AT&T Deploys Distributed Antenna for Resort Coverage

AT&T has deployed a distributed antenna system (DAS) from TE Connectivity to provide coverage at The Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The installation includes 75 remote antenna units (RAUs) which are fed by a base station deployed by AT&T's Antenna Solutions Group, providing on-site network capacity for AT&T customers using the 850 and 1900 MHz frequency bands.


TE Connectivity is a preferred partner of AT&T's Antenna Solutions Group, which is using DAS to enhance mobile coverage at major resorts, stadiums, hotels, and other premium properties around the United States.
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NTT Makes Progress in Restoring Services in Quake Zone

Thanks to the efforts of thousands of employees and construction workers, NTT has restored service approximately 90 percent of the exchange offices damaged in the March 11th earthquake, leaving 93 exchange offices and approximately 155 thousand circuits waiting to be restored.


The March 23rd status of disaster relief efforts being made by NTT Group companies is as follows:


The earthquake and tsunamis disrupted commercial power supply and caused equipment failure in approximately 1,000 exchange offices. NTT East responded by deploying emergency batteries, emergency power generators and mobile power-supply vehicles to supply power. However, some exchange offices remained inoperable, resulting in the disruption of a total of approximately 1,470 thousand circuits in telephone subscriber lines, ISDN and FLET'S Hikari (FTTH) services as of 6:00 a.m., March 13 (JST). NTT East, with the help of other NTT group companies and construction companies, comprised some 5,000 people in total, to make an all-out effort to restore these services.



The 93 exchange offices yet to be restored include those with physical damage, flooding or disruption of connection to backbone transmission lines in areas severely impacted by the earthquake and/or tsunamis, and those located in the off-limits area surrounding the malfunctioning nuclear power plant. For these reasons, the recovery of most of these exchange offices is expected to require a significant amount of time.


NTT East has installed 2,076 special public telephones in 615 locations available for use free of charge (as of noon, March 23 (JST)).


For NTT Docomo, 6,720 base stations were disrupted. Recovery efforts have reduced the figure to approximately 840 as of 1:00 p.m. on March 23 (JST).


NTT Communications lost approximately 15,000 IP-VPN and e-VLAN circuits and so far all but 2,300 have been restored.


The company also noted some damage to submarine cables and backup routes were put into service. As for NTT Com's data centers, no damages were confirmed.
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Etisalat Deploys Verimatrix for IPTV in UAE

Etisalat has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for IPTV solution on it's IP-based pay-TV service in the United Arab Emirates. The service will be delivered over an FTTH network.


Verimatrix is also a major partner in the visionary Etisalat Entertainment Network project that will offer a suite of end-to-end IP-based digital entertainment service offerings, on a wholesale basis, to OpCos, ISPs, and content owners located within the reach of the Etisalat network or those who connect to the Internet.


The deployment of Verimatrix for Etisalat's TV in the UAE and the Digital Entertainment Network regionally and globally was led by regional systems integrator Al-Falak, a leading provider of technology-based solutions to the Middle East.
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GSA Tracks Growing Carrier LTE Commitments -- 17 Live Networks

The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) reports that almost 200 operators are now investing in LTE. The report confirms 140 firm operator commitments to deploy commercial LTE systems in 56 countries. The number of committed operators is 118% higher than one year ago. A further 56 pre-commitment trials have been identified. Taken together, the report confirms 196 operators in 75 countries are currently investing in LTE. The report covers both LTE FDD and LTE TDD modes.



Seventeen operators have commercially launched LTE networks, in Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Norway, Poland, Sweden, USA, and Uzbekistan.



GSA has raised its market outlook and now anticipates that at least 73 LTE networks will be in commercial service by end 2012.



The regional breakdown of 140 firm operator commitments to deploy is as follows:

• Americas = 29 networks



• Europe = 64 networks



• MEA = 14 networks



• APAC/Oceania = 33 networks

In addition, GSA notes that a total of 98 LTE-capable user devices were confirmed launched in the market by 35 suppliers.http://www.gsacom.com

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IDT's RapidIO Switch Enables Texas Instruments' Wireless Basestation

Texas Instruments has selected Integrated Device Technology's (IDT's) CPS-1616 RapidIO Gen2 switch for its new TMDXEVM6616 evaluation module (EVM) for wireless base stations.



RapidIO delivers the efficiency and software scalability for clustering large numbers of digital signal processors (DSPs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) on boards and over backplanes for wireless systems.



The IDT CPS-1616 belongs to IDT's extensive portfolio of RapidIO Gen2 switches, supporting up to 20 Gbps per link for use as a chip-to-chip, board-to-board, and chassis-to-chassis interconnect. RapidIO enables OEMs in the 4G wireless and industrial markets to design embedded systems with clusters of DSPs that communicate in a peer-to-peer fashion while also providing high reliability, very low 100ns cut through latency, and simplified system memory maps.http://www.idt.com/go/S-RIO

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Symmetricom Delivers Precise Timing for Packet Backhaul

Symmetricom introduced its "TimeProvider" 1500 (TP1500) packet-based primary reference source (PRS) clock, which can be used in Carrier Ethernet packet backhaul networks as a complement to a traditional cesium clock or a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) antenna installation.



Symmetricom's TP1500 combines the rubidium QUANTUM miniature atomic clock (MAC) and its "PackeTime" technology to deliver primary reference level synchronization in areas where GNSS coverage or antenna deployment is challenged, and supports migration from TDM to Ethernet-based networks. The TP1500 adheres to the IEEE 1588-2008 protocol specification, and leverages the capabilities of its TimeProvider 5000 Grandmaster to provide packet-based PRS services for the radio access network (RAN). The TP1500 product is part of Symmetricom's TimeProvider suite of products that are based on the IEEE 1588-2008 standard.



"The TP1500 is the industry's first packet-based primary reference source solution to enhance traditional synchronization sources," said Manish Gupta, vice president of marketing at Symmetricom. "The TP1500 is another example of Symmetricom's innovative approach to solving customers' challenges, providing a unique packet-based solution that is immune to the interference and antenna deployment challenges of traditional GNSS sources."http://www.symmetricom.com

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cPacket Puts Timestamping Code into Public Domain

CPacket Networks is placing in the public domain a new solution for accurate timestamping of high speed network traffic in real-time.



cPacket provides accurate real-time information by timestamping the applications data on the fly directly "at the wire," before queuing, buffering, or aggregations can alter its timing behavior.



CPacket said its new software enables users and application developers to seamlessly integrate such real-time timestamping into existing solutions, or into open source tools like Tcpdump, Wireshark, and n2disk. When used with hardware timestamping directly at the wire, this software enables any application to take full advantage of the most accurate inline timestamping in a standard format (including pcap, libcap, etc.). The standard format and seamless integration means no changes to the user's application software are required.



cPacket makes this new software and driver available free of charge in the public domain to customers, application developers, other solution vendors, universities and the open source community.http://www.cpacket.com

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TE Connectivity Wins $400 Million Contract with Australian NBN

TE Connectivity (formerly Tyco Electronics) has been named a supplier of network connectivity products for the Australian government's National Broadband Network (NBN) program. Specifically, NBN Co has awarded a five-year, $400 million contract to TE Connectivity with an initial purchase commitment of $100 million. This contract award follows TE Connectivity's and ADC's supply to date of more than $4 million of passive optical equipment into NBN Co's First Release sites, which are currently well under construction. TE Connectivity acquired ADC in December, 2010.



"We are thrilled to have been selected again as an NBN Co partner and we look forward to continuing our strong relationship. This is a very important program for NBN Co and for the citizens of Australia. We are proud to be part of the team that will bring high-speed broadband services to Australia," said Alan Clarke, president of TE Connectivity's Network Solutions segment. http://www.te.com

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XKL Launches Enterprise DWDM Systems

XKL is introducing two "DarkStar" DWDM products that provide enterprises with a compact optical transport system for lighting dark fiber. XKL's DXM10-4 and DXM10-2 systems offer two or four port configurations, thereby lowering the barriers for dark fiber.



"Dark fiber is only as important as a company's ability to use it. Our DXM10-4 and DXM10-2 provide a plug and play solution for lighting dark fiber, without the capital expenditure commonly associated with the cost of large bandwidth project commitments," states Len Bosack, CEO of XKL. "We have designed a solution that fits the needs of smaller projects with enterprises, carriers, ISP's and more. These lower port count systems offer flexible network extension opportunities for using dark fiber assets, that up until now have not been available in a system-engineered component."http://www.xkl.com

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China Mobile to Test ALU's lightRadio in TD-LTE Trial

China Mobile has selected Alcatel-Lucent to participate in a TD-LTE trial network covering Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Xiamen. The trial will help China Mobile to provide a wide range of high speed mobile broadband services to its subscribers, such as high definition video, 3D gaming, FTP transmission and high speed Internet.



This qualification follows successful completion of various interoperability tests which started from January 2010 as required by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information (MIIT) and China Mobile. Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, Alcatel-Lucent's flagship company in China is one of the first suppliers to have successfully achieved this key milestone and will be deploying its end-to-end LTE solution for China Mobile's large-scale 4G TD-LTE trial in the city of Shanghai.



Rajeev Singh-Molares, president of Alcatel-Lucent's activities in Asia-Pacific said: "This is a major accomplishment for Alcatel-Lucent and clearly reinforces our leading position in China and our global leadership in LTE. We are committed to provide China Mobile with the most advanced LTE solution for the world's largest TD-LTE trial and to demonstrate the maturity and cost-effectiveness of our solution for TD-LTE which is emerging as the 4G standard for TDD spectrum globally. The successful interoperability tests with terminal suppliers further demonstrate our commitment to create an open TD-LTE ecosystem that will participate in the broader global LTE value chain."



Alcatel-Lucent is a key partner of China Mobile on TD-LTE and next generation wireless networks initiatives and evolution programs. During the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Alcatel-Lucent supported China Mobile in the first large-scale TD-LTE trial network deployment delivering advanced mobile services including ultra high speed Internet access and High Definition TV (HDTV). Most recently, at Mobile World Congress, Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile demonstrated with Audi, a variety of in-vehicle high-value applications that worked seamlessly on a converged Time Division Duplex (TDD) and Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) network ensuring seamless global coverageand the ability to benefit from a common LTE ecosystem across both modes. Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile are partnering to develop next-generation radio access network based on Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio, a groundbreaking innovation to prepare wireless networks to handle the explosive growth in demand for wireless broadband services while making the networks more eco friendly.http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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DragonWave Adds Two More Customers for Wireless Backhaul

DragonWave announced two rural carriers who've used stimulus funds to backhaul their 3G/4G wireless networks using its high capacity packet microwave equipment: KeyOn Communications, which serves rural Nevada, and Northeast Wireless, which is building greenfield networks in rural Maine and Oregon.



KeyOn is using DragonWave's Horizon Compact and Horizon Duo to anchor the "middle mile" network components for KeyOn's stimulus-funded 4G wireless network service rollout to rural homes, businesses and critical community facilities such as healthcare providers. The carrier has received a $10.2 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) award to provide 4G, last-mile wireless broadband access and VoIP services in qualified rural communities throughout Nevada.



Northeast Wireless Networks has selected DragonWave's Horizon Compact and Horizon Quantum to enable 3G and 4G services in under-served markets.http://www.dragonwaveinc.com/

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