FTTH Council Elects Three New Board Members

The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council elected three industry executives to seats on its Board of Directors for 2011: Kevin Bourg of Enablence Systems, Doug Dowling of Tyco Electronics and Kevin Morgan of ADTRAN to serve two year terms. Both Bourg and Morgan are first-time board members, while Dowling served on the Council's board earlier in the decade. Mike Hill, CEO/President of On Trac, a Tennessee based company that provides turnkey installation services for the fiber to the home industry nationwide, will serve as board chairman in 2011,...

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HP Ships Energy Efficient Ethernet Switch

HP is the first to ship products based on a new energy-efficient Ethernet standard (IEEE 802.3az), which reduces power consumption of IT devices by automatically adjusting energy use based on actual network traffic between switches and other networked devices in real time.The new HP E-Series zl modules are the first IEEE Energy Efficient Ethernet-enabled switches to automatically enter "sleep mode" as will connected EEE-devices, when no traffic is...

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China Telecom Tests 100G DWDM with Huawei and Corning

China Telecom, Huawei, and Corning completed a 100G WDM ultra long haul transmission test. The test, which set a new record for 100G WDM transmission distance by covering a terrestrial span of over 3000 km, used coherent PM-QPSK (polarization multiplexed quadrature phase-shift keying) technology and Huawei's OSN 8800 platform. The traffic was carried in the C-band with 50 GHz-spacing. It also featured hybrid transmission of 100G/40G.Another highlight...

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India's Aircel Selects Nokia Siemens Networks for 3G

Aircel has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to supply, deploy and manage its HSPA+ network in three telecom circles -- Punjab, Kolkata and the rest of West Bengal. Nokia Siemens Networks has supplied and continues to manage Aircel's GSM/EDGE network in six circles of the country. Financial terms were not disclosed.Nokia Siemens Networks will supply its compact Flexi Base Stations and Radio Network Controller that are not only easy to deploy, but...

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EarthLink Completes ITC^DeltaCom Acquisition

EarthLink completed its previously announced acquisition of ITC^DeltaCom, a leading provider of integrated communications services to customers in the southeastern United States, in a transaction valued at approximately $524 million. Under the deal, ITC^DeltaCom (Deltacom) stockholders received $3.00 in cash per each share of Deltacom common stock in the transaction.EarthLink will now begin integrating its New Edge Networks and EarthLink Business...

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MobileIron Delivers Enterprise App Storefront

MobileIron announced release 4.0 of its Virtual Smartphone Platform (VSP), featuring new capabilities for helping enterprise IT groups to centralize the discovery, deployment and security of internally- and externally-developed apps for all iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Symbian devices in the company. MobileIron delivers an Enterprise App Storefront combined with a fully customizable API and policy engine that ensures secure apps get to employees and that rogue apps are kept out -- for both corporate-owned and employee-owned smartphones....

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TI Boosts Performance of OMAP Processor for Mobiles - 1.5 GHz

Texas Instruments has boosted the performance of its OMAP applications processor line with a new OMAP4430 device that offers a 1.25x increase in graphics performance, a 30 percent decrease in webpage load time, a 2x increase in 1080p video playback performance and clock speeds as fast as 1.5 GHz per ARM® Cortex-A9 MPCore. The processor is targeted at Smartphone and tablet user experiences, such as 1080p stereoscopic 3D (S3D), 1080p video conferencing...

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Russia's MegaFon Deploys 2G/3G in Siberia with ALU

Russia's MegaFon announced the launch of the largest 2G/3G converged network in Siberia. The network serves the 2.5 million people living in the Siberian Federal District's Altai Krai. Alcatel-Lucent supplied the converged radio access network (RAN) solution for the rollout. The converged radio access solution includes distributed base stations and macro base stations to support GSM/EDGE and W-CDMA/HSPA+ configurations, ensuring high coverage as...

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Sprint Signs WiMAX Roaming Agreements

Sprint has signed international 4G roaming agreements with Digicel in Jamaica and Global Mobile in Taiwan. Select Sprint devices that operate with the Sprint SmartView Connection Manager will automatically detect the Digicel and Global Mobile networks, giving customers the option to connect and roam with an unlimited 24 hour Daypass. Pricing and launch details of the agreements are still to be determined. http://www.sprint....

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Russia's MegaFon Deploys 2G/3G in Siberia with ALU

Russia's MegaFon announced the launch of the largest 2G/3G converged network in Siberia. The network serves the 2.5 million people living in the Siberian Federal District's Altai Krai. Alcatel-Lucent supplied the converged radio access network (RAN) solution for the rollout. The converged radio access solution includes distributed base stations and macro base stations to support GSM/EDGE and W-CDMA/HSPA+ configurations, ensuring high coverage as...

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ADTRAN's ONE Architecture Integrates Access and Packet Optical Transport

ADTRAN unveiled its Optical Networking Edge (ONE) strategy for integrating network access and aggregation with optical edge metro transport in a single platform. ADTRAN's blueprint is to enhance its widely-deployed Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access and Aggregation Platform (MSAP) with a mini-ROADM transport module with advanced network management capabilities. The initial release supports high bit rate Carrier Ethernet aggregation, SONET/SDH...

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New Video: Converged Edge Routing

Service Providers worldwide are now converging their IP infrastructure so as to deliver Carrier Ethernet business services, residential broadband services and mobile backhaul over a common network. http://www.alcatel-lucent.com createSummaryAndThumb("summary5291682883063951428...