TeliaSonera Picks Ericsson for Upgrade in Norway

TeliaSonera has selected Ericsson as the supplier of GSM/EDGE and WCDMA/HSPA for its network upgrade in Norway.Under a 3-year contract, Ericsson will help modernize and expand the northern part of TeliaSonera's Norwegian network and roll-out 4G/LTE in the same region. Ericsson will, as part of the modernization process, replace the existing 2G and 3G radio base stations with its multi-standard RBS 6000. The contract also includes Ericsson's microwave...

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Google Chrome Adds Support for WebM and Theodora, Drop H.264

Google announced changes to Chrome's HTML5 support. Specifically, Google is backing the WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs, while removing support for H.264 so that resources can be focused on "completely open codec technologies."http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.h...

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Level 3 Plans $300 Million Notes Offering

Level 3 Communications plans to offer $300 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes (the "Senior Notes") that will mature in 2019 and will bear interest at a fixed rate in a proposed private offering to "qualified institutional buyers", as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and non-U.S. persons outside the United States under Regulation S under the Securities Act. The Senior Notes will...

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Aruba Networks Names Ben Gibson as CMO

Aruba Networks named Ben Gibson to the position of Chief Marketing Officer, reporting to Hitesh Sheth, Aruba's Chief Operating Officer. Gibson most recently served as vice president of data center and virtualization marketing at Cisco. Prior to that, Gibson headed Cisco's enterprise mobility solutions marketing organization. Gibson also served as vice president of marketing at both Meru Networks and Proxim Corporation prior to joining Cisco as head...

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TELUS Deploys GENBAND Converged Application Server

TELUS will deploy GENBAND's A2 Converged Application Server across its Canadian network to provide business customers with the next-generation of voice, unified communications (UC) and collaboration services. These could include UC services, PC-based soft client and call control capability, customized web portal applications, integrated multimedia collaboration tools, and fixed mobile convergence features. Financial terms were not disclosed. TELUS currently utilizes GENBAND's C20 Converged Softswitch across its network.http://www.genband....

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MoSys Ships its Bandwidth Engine IC for

MoSys has begun shipping its first "Bandwidth Engine" integrated circuit (IC) devices, which integrate MoSys' 1T-SRAM high-density embedded memory with its 10.3 Gbps SerDes interface (I/O) technology and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU). MoSys said its Bandwidth Engine enables up to four times the throughput, two to four times the density, approximately 40 percent lower system power and a system cost savings of up to 50 percent, compared with today's...

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ZTE Claims 235 LTE Essential Patents

ZTE now holds 235 essential patents for LTE standards, representing a 7% share of the total LTE essential patents declared on the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) online database of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, as of 30th November 2010. As of the end of 2010, ZTE had submitted more than 6800 proposals to 3GPP, of which more than 3900 proposals involved LTE/SAE technologies, and had made more than 2900 LTE-related patent...

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Ericsson: Mobile Broadband Subscriptions to Double in 2011

Ericsson is forecasting spectacular growth in mobile broadband subscription worldwide this year. During 2010, the number of mobile broadband subscribers topped the 500 million mark. The company expects this figure will double before 2011 ends. The greatest number of subscriptions, around 400 million, is expected to be concentrated in the Asia Pacific region, followed by North America and Western Europe with more than 200 million subscriptions each....

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Extreme Networks Demos Data Center Bridging for iSCSI-Based Storage

Extreme Networks has added support for Data Center Bridging (DCB) protocols in multi-vendor environments into existing BlackDiamond and Summit switching products. The company recently participated in the Enterprise iSCSI Interoperability Test Event at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), which demonstrated the continued power of Ethernet and recent extensions to the standard, such as Converged Enhanced Ethernet...

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CipherOptics Raises $21 Million for Scalable Network Encryption

CipherOptics, a start-up based in Raleigh, North Carolina, raised $21 million for its scalable network encryption.CipherOptics offers policy and key management solutions along with wire-speed encryption appliances for securing networks without changing the underlying infrastructure or application performance. The new funding round was led by existing investor Adams Capital Management and included new investors Blue Heron Capital, Intuitive Venture...

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Verizon Wireless Begins Selling iPhone 4 on Feb 10

Verizon Wireless made its long-anticipated announcement to begin selling Apple's iPhone 4 on February 10. Apple will supply the CDMA version of the iPhone 4 under a multiyear, non-exclusive agreement. Pricing is set at $199.99 for the 16GB model and $299.99 for the 32GB model with a new two year customer agreement.Due to CDMA characteristics, users will not be able to use voice and data connections simultaneously.The iPhone 4 on Verizon Wireless...

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Tata Communications to Acquire BitGravity CDN

Tata Communications agreed to acquire BitGravity, a start-up based in Burlingame, California that operates a content delivery network (CDN). Financial terms were not disclosed.BitGravity's network and products accelerate the delivery of media assets to end-users and enables scalable, real-time video communications over the Internet. The company operates nodes in over 25 locations around the globe."Tata Communications bet on BitGravity's vision...

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Qwest Launches Ethernet over MPLS/DWDM (E-Line)

Qwest launched a new "iQ" E-Line service that provides enterprise customers with a low-latency, private line solution suitable for media transport and other mission-critical applications.Qwest's E-Line service leverages its DWDM and dedicated MPLS network technologies to combine the benefits of intelligent routing with the advantages of full bandwidth utilization. The fully managed service offers bandwidth in increments from 5 Mbps up to 1 Gbps....

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