Nokia Siemens Networks Completes Acquisition of Motorola Solutions Assets

Nokia Siemens Networks completed its previously-announced acquisition of Motorola Solutions' Networks assets for US$975 million in cash. As of April 30 2011, Nokia Siemens Networks has assumed responsibility for supporting customers of Motorola Solutions' GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, WiMAX and LTE products and services. As part of the deal, responsibility for supporting 50 operators across 52 countries, as well as approximately 6900 employees, will transfer...

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Outage at Amazon Web Services Caused by Network Configuration Error

In the early hours of April 21st, a configuration error during a network upgrade at its US East Region data center led to a cascading series of failures that ultimately brought down the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The trigger event was a configuration change meant to upgrade the capacity of the facility's primary network. Instead of temporarily re-routing traffic to a redundant router in the primary network, the configuration change shifted...

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India's Tulip Telecom Expands Data Center Ambition

New Delhi-based Tulip Telecom Limited (Tulip) announced plans to build what is described as the world's third largest data center in Bengaluru (Karnataka). The company has acquired an existing facility in Bengaluru from SADA IT Parks Private Limited (SADA) and now intends to increase its square footage by 9-fold to approximately 900,000 square feet. The company anticipates a total investment of Rs 900 crore spread over a period of 3 years.Tulip...

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Greenpacket Offers Enhanced Wi-Fi Offload Solution

Greenpacket has enhanced its Intouch Connection Management Platform (ICMP) to enable mobile operators to dynamically offload subscribers from congested cellular networks to Wi-Fi networks using intelligent switching rules based on operator's network management policies and controls.The new capabilities comply with the 3GPP-defined standard for networking connectivity function, namely the Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF). Greenpacket...

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Canada's Rogers Picks Ericsson for LTE

Ericsson has been named sole supplier for Roger's LTE network. Ericsson will deploy all 4G/LTE radio sites with its new multi-standard radio base station, RBS 6000, and upgrade and expand Rogers' existing packet core network into an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) network, supporting the new LTE network. Financial terms were not disclosed.Ericsson noted it has now signed commercial LTE contracts with six of seven of the top ranked operators by 2010 global...

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NETGEAR's Q1 Revenue Tops $279 Million, up 32% YoY

NETGEAR reported Q1 net revenue of $278.8 million, as compared to $211.6 million for the first quarter ended March 28, 2010, and as compared to $258.5 million in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2010. Net income (GAAP) was $21.2 million, or $0.57 per diluted share.Patrick Lo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NETGEAR, commented, "We are extremely pleased with our first quarter 2011 performance, another quarter of record revenue and profit. We were carrying tremendous momentum out of a very strong fourth quarter, and our new products...

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Verizon Wireless Restores LTE Service -- No Cause Stated

Verizon Wireless restored service on its national LTE network on Thursday morning, roughly 24 hours after the outage began. The company has not yet commented on the cause of the problem nor whether subscribers would be compensated. Verizon Wireless has an estimated 560,000 LTE subscribers, including about 260,000 Thunderbolt smartphones.http://www.verizonwireless....

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Calix Reports Q1 Revenue of $71.5 Million

Calix reported Q1 revenue of $71.5 million, an increase of 48.3% compared to $48.2 million for the first quarter of 2010. GAAP net loss for the first quarter of 2011 was $22.8 million, or $(0.55) per basic and diluted share."Q1 was a record-setting quarter for Calix, and represented a strong start to fiscal year 2011," said Carl Russo, Calix president and CEO. "We executed well across all segments of our business, and reported results that were ahead of expectations. Our integration of Occam Networks is progressing quickly and smoothly, resulting...

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Huawei Sues ZTE for Patent and Trademark Infringement

Huawei filed lawsuits in Germany, France, and Hungary against ZTE for patent and trade mark infringement. Huawei alleges that ZTE is infringing a series of its patents relating to data card and LTE (Long Term Evolution) technologies and illegally used a Huawei-registered trademark on some of its data card products.Huawei said it has invited ZTE on numerous occasions to enter into cross-patent licensing negotiations but was equally unsuccessful.In...

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Infinera Posts Revenue of $93 Million

Infinera reported Q1 2011 GAAP revenues of $92.9 million compared to $117.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2010 and $95.8 million in the first quarter of 2010. GAAP gross margins for the quarter were 46% compared to 49% in the fourth quarter of 2010 and 39% in the first quarter of 2010. GAAP net loss for the quarter was $16.4 million, or $(0.16) per share, compared to net loss of $2.7 million, or $(0.03) per share, in the fourth quarter of 2010 and net loss of $20.0 million, or $(0.21) per share, in the first quarter of 2010."Our first quarter...

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TeliaSonera Launches LTE in Lithuania with Huawei

TeliaSonera has launched the first commercial 4G / LTE service in Lithuania using the 1800 MHz frequency. Service is available in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys under the Omnitel brand. The initial 4G network in Lithuania is supplied by Huawei and the 4G modems come from ZTE supporting 4G/3G/2G. "It is a positive trend in European countries to offer technology neutral frequency bands which gives customers faster access to new...

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STMicroelectronics Expands its Base Station Chip Portfolio

STMicroelectronics introduced a base station IC that integrates the RF frequency synthesizer and down-converter functionality in a single device. The new STW82100B series is aimed at compact, next-generation mobile network base stations and for equipment such as RF (radio-frequency) instrumentation and general wireless-infrastructure applications. ST's high-quality BiCMOS process has been used to achieve this advanced level of integration, while also meeting all key performance requirements. ST chips implemented in this advanced technology process...

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PMC-Sierra Posts Q1 Revenue of $157 Million, up 3% YoY

PMC-Sierra reported Q1 2011 net revenues of $157.4 million, a year-over-year increase of 3% compared with $152.8 million in the first quarter of 2010, and slightly lower than net revenues of $159.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. There was a GAAP net loss of $7.7 million (GAAP net loss per share of $0.03) compared with GAAP net income in the first quarter of 2010 of $27.0 million (GAAP diluted net income per share of $0.12)."We have been working diligently with our customers to reduce inventories and we currently anticipate a resumption...

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Verizon Charts a new Carbon Intensity Metric

Verizon has a carbon intensity metric to quantify its energy efficiency in moving a terabyte of data across its global backbone. The new measurement, which was developed by Verizon's Sustainability Office and tested over the past 12 months, showed an improvement of approximately 15 percent in the company's carbon efficiency, from 2009 to 2010. Verizon is aiming for a further 15 percent improvement in 2011.The metric is derived by first combining...

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Chunghwa Telecom FTTx Nears Half of Broadband Subscribers

More than 48% of Chunghwa Telecom's broadband subscribers in Taiwan are now served by FTTx as the migration away from ADSL continues to gain pace. The carrier now estimates that its FTTx footprint will reach 80% of the island by 2015.For Q1 2011, Chunghwa Telecom's total consolidated revenue increased by 5.8% year-over-year to NT$52.48 billion, of which 43.5% was from the mobile business, 11.6% was from the internet business, 36.6% was from the...

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Huawei Delivers 2 x 100GE Router Line Card

Huawei introduced a "200G" line card for its high-end NE5000E router. This 200G line card, consisting of a mother card and daughter card, will be delivered with two types: 2 x 100GE and 20 x 10GE. The mother card is backward compatible with the daughter cards of legacy 100G line cards. In addition, the mother card supports multiple hot-swappable daughter cards for operators to choose from. When deployed on a Huawei NE5000E high-end router, it additionally...

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Telehouse NYIIX Consistently Averaging 100 Gbps

TELEHOUSE America's New York International Internet Exchange (NYIIX) has consistently exceeded the 100 Gbps (gigabits per second) daily traffic volume milestone this year. NYIIX is current averaging approximately 127 Gbps, essentially doubling the traffic volume in under 18 months.NYIIX, which is one of the largest neutral Internet exchange points on the U.S. East coast, serves about 130 active peering members from around the world. Located in downtown...

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Clearwire Discontinues Backhaul Services from FiberTower

Clearwire has discontinued the majority of the backhaul services provided by FiberTower, effective April 30, 2011, representing approximately $434,000 in monthly service revenue. Upon termination of these services, the customer's early termination charges are expected to be approximately $1.9 million payable immediately. Approximately 16% of the services will be retained, representing approximately $80,000 in monthly revenue. FiberTower said payment of the early termination charges of approximately $1.5 million associated with service terminated...

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ZTE Counter Sues Huawei for Patent Infringement

ZTE filed a lawsuit against Huawei Technologies Co. patent infringement over its LTE technologies in China.ZTE said it will pursue a series of legal actions globally to protect its rights on intellectual properties, ensuring its legitimate rights and interests will not be compromised. http://www.zte.com...

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Equinix Posts Q1 2011 Revenues of $363.0 million

Equinix reported Q1 2011 revenues of $363.0 million, a 5% increase over the previous quarter and a 46% increase over the same quarter last year. Recurring revenues, consisting primarily of colocation, interconnection and managed services were $343.9 million for the first quarter, a 5% increase over the previous quarter and a 45% increase over the same quarter last year. Non-recurring revenues were $19.1 million in the quarter. "We are extremely...

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Russia's MegaFON Deploys HD Voice over GSM

Russia's MegaFon has deploy HD voice on its GSM and UMTS networks in Moscow and Sochi.Nokia Siemens Networks was responsible for the HD voice implementation. Nokia Siemens Networks' HD voice is based on Adaptive Multi-Rate Wide Band technology* (AMR-WB) that provides service continuation between GSM and UMTS networks, and supports Megafon's network. "The main advantage of HD Voice communication is the impression of a live, emotional talk between...

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ARRIS Posts Q1 Revenues of $267.4 Million

ARRIS reported Q1 2011 revenues of 267.4 million as compared to revenues of $266.7 million for Q1 2010 and as compared to revenues of $266.2 million for Q4 2010. GAAP net income in the first quarter 2011 was $0.09 per diluted share, as compared to first quarter 2010 GAAP net income of $0.15 per diluted share and fourth quarter 2010 GAAP net income of $0.09 per diluted share. "First quarter financial results came in within our range of guidance,"...

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ARRIS C4 CMTS Software Upgrades Enables 343 Mbps Subscriber Rates

ARRIS has begun early deployments of its Release 7.4 eXtended Downstream Cable Access Module (XD CAM) field upgrade, effectively doubling the downstream density of the DOCSIS 3.0 C4 CMTS from 16D to 32D without the need for any wiring or hardware changes. This enables eight-channel bonding and gives cable operators the ability to deliver more bandwidth per subscriber -- up to 343 Mbps for North American DOCSIS (Annex B) and 445 Mbps for European...

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Alcatel-Lucent Releases OpenPlug App Development Tools Free-for-All

Alcatel-Lucent released its OpenPlug Studio (formerly OpenPlug ELIPS Studio) as a free resource to application developers. OpenPlug Studio is a development toolkit that allows developers to efficiently create native applications for smart phones, tablets and other web-connected devices from a single code base using well-known web development technologies such as JavaScript, ActionScript and XML. Alcatel-Lucent also launched a Certified OpenPlug...

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Nokia Transfers Symbian to Accenture, Cuts Jobs

Nokia will outsource its Symbian software activities to Accenture. The decision will also transfer about 3,000 employees to Accenture. At the same time, Accenture would provide mobility software services to Nokia for future smartphones.Under the deal, Accenture will provide Symbian-based software development and support services. Transitioning employees, located in China, Finland, India, United Kingdom and the United States, will initially work...

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Verizon Wireless Suffers National LTE Outage

Verizon Wireless experienced a widespread disruption on its national LTE network. The problem was widely noted by Twitter users, who complained that their Thunderbolt handsets had defaulted to 1x speed. Voice service continued as normal of the CDMA network.As of 4pm ET on Wednesday afternoon, Verizon Wireless stated that it had determined the cause of the problem and that is was working with major vendors to restore connections.http://twitter....

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Ericsson Posts Strong Q1 Driven by Base Station Sales

Ericsson's overall sales in Q1 2011 rose to SEK 53.0 billion, up 17% year-over-year and down -16% sequentially. Sales for comparable units, adjusted for currency exchange rate effects and hedging, increased 25% year-over-year. "Group sales in the quarter increased by 17% year-over-year driven by continued strong demand for mobile broadband and especially for the multi-standard radio base station RBS 6000," says Hans Vestberg, President and CEO of...

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Stoke Partners with Zhilabs on Mobile Data Offload

Stoke has collaborated with Zhilabs to create an integrated mobile data offload and traffic optimization solution that provides operators with the ability to manage explosive demand for mobile data. The combined capability delivers fine-grained visibility and control of traffic, enabling operators to apply management policies to reduce costs, improve use of network resources and a greatly improved customer experience. Zhilabs is a start-up offering...

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ZTE Sees 50% Boost in HSUPA Uplink Interference Cancellation

ZTE believes it can deliver a 50% increase in uplink capacity with a new generation of dual-mode SDR (Software Defined Radio) products that leverage HSUPA-based uplink interference cancellation technology. The company said this technology also provides a significant increase of both the number of voice users and average cell throughput, with users benefiting across various radio conditions. The upgraded SDR product solution is expected to be commercially...

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Applied Micro Posts Revenue of $58.6 Million

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation reported quarterly net revenues of $58.6 million, down 6.1% sequentially and up 1.7% year over year. GAAP net loss was $4.0 million or $0.06 per share."We executed to plan and continue to build upon our leadership position in the OTN market. With our increased pace of product introductions, we are confident of expanding our market share in all our key focus markets," said Dr. Paramesh Gopi, President and Chief Executive Officer. Bob Gargus, Chief Financial Officer commented, "Lead times continue to be challenging...

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Equinix Plans Data Center Expansion in NY, Chicago, Frankfurt

Citing strong market demand for data center service, Equinix announced plans to open its eighth International Business Exchange data center in the New York metropolitan area and expand its data centers in Chicago, Ill., and Frankfurt, Germany. Equinix is investing approximately $140 million in its newest New York metro area IBX data center. The new facility is scheduled to open in the second quarter of 2012 and will primarily support the growth of...

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CenturyLink to Acquire SAVVIS for Data Center Business

CenturyLink will acquire Savvis in a cash and stock merger valued at $40 per share, or a total of approximately $2.5 billion, plus net debt of approximately $0.7 billion which will be assumed or refinanced at close. SAVVIS, which is based in St. Louis, provides managed services, colocation and network services for enterprise customers. It has 2,500 global clients, most under long term contract. Its managed hosting business is growing at around...

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Corning's Telecom Sales Up 30% YOY

Corning reported overall Q1 20011 sales of $1.9 billion, increasing 9% sequentially and 24% year over year.Earnings per share were $0.47, a 2% sequential increase, but a 10% decline year over year.Telecommunications segment sales were $474 million, a 7% sequential increase and 30% year-over-year improvement. Sequential sales for the quarter increased across most of the segment's major product areas with significant demand for the company's fiber-to-the-home...

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Wi-Fi Alliance See Growth in New Consumer Connectivity

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced a milestone in its certification program -- the 10,000th device to gain Wi-Fi certification is an LED-LCD TV with Wi-Fi Direct and Wi-Fi Protected Setup capabilities. The certification program was introduced in 2000. While it took eight years to reach the 5,000-certification milestone, more than 2,000 certifications were given in 2010 alone."We are incredibly proud of the real impact and value of our Wi-Fi CERTIFIED...

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Sony Apologizes for PlayStation Network Intrusion

Kazuo Hirai, Executive Deputy President, Sony Corporation, formally apologized for the hacker intrusion on the Sony Playstation Network last month, including the compromise of credit card data from tens of millions of subscribers."This criminal act against our network had a significant impact not only on our consumers, but our entire industry. These illegal attacks obviously highlight the widespread problem with cyber-security. We take the security of our consumers' information very seriously and are committed to helping our consumers protect their...

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CloudPassage Raises Funding for Cloud Security

CloudPassage, a start-up based in San Francisco, completed a Series A round of financing for is cloud server security and compliance solution. CloudPassage said its key innovation is its Halo architecture, which automates multiple server security functions and transparently handles the highly fluid and scalable characteristics of public IaaS environments. The technology automatically secures cloud servers when they burst or are cloned. Halo combines...

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Tellabs Posts Q1 Revenue of $322 million, Down 15% YoY on North American Sales

Tellabs reported Q1 2011 revenue of $322 million, down 15% from $379 million in the first quarter of 2010. Tellabs recorded a net loss (GAAP) of $24 million or 7 cents per share in the first quarter of2011, compared with net earnings of $46 million or 12 cents per share in the first quarter of 2010. For the first quarter of 2011, Broadband segment revenue was $173 million, Transport segment revenuewas $99 million and Services segment revenue was...

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Altera Posts Q1 Sales of $535.8 million, up 33% YoY

Altera reported Q1 sales of $535.8 million, down 4 percent from the fourth quarter of 2010 and up 33 percent from the first quarter of 2010. New product sales increased 13 percent sequentially. First quarter net income was $224.1 million, $0.68 per diluted share, compared with net income of $231.6 million, $0.72 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2010 and $153.2 million, $0.50 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2010."Despite the anticipated slow down in first quarter sales following a remarkable 2010 growth year, we experienced...

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Deutsche Telekom and NSN Show 800 MHz LTE for Rural Reach

Deutsche Telekom and Nokia Siemens Networks have jointly demonstrated LTE in in the 800 MHz spectrum as a means of reaching rural schools in Germany. DT has established an LTE connection with the G.-E.-Lessing-Gymnasium "European Grammar School" in Doebeln village. The "Flying Classroom" enables students to engage remotely with peers and teachers in partner schools using video conferencing and Smartboards. "LTE offers a wide range of possible...

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Broadcom Hits Q1 Revenue of $1.82 Billion, up 24%

Broadcom reported Q1 net revenue of $1.82 billion, a decrease in net revenue of 6.6% compared with Q4 2010 and an increase of 24.2% compared with the $1.46 billion reported for Q1 2010. Net income (GAAP) was $228 million, or $.40 per share (diluted)."Broadcom reported solid results for the first quarter, with revenue above the mid-point of guidance and better-than-expected profitability," said Scott A. McGregor, Broadcom's President and Chief Executive...

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Equinix Acquires ALOG Data Centers of Brazil

Equinix has acquired ALOG Data Centers of Brazil S.A. in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $83 million—approximately $68 million as part of the acquisition and approximately $15 million to provide additional capital to fund future data center expansions.ALOG serves approximately 1,000 customers across its two data centers in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. In June 2011, ALOG plans to open the first phase of its third data center, which...

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Force10 Outlines its Open Cloud Framework

Force10 Networks introduced its Open Cloud Networking (OCN) vision for cloud and conventional data centers built on open architectures, open automation, and open ecosystems. Force10's OCN framework represents a new way to build, scale and manage data centers powered by a new family of centralized and distributed core switches, a top of rack (ToR) open cloud switch and automation software. The solutions address cloud, conventional, virtualized, and...

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SoftLayers Opens Silicon Valley Data Center

SoftLayer Technologies opened a new data center in San Jose, California. The new facility has capacity for more than 12,000 servers in three data center pods. SoftLayer is featuring a dual-path network structure, including redundant network interface cards (NICs) in every server, enabling customers to select up to 2G of connectivity for any SJC01 server. The facility is SoftLayer's first data center in California. It is fully connected to SoftLayer's...

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Hackers Penetrate Sony's PlayStation Network

Hackers have penetrated Sony's PlayStation Network and potentially access to personal information and credit card data of tens of millions of accounts. Sony's PlayStation Network enables users of the PlayStation 3 console to join online games, download content and watch streaming movies from Netflix. In a blog posting, Sony said the intrusion occurred between April 19 and April 19. Data compromised includes: name, address, country, email, birthdate,...

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CableLabs Tests DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON

Earlier this month, CableLabs hosted the second DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON (DPoE) interoperability testing event, focusing on on the DPoE v1.0 specifications. In addition to providing provisioning requirements for Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) equipment, version 1.0 of the DPoE specifications defines requirements and functionality to support Metro Ethernet services such as Ethernet Private Line (EPL).The second DPoE interop event attracted...

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Google Acquire TalkBin for Mobile Business Interaction

Google has acquired TalkBin, a newly formed start-up that is developing "a better way for consumers to connect with their local businesses in a more personal way." The company will work with Google's mobile and local teams. http://www.google.com http://www.talkbin....

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Freescale Improves Base Station RF Power Transistors

Freescale Semiconductor introduced two LDMOS RF power transistors that allow wireless base station amplifiers to cover all channels in an entire allocated frequency band. Freescale said the surge in mobile data traffic is driving a trend to extend amplifier systems to cover entire wireless frequency bands. Whereas most of today's amplifier systems operate with instantaneous (video) bandwidth limitations of 20 to 40 MHz and require a separate power amplifier for each channel, its new RF power LDMOS transistors deliver a combination of high linearity,...

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Zain Iraq Picks Nokia Siemens Networks

Zain Iraq will consolidate all its mobile subscriber data using the Nokia Siemens Networks' One-NDS platform. The data is currently distributed across the network. The single database enables real-time data access across multiple applications. Nokia Siemens Networks said its open One-NDS platform allows greater reliability, availability and security of services to more than 12 million Zain Iraq subscribers. Besides simplification of service creation...

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Fiberhome Selects Mindspeed's Crosspoint Switch for OTN

Fiberhome Telecommunications Technologies has selected Mindspeed's large crosspoint switch for use within its next-generation OTN product line. "Fiberhome chose to use the Mindspeed's crosspoint in our OTN system because it solved both our signal-integrity and switching requirements in a highly-integrated device," said Yang Ming, vice general manager of optical networks products division at Fiberhome. "The Mindspeed crosspoints enable our OTN equipment to deliver superior flexibility, intelligent electronic/optical management and terabits per...

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AT&T Offers Remote Mobility Zone for Emergency Response

AT&T introduced a Remote Mobility Zone solution that enables organizations to set up their own cell sites during a disaster. This might include emergency responders who need to quickly establish base station coverage following a natural disaster. AT&T's "Fly-away" solution packs a small cell site into a suitcase and can extend connectivity up to one half of a mile in any direction. "In the pivotal first minutes of a natural or man-made...

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Netflix Reaches 23.6 million Subscribers

Netflix added 3.59 million new customer in Q1 2011 to reach a total base of 23.6 million worldwide. The figure was slightly below some forecasts. The number of new additions was nearly double the number added in Q1of 2010. However, the company said net adds are going to get tougher going forward, especially compared to its recent high growth quarters.In response to data caps recently introduced by Canadian ISPs, Netflix has changed the default...

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Big Switch Raises Funding for OpenFlow Network Virtualization

Big Switch Networks, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, raised $13.75 million in Series A financing to build a new platform for virtualization and cloud architecture in enterprise networks. Big Switch is pursuing a virtualized network architecture based in OpenFlow, a new network protocol pioneered at Stanford University that enables the path of network packets through a series of switches to be determined by software running on a separate...

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Verizon Wireless Offers BoxTone Mobile Management

Verizon Wireless is offering its enterprise customers BoxTone's mobile management platform to secure, manage, monitor and support the leading mobile devices, users, applications and services. Qualifying enterprises may be eligible to add BoxTone's software license cost directly to their Verizon Wireless bills.In addition to traditional Mobile Device Management (MDM), such as initial activation, provisioning, configuration and change tasks for each...

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NetLogic Packs 64 Cores in Communications Processor

NetLogic Microsystems introduced its XLP864 multi-core processor featuring 64 NXCPUs cores -- double the number of its XLP832 processor. The device is capable of delivering 80 Gbps throughput and 120 million packets-per-second (Mpps) of intelligent application performance for next-generation 3G/4G mobile wireless infrastructure, metro Ethernet, security, storage, enterprise, edge and core infrastructure network applications.The new processor features...

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Mellanox Samples its Next Gen Data Center Silicon

Mellanox Technologies began sampling its next-generation switch silicon -- "SwitchX" with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) technology, providing scalability for up to 36-ports of FDR 56 Gbps InfiniBand or 40 Gigabit Ethernet. The switching fabric is aimed at convergence of LAN, SAN and IPC (Inter Processor Communications) service architectures. The chip delivers more than 4 Tbps of non-blocking switching throughput while enabling new levels...

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Broadcom Completes $313 Million Acquisition of Provigent

Broadcom completed its previously announced acquisition of Provigent, a supplier of mixed signal semiconductors for microwave backhaul systems. Broadcom paid approximately $313 million, net of cash assumed, to acquire all of the outstanding shares of capital stock and other rights of Provigent. Provigent's System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions address the backhaul bottleneck, including high capacity modem, baseband, networking and RF chain components....

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Greening the Data Center

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Smart Data Centers -- New World of Green

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Verizon Wireless Launches LTE in 6 More Cities

Verizon Wireless activated its commercial LTE network in six more metropolitan areas, as well as expanding the 4G LTE network in Charlotte, N.C. The areas where the 4G LTE network will now be available include Clarksville, Tenn.-Hopkinsville, Ky.; Cleveland, Tenn.; Columbia and Hilton Head, S.C.; Wilmington, N.C.; and the Greater Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.David Small, chief technical officer for Verizon Wireless, noted, "As of today, we will...

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LightSquared Signs Another LTE Roaming Deal

LightSquared announced an LTE roaming agreement with SI Wireless, a partnership of rural independent telephone companies, delivering 3G-CDMA/EVDO technology to rural parts of Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee. The deal will provide subscribers of SI Wireless with a nationwide 4G-LTE footprint as well as satellite coverage in rural areas where there is no terrestrial network. It will also expand LightSquared's data coverage to additional rural communities in the SI Wireless coverage area. http://www.LightSquared....

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Level 3 Adds Wireless Backup Option

Level 3 Communications announced a new wireless backup solution that provides a reliable alternative to traditional IP network backup. Enhancing its managed router capabilities, Level 3's wireless backup access is now available across the U.S. for the company's dedicated Internet access (DIA), virtual private network (VPN) and converged business network services. Level 3 said its new wireless backup solution complements an already robust IP network...

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Nokia Posts Solid Q1, Signs with Microsoft

Nokia reported Q1 net sales of EUR 10.399 billion, up from EUR 9.522 billion in Q1 2010, and an operating profit of EUR 439 million, compared to EUR 488 million last year. Nokia also finalized its strategic agreement with Microsoft."In the first quarter, we shifted from defining our strategy to executing our strategy. On this front, I am pleased to report that we signed our definitive agreement with Microsoft and already our product design and engineering...

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