Cisco: 92% CAGR in Mobile Data Traffic to 2015

Cisco is predicting a 26-fold increase in worldwide mobile data traffic by 2015 due to a projected surge in mobile Internet-enabled devices delivering popular video applications and services. The newly released Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2010 to 2015 forecasts that mobile data volumes will reach 6.3 exabytes per month in 2015, or an annual run rate of 75 exabytes. This represents a compound annual...

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Time Warner Cable to Acquire NaviSite and its 10 Data Center

Time Warner Cable agreed to acquire NaviSite, a provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, messaging and cloud services, for $5.50 per share in cash, or a total equity value of approximately $230 million. The deal represents a 33% premium to NaviSite's Tuesday's closing price. NaviSite operates ten data centers in the United States and the United Kingdom, including two SAS 70 Type II certified data centers, and network operations...

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Canada Considers Usage-based Broadband Billing

Last week, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission decided to require usage-based billing rates for an incumbent telephone carrier's wholesale residential Gateway Access Services or equivalent services, and for an incumbent cable carrier's third-party Internet access services. These usage-based billing rates are to be established at a discount of 15 percent from the incumbent carrier's comparable usage-based billing rates...

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Verizon Teams with eMeter on Cloud-based meter Management

Verizon announced a partnership with eMeter, which provides Smart Grid software for utility companies. The new service, expected to be available in the spring, will deliver eMeter's data management software to utilities as a managed service in a scalable cloud-based environment via Verizon's IP network. http://www.verizon....

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Broadcom Posts Record Revenue, up 45% YoY

Broadcom reported record quarterly revenue of $1.95 billion, an increase of 7.7% compared with the $1.81 billion reported for the third quarter of 2010 and an increase of 44.9% compared with the $1.34 billion reported for the fourth quarter of 2009. Net income (GAAP) for the fourth quarter of 2010 was $266 million, or $.47 per share (diluted), compared with GAAP net income of $327 million, or $.60 per share (diluted), for the third quarter of 2010,...

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BT launches Virtual Data Centre Private

BT introduced a Virtual Data Centre (VDC) Private service that enables customers to build dedicated private clouds.VDC Private is a data centre infrastructure service that delivers the benefits of cloud-based services, like improved flexibility and lower cost, but also allows customers to choose a solution to meet their current business needs. The new service is aimed at customers who require a dedicated and private architecture to meet their business...

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AT&T Office@Hand app Provides Mobile PBX

AT&T released an Office@Hand app for iPhone that delivers a mobile PBX for small businesses. The app works with existing mobile or fixed-line phones, offering professional phone system features such as auto-receptionist, multiple department and employee extensions, voicemail, rules for call handling, faxing, on-hold music, etc. Users can also update, configure and manage their office phone system while away from the office. http://www.att....

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Backhauling Any Wireless Generation over Any Technology

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GreenTouch Advances Goal of 1,000-Fold Network Energy Efficiency Boost

The GreenTouch Consortium, a global research initiative dedicated to dramatically improving network energy efficiency, outlined its first set of accomplishments since its founding eight months ago. GreenTouch, which was established by Bell Labs, said that although overall power usage of networks worldwide has increased in absolute terms over the past year, it is encouraged by the industry support given its energy efficiency initiatives, and that...

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360networks Upgrades with Juniper and ALU

360networks, which provides wholesale provider of Private Line Transport, Ethernet, IP, VoIP and Local Access services, completed a series of IP network upgrades, including:Integration of Juniper's MX series Routers in the company's IP core, enabling 360networks to scale its IP network to meet customers' higher bandwidth needs. Expansion of bandwidth and service capabilities by deploying Alcatel-Lucent's 1830 Photonic Service Switches covering...

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Alcatel-Lucent and Ciena Supply SEA-ME-WE 40G Upgrade

Alcatel-Lucent was selected for an upgrade to 40G transmission of all the submarine segments of the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) system. Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its 1620 Light Manager upgraded to 40G with coherent technology, and also upgrade part of the already installed 1678 Metro Core Connect on the terrestrial SDH side. Ciena was selected to supply optical switching equipment for all 16 cable landing sites...

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BT Adds Stoke to LTE and Infrastructure Sharing Trial

Stoke is to participate in a new, consolidated multi-vendor LTE lab test to be undertaken by BT's Advanced Research Mobility Team. Specifically, Stoke's multi-access platform, the Stoke Session Exchange 3000 (SSX-3000), will anchor tests demonstrating BT's capabilities in consolidating three or more different mobile network operators' networks within a combined, highly scalable and cost effective, core infrastructure. BT has commissioned a...

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FiberTower and BridgeWave Develop Gigabit Wireless for 24 GHz

FiberTower, a wireless backhaul services provider operating in 13 U.S. markets, and BridgeWave Communications have collaborated to develop an ultra-high capacity multi-channel reconfigurable radio (MCRR) designed to operate in FiberTower's 24 GHz licensed spectrum holdings.Based on BridgeWave'sFlexPort microwave platform, the MCRR is a single, all-outdoor radio capable of delivering full-duplex gigabit Ethernet transport with very low latency at standard and jumbo packet sizes, while providing advanced carrier-Ethernet features such as Quality...

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Dell'Oro: 40 / 100 GE to Propel Market towards $25 Billion in 2015

The L2-3 Ethernet Switch market is forecast to approach $25 billion in 2015, with the future growth being driven primarily from sales of Ethernet switches optimized for larger data center deployments, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. By 2015, it is expected that over half the revenue in this market will be comprised by speeds greater than 1000 Mbps. The report also shows that within the Modular segment, 40 GE is anticipated to account...

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Avago Debuts 28nm Embedded SerDes at 30 Gbps

Avago Technologies announced a new Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) core in 28-nm process technology featuring 30 Gbps performance. The company also announced it has shipped over 150 million embedded SerDes channels integrated in Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) used for data communication in networking, computing and storage applications. The milestones reflect the growing demand for increased bandwidth for servers, routers and other data center equipment.http://www.avagotech.comIn November 2010, Avago announced it was first to...

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Sprint Activates WiMAX Roaming with Digicel Jamaica and Global Mobile Taiwan

Sprint began supporting 4G roaming for its customers with Digicel in Jamaica and Global Mobile in Taiwan. Select Sprint 4G 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 for $14.99 excluding surcharges and taxes. http://www.sprint....

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Ruckus Wireless Supplies Muni Wi-Fi for

Chongqing Telecom, a unit of China Telecom, has selected Ruckus Wireless' Smart Wi-Fi products and technology for a large-scale, citywide deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots supporting an innovative new service called Tianyi Broadband.Chongqing Telecom has now deployed over 4,000 Ruckus ZoneFlex indoor and outdoor Smart Wi-Fi access points (APs) along with ZoneDirector WLAN controllers across the city. The Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi APs now cover hundreds of...

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Corning to Acquire MobileAccess for In-Building Wireless

Corning agreed to acquire MobileAccess, a supplier of in-building wireless access solutions, for an undisclosed sum. MobileAccess provides distributed antenna system (DAS) solutions for flexible wireless coverage in the rapidly growing wireless market. The company has established wireless technical expertise in radio frequency design, engineering, and software development. MobileAccess is based in Vienna, Virginia with R&D in Tel Aviv.Corning...

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APNIC Receives Last IPv4 Address Block Allocation

APNIC, which is one of five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) for Asia-Pacific, reported receipt of its final allocation IPv4 address blocks from IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources.APNIC expects to continue normal IPv4 allocations to continue for a further three to six months. After this time, APNIC will continue to...

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Renesys: Egypt's Last ISP Goes Offline 4 Days Later

Renesys, which has been tracking the Internet cut-off in Egypt, reported that Noor, the last remaining service provider, went offline on Monday evening local time. Noor provides Internet service for a number of Egyptian banks and the country's stock exchange. The country's four largest ISPs, Telecom Egypt, Raya, Link Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and Internet Egypt, went offline in rapid succession on 28-January-2011 beginning at 00:34am local time. ...

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What Operators Need When Choosing a Wireless Location Solution

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Orckit-Corrigent Supplies Packet Transport for Germany's VSE NET

VSE NET GmbH, a German regional telecommunication service provider, has selected Orckit-Corrigent's Packet Transport Network (PTN) solution and 3M Services' first-line support to upgrade its Transport networking infrastructure with Packet technologies. The deal includes Orckit-Corrigent's CM-4000 PTN metro aggregation switches and CM-11 multi-service access switch. It also includes CM-View, the corresponding network management system. The combined...

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NetLogic Doubles IPv6 Processing Capabilities in 40nm

NetLogic Microsystems expanded its line of IPv6 knowledge-based processors with the introduction of its NL82048 processor, which doubles the IPv6 processing capabilities for next-generation switches and routers.The new device is capable of supporting up to 512,000 IPv6 addresses or 2,000,000 IPv4 addresses. It integrates 256 high-performance knowledge-based processing engines, and supports a daisy-chain clustering scheme that enables customers to quadruple the number of IPv6 addresses without impacting line rate. The NL82048 knowledge-based processor...

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ZTE Cites Performance Benchmarks in LTE Equipment

ZTE reported key performance metrics for its LTE Core Evolved Packet Core (EPC) gear. ZXUN uMAC, ZTE's Mobility Management Entity (MME) achieved the maximum capacity test of 15 million users.ZXUN xGW, ZTE's SAE-GW, attained 174 Gbps in throughput performance, which exceeds the previous benchmark by 50%. The xGW record was recorded by IXIA during a recent LTE Core EPC heavy traffic performance demonstration performed with a top tier global operat...

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Intel Mobile Communications Group Integrates Infineon Wireless

Intel completed its acquisition of Infineon Technologies' Wireless Solutions (WLS) business. The deal expands Intel's current Wi-Fi and 4G WiMAX portfolio to include Infineon's 3G capabilities. Intel said the acquisition also accelerates its entry into LTE. WLS is a leading provider of cellular platforms to top-tier global phone makers, and is part of Intel's strategy to accelerate always-connected computing platforms that span a variety of device...

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Huawei Demos 150 Mbps LTE over 2.6 GHz with Optimus

Huawei and Optimus, a mobile carrier in Portugal, have achieved LTE downlink speeds of 150 Mbps in a field trial using 2.6 GHz spectrum. Uplink speeds were measured at up to 60 Mbps. In early 2010, Optimus selected Huawei's SingleRAN solution to modernize its GSM network in Portugal, enabling a fast LTE rollout in the future. Under the contract, Huawei's mobile base stations will be installed in 33 regions. To date, Huawei has deployed more than...

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Atheros Delivers 10G EPON Solution

Atheros Communications has begun sampling a 10G Ethernet passive optical networking (EPON) system-on-chip (SoC) solution for broadband access, mobile backhaul and cable uplink applications. Atheros is offering a chipset solution for both 10G optical line terminals (OLTs) and for a 10G optical network unit (ONU), which could be used in customer premise equipment and cellular base stations. The SoCs comply with the new IEEE 802.3av standard. The...

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Extreme Networks Posts Revenue of $85.1 Million

Extreme Networks reported revenue of $85.1 million for its second quarter of fiscal 2011, up 7% as compared to $79.4 million in the second quarter last year. Previously issued guidance to investors was for net revenue of $85-$88 million. Second quarter non-GAAP operating income was $5.3 million or 6.2% percent of net revenue, representing a significant improvement as compared to operating income of $4.2 million or 5.3% of net revenue in the second quarter last year. Non-GAAP operating income in the 2011 fiscal first quarter was $4.6 million or...

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ARM Targets Real-Time Cortex Processor at Mobile Baseband

ARM introduced its new Cortex-R5 MPCore and the Cortex-R7 MPCore processors for use in 3G and 4G mobile baseband, mass storage, automotive and industrial markets. For mobile baseband, the real-time features of the two new Cortex-R series processors are particularly suited to LTE and LTE-Advanced. ARM includes support for high frequency interrupts along with fast and deterministic control of data transmission between cellular base-stations and mobile...

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SEA-ME-WE4 Cable Upgrades for 40 Gbps Links

The 20,000-km SEA-ME-WE4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe) undersea cable system has deployed 40 Gbps technology, the highest wavelength capacity currently available on undersea cable systems. Launched in 2005, SEA-ME-WE4 is the fourth project in the SEA-ME-WE series. SEA-ME-WE4 links Southeast Asia to Europe through the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. Terminal stations are located in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh,...

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Asia Submarine-cable Project Selects NEC, Fujitsu

A consortium led by NTT Communications, the Philippines Long Distance Telephone Company, StarHub Limited and Telekom Malaysia has selected NEC and Fujitsu for the Asia Submarine-cable Express system. ASE will be a high-bandwidth optical submarine cable system that will link Japan to Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Malaysia. It will being designed for native 40 Gbps transmission rates.The manufacture and installation of all submersible...

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Conemtech and Datang to Supply 1588 Synch for China Mobile

Datang Telecom Technology Co. Ltd. (DTT) has won an order to manufacture and ship 1588v2-compliant packet synchronization equipment to China Mobile. The first deliveries are to be completed within next month. Conemtech AB, Stockholm based semiconductor company, is a lead technology partner with DTT.IEEE 1588-2008 is a packet-based network synchronization technology that distributes information about time and frequency from master clocks being synchronized...

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Dell'Oro: Mobile Backhaul Market to Exceed $8 Billion by 2015

Mobile Backhaul market revenues are expected to exceed $8 billion by 2015, according to a newly released market forecast report by Dell'Oro Group. This new report tracks two key market segments: Transport, which includes microwave transmission and optical transport equipment, and Routers and Switches, which includes cell site devices, carrier Ethernet switches, and service provider edge routers used for IP-based mobile backhaul.The report indicates...

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Ericsson Hits 168 Mbps HSPA+: 64QAM + MIMO + Multi-Carrier

Ericsson has demonstrated multi-carrier HSPA operating at 168Mbps in the downlink and 24Mbps in the uplink. The technology will be showcased at the upcoming GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Ericsson's milestone HSPA performance was achieved using a prototype consumer device and commercial network equipment but leveraging three key technologies: 64 quadrature amplitude modulation QAM higher order modulation, MIMO dual-antenna technology...

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Comcast and GE Complete NBC Deal

Comcast and General Electric (GE) completed their deal, creating the NBCUniversal joint venture. GE contributed NBC Universal's businesses, including its cable networks, filmed entertainment, televised entertainment, theme parks, and unconsolidated investments. Comcast contributed its cable networks, including E!, Versus and the Golf Channel, its regional sports networks, certain digital media properties, and made a payment to GE. The new company...

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Vodafone Restores Cell Phone Service in Egypt

Vodafone restored voice services to our customers in Egypt on Saturday morning.In a statement, the Vodafone corporate office said: "We would like to make it clear that the authorities in Egypt have the technical capability to close our network, and if they had done so it would have taken much longer to restore services to our customers. It has been clear to us that there were no legal or practical options open to Vodafone, or any of the mobile operators in Egypt, but to comply with the demands of the authorities.:http://www.vodafone....

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Epitiro Launches LTE Test App for Android

Epitiro released a mobile handset application for testing LTE networks and analyzing IP performance.The application is for Android handsets or tablets and can be used on dedicated test phones for quality of service testing; or to thousands of subscriber smartphones for nation-wide testing and analysis. The application enables the operator to measure specific performance metrics in various situations, such as in-building, in-motion (rail or car),...

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NTT DOCOMO Targets 2020 Carbon Footprint at 1/10th 2008

NTT DOCOMO has set a 10-year environmental vision under which it intends lower its carbon footprint, strengthen recycling and protect biodiversity. Notably, the company has set a target for its 2020 carbon footprint to be less than 90 percent of its fiscal 2008 level.DOCOMO also will develop services that help to reduce carbon emissions throughout society, and it will actively encourage employees to participate in green activities.The vision also...

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T-Mobile Netherlands Reduces 3G Peak Signaling Load

T-Mobile Netherlands has significantly reduced the peak signaling traffic load on its 3G network by using a paging channel feature within its network, making room for additional growth in voice and data traffic. Cell_PCH is a Nokia Siemens Networks enabled feature in 3G networks that can significantly reduce signaling traffic.Nokia Siemens Networks said a Cell_PCH-enabled network can reduced the signal volume from high-signaling applications by up...

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Orange Business Services Joins Cloud Security Alliance

Orange Business Services announced it support for the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), whose mission is to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. http://www.orange-business.com http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.o...

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Telefónica O2 UK Picks NSN for RAN Upgrade

Telefónica O2 UK has awarded a three-year contract to Nokia Siemens Networks to modernize its radio network, expanding capacity, coverage and performance. The upgrade with use NSN's Flexi Multiradio Base Station and Radio Network Controller. The deal means Nokia Siemens Networks will provide approximately two-thirds of O2's 3G access network in the UK, covering the south of England. Nokia Siemens Networks is currently the sole vendor for O2's nationwide...

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MCNC Opens RFP for "Golden Leaf" Middle Mile Project

MCNC, which operates the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for construction of the middle-mile project through the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI).MCNC is seeking proposals from qualified contractors to provide construction and splicing for those routes funded by MCNC's second federal Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) award, received in August 2010, through...

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AboveNet Names COO

AboveNet announced the promotion of Rajiv Datta to Chief Operating Officer. Datta joined AboveNet in 1998 and has served in a number of management roles. Most recently he held the position of AboveNet's Chief Technology Officer and oversaw all aspects of Engineering, IT and Product Development activities across AboveNet's metro, long haul and IP networks. http://www.above....

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AT&T Approaches 11 Million Emerging Devices on Net

The total number of emerging devices, including postpaid and prepaid embedded computing devices, connected to the AT&T network -- both for consumers and businesses -- is nearly 11 million. This includes nearly 2 million emerging devices added in Q4 2010. Embedded computing devices include tablets, netbooks and laptops, and are included in either the company's postpaid or prepaid subscriber categories. AT&T expects many new classes of connected...

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Vodafone Egypt Confirms Order to Suspend Services

Vodafone issued a statement saying that is subsidiary, Vodafone Egypt, had been ordered by the Egyptian governement to suspend services.Public Internet service in Egypt was also cut just after midnight local time. http://www.vodafone....

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Allot Launches Service Gateway for LTE

Allot Communications has launched a service gateway for LTE. The ATCA-based Allot Service Gateway Sigma E platform boasts 160 Gbps of throughput and the ability to support 8 million subscribers on a single platform. The company said its design can scale to as high as 1 Tbps when deployed in a clustered configuration. "LTE signifies the next big step forward for mobile Internet. It represents a huge opportunity for operators to improve the way...

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Zarlink Posts Revenue of $57 Million

Zarlink Semiconductor reported quarterly revenue of $56.9 million, compared with $50.0 million for the same period last year. Revenue for Zarlink's communications products of $45.4 million, up $11.6 million or 34% from the same period last year. Gross margin increased to 52%, due to product mix and improving yield on new line circuit products."I am pleased with our progress, with very strong year-on-year revenue growth from our communications products and a growing cash position that's allowing us to pursue opportunities to augment our fast-growing...

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Intel Delivers Open Fibre Channel Over Ethernet

Intel introduced a free, "Open Fibre Channel Over Ethernet" software stack aimed at carrying all data center traffic over a single capable and using a single Intel 10GbE adapter. Intel's Open FCoE integrates capabilities into the operating system, enabling convergence for server network and storage connectivity while integrating seamlessly with existing Fibre Channel environments.The Intel Open FCoE software stack is available as a free upgrade...

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ZTE Reports 17% Sales Growth for 2010

ZTE reported RMB 70,332,280,000 in operating revenue for the year 2010, representing a 16.69% growth compared to the previous year. Total profit in 2010 increased by 31.89% to RMB 4,384,983,000 compared to the previous year. The net profit attributable to shareholders of the Company in 2010 increased by 32.39% ascompared to the previous year to RMB 3,254,251,000. The increase in total profit and net profit was mainly attributable to (1) sales growth...

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Nokia's Q4 Sales Rise to EUR 12.7 Billion, up 6% YoY

Nokia reported net sales of EUR 12.7 billion for Q4 2010, up 6% year-on-year and 23% sequentially (flat and up 24% at constant currency)."In Q4 we delivered solid performance across all three of our businesses, and generated outstanding cash flow. Additionally, growth trends in the mobile devices market continue to be encouraging. Yet, Nokia faces some significant challenges in our competitiveness and our execution. In short, the industry changed,...

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AT&T: Mobile Broadband Revenues Lead with 27% Growth

AT&T reported Q4 2010 revenue of $31.4 billion, up $653 million, or 2.1 percent, versus the year-earlier quarter. Compared with results for the fourth quarter of 2009, operating expenses were $29.3 billion versus $26.1 billion; operating income was $2.1 billion, down from $4.6 billion; and AT&T's operating income margin was 6.7 percent, compared to 14.9 percent. Some highlights for the quarter: AT&T posted a net gain in total wireless...

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Everything Everywhere Partners on Contactless Mobile Payments

Everything Everywhere, the newly formed mobile operator formed through the merger of T-Mobile and Orange in the UK, is planning to launch a contactless mobile payments service to be rolled out by early summer (second quarter of 2011). Everything Everywhere is partnering with Barclaycard. The companies expect to have over 40,000 stores ready to accept contactless payments by that time.http://everythingeverywhere....

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Verizon to Acquire Terremark for Cloud Hosting

In a bid to accelerate its "everything-as-a-service" cloud strategy, Verizon Communications agreed to acquire Terremark, a global provider of managed IT infrastructure and cloud services, for $19.00 per share in cash, or a total equity value of $1.4 billion. Verizon plans to operate the new unit as a wholly owned subsidiary retaining the Terremark name and with its current management team continuing to manage the company. Terremark, which is headquartered...

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SiTime Introduces MEMS-based Clock Generator

SiTime Corporation introduced a new MEMS-base programmable clock generator aimed at high-performance networking applications. The SiT9105 is the first MEMS-based clock generator to offer mixed LVCMOS and differential outputs in a single package, while also reducing board area by up to 66%. SiTime is targeting the SiT9105 for use in routers, switches, bridges, servers, base stations, repeaters and other high-performance equipment."Unlike the quartz...

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ETRI Demos LTE-Advanced at 600 Mbps

South Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) demonstrated an evolved Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (eMBMS) delivered to a moving vehicle and using LTE-Advanced technology. The demonstration showed 3D video. The download data rate was measured 600 Mbps. This means a 700 MB file could be downloaded in 9.3 seconds. ETRI plans to develop a single-chip LTE-Advanced implementation. The research institute, which...

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Ericsson to Supply GPON to China Unicom in 10 Provinces

Ericsson announced a contract to supply its GPON solution to China Unicom in more than 10 provinces across China. The contract marks China Unicom's first large-scale deployment of GPON technology. Financial terms were not disclosed.The GPON infrastructure and smart management system will enable China Unicom to roll out fiber-to-the-home and fiber-to-the-building across the country faster and at a lower cost. Ericsson will be supplying its high capacity...

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Netflix: Charter Delivers Best Streaming

Netflix published data of the streaming performance of major ISPs.Netflix's best HD streaming tops out at 4.800 Mbps, although no client would sustain that rate all the way through.Charter is the streaming performance leader in the U.S with a 2.667 Mbps average over the period. Rogers is the streaming performance leader Canada with 3.020 Mbps average.Netflix said it will update its report on a monthly basis.http://techblog.netflix.c...

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