Dell'Oro: Optical Transport Market Returns to Positive Year-Over-Year Growth

Worldwide optical market revenues grew 3 percent year-over-year in the third quarter, reversing the trend of revenue declines that started in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. The positive result in the optical market was attributed to improved demand across all regions with particular strength in the Americas. The leading optical vendors in the quarter were Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, and Ciena with a combined worldwide market share of nearly 50 percent.WDM equipment benefited the greatest from this increasing...

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Dell'Oro: Strong Growth in Unified Communications Market

The Unified Communications market expanded to its highest level since 2008 in the third quarter this year, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. Strong second half seasonality helped offset weakness in Europe as the Unified Communications market expanded 7 percent sequentially. Also, according to the report, vendors continue to migrate their installed base over to IP lines, although the process may take another decade to complete. The top...

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Australia's NBN Co Selects Cisco for Data Centres

Australia's NBN Co. has selected Cisco to provide the data centre computing platform that unites computing, network, storage access, and virtualisation. The cohesive system will support NBN Co's business and operational systems. The initial value of the contract is AU$9.5 million over three years, with the opportunity to scale up as NBN Co's needs increase.NBN Co recently announced the selection of Global Switch to house its hardware and software...

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Fon Wi-Fi Sharing Integrated into Broadcom's DOCSIS 3.0 SoCs

Broadcom and Fon, which operates the largest WiFi community in the world, with over 2.5 million Fon WiFi spots and nearly 5 million user, announced the first Fon-ready Broadcom chipsets for DOCSIS 3.0 devices.Broadcom's DOCSIS 3.0-based system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions now feature a software development kit (SDK) that enables manufacturers to build Fon functionality directly into their customer premises equipment (CPEs) without any additional development....

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PCIe 3.0 Doubles I/O Interconnect Performance

PCI-SIG released the latest PCIe Base 3.0 specification. The new PCIe 3.0 architecture is a low-cost, high-performance I/O technology that includes a new 128b/130b encoding scheme and a data rate of 8 gigatransfers per second (GT/s), doubling the interconnect bandwidth over the PCIe 2.0 specification. PCIe 3.0 technology also maintains backward compatibility with previous PCIe architectures and provides the optimum design point for high-volume platform I/O implementations across a wide range of topologies. Possible topologies include servers,...

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ZTE Demos VoLTE Call Based on IMS

At Mobile Asia Congress 2010, ZTE demonstrated IMS-based Voice over LTE (VoLTE) calls running CSL's LTE network in Hong Kong and its existing mobile networks. The calls finished between IMS clients as well as IMS client and conventional 2G/3G handsets. The companies said their achievement marks the first time VoLTE calls have been made between an LTE network and an existing 2G/3G network. In addition, supplementary services such as call forwarding,...

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NSN Named Armando Almeida to lead Global Services

Armando Almeida has been appointed to lead the Global Services business at Nokia Siemens Networks, effective January 1, 2011. He will join the company's executive board and be based in Espoo, Finland. Almeida is currently responsible for sales and operations for the company in Latin America.Ashish Chowdhary, the current head of Global Services, is moving to a newly created position: head of Customer Operations East. In this role, Chowdhary will lead...

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Conexant Names Chittipeddi as New President & COO

Conexant Systems named Sailesh Chittipeddi as its new president and chief operating officer. Chittipeddi joined Conexant in 2006 and served most recently as co-president, with responsibility for global engineering, operations, quality, IT, and associated infrastructure activities. In his new role, Chittipeddi will have worldwide responsibility for engineering, operations, quality, and marketing. He continues to report to Scott Mercer, Conexant's...

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PMC-Sierra Completes Acquisition of Wintegra

PMC-Sierra completed its previously announced acquisition of Wintegra, a privately-held developer of networking silicon. PMC-Sierra paid approximately $240 million in cash for the acquisition, less estimated cash and short-term deposits acquired of approximately $26 million at time of closing. Further, up to an additional $60 million of cash consideration may be paid if certain growth and performance milestones are reached by the end of 2011.Wintegra's...

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Politico: FCC to Take Initiative on Net Neutrality Regulations

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski may be preparing to push forward a proposal for new Net Neutrality regulations as early as next month, according to Politico -- a Washington D.C. insider's news site. Details of the proposal have not yet emerged, but the report notes that the likely timing of FCC action follows the failure of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to reach consensus on the issue ahead of this month's election. The upcoming change to Republican leadership of the committee makes its unlikely that new legislation on the issue will...

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Marvell Posts Revenue of $959 million, up 20% YoY

Marvell Technology Group reported Q3 net revenue of $959 million, a 20 percent increase from $803 million in the same period last year, and an 7 percent sequential increase from $896 million. GAAP net income was $256 million, or $0.38 per share (diluted), compared with a GAAP net income of $202 million, or $0.31 per share (diluted), last year."We delivered excellent results, which were at the high-end of our original guidance for the third quarter," said Dr. Sehat Sutardja, Marvell's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We delivered significant...

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Digital Partners: Verizon FiOS + Google TV Ads

Google and Verizon have signed a partnership deal tying together the Google TV Ads platform Verizon FiOS TV.Google said that by adding over 50 networks on Verizon FiOS TV across 3.3 million homes, it can offer advertisers a growing TV audience. By early 2011, advertisers will be able to reach 35 million households, or almost one-third of all US cable and satellite homes through Google TV Ads. http://www.google.com/adwords/tvads/#subid=US-en_US-...

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AT&T Builds Alternative Fuel Vehicle Fleet in California

AT&T is adding specialized, Ford F-450 trucks to its fleet in California. The new model has been converted to compressed natural gas (CNG) and contains a hybrid-electric system to power the aerial device. The first vehicle is part of the nearly 1,600 alternative fuel vehicles that have had been placed into service for the company throughout California. AT&T began deploying fleet vehicles with hybrid and CNG technology in 2008 as part of an overall commitment to minimize its environmental impact and explore renewable energy alternatives....

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Verizon Deploys GPON to the Desktop for Russell Investments

Verizon Business has wired the new global headquarters for Russell Investments using GPON to the desktop. Compared with traditional switched Ethernet cabling, the GPON alternative can significantly reduce power consumption; decrease space requirements in riser closets, data rooms and conduits; and control capital costs related to network elements. In addition to the new networking infrastructure, Verizon Business connects Russell's offices globally with a fully managed Private IP network service based on MPLS."We opted for this new fiber-optic...

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Juniper Deepens CDN Offering with Acquisition of Blackwave

Juniper Networks has acquired the intellectual property assets of Blackwave, a start-up based in Acton, Mass., that developed Internet video storage and delivery solutions. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal reinforces Juniper's continued investment in content delivery network (CDN) technology.Juniper said it plans to integrate Blackwave's technology with its own Media Flow Controller. "The acquisition of Blackwave...

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