Huawei Wins LTE TDD Contract in Poland

Aero2, a wholesale mobile broadband operator in Poland, has selected Huawei to deploy a commercial LTE TDD network. The contract covers Huawei's end-to-end LTE TDD/EPC (Evolved Packet Core) solution. The network will become operational in early 2011. Huawei said this represents the world's first commercial LTE TDD deployment.Aero 2 has 900 MHz and 2.5 GHz spectrum licenses."This milestone demonstrates that LTE TDD technology is already mature,...

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Slovenia's Tusmobil Picks NSN for HSPA+ Running IPv6 and Direct Tunnel

Tusmobil, a mobile operator in Slovenia, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks for migrating to an all-IP, HSPA+ network on the 900 MHz frequency band. The upgrade will use NSN's Flexi Multiradio Base Station, FlexiPacket Microwave and complete IP-backhaul platform."This is a landmark project, since it marks the complete shift to an all-IP network including IPv6 and Direct Tunnel for the first time in the world," said Fotios Samelis, account manager...

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Juniper Releases SRX1400 Data Center Security Gateway

Juniper Networks released its SRX1400 security gateway designed for small to mid-size enterprise, service provider and mobile operator data centers. The SRX1400 delivers security at scale against a variety of attacks and unauthorized access on critical infrastructure, including the internet connection on the Gi interface, roaming exchanges and signaling networks. The platform, which features separate control and data planes, combines carrier-class...

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AT&T U-verse Carries HBO GO, MAX GO Online Programming

AT&T U-verse TV customers now have full access to HBOGO.com and MAXGO.com, the online video portals backed by HBO and Cinemax. The online video destinations feature more than 1,200 hours of streamed programming. Viewers must subscribe to the HBO and/or Cinemax cable offerings in order to get the online access. http://www.att....

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Mellanox to Acquire Voltaire for $176 Million

Mellanox Technologies agreed to acquire Voltaire Ltd., a provider of scale-out data center fabrics, for $8.75 per share, or a total equity value of approximately $218 million ($176 million net of cash). Voltaire offers a family of server and storage fabric switches and advanced management software. These products are included in server and blade offerings from Bull, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, NEC and SGI. Founded in 1997, Voltaire is headquartered in Ra'anana,...

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O3b Secures Funding for Global Ka-band Satellite Network

O3b Networks has secured the US$1.2 billion in financing need to advance to the next phase in its global, broadband satellite venture. The total funding now comprises a US$510m Coface-backed Senior Debt Facility provided by HSBC, ING, CA-CIB and Dexia; a US$115m Senior Debt Facility and a US$145m Mezzanine Facility provided by HSBC Principal Investments, DBSA, AFDB, DEG, Proparco, FMO, IFC and EAIF*; and US$410m in equity financing, of which US$230m...

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PMC-Sierra Intros High Density Dual Channel 6Gb/s SERDES

PMC-Sierra introduced its "SynthePHY" family of integrated dual channel 6Gb/s SERDES and programmable clock synthesizers for wireless infrastructure radio designs. The SynthePHY products offer 30 clock outputs that can be programmed over a wide frequency band, ranging from 3MHz to 1.6GHz and meet the phase noise performance required by multi-carrier GSM, WCDMA and LTE systems.PMC-Sierra said its SynthePHY replaces up to four components by integrating dual 6Gb/s SERDES, jitter cleaner, on-chip voltage controlled oscillator, clock synthesizer and...

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Level 3: Comcast Raises Toll Booth for Internet Video

Level 3 Communications is accusing Comcast of "raising a toll booth" for Internet movies. Last week, Comcast informed Level 3 that it will begin charging a recurring fee to Level 3 to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast's customers who request such content. Level 3 said it has agreed to this unilateral demand under duress, only because it was a "take it or leave it" demand from Comcast.Comcast did not immediately respond...

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New Video: Service Provider Content Delivery Networks

Should Service Providers develop and deploy their own content delivery networks? Here's a two-minute look at how Service Providers can leverage on-net CDNs to break the cycle of broadband commoditization. Presented by Alcatel-Lucent's Lindsay Newell.embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id='single2'name='single2'src='player.swf'width='640'height='390'bgcolor='undefined'allowscriptaccess='always'allowfullscreen='true'wmode='transparent'flashvars='file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFl6MJDA_4I&image=http://www.convergedigest.com/imag...

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