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Sunday, February 13, 2011
FCC Budget for FY 2012 Up Slightly to $354.5 Million
The FCC requested a budget of $354.5 million for FY 2012.This compares with $352.5 million for FY 2011, $335 million appropriated for FY 2010 and $342 million appropriated for 2009.The requested FY 2012 funding level would include: implementing the National Broadband Plan, a roadmap for economic growth and American competitiveness in the 21st century; overhauling the Commission's data systems and processes, to streamline the FCC and make it even...
China Mobile Drives Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI)
A Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) kicked off at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with goal of driving the rollout of TD-LTE in markets across the world. The initiative will encourage the development of a TD-LTE ecosystem. Organizers estimate the more than 70 companies from across the mobile ecosystem are pursuing TD-LTE products or services. The initiative also aims to promote the convergence of LTE TDD and FDD modes to maximize the economies...
Spirent to Acquire Fanfare for Test Automation
Spirent Communications agreed to acquire The Fanfare Group, which offers test automation solutions, for $15 million in cash. Fanfare, which is based in Mountain View, California, provides an iTest test automation product, which is used by service providers (SPs), network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), and enterprises to accelerate the testing of new systems and services. Fanfare's iTest provides a unified approach for rapidly developing, automating,...
GSMA: World Tops 400 Million HSPA Connections
At the opening of this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the GSMA today announced that HSPA Mobile Broadband connections have increased by 100 percent year-on-year, passing 400 million globally.There are now more than 17 million HSPA connections being added each month around the world, compared to nearly 9 million a month in the same period last year. The GSMA expects that there will be 4.2 million LTE connections in 24 countries by the...
Mindspeed Demos Single-Chip eNodeB Chip for LTE Small Cells
At Mobile World Congress, Mindspeed will demonstrate over-the-air (OTA) transmission, in the 2.6GHz spectrum, of high-definition (HD) video powered by its "Transcede" wireless baseband processor. In collaboration with companies Interphase Corporation, Continuous Computing and Ixia, Mindspeed will host live LTE picocell demonstrations of its LTE base station solution offering 3GPP Release 8-compliant LTE Layer 1, Layer 2 and Layer 3 processing with...
MSF Schedules Global VoLTE Test for September
The MultiService Forum (MSF) has scheduled the first ever MSF/GSMA VoLTE (Voice over LTE) Interoperability Event for September 2011. It will focus on validating key network interfaces to ensure multi-vendor deployment strategies for LTE/EPC/IMS technology. A key objective of the testing is to validate the GSMA's technical recommendations for IMS-based VoLTE. Test scenarios include VoLTE basic interoperability, roaming and interconnection, non-LTE...
Dell'Oro: $42 Billion Market for Mobile Infrastructure Equipment by 2015
The mobile infrastructure equipment market is forecast to resume positive growth in 2011 following the double-digit revenue decline in 2009, and single-digit decline in 2010, according to a newly published report by Dell'Oro Group. The overall mobile infrastructure market is expected to grow from $34 billion in 2010 to $42 billion in 2015.The report shows that WCDMA revenues are expected to grow from $16 billion in 2010 to nearly $30 billion in 2015....
Freescale's Qonverge Base Station Processors Scale from Femtos to Macros
Freescale Semiconductor introduced its QorIQ Qonverge family of highly integrated base station-on-chip solutions.Freescale's new QorIQ Qonverge series, which leverages advanced heterogeneous multicore technology, provides a unified architecture for equipment developers targeting a range of base station designs, spanning from small to large cells. It integrates communications processing, digital signal processing and wireless acceleration technologies...
Intel Invest $26 Million in 6 Mobile Start-ups
Intel Capital announced six new investments totaling $26 million in start-ups focused on mobile hardware, software and applications ecosystems. These are: Borqs (Beijing) -- an Android software integrator for mobile devices. The company works with name-brand smart phone OEMs, semi-conductor companies, and mobile operators to enhance the Android system to meet their requirements. With expertise ranging from kernel, device-level drivers to top-level user interfaces, Borqs Android solution has been deployed in more than 30 Android mobile devices...
Ericsson Raises Target -- More than 50 billion Connected Devices
Ericsson reiterated its long-range connectivity forecast, saying the vision of 50 billion connected devices by 2020 is within reach and may be exceeded. The vision of more than 50 billion connected devices, based on ubiquitous internet access over mobile broadband, devices or things will be connected and networked independently of where they are. Falling prices for communication, combined with new services and functionality connecting virtually everything...
Juniper to Resell Bridgewater for Mobile Core PCRF
Juniper Networks will resell Bridgewater Systems' complete control plane portfolio globally as an integral component of its MobileNext portfolio for 2G/3G and LTE networks. Specifically, Juniper has selected Bridgewater's intelligent broadband controls suite including the Bridgewater Home Subscriber Server (HSS) and Bridgewater Policy Controller/PCRF, both anchored by Bridgewater's Subscriber Data Broker (SPR), as part of its MobileNext open mobile...
Alcatel-Lucent Taps Intelligent Traffic Management for Mobile QoE
Alcatel-Lucent is launching an Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) solution for mobile networks that gathers granular data from the radio access network and then translates it into actionable intelligence based on specific network policies. Unlike traffic intelligence platforms based on deep packet inspection, Alcatel-Lucent's solution leverages its 9900 Wireless Network Guardian (WNG), which provides real-time insight into network's bandwidth,...
Procera Debuts 30 Gbps Policy Enforcement Platform
Procera Networks launched its next generation, PacketLogic PL8000 Intelligent Policy Enforcement series. The new PL8820 delivers 30 Gbps capacity in a 2RU form factor, doubling the capacity of the company's best selling IPE product. The PL8820 handles up to 2 million subscribers and 20 million flows per appliance. The system is already being deployed in production networks, including by 3 Scandinavia, part of the Hutchison Telecommunications group....
PMC-Sierra Intros Universal Front End for Ethernet-Based Mobile Backhaul
PMC-Sierra announced its Universal Front End 4 (UFE4) silicon for mobile backhaul equipment. The UFE412 and UFE448 ASSP devices, combined with PMC-Sierra's WinPath3 network processors, can be used in platforms extending from cell-site backhaul through hub sites and aggregation equipment.PMC-Sierra's UFE4 co-processor and WinPath3 support a variety of services: TDM, ATM, Frame Relay, HDLC, PPP and Circuit Emulation. The UFE4 integrates a SONET/SDH Framer/Mapper, as well as an advanced Protocol Pre-Processing Core for PWE3 services for SONET/SDH...
EchoStar to Acquire Hughes for Broadband Satellite Capabilities
EchoStar agreed to acquire Hughes for approximately $2 billion including Hughes' debt. Hughes' shareholders will receive $60.70 per share without interest, which represents a premium of 31% over Hughes' unaffected closing share price of $46.43 on January 19, 2011.Hughes, and its main operating subsidiary, Hughes Network Systems, provide broadband satellite networks and services for enterprises, governments, small businesses, and consumers. HughesNet...
Symmetricom to Acquire Brilliant Telecom for Packet Timing
Symmetricom will acquire certain assets of Brilliant Telecommunications, Inc. including all of its intellectual property, for $3.5 million in cash, plus an additional $2.3 million in cash if certain milestones are achieved within six months of closing. Brilliant Telecommunications, which is based in Campbell, California, has developed a family of network timing, management and synchronization solutions, which addresses emerging communications trends such as IP backhaul and the femtocell market segment. "Synchronization and timing are increasingly...
Intel Shows Slim Modem Chipset Supporting LTE, 3G and 2G
Intel Mobile Communications introduced its compact multimode (LTE/3G/2G) platform XMM 7060. This consists of a multimode baseband processor X-GOLD 706 and the associated multimode RF transceiver SMARTi 4G. In addition to the chipset, Intel is providing a validated 3GPP Release 8 triple mode protocol stack with Inter-Rat features. The new space saving platform is suitable for integration in LTE-enabled portable devices such as mobile handsets, data cards/dongles and other embedded solutions.The X-GOLD 706 baseband processor, manufactured in 40nm...
Telstra Plans LTE Launch
Telstra announced plans to deploy LTE in Next G network later this year. LTE initially will be rolled out in the central business districts of all Australian capital cities and selected regional centres by the end of 2011.The planned upgrade will use the company's existing 1800MHz spectrum to bring 4G to areas where traffic demand is most concentrated. It will be integrated with Telstra's existing HSPA+ service, which uses the 850MHz spectrum range.By...
Ericsson Showcases Voice over TD-LTE for China Mobile
Ericsson, Sony Ericsson and ST-Ericsson showcased an end-to-end TD-LTE solution in collaboration with China Mobile. The companies also showcased multimedia applications such as video streaming and web browsing, demonstrating TD-LTE's ability to deliver data-rich services at high-speed for the more technology-savvy consumers of tomorrow. The demonstrations were performed using a Sony Ericsson device embedded with ST-Ericsson's M700 TD-LTE modem and a voice over LTE client.Ericsson expects TD-LTE to be commercially available for consumers in latter...
New Video: LTE Policy Enforcement
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Juniper Advances its MobileNext Solution
Juniper Networks unveiled a set of new products, solutions and partnerships for mobile networks.Key elements of Juniper's strategy for the mobile core, edge and client include:MobileNext -- delivering on the Project Falcon, Juniper is introducing an open mobile core programmable platform for service innovation. MobileNext provides 2G/3G and LTE evolved packet core functions with the MobileNext Broadband Gateway providing GGSN/P-GW/ S-GW, MobileNext...
Saudi Arabia's Mobily Builds 100G Backbone with Ciena
Mobily, a mobile operator in Saudi Arabia, has activated a 100 Gbps metro network in Riyadh using equipment from Ciena. The 100G coherent service delivered on Ciena's ActivFlex 6500 Packet-Optical Platform. Ciena's 100G coherent technology will allow for a total throughput of 8.8 Terabits of data per second on Mobily's network, carried over 88 optical channels on a single strand of optical fiber.http://www.ciena....
HP and VMware Promise Security for the Cloud
HP and VMware will collaborate on next-generation Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions for VMware vSphere-based virtual and cloud environments. The new product will build on the existing HP TippingPoint IPS solution for VMware vSphere deployments, taking current integrations to new levels.Specifically, the companies will integrate HP TippingPoint IPS with VMware vShield and VMware vCloud Director. Integrating the products will help enable pervasive security in the cloud by delivering unified security management, and by automating the processes...
China Mobile Selects Juniper CMNET IP/MPLS Backbone
China Mobile has gone live with a next-generation IP/MPLS backbone network comprised of Juniper Networks' routers running the Junos operating system. The deployment consists of Juniper Networks' TX Matrix Plus multi-chassis routing systems, T1600 Core Routers and M320 Multiservice Edge Routers. Financial terms were not disclosed.Juniper Networks' new mobile network solution employs T1600 Core Routers configured in TX Matrix Plus clusters at CMNET's...
Huawei Symantec Leverages Multicore Power for Security Gateways
Huawei Symantec introduced a set of high-performance, multicore-based, unified gateway security solutions aimed at enterprise and data center customers in North America. These new security offerings deliver scalable, high-performance routing and switching capabilities as well as ultra-fast firewall, VPN, and content security capabilities. Huawei Symantec's Secospace USG5500 series, which leverages multi-core architecture and FPGA-acceleration technology,...
Ericsson and Akamai Establish Exclusive Strategic Alliance
Ericsson and Akamai Technologies announced an exclusive strategic alliance focused on bringing to market mobile cloud acceleration solutions aimed at improving end-user Internet experiences such as mobile ecommerce, enterprise applications and internet content. The companies will jointly develop solutions for delivering content and applications to mobile devices. The companies are seeking to create an integrated mobile Internet ecosystem to help mobile network operators become involved in the Internet value chain, in turn helping them better monetize...
ADVA Posts Q4 Revenue of EUR 79.4 Million
ADVA Optical Networking reported Q4 2010 revenue of EUR 79.4 million, compared with EUR 59.6 million in Q4 2009 and EUR 80.5 million in Q3 2010. This result is in line with guidance of between EUR 76 million and EUR 81 million. IFRS pro forma operating income, excluding stock-based compensation and amortization & impairment of goodwill & acquisition-related intangible assets, amounted to EUR 4.3 million in Q4 2010 or 5.4% of revenues, also in line with guidance of between 2% and 6% of revenues.Driven by increased enterprise, Ethernet access...
