Polycom Conferences In Cisco Telepresence Systems

Polycom is building interoperability between its unified communications (UC) systems and other vendors' solutions, including the closed Cisco telepresence systems based on the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP). The announcement heralds the opening of hitherto closed telepresence platforms. Polycom plans to support interoperability with Cisco TIP beginning in Q2 2011.Polycom said its UC Intelligent Core platform will soon enable customers...

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ARRIS Sees Drop in Q4 Revenue and Income

ARRIS reported Q4 2010 revenue of $266.2 million as compared to Q4 2009 revenues of $300.0 million, and as compared to Q 2010 revenues of $274.3 million. Full year 2010 and 2009 revenues were $1,087.5 million and $1,107.8 million, respectively. GAAP net income in the fourth quarter 2010 was $0.09 per diluted share, as compared to fourth quarter 2009 GAAP net income of $0.26 per diluted share and third quarter 2010 GAAP net income of $0.11 per diluted share. "Fourth quarter financial results closed in line with our expectations and we continued...

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SingTel Posts 6% Growth Driven by Mobile

Singapore Telecommunications' (SingTel's) revenue rose strongly by 6 percent to S$4.70 billion in the third quarter, led by revenue growth in Singapore and Australia. The stronger Australian dollar helped to lift revenue.The Singapore business reported a 7 percent increase in revenue to S$1.63 billion with growth across major revenue streams led by mobile. In Australia, revenue rose 4 percent to A$2.38 billion, driven by continued mobile growth despite...

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PAETEC to Acquire XETA Technologies

PAETEC agreed to acquire XETA Technologies, which sells enterprise communications gear, for $5.50 per share in cash valued at approximately $61 million. XETA is among the largest full-service, providers of advanced communications solutions with 32 locations and redundant 24/7 customer contact and data network operating centers. At the time of the Avaya and Nortel merger, XETA was the only national provider with the highest accreditations from both companies, and will expand on those relationships with PAETEC's existing platinum partnership with...

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WSJ: Clearwire to Focus on Wholesale Model

Clearwire will focus on wholesale broadband wireless and abandon its retail programs, according to The Wall Street Journal. The move is seen as benefiting Sprint, the largest shareholder in Clearwire, which offers competing 4G service over the same WiMAX network. http://www.wsj....

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Cisco's Sales Growth Slows to 6%

Cisco reported net sales of $10.4 billion for its second quarter, ended 29-Jan-2011, net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $1.5 billion or $0.27 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $2.1 billion or $0.37 per share. Revenue was up 6% compared to a year earlier, however net income fell nearly 18% compared to a year ago. Earnings per share came in at $0.27, down 16% from a year earlier, but ahead of market expectations. In its previous fiscal quarter, Cisco reported net sales of $10.75 billion, up 19% compared...

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Verizon Wireless Completes First IMS-based VoLTE Call

Verizon Wireless completed the first IMS-based VoLTE (Voice over LTE) call over its commercial network on at 9:54 a.m. ET Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. The initial call was placed by Balaji Raghavachari, manager of technology for Verizon Wireless, using a LG Revolution 4G smartphone from Verizon headquarters in Basking Ridge, N.J. The call was received by Sanyogita Shamsunder, director of technology for Verizon Wireless, who was also on a LG Revolution...

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Cavium, Kontron and Tata Elxsi Demo LTE eNode B

Cavium Networks Kontron and Tata Elxsi will showcase an LTE eNodeB solution at next week's Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona based on Cavium OCTEON II multi-core processor as part of Kontron's open standard hardware running Tata Elxsi's LTE eNodeB L2/L3 software stack. The joint solution offers 3GPP Release 8 compliant LTE Layer 2 and Layer 3 processing that is capable of delivering up to 450 Mbps of aggregate throughput from a single AdvancedMC...

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Netronome Appoints New CEO and CFO

Netronome, which specializes in network flow processors, named Howard Bubb as its new president and CEO and Perry Grace as CFO. Bubb most recently served as chairman and chief executive officer of fabless semiconductor company Ambric until its acquisition by Nethra in 2009. Previously, he held executive management positions at Intel including corporate officer and vice president of Intel's $1.7B Communications Infrastructure Group (CIG) which led...

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NSN Tests LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation

Nokia Siemens Networks has conducted tests of LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation on its commercial Flexi Multiradio Base Station. Carrier aggregation is a key feature of LTE-Advanced that enables operators to create larger "virtual" carrier bandwidths for LTE services by combining separate spectrum allocations. The benefits of this aggregation include higher peak data rates and increased average data rates for users."We saw an increase in LTE data...

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Nokia Siemens Networks Launches LTE Certification

Nokia Siemens Networks is launching a training and certification program focused on end-to-end LTE solutions in multi-vendor environments. The company aims to roll out the program to customers and third party IT professionals in the second quarter of 2011. Nokia Siemens Networks offers four levels of accreditation within the LTE solution certification program - Associate, Specialist, Professional and Expert. In the first two months of its rollout...

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MetroPCS Launches Samsung LTE Android Smartphone

MetroPCS Communications introduced the world's first commercially available 4GLTE enabled Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Indulge.img align="rightThe Galaxy Indulge is powered by Android 2.2 (Froyo) and features a combination touch screen/QWERTY keyboard. It provides access to Google Mobile services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. The smartphone offers a 3 megapixel camera and camcorder with auto-focus, music player,...

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KT Picks Alcatel-Lucent for Next Gen IP Edge Network

KT is replacing its legacy best effort infrastructure with a new IP edge network based on Alcatel-Lucent's 7750 Service Router (SR). The new infrastructure will converge all services onto a common, scalable, service aware network allowing KT to streamline its current network operations and derive significant savings in both capital and operational expenses. Financial terms were not disclosed. Alcatel-Lucent said that by leveraging the advanced Hierarchical-Quality...

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Akamai Posts Q4 Revenue of $284.7 million, up 12% Sequentially

Akamai Technologies reported Q4 revenue of $284.7 million, a 12 percent increase over third quarter revenue of $253.6 million, and a 19 percent increase over fourth quarter 2009 revenue of $238.3 million. Total revenue for 2010 was $1,023.6 million, a 19 percent increase over 2009.http://www.akamai....

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Kazakhtelecom Tests 100G with Alcatel-Lucent

Kazakhtelecom, Kazakhstan's leading operator, in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent, has tested a 100 Gbps optical network connection linking the cities of Almaty and Taldykurgan. In this trial, Kazakhtelecom used the Alcatel-Lucent 1626 Light Manager enhanced with 100G next-generation coherent technology through the 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS). Designed to address the booming demand for more bandwidth driven by video streaming, web applications...

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