Metaswitch Acquires Colibria for Enhanced Mobile Messaging

Metaswitch Networks has acquired Colibria, a developer of enhanced instant messaging, presence and network address book solutions for service providers. Financial terms were not disclosed.Colibria's portfolio consists of:(1) SIP Instant Messaging Server - providing rich multimedia messaging infrastructure components for all IP/IP capable networks, and building the basis for the evolution to Convergent IP Messaging (CPM)(2) SIP Presence Server - providing...

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BBC: Pensioner Cuts Off Armenia's Internet

A 75-year old woman in Georgia who was scavenging for copper scraps cut a fiber cable thereby serving international connectivity for all three wholesale Internet providers in Armenia -- ArmenTel, FiberNet Communication and GNC-Alfa, according to the BBC. Service for entire nation of Armenia was disrupted on March 28.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12985...

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Procera Appoints Juniper Exec as VP of Global Solutions Engineering

Procera Networks has appointed Shawn Sweeney as Vice President of Global Solutions Engineering. Mr. Sweeney most recently served at Juniper Networks for over four years in a senior leadership position. He joins Procera to lead the company's technical field and solutions organization and further its position as the leader in delivering Intelligent Policy Enforcement (IPE) solutions based on advanced deep packet inspection (DPI).In addition, Procera Networks this week announced initial orders with a combined value of over $2.75 million for a first...

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Toyota Picks Microsoft for Next Gen Telematics

Toyota Motor Corp. has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft o build a global platform for next-generation telematics services using the Windows Azure platform. As part of the partnership, the two companies plan to participate in a 1 billion yen (approximately $12 million) investment in Toyota Media Service Co., a Toyota subsidiary that offers digital information services to Toyota automotive customers. The two companies aim to help develop...

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Irish Operators to Share Mobile Infrastructure

Telefonica O2 Ireland and eircom agreed to share their mobile network infrastructure.The agreement between the competing operators brings greater cooperation in a number of areas of mobile network sharing such as site equipment, power supply, technology and transmission sharing. Wherever possible, existing sites of both operators will be consolidated and new sites will be jointly built. A dedicated team, made up of existing network staff from both...

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TELUS Plots its Urban LTE Rollout for 2012

Telus will makes its LTE debut early 2012 in major markets across Canada. Following extensive field testing in 2011 and the completion of an RFP process currently underway, TELUS expects to begin construction on its 4G+ LTE network in the latter half of 2011.TELUS' LTE network will operate on the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum that TELUS purchased for $882 million in Industry Canada's auction process in 2008. The launch of 4G+ over 1700/2100...

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Parks Associates: 7 Billion Consumer/Home Devices by 2015

Parks Associates is forecasting that there will be more than seven billion consumer and home network devices worldwide by 2015, creating a substantial foundation for cloud solutions.http://www.parksassociates.com/connwebc...

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Telefónica Picks Sandvine for Policy Control and Traffic Management

Telefónica has selected Sandvine's network policy control solutions to provide detailed visibility and reporting of network usage across the company's global footprint in over twenty countries. The deployment will impact over 250 million subscribers worldwide. Financial terms were not disclosed.Sandvine's solution collects data from the operator's network, using the Sandvine Policy Traffic Switch (PTS) platform, then organizes and displays it intelligently...

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DISH Acquires Blockbuster

DISH Network, which serves 14.1 million satellite TV customers, was the winning bidder in the bankruptcy court auction for substantially all of the assets of Blockbuster, Inc. DISH Network's winning bid was valued at approximately $320 million. After certain adjustments are made at closing of the transaction, including adjustments for available cash and inventory, DISH Network expects to pay approximately $228 million in cash to acquire Blockbuster...

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ITU-T Advances G.hnem Recommendations

The G.hnem standard has entered the final stages of approval at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).G.hnem will leverage low frequency (9-500 KHz) powerline communications (PLC) for smart meters, energy management systems, electric vehicle communications, control and home automation. Links will offer performance of up to 1 Mb/s and can operate in the CENELEC as well as the FCC bands. Various improvements incorporated into G.hnem include...

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Ciena Selected by Lightower for Digital Video Transport

Lightower Fiber Networks, a leading metro fiber network and bandwidth service provider, has selected Ciena to deliver a native video transport solution for a leading global entertainment content and broadcast company. Ciena's native video transport solution supports standard and high-definition (HD) uncompressed video signals such as 3 Gbps HD-SDI. It automatically adapts to the signals being transmitted to multiple studio locations, delivering...

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Frontier Expands ROADM Network with Tellabs

Frontier Communications has deployed approximately 345 Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) systems to enhance optical network flexibility and manageability and improve the customer experience. By mid-year Frontier will have added more than 6,500 miles of ROADM network. The dynamic optical network being deployed is based on Tellabs Optical Solutions, including the Tellabs 7100 Optical Transport System and the Tellabs 7100 Nano Optical...

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Verizon: Packet Optical Transformation

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