Telefónica Sees Strength in Diversification -- 67% Revenues Outside of Spain

Despite weakness in its home market of Spain, the Telefónica Group's revenues rose to 44,280 million eurosin the first nine months of 2010, up 6.0% year-on-year in the first nine months of the year and at 7.3% year-on-year in the quarter. Telefónica continues to further increase revenue diversification, and Telefónica España now accounts for just 32% of Group revenues, with 67% coming from Telefónica Latinoamérica (42%) and Telefónica Europe (25%).The...

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BT's Fibre roll out Passes Three Million Premises

BT Groups reported quarterly adjusted revenue of 4,977m pounds, down 3% compared to a year earlier, however, adjusted EBITDA came in at 1,452m pounds, up 3% year-over-year. Free cash flow improved as well, reaching 535m pounds for the quarter and 950m pounds in the half year, up 63%.Ian Livingston, Chief Executive, stated: "We have made significant progress in improving profitability and cash flow, enabling us to invest in building the foundations...

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Spirent Supplies TD-LTE Test Solution

Spirent Communications has supplied its SR5500 Wireless Channel Emulator for testing beamforming capabilities of Time Domain-Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) base stations to a major network equipment supplier for use at its laboratories in Shanghai, China. TD-LTE uses a single shared frequency band for both uplink and downlink. Beamforming is an adaptive antenna technique used to maximize the performance of wireless systems. It typically makes use of eight antennas on the base station and two on the mobile device (8x2). "Between ongoing work in China...

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TeliaSonera IC Renews Major Outsourcing Contract to Ericsson

TeliaSonera International Carrier has renewed and expanded its multicountry Managed Services contract with Ericsson. Under the new deal, Ericsson will now perform field operation services for the operator's voice and data networks, built on multivendor equipment. Among the larger countries covered are Austria, France, Germany, the UK and the US; the expanded deal also involves taking over field maintenance in Russia.Ericsson will be responsible...

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Level 3 Confirms Primary CDN Role for Netflix

Level 3 Communications will serve as a primary content delivery network (CDN) provider for Netflix delivering streaming and storage for the entire Netflix library of content. Financial terms were not disclosed.As a result of the deal, Level 3 announced further investment in its CDN capacity. Level 3 will double its storage capacity and add 2.9 Terabits per second (Tbps) of globally available CDN capacity. This is in addition to the 1.65 Tbps that...

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Facebook to Build $450 million Data Center in North Carolina

Facebook broke ground on the construction of a major data center located near Forest City in Rutherford County, North Carolina. When construction is completed, the data center will employ around 35-45 full-time and contract workers. Facebook is expected to invest about $450 million dollars in the project. The building will be designed to LEED gold standards. Facebook said it will implement the latest energy-saving designs in the data center."After a rigorous review of sites across the East Coast, we are pleased to locate our new data center in...

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Internet2 Readies its 100G Ethernet Research Network

Internet2 is ready to begin deploying its new, nationwide 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) network to meet the current and future needs of the U.S. research and higher education community. The network will leverage Juniper's T1600 Core Routers, equipped with their 100 GigE interface cards, across the entire backbone.In the coming weeks, Internet2 will announce a 100 GigE optical transport equipment provider partner and will begin deployment on a region-by-region...

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Motorola Demos Public Safety LTE

Motorola demonstrated live over-the-air (OTA) broadband video in the 700MHz Public Safety spectrum band.The exercise, which was conducted at the 2010 Motorola Digital Users Group Conference, showcased a compact USB device based on commercial silicon supporting the Band Class 14 Public Safety spectrum band. The demonstration also highlighted dynamic prioritization and preemption for safeguarding LTE capacity for critical resources during an emergency response.Motorola's portfolio of LTE devices will include portable data adaptors, vehicular modems...

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Verizon Implements 100G Ethernet on European Backbone

Verizon is rolling out its first 100G Ethernet link on a portion of the company's European long-haul network.Initially, Verizon will deploy the 100G router-to-router technology between Paris to Frankfurt using Juniper's routers and Ciena's coherent optical transport platform. Last year, Verizon deployed a 100G ultra-long-haul optical transmission system on this 893-kilometer (555-mile) network route. "This latest 100G Ethernet advancement is further...

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European Commission: Competition, Open Internet, No New Net Neutrality Rules

Competition is the open Internet's best friend and, in general, European service providers have upheld the principle of open access, said Neelie Kroes, who heads the European Commission's digital agenda. In a speech in Brussels on 'The Open Internet and Net Neutrality in Europe', Kroes said a healthy competitive environment and the market force of consumers demanding access to services like Skype, so far have blocked the emergence of monopolistic...

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