GSA: 15 Mobile Networks now with HD Voice

HD Voice is making gradual in roads into mobile networks worldwide. Fifteen operators are now supporting HD voice, although this figure is expected to increase with the growing availability of HD Voice enabled chipsets and handsets.Orange has been the leading carrier with HD Voice and has now launched service in Moldova, France, Armenia, UK, Spain and Luxembourg. Other carriers include Tata Docomo (India) SFR (France), Mobistar (Belgium), Vipnet...

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Corning Looks to New Wave of Fiber Builds

Corning is forecasting a new wave of fiber infrastructure spending worldwide as FTTH rollouts get underway, new data centers are commissioned and optical networks take a larger role in wireless backhaul applications."The telecommunications market is moving into a renewed investment cycle driven by growing wireless, fiber-to-the-home, and data center (enterprise) market opportunities," said Clark S. Kinlin, president and chief executive officer, Corning...

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CENX Appoints New CEO

CENX, which operates Carrier Ethernet exchanges, announced the appointment of Herb Hribar as its CEO. Herb has previously served as President of Ameritech Wireless, President of Ameritech Europe, General Manager of Sprint International for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, President and COO of Verio, COO of Eircom, COO of Cablecom (Switzerland) and COO of Kabel Deutschland. http://www.cenx.comIn July 2010, CENX announced the appointment of Sanford (Sandy) Brown as its Chief Executive Officer. Sandy came to CENX from AT&T, where he was...

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Toshiba Ships Near Field Communication (NFC) Module

Toshiba will start delivery of commercial User Identity Module (UIM) cards supporting near field communication (NFC) to KDDI Corporation. The newly developed UIM card equipped with CDMA2000 and GSM. It supports the European Telecommunications Standards Institute-Smart Card Platform (ETSI SCP), GSMA and GlobalPlatform (GP) standards. Toshiba's module is also compatible with GSMA's Pay-Buy-Mobile programme and meets the security level required for international payment applications.Toshiba said it is now ready to mass produce UIM cards for the global...

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Cisco to Acquire Inlet for Media Processing

Cisco announced plans to acquire Inlet Technologies, a provider of Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) digital media processing platforms that is based in Raleigh, N.C. Cisco will pay approximately $95 million in cash and retention-based incentives in exchange for all shares of Inlet. Inlet offer a set of encoding solutions that scale from mobile to web to high-definition. The line includes an IP input live streaming appliance, a high-density streaming solution...

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OpNext Post Sales of $97 Million, 40G + Sales are Up

OpNext reported quarterly revenue of $97.1 million, up 12.4% compared to $86.4 million in the quarter ended September 30, 2010. Net loss was $10.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2010, or $0.11 per fully diluted share, compared to a net loss of $14.4 million, or $0.16 per fully diluted share, for the quarter ended September 30, 2010.Revenue from sales of 10Gbps and below products increased $5.3 million, or 9.3%, to $61.8 million, compared to the quarter ended September 30, 2010, primarily as a result of increased sales of SFP+ and X2...

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France Telecom-Orange Affirms FTTH Rollout Plans

France Telecom-Orange affirmed its decision to deploy fiber-optic networks in 3,600 French community by 2015. In total, the Group will offer FTTH network coverage for 10 million French households by 2015 and 15 million (60%) by 2020.The Group has already deployed FTTH fiber networks in around fifteen of France's biggest cities and the surrounding suburbs. The deployment program for the main towns beyond very dense areas has also been announced according...

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Cox Tests Fuel Cells in California

Cox Communications, in partnership with UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp., completed a fuel cell project in Orange County, California. The facility joins two fuel cells in San Diego. Combined, the three installations produce enough clean energy to annually power 1,200 average-sized homes by generating a total of 1.6 megawatts. Located at Cox Communications' Rancho Santa Margarita facility, the 800kW Orange County installation provides nearly...

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