Portugal Telecom Secures EUR 900 Million Loan

Portugal Telecom has secured a new EUR 900 million credit facility from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BBVA, Banco do Brasil, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas and Citigroup. This facility will mature in March 2014. PT said the transaction is part of its financing strategy, which aims at having diversified maturities and sources of financing. http://www.telecom...

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Samsung's 30nm Mobile DRAM for Thinner & Faster Devices

Samsung Electronics Co. announced first production of four gigabit (Gb), low power double-data-rate 2 (LPDDR2) DRAM using 30 nanometer (nm) class technology. The new chip delivers a data transmission speed of 1,066Mbps, which is more than double that of today's MDDR, which operates between 333 to 400Mbps.Samsung said this mobile DRAM chip paves the way for thinner, lighter smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, with longer battery life."Mass...

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Tektronix Wins LTE Troubleshooting Contract

Tektronix Communications has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract with a multi-country European tier 1 operator (name withheld) for testing and monitoring projects in their main European test labs. The operator will use the Tektronix Network and Service Analyzer (NSA) solution to confirm the reliability of the LTE test platform and to help accelerate the operator's LTE rollout plans by greatly reducing the time for LTE compliance and network and handset troubleshooting.http://www.tektronixcommunications....

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AMIMON Raises $15 Million for WHDI Silicon

AMIMON, a start-up with operations in Herzlia, Israel and Santa Clara, California, raised $15 million in new venture financing for its Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) semiconductor solutions. AMIMON WHDI chipsets are compliant with the WHDI standard. The WHDI standard delivers the highest image quality for in-room and multi-room HD wireless connections, including uncompressed 1080p/60Hz HD video. WHDI utilizes a 40MHz channel in the 5GHz...

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LightSquared Signs Leap & Best Buy for Wholesale LTE

At last week's CTIA, LightSquared disclosed two customers for it upcoming wholesale LTE service: Leap Wireless (parent company of Cricket Communications) and Best Buy Connect, a new service that is expected to launch later this year. LightSquared said it is negotiating with as many as 15 potential players. Time Warner Cable is rumored to be among the potential clients for LightSquared.Earlier this month, LightSquared announced a multi-year, strategic partnership with Open Range Communications to serve rural markets across the U.S. The partnership...

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Continuous Computing's ATCA DPI Platforms Tops 320 Gbps

Continuous Computing released its latest FlexTCA integrated platform for deep packet inspection (DPI) network intelligence applications. Continuous Computing's FlexTCA, which is based on the latest 40G ATCA standards, combines switch, packet processing and compute products. It capitalizes on the company's FlowEngine DPI software framework, which combines the advanced load balancing and packet processing capabilities of an ecosystem of software...

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Motorola Mobility to Acquire Dreampark for IPTV Software

Motorola Mobility will acquire Dreampark, a leading IPTV software provider based in Norrkoping, Sweden, for an undisclosed sum. Dreampark's software, which leverages open standards, such as HTML and scalable vector graphics (SVG), allows operators to customize their television portals. The Dreampark portfolio is expected to be integrated into the Motorola Medios service management software suite."This transaction enables us to continue to enhance...

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Global Fixed Broadband Lines Climb Steady to 523 Million

Broadband subscriber figures continued to climb steadily in 2010 and ended the year at 523,066,022 – a net addition of over 55 million lines during the year, according to new figures from the Broadband Forum and prepared by Point Topic. The half billion line milestone was surpassed in July 2010. China continues to dominate the rankings both for total subscribers and net additions as well as the most rapidly growing, in percentage terms, market...

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Repair of Pacific Crossing Cable Pending Radiation Levels

Pacific Crossing, which lost connectivity on its PC-1 North and PC-1 West undersea cables as a result of the Japanese earthquake, confirmed that its cable repair ship, CS Lodbrog, is currently at Kagoshima Port (Southwest Japan). The ship is in port for additional preparation due to the radiation levels at the work area. A new repair schedule will be announced as soon as possible. The company expects repairs on PC-1 West to commence immediately...

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CTIA WIRELESS 2011 Attracted 40,000+ Last Week

International CTIA WIRELESS 2011, which was held last week in Orlando, Florida, attracted more than 40,000 attendees from 125 countries. according to the organizers. This compares with 39,000 for 2010. The International CTIA WIRELESS 2012 show has been booked for May 8 – 10 in New Orleans, Louisiana. http://www.ctia....

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CenturyLink-Qwest Expect Deal to Be Completed this Week

The Public Utility Commission of Oregon (PUC) approved the pending merger between CenturyLink and Qwest Communications, marking the final approval needed to complete the merger. The companies expect to close the merger and combine operations on April 1, 2011. As previously announced, the combined company will use the name CenturyLink and its stock will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under CenturyLink's current symbol, CTL.http://www.centurylinkqwestmerger....

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HomePNA's Ethernet over Coax Delivers 640 Mbps

The HomePNA Alliance is developing a "Fast EoC" (Ethernet over Coax) specification aimed at hotels and apartment buildings and promising 320 Mbps in regular mode, up to 640 Mbps over existing coax lines. The new HomePNA Broadband Access standard builds on HomePNA 3.1, an ITU standard and the world standard for triple play home networking over coax and phone lines, augmenting it with critical features for the demanding MDU environment.Fast Eoc increases...

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Level 3 Teams with INTERNEXA for South American CDN Coverage

Level 3 Communications will expand its content delivery network (CDN) services to Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru in partnership with INTERNEXA, which operates more than 18,000 kilometers of fiber-optic network across seven countries in South America. The agreement enables both companies to provide greatly improved International IP content services to their respective customers by taking advantage of Level 3's leading global CDN and INTERNEXA's...

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