Zain Kuwait Focuses on Customer Experience with NSN

Zain Kuwait is using live network monitoring, reporting and analytics software from Nokia Siemens Networks to focus on the customer experience. Nokia Siemens Networks has developed two new platforms, Serve atOnce Traffica and Serve atOnce Intelligence, to provide improvements in mobile network quality by monitoring network traffic.Nokia Siemens Networks' Serve atOnce Traffica is used to monitor end-to-end network performance for each service in real...

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Clearwire Outsources to Ericsson

Clearwire will transfer the day-to-day management of its 4G network to Ericsson under a seven year managed services agreement.Ericsson will be responsible for network engineering, operations and maintenance, including field services, 24X7 network monitoring, end-to-end engineering, provisioning and routine maintenance. Clearwire will retain ownership of all network assets and full responsibility for future technology and strategy decisions.Approximately...

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Mellanox Sets New Low-Latency Record

Mellanox Technologies a new record in low-latency messaging performance for Ethernet networks based on the latest STAC-M2 benchmark test conducted by Mellanox on IBM systems. The record was achieved using Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN 10GbE NICs with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), the IBM BNT RackSwitch G8264 10GbE switch, and IBM x3550 servers running IBM's WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging (LLM) technology.The companies cited a 30% imimprovement over results that were announced just two months ago by a competitor with a comparable configuration."Financial...

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Metaswitch CommPortal Unifies Wireline and Mobile

Metaswitch Networks introduced a customizable unified communications client for PCs, smartphones and tablet computers.The Metaswitch CommPortal Communicator, which can be private labeled by service providers, is a UC client that bridges wireline and mobile handsets. It presents a suite of hosted PBX services to a classic enterprise desk phone, a mobile handset and a PC. Support is offered for Windows PC, Apple iOS and Android mobile devices. It...

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Taqua Introduces New High-Capacity IP eXchange Peering Applications

Taqua introduced a new high-capacity IP peering application for its flagship Taqua T7000 Intelligent Switching System (T7000). Taqua's IP eXchange (IPX) is designed to provide fixed, mobile, and enterprise network operators a high-capacity, secure, low-cost peering solution for IP interconnect. Taqua said its T7000 multi-media gateway and controller enables operators to converge voice, data, and video traffic onto a common IP infrastructure to deliver improved margins and interconnect traffic across multilateral interconnects. Configured for...

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Bridgewater Cites Another HSS LTE Customer in U.S.

Bridgewater Systems has signed another mobile operator customer for its Bridgewater Home Subscriber Server (HSS) for an LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC) deployment. The unnamed customer serves 35 states in the U.S. and has been a Bridgewater customer since 2005. With this new implementation, Bridgewater extends its footprint to support the new 4G network.The Bridgewater HSS will manage LTE service control functions, such as authentication and authorization,...

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Pioneer Deploys Actelis' Broadband Accelerators

Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, which serves more than 140,000 lines in Oklahoma and southern Kansas, is deploying Actelis Networks' Broadband Accelerators (BBAs) to deliver broadband services with greater coverage area to residential subscribers who typically have been underserved or unserved.The Actelis BBA helps deliver broadband to residences that are too far from a central office or remote DSLAM. The environmentally unit is line powered by...

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CloudShield Shows its Next Gen Cyber Platform

CloudShield Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), unveiled its CS-4000 next generation trusted network security platform for protecting critical carrier and enterprise infrastructure. The CS-4000 deep packet inspection platform allows carriers and enterprise customers to integrate a variety of subscriber data privacy products. It also brings significant improvements to data rates and...

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