Alcatel-Lucent Wins Managed Services Contract with China Unicom - Fujian

Fujian Unicom – a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Unicom – has selected Alcatel-Lucent to manage its mobile and fixed networks in the booming cities of Xiamen and Nanping in south-east China."With our extensive experience of multi-vendor network maintenance, Alcatel-Lucent will become a single point of contact for maintaining Fujian Unicom's networks in Xiamen and Nanping, helping reduce the complexity and costs associated with managing large networks...

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Qualcomm Completes $3.1 Billion Acquisition of Atheros

Qualcomm completed its previously announced acquisition of Atheros Communications. The deal had an enterprise value of approximately $3.1 billion."Today marks another milestone in Qualcomm's mission to provide our customers with the best-in-class connectivity and networking solutions needed to capitalize on expanding business opportunities beyond handsets and tablets," said Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm. While the accounting for...

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Nortel's Former Campus in Richardson, Texas is Sold

Pillar Commercial has acquired the former Nortel campus in Richardson's Telecom Corridor from the company's creditors for an undisclosed sum. The 800,000 square foot property, built in 1991 as the U.S. headquarters for Nortel Networks, is located at 2201-2221 Lakeside Boulevard in Richardson, Texas and covers 17.5 acres.Nortel had invested heavily in the property's technological and mechanical infrastructure, including a highly robust chiller plant, multiple back-up generators, and dual source electrical feeds."With the historical legacy of Nortel...

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T-Mobile Launches 42 Mbps in 55 U.S. Markets

T-Mobile USA activated HSPA+ with top theoretical downlink speeds of 42 Mbps in 50 markets across the U.S. This is double the top speed previously available from T-Mobile USA. The launch includes major markets such as Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, and San Francisco, among others. T-Mobile's first 42 Mbps-capable product is The Rocket 3.0 laptop stick, manufactured...

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Infinera Carries 2 Tbps on Paris-Lyon Route

Infinera's customers are carrying more than 2 Terabits/second of live revenue-generating network traffic between Paris and Lyon. Pan-European carrier Interoute and French operator Covage are among the service providers using Infinera networks to deliver services on this route, which is one of the busiest in Europe.Separately, Infinera announced the appointment of Mark A. Wegleitner to its board of directors. Wegleitner was most recently Senior Vice...

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France's SFR Selects Alcatel-Lucent IMS

SFR is the second biggest telecommunications operator in France, is deploying Alcatel-Lucent's End-to-End IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) for unified voice, data, multimedia and video over its fixed and mobile broadband networks. Financial terms were not disclosed.The IMS solution is a key element of SFR's IP transformation from its TDM network towards a fully converged architecture supporting millions of residential and business customers. The IMS...

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EZchip Developing 200-Gigabit Network Processor

EZchip Semiconductor disclosed plans for an upcoming 200 Gbps network processor with integrated 200-Gigabit traffic management for building ultra-dense 10GE, 40GE and 100GE port line cards in switches and routers. The EZchip NP-5, currently in design, will provide a natural scale-up path for customers that use EZchip's NP-4 100-Gigabit processor. The upcoming device will enable line cards that feature multiple 40 and 100-Gigabit ports as well as...

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Video: Small Cell Backhaul Architecture

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Video: Google's Best Practices for Data Centers

Google published a series of short videos outlined some of its best practices in building and operating very large data centers around the world. The company strives to "think outside the box" when envisioning how a data center should be built for maximum efficiency. Some of its innovations include installing a UPS battery on-board each server so as to minimize the number of AC/DC conversions needed to ensure redundancy, utilizing free cooling wherever possible, and transforming an old paper mill in Finland into a modern data center cooled by...

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PMC-Sierra's POLO 40G Coherent Enables Double Port Density

PMC-Sierra introduced a 40 Gbps System-on-Chip (SoC) solution for coherent optical transmission in metro, regional and longhaul networks. The chip doubles line card density and reduces power consumption by more than 50 percent when compared to 40G non-coherent network deployments. Coherent optical technology eliminates the need for widely deployed optical equipment such as dispersion compensation management (DCM) and dispersion compensated fiber...

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