Sprint Provides M2M for ECOtality Electric Car Charging Stations

Sprint has been chosen to provide machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity for ECOtality Blink electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.ECOtality is planning to install Blink electric vehicle charging stations across the U.S., including 15,000 Level 2 chargers at residential and commercial locations, and over 300 DC Fast Charging ports at public and commercial sites throughout 2011. Sprint will provide the wireless network that will allow ECOtality...

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CableLabs and Cable Europe Extend Collaboration

Cable Television Laboratories (CableLabs) and Cable Europe Labs signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that establishes a one-year trial program by which the two cable research and development organizations might develop longer-term joint cooperation. In the past, the two organizations have collaborated on EuroDOCSIS 3.0 and EuroPacketCable, as well as alignment in certification programs and standards initiatives. Under the terms of the MOU,...

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Canada's Videotron Signs Tata for International Voice Termination

Videotron, one of Canada's largest integrated communications companies, will route 100% of its international voice traffic through Tata Communications network. In addition, Videotron will continue to be one of Tata Communications' key suppliers of telecommunication services in Canada.http://tatacommunications....

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IBM and ARM Sign Agreement for Mobile Electronics

IBM and ARM announced an deal to extend their collaboration to enable the rapid development of next generation mobile products optimized for performance and power efficiency. The collaboration combines optimized physical and processor IP by ARM tuned to IBM's advanced manufacturing process down to 14nm; providing streamlined development and earlier introduction of advanced consumer electronics into the marketplace. The companies said this partnership...

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NetLogic Tapes-Out in TSMC's Advanced 28nm Process

NetLogic Microsystems has taped out its next-generation silicon in TSMC's advanced 28nm process, which offers up to 50 percent higher speed, 40 percent lower power and 100 percent higher gate density compared to the 40nm node, and up to 120 percent higher speed, 60 percent lower power and over 300 percent higher gate density compared to the 65nm node.NetLogic Microsystems confirmed that it is migrating its next-generation multi-core processing, knowledge-based...

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Discera Ships MEMS Oscillators with Femtosecond Jitter

Discera announced the volume availability of MEMS oscillators designed for networking, server, storage and video applications. The DSC11XX silicon oscillators are available at accuracies up to 10 ppm, and temperature ranges up to 125 degrees Celsius. Discera said its new silicon-based MEMS oscillators offer 300 femtosecond RMS phase jitter in CMOS, LVPECL, LVDS, and HCSL output versions.http://www.discera....

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NEC Forms LTE Partnership with China's Wuhan Research Institute

NEC and Wuhan Research Institute of Post and Telecommunications (WRI) have agreed to collaborate in the development, manufacturing, sales and field support of 3GPP compliant LTE wireless access systems, including wireless base stations (eNodeB), Operation and Maintenance Sub-systems and Self Organizing Network (SON). The jointly developed systems support both TD-LTE and FD-LTE standards, and will be commercially available within 2011. NEC boasts LTE capabilities that include advanced RF technology, base station control and management technology,...

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Australia's NBN Picks Corning for Passive Optical

Corning has been selected as a primary NBN Co supplier of optical fiber cable and hardware for Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) initiative. Corning and NBN Co have signed a contract for the supply of optical cable and hardware that could be valued at up to AUS $1.2 billion over the contract period with an initial purchase commitment of AUS $400 million. An additional tender will be issued for the second half of the deployment at a later...

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Global Crossing Uses 40 Gbps Wavelength Service

Global Crossing has upgraded the terrestrial capacity of its Wavelength Service to 40 Gbps and begun offering new benchmark-setting network performance service level agreements (SLAs) and a new route diversity planning service. The capacity upgrade, which is being implemented on terrestrial routes in North America, Europe and the UK, is designed to deliver 40 Gbps services in both core and edge sites. The new network performance SLAs cover "propagation...

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Verizon Global Wholesale Sharpens its Transparent LAN Service

Verizon Global Wholesale announced a set of enhancements to its Transparent LAN Service, which is its wholesale metro switched Ethernet service. Applications supported over TLS include wireless backhaul, LAN-to-LAN connections and Ethernet exchanges. These enhancements include:Expanded bandwidth option for network connections that will allow wholesale customers to stay ahead of their users' ever-increasing demand for bandwidth. The ability to combine both point-to-point and multipoint-to-multipoint virtual connections across a single network...

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Huawei to Build Joint Innovation Centre with TELUS

Huawei and TELUS signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to create and maintain a Joint Innovation Centre (JIC) in Canada. Huawei and TELUS will work together on enhancing broadband solutions, wireless and wireline offerings. According to terms of the memorandum, the length of the agreement is three years and each company will own 50 percent of the Joint Innovation Center. "This unique partnership arrangement provides TELUS with the ability to...

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Huawei to Build Joint Innovation Centre with Bell Canada

Huawei and Bell Canada signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to create and maintain a Joint Innovation Centre (JIC) in Canada. Huawei and Bell will collaborate on developing and enhancing broadband wireless solutions, core network products and value-added service offerings."Huawei played a key role in the introduction of Bell's world-leading HSPA+ network, and we're confident this Joint Innovation Centre will create further breakthrough products...

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