Alcatel-Lucent's 100G Optical Switch Gains Russian Certification

The Alcatel-Lucent 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) has successfully passed testing within the Russian telecom certification body. The Certificate of Conformance confirms that the Alcatel-Lucent solution fully complies with the requirements of the Russian telecommunications authorities and can be deployed in Russian networks. http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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Sandvine: Netflix now 29.7% of North American Peak Downstream Traffic

In North America, Netflix is now 29.7% of peak downstream traffic and has become the largest source of Internet traffic overall, according to Sandvine's newly released Global Internet Phenomena Report.Sandvine's study is based on anonymous data, aggregated from fixed and mobile service provider networks spanning Europe, Latin America and North America. The company said its latest report aggregates data from over220 service provider customers spanning...

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Overture Ships ISG 400 Carrier Ethernet Platform

Overture Networks announced the general commercial availability of its ISG 400 platform. The ISG 400 is a modular Gigabit Carrier Ethernet edge platform enabling ubiquitous 1Mb to 1Gb Carrier Ethernet services across existing transport infrastructures and native optical Ethernet. It features six gigabit Ethernet interfaces and a rich feature set for native Ethernet transport. Where native Ethernet connections are not available, with the simple addition of a plug-in module the ISG 400 can be configured to provide identical Ethernet services functionality...

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Fujitsu FLASHWAVE 9500 Gains RUS Acceptance

The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) branch of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted "RUS Technical Acceptance" to the Fujitsu FLASHWAVE 9500 Packet Optical Networking Platform (Packet ONP). With RUS approval, the FLASHWAVE 9500 system joins several other Fujitsu platforms on the RUS List of Acceptable Materials (Telecommunications). Products currently on this list include the FLASHWAVE 7500 Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM), FLASHWAVE 4500 Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP), the FLASHWAVE 4100 optical...

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VimpleCom's Chairman Takes Over CEO Role

VimpleCom's current CEO, Alexander V. Izosimov, has decided to step down as of June 30, 2011 and will be replaced by the company's current Chairman, Jo O. Lunder, as the new CEO of VimpelCom.The company's Supervisory Board has unanimously proposed Augie K. Fabela II (Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of VimpelCom) to serve as the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board.Since his appointment as OJSC VimpelCom's CEO in October 2003, Mr. Izosimov has guided...

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Skyworks to Acquire SiGe Semiconductor

Skyworks Solutions will acquire SiGe Semiconductor, a supplier of radio frequency (RF) front-end solutions, for $210 million in cash, plus an additional $65 million if certain performance targets are met over the next 12 months. SiGe Semiconductor specializes in solutions required by 802.11b/g/a/n, Bluetooth, WiMAX, GPS and ZigBee Systems. The company's innovative utilization of silicon-based semiconductor technologies simplifies the integration...

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Huawei Launches 48-port and 64-port xDSL Cards

Huawei introduced two new xDSL cards for its DSLAM platform: a 48-port COMBO card and a 64-port VDSL2 card.The 48-port COMBO card combines ADSL2+, voice, and splitter functions in one card. The density of ports significantly reduces the amount of required space in telecommunications rooms, simplifies copper cable routing, and reduces total power consumption. It also integrates traditional time-division multiplexing (TDM) voice capability along with VoIP support. The 64-port VDSL2 card can be equipped with either an embedded or an external splitter...

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First G.hn Chipset Interoperability Plugfest Set for Next Week

The HomeGrid Forum and the Broadband Forum will host the first G.hn Chipset Interoperability Plugfest next week at the ITU facilities in Geneva, Switzerland. The G.hn Chipset Interoperability Plugfest is being facilitated by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). The specific goals of this first G.hn plugfest are to perform initial tests for interoperability and compliance of chipsets from a number of vendors, validate...

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Aricent Undertakes Rebranding

Aricent unveiled a new corporate logo and changed its name to Aricent Group.The Aricent Group name will serve as the new corporate brand for the company, with product innovation, design, and related engineering offerings marketed under the frog brand, and R&D engineering and carrier services marketed under the Aricent brand. The brands will each maintain their own client base and continue to collaborate in situations where clients can benefit...

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Norway's Direct Connext deploys Exalt Microwave Backhaul Systems

Direct Connect, an ISP bringing broadband services to rural Norway, is deploying Exalt Comunications' ExtendAir, ExploreAir, and EX systems microwave backhaul systems to extend its network into communities throughout the country. The equipment will replace fiber lines leased from a competitor as it connects community-based customer networks with the core of its network.The Exalt systems help Direct Connect maintain a 15% annual subscriber growth rate while keeping networking costs at a minimum. For example, in a link between the cities of Bergen...

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Xilinx Acquires Sarance Technologies for 100G

Xilinx has acquired Sarance Technologies for an undisclosed sum.Sarance Technologies is a leading supplier of ASIC and FPGA IP cores targeted at the packet processing space. The cores include Interlaken IP, classification and traffic management IP. Its solutions consist of very configurable, highly-FPGA-optimized portfolio of chip-to-chip interconnect focused on the Ethernet, Interlaken, and the Network Search Engine market segments. The companies...

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