Kentucky's Mountain Rural Picks Occam for Fiber Access

Kentucky's Mountain Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation (MRTC) has selected Occam Networks' BLC 6000 multiservice access platform (MSAP) for deployment across four counties in the eastern part of the state. The carrier has been awarded $78 million in first-round Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) grants and loans, The fiber-based network will reach over 15,000 businesses and residences.http://www.occamnetworks....

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ZTE Base Stations Deployed on Mt. Everest

Eight of ZTE's 3G stations have been deployed on Mt. Everest, includes at the base camp located 5180 meters above sea level. The Ncell network will provide voice and 3G broadband services for local residents and mountaineers climbing the world's highest mountain. Ncell Nepal is wholly-owned subsidiary of TeliaSonera and the second largest mobile operator in Nepal with 40% market share.To withstand the high altitude and extremely harsh natural environment...

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T-Mobile Claims "America's Largest 4G Network" with HSPA+

T-Mobile expanded the availability of its HSPA+ network to six additional metropolitan areas, including Chicago, Ill.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Louisville, Ky.; and Raleigh-Durham and Wilmington, N.C. T-Mobile's HSPA+ coverage now reaches 75 metropolitan areas across the country.T-Mobile said its HSPA+ service delivers 4G-like speeds and is capable of exceeding the performance of the WiMAX and early-LTE competitors entering the...

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The CENX Carrier Ethernet Exchange Reaches 15M Possible End Points

CENX reports that its Carrier Ethernet Exchanges now reach 15 million Ethernet Service Locations (ESL). This represents the reachable number of end-points via the multiple Ethernet service providers connected via the exchanges. The milestone was achieved just 4 months after announcing attainment of 10 million ESLs and less than a year since the opening of CENX's first exchanges."We are seeing a sea change in the industry; carriers are rapidly moving...

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CENX Hires Former Level 3 Executive

CENX announced the appointment of Russell Shriver as its Senior Vice President, Marketing and Product Management. Shriver spent the past 15 years within the telecom industry in leadership positions at both XO Communications and Level 3 Communications. Russell has been linked to Ethernet throughout much of his career, launching one of the first commercially available metro Ethernet services while at Nextlink (now XO) in the mid-to-late 90's and more recently he ran Level 3's multi-year Ethernet Expansion initiative. http://www.cenx....

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Avago Demos 28-Gbps Performance with 40-nm SerDes

Avago Technologies has demonstrated 28-Gbps Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) performance in 40-nm CMOS process technology. The company notes that this performance equates to higher bandwidth Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) that integrate the SerDes Intellectual Property (IP), increasing the speed of data communication for servers, routers and other networking, computing and storage applications. http://www.avagotech....

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Overture Debuts 10 Gig Carrier Ethernet Edge Platform

Overture Networks introduced its ISG 4800 modular 10 Gigabit Carrier Ethernet edge platform. The company cited three differentiators: * Richness of the feature set -- the ISG 4800 offers support for thousands of service flows, fine-grained quality-of-service, Ethernet protection rings, and industry standard performance monitoring and fault management. * Operational flexibility -- the ISG 4800 is built on a modular architecture supporting combinations of up to six 10GigE and up to sixteen 1GigE interfaces with a wide selection of pluggable...

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LGS Innovations and Wavesat Partner on 4G Mobile Devices

LGS Innovations, an independent U.S. subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent dedicated to serving the U.S. Federal Government, is collaborating with Wavesat on the development of 4G mobile device equipment and technology for private and public network applications. Wavesat will provide LGS with its Odyssey 9000 4G silicon, software, reference designs and support for all User Equipment (UE) for LTE developed and implemented during the period of this collaboration. The Wavesat architecture allows the Odyssey series of chipsets to support multiple 4G technologies,...

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Researchers Target Stanford's OpenFlow Protocol Tech.

NEC is providing its ProgrammableFlow multilayer switches at this week's 9th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC9) in Washington, D.C. to build networks based on the OpenFlow protocol, which was developed at Stanford University.OpenFlow is an open standard that enables a new generation of network control software. It allows network applications and controllers running on external servers to define packet handing within each switching element in a network. NEC said its ProgrammableFlow switches have been deployed in over 20 research organizations...

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Video: Service Broker - Next Gen Network Element

Presented by Wally Beck, Metaswitch Networkshttp://www.metaswitch....

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ADVA Introduces Syncjack Ethernet Synch Tools

ADVA Optical Networking introduced a "Syncjack" timing suite for FSP 150 Ethernet access platform that allows in-service monitoring of the accuracy of recovered clock signals. It provides an extensive set of tools for remote configuration and trouble shooting of Service Level Agreement (SLA)-based synchronization services. Syncjack simultaneously supports Synchronous Ethernet and IEEE 1588v2 with multiple timing domains across packet backhaul networks."The...

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AT&T Acquires InCompass Wireless - a Mobile System Integrator

AT&T has acquired inCompass Wireless (formerly inCode Telecom's Enterprise Mobility Solutions Group) -- a mobile system integrator and technology provider that provides mobile application and wireless solution development with back office systems, mobile deployment and mobile managed service, and wireless technology integration and implementation. Financial terms were not disclosed.AT&T said inCompass Wireless' professional services expertise...

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AboveNet Offers Ethernet eXchange Connectivity Service

AboveNet is launching an Ethernet eXchange Hub service optimized to provide carriers with high bandwidth connectivity. The new service, which will be available first to customers operating in select CENX and Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchanges, acts as the hub or central connectivity port in the carrier exchange. Carriers can then leverage AboveNet's network for Ethernet connectivity to key enterprise locations, carrier hotels and data centers. Key...

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Broadcom Debuts Ethernet Switching Silicon for 100 Tbps Systems

Broadcom introduced its BCM88600 series Ethernet switching silicon designed for modular switching platforms with capacity ranging from 100 Gbps to 100 Tbps. The BCM88600 series integrates the features and functionality of an entire high-performance line card into a single chip, thus enabling a new generation of ultra high bandwidth networking solutions. The new silicon integrates switch fabric technology from Dune Networks (acquired by Broadcom...

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Force10 Intros 10/40 GbE Top-of-Rack Switch and 40 GbE Line Card

Force10 Networks introduced its S-Series S4810 10/40 GbE top-of-rack (ToR) switch, while for the network core, it is announcing a new 40 GbE line card for its ExaScale virtualized core switch/router.The S4810 10/40 GbE ToR switch leverages a non-blocking, cut-through switching architecture to deliver line-rate Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding capacity with ultra low latency. It provides 48 dual-speed 1/10 GbE ports as well as four 40 GbE uplinks to...

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