BT Reaches Two Million Wi-Fi Hotspots

BT is now operating a two million-strong Wi-FI hotspot network. The hotspots are available in homes, independent businesses, high street chains, major city centres and now the underground -- the Charing Cross Tube station is the latest addition. Commuters can now connect to the web in the ticket hall area and Northern and Bakerloo line platforms at the station as part of a 6 month trial from London Underground and BT. The two million-strong Wi-Fi...

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Ericsson Wins Managed Services Contract with China Unicom

Anhui Unicom - a provincial company of China Unicom - signed a three-year integrated field maintenance agreement with Ericsson, making Ericsson its largest managed services partner in Anhui Province. Ericsson will take care of the maintenance work for base station sites, as well as fixed network and transmission. Financial terms were not disclosed.Anhui is the eighth most populated province in China and has a mobile penetration of around 50 percent.Ericsson...

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Ubiquisys and NSN Develop WCDMA Femtocell

Ubiquisys, the leader in 3G femtocells, today announced a new standards-compliant WCDMA femtocell solution with Nokia Siemens Networks. The solution features standardized Iuh and TR-196 interfaces between Ubiquisys Femtocell Access Points and Nokia Siemens Networks Femto Gateways and Femto Management Systems. The system is currently in trials. Commercial release is expected in Q1 2011."Together we're responding to operator demand for a sophisticated...

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Zayo Expands Fiber Network throughout Minnesota

Zayo announced plans to expand its network in Minnesota. The company will extend its fiber network to 1,700 miles throughout Minneapolis, St Paul and surrounding markets in order to enable fiber-based communications for carriers, enterprises and high bandwidth services. As a component of the investment, Zayo will increase its high bandwidth fiber-to-the-tower (FTT) coverage for multiple wireless providers in five Minnesota markets. This expansion adds Ethernet and TDM services to ~350 wireless tower sites and includes connectivity to a new wireless...

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IBM's Cu-32 Process Technology Targets Networking Apps

IBM announced a new chip-making technology that could significantly increase the memory capacity and processing speeds of chips used in fiber-optic and wireless networks, and in such gear as routers and switches.Specifically, IBM's Cu-32 technology offers the industry's first set of High Speed Serial (HSS) cores in 32nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. This could enable:15G Backplane core supporting 16G Fibre Channel standard15G Chip-to-Chip...

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Vodafone Reports Improved Revenue Trends and Outlines New Strategy

Driven by strong performance at Verizon Wireless, Vodafone reported that its Group revenue increased by 3.9% to £22.6 billion, with improved organic growth trends in all of its regions. For its recently completed fiscal Q2, Group organic service revenue increased by 2.3%, 1.2 percentage points faster than Q1, with data revenue growth of 25.9%. Group adjusted operating profit increased by 2.7% to £6.1 billion with an increased contribution fromAfrica...

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Thales Adds MPLS–awareness Capability to Its Layer 2 Ethernet Encryptor

Thales has enhanced its line of Datacryptor Ethernet Layer 2 network encryptors by adding the ability to operate in multipoint meshed environments and support encrypted connections over end-to-end (MPLS networks. The hardware-based, stand-alone security platforms deliver full duplex point-to- point and fully-meshed multipoint encryption of sensitive data over Ethernet collision domains. The 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, and 10 Gbps models secure the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive and high-value data, voice, and video by protecting broadcast and...

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BTI Systems Raises $11 Million for its Packet-Optical Solutions

BTI Systems raised $11 million in new financing from existing investors as well as increases in credit facilities, working capital and a significant reduction in long term liabilities. The new financing allows the company to continue to invest in its products and portfolio expansions, technology and global footprint. BTI Systems said its is on track to exceed a record $50 million in revenue this year, which has been driven by an increase in direct sales of 80 percent over the previous fiscal year. In March 2010, the company achieved EBITDA profitability...

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Time Warner Cable Prices a $1.9 Billion Debt Offering

Time Warner Cable priced a $1.9 billion underwritten public offering of debt securities, including $700 million aggregate principal amount of 4 1/8% notes due 2021 and $1.2 billion aggregate principal amount of 5 7/8% debentures due 2040. The company said net proceeds would be used for general corporate purposes, which may include the repayment of debt and the repurchase of the company's common stock. The sale of the debt securities is expected to close on November 15, 2010. http://www.timewarnercable.c...

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Texas Instruments Debuts High-Performance 3G/4G Base Station Chip

Texas Instruments introduced a System-on-Chip (SoC) designed for high performance macro base stations capable of supporting all wireless standards, including WCDMA/HSPA/HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, GSM, TDD-LTE, FDD-LTE, and WiMAX. The new TCI6616 device, which is based on the company's new TMS320C66x digital signal processor (DSP) offers clock speed operating frequencies of up to 1.2 GHz -- a new benchmark for the industry, according to TI. This drives performance...

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CenturyLink and Qwest Reach Deal With Fed Customers

CenturyLink and Qwest Communications announced an agreement in Arizona, Colorado and Utah with federal government customers that addresses the handling of merger-related costs, the continued sufficiency of both high service quality and employees with needed security clearances. CenturyLink and Qwest and their federal government customers will urge the public utility commissions in Arizona, Colorado and Utah to approve the companies' merger application with the associated settlement agreement, as the agreement and the merger being in the public...

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Business Insider: Netflix Moves Traffic from Akamai to Level 3

Business Insider reported that Netflix is moving significant amounts of its streaming traffic off of Akamai's content delivery network and on Level 3 Communications and Limelight. Earlier this year, Netflix picked Akamai as its primary CDN....

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DOCOMO's LTE Launch Set for Dec 24 -- $60/Month Initial Rate

NTT DOCOMO will launch its "Xi" (read "Crossy") LTE service on December 24, 2010. Xi promises a top theoretical downlink speed of 75 Mbps from some buildings in the network's footprint, maximum downlinks of 37.5 Mbps elsewhere with 12.5 Mbps uplink rates. This is approximately ten times faster than DOCOMO's 3G service.Xi service initially will be available in the Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka areas, with other major cities and regions to be added thereafter....

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