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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