GigE switch. Latency remained consistently low as the number of multicast groups increased from one to one thousand. RoCE is an add-on feature to Mellanox's ConnectX-2 EN adapters that implements the IBTA RDMA over Converged Ethernet standard and utilizes the...

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Sprint / Clearwire Launch in Orlando

Clearwire officially launched 4G in Orlando, Florida. The service extends as far north as Lake Mary, as far south as Kissimmee, east to Waterford Lakes and west to Winter Garden, covering a population of about 1.4 million. Sprint, the majority shareholder in Clearwire, has also launched its Orlando service over the Clearwire network. http://www.clearwire....

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Sumitomo Electric to Begin Fiber Production in China

Sumitomo Electric has established a new factory in Hangzhou, China under a joint venture with Futong Group to produce base material for fiber optic cabling. The company is also opening an optical cable plant in Tianjin to tap into China's booming FTTH market.http://global-sei.c...

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