Cisco: 92% CAGR in Mobile Data Traffic to 2015

Cisco is predicting a 26-fold increase in worldwide mobile data traffic by 2015 due to a projected surge in mobile Internet-enabled devices delivering popular video applications and services. The newly released Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2010 to 2015 forecasts that mobile data volumes will reach 6.3 exabytes per month in 2015, or an annual run rate of 75 exabytes. This represents a compound annual...

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Time Warner Cable to Acquire NaviSite and its 10 Data Center

Time Warner Cable agreed to acquire NaviSite, a provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, messaging and cloud services, for $5.50 per share in cash, or a total equity value of approximately $230 million. The deal represents a 33% premium to NaviSite's Tuesday's closing price. NaviSite operates ten data centers in the United States and the United Kingdom, including two SAS 70 Type II certified data centers, and network operations...

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Canada Considers Usage-based Broadband Billing

Last week, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission decided to require usage-based billing rates for an incumbent telephone carrier's wholesale residential Gateway Access Services or equivalent services, and for an incumbent cable carrier's third-party Internet access services. These usage-based billing rates are to be established at a discount of 15 percent from the incumbent carrier's comparable usage-based billing rates...

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Verizon Teams with eMeter on Cloud-based meter Management

Verizon announced a partnership with eMeter, which provides Smart Grid software for utility companies. The new service, expected to be available in the spring, will deliver eMeter's data management software to utilities as a managed service in a scalable cloud-based environment via Verizon's IP network. http://www.verizon....

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Broadcom Posts Record Revenue, up 45% YoY

Broadcom reported record quarterly revenue of $1.95 billion, an increase of 7.7% compared with the $1.81 billion reported for the third quarter of 2010 and an increase of 44.9% compared with the $1.34 billion reported for the fourth quarter of 2009. Net income (GAAP) for the fourth quarter of 2010 was $266 million, or $.47 per share (diluted), compared with GAAP net income of $327 million, or $.60 per share (diluted), for the third quarter of 2010,...

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BT launches Virtual Data Centre Private

BT introduced a Virtual Data Centre (VDC) Private service that enables customers to build dedicated private clouds.VDC Private is a data centre infrastructure service that delivers the benefits of cloud-based services, like improved flexibility and lower cost, but also allows customers to choose a solution to meet their current business needs. The new service is aimed at customers who require a dedicated and private architecture to meet their business...

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AT&T Office@Hand app Provides Mobile PBX

AT&T released an Office@Hand app for iPhone that delivers a mobile PBX for small businesses. The app works with existing mobile or fixed-line phones, offering professional phone system features such as auto-receptionist, multiple department and employee extensions, voicemail, rules for call handling, faxing, on-hold music, etc. Users can also update, configure and manage their office phone system while away from the office. http://www.att....

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Backhauling Any Wireless Generation over Any Technology

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GreenTouch Advances Goal of 1,000-Fold Network Energy Efficiency Boost

The GreenTouch Consortium, a global research initiative dedicated to dramatically improving network energy efficiency, outlined its first set of accomplishments since its founding eight months ago. GreenTouch, which was established by Bell Labs, said that although overall power usage of networks worldwide has increased in absolute terms over the past year, it is encouraged by the industry support given its energy efficiency initiatives, and that...

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360networks Upgrades with Juniper and ALU

360networks, which provides wholesale provider of Private Line Transport, Ethernet, IP, VoIP and Local Access services, completed a series of IP network upgrades, including:Integration of Juniper's MX series Routers in the company's IP core, enabling 360networks to scale its IP network to meet customers' higher bandwidth needs. Expansion of bandwidth and service capabilities by deploying Alcatel-Lucent's 1830 Photonic Service Switches covering...

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Alcatel-Lucent and Ciena Supply SEA-ME-WE 40G Upgrade

Alcatel-Lucent was selected for an upgrade to 40G transmission of all the submarine segments of the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) system. Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its 1620 Light Manager upgraded to 40G with coherent technology, and also upgrade part of the already installed 1678 Metro Core Connect on the terrestrial SDH side. Ciena was selected to supply optical switching equipment for all 16 cable landing sites...

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BT Adds Stoke to LTE and Infrastructure Sharing Trial

Stoke is to participate in a new, consolidated multi-vendor LTE lab test to be undertaken by BT's Advanced Research Mobility Team. Specifically, Stoke's multi-access platform, the Stoke Session Exchange 3000 (SSX-3000), will anchor tests demonstrating BT's capabilities in consolidating three or more different mobile network operators' networks within a combined, highly scalable and cost effective, core infrastructure. BT has commissioned a...

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FiberTower and BridgeWave Develop Gigabit Wireless for 24 GHz

FiberTower, a wireless backhaul services provider operating in 13 U.S. markets, and BridgeWave Communications have collaborated to develop an ultra-high capacity multi-channel reconfigurable radio (MCRR) designed to operate in FiberTower's 24 GHz licensed spectrum holdings.Based on BridgeWave'sFlexPort microwave platform, the MCRR is a single, all-outdoor radio capable of delivering full-duplex gigabit Ethernet transport with very low latency at standard and jumbo packet sizes, while providing advanced carrier-Ethernet features such as Quality...

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