EU Probes Non-Compete Agreement of Telefónica and PT

The European Commission opened an investigation into an agreement between Telefónica and Portugal Telecom not to compete on the Iberian telecommunications markets concluded in the context of Telefónica's 2010 acquisition of sole control over the Brazilian mobile operator Vivo, previously jointly owned by the two Iberian telecoms incumbents. The Brazilian deal itself is not affected by the investigation. http://www.europa...

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Huawei Files Patent Lawsuit Against Motorola

Huawei Technologies has asked a U.S. District Court to block Motorola from transferring certain intellectual property (IP) to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), which is in the final stages of acquiring MMotorola's wireless network business.Huawei and Motorola had been partners in radio access network and core network busines since 2000 and Motorola has resold Huawei wireless network products to customers under the Motorola name. Huawei said during this...

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Mindspeed Posts Revenue of $40.5 million

Mindspeed Technologies reported net revenue of $40.5 million. Excluding patent sales of $2.5 million, product revenue was $38.0 million, a sequential decline of 15 percent from product revenue of $44.8 million in the prior fiscal quarter and an increase of 3 percent from product revenue of $37.0 million in the fiscal first quarter of 2010.Product revenue from communications convergence processing solutions contributed 44 percent of fiscal first quarter of 2011 product revenue and decreased 12 percent sequentially from the prior fiscal quarter and...

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PMC-Sierra's Forward Error Correction for 40G/100G OTN Offers 35% Greater Reach

PMC-Sierra announced new Forward Error Correction (FEC) technology that delivers greater optical reach on 40G and 100G Optical Transport Network (OTN) deployments. PMC-Sierra's Swizzle FEC delivers the industry's highest Net Effective Coding Gain (NECG) of 9.45dB, enabling 35 percent greater optical reach than other competing hard FEC technologies based on the seven percent overhead specified in the ITU G.709 standard.PMC-Sierra said its Swizzle...

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6WIND and NetLogic Expand Collaboration

NetLogic Microsystems and 6WIND, which supplies packet processing software for networking gear, expanded their collaboration to deliver high-performance solutions for next-generation telecom infrastructure, networking equipment and security appliances. At the upcoming Mobile World Congress, 6WIND will introduce support for NetLogic Microsystems' XLP832 multi-core communications processor. The XLP832 processor is designed for next-generation networking applications such as security appliances, Layer 4 through Layer 7 switching, storage networking,...

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Extreme Networks Develops M-LAG Direct Attach Architecture

Extreme Networks introduced an "M-LAG Direct Attach" architecture aimed at scaling networks with highly virtualized clouds, increasing performance and eliminating Spanning Tree designs.Extreme Networks is combining its Direct Attach Virtual Machine (VM) switching with Multi-System Link Aggregation (M-LAG) to enable the new M-LAG Direct Attach architecture that addresses high-performance switching for virtualized environments. The goal is to significantly...

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Vitesse's "Tiger" Carrier Ethernet Switching Engine Packs Layer-3 and MPLS

Vitesse Semiconductor is launching a new "Tiger" silicon switching chip that includes scalable Layer-3 (L3) routing and MPLS switching support. Target applications include scalable service and backhaul aggregation, cloud computing, video, smart-grid, IPTV, IP routing, optical line termination and gateway applications. The new Tiger chip, which complements Vitesse's previously announced Jaguar, LynX, and Caracal switch engine solutions for Carrier...

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Bharti Airtel Makes its 3G Debut

bharti airtel, India's largest telecommunications company, launched its first 3G service in Karnataka -- its largest telecom circle Airtel is targeting to launch in all 13 3G license circles by March 2011. airtel's 3G services, delivered over an HSPA network, offer personalised data usage limits. airtel 3G customers will be empowered to manage their 3G data usage alert and prevent bill shock with proactive, personalized and timely data usage alerts."It...

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