ZTE Announces CDMA/LTE Dual-Mode, 4T4R Base Station

ZTE announced the launch of the first CDMA/LTE dual-mode distributed NodeB system with four transmitters and four receivers (4T4R). Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology supports two 2x2 or 4x4 MIMO configurations, allowing an increased number of simultaneous data streams, maintenance of coverage over greater distances and faster downloading of data. ZTE said this MIMO feature helps carriers significantly enhance cell coverage and capacity...

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Amdocs to Acquire Bridgewater for 3G/4G Control Plane

Amdocs agreed to acquire Bridgewater Systems for C$8.20 per share in cash, valuing the company at approximately C$211 million. The offer represents an implied premium of 30% to Bridgewater's closing share price of C$6.33 and an implied premium of 33% to the 20-day volume weighted average trading price of C$6.17 on the Toronto Stock Exchange as at June 16, 2011.Bridgewater Systems provides pre-integrated solutions for mobile and converged operators....

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GigOptix Supplies HXT/R4 Chip for 40G Active Optical Cable

GigOptix announced that a Taiwanese optical engine manufacturer has entered production with GigOptix's HXT/R4 chip-set for use in a 40G Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) Active Optical Cable (AOC) application. GigOptix's HXT/R4 chip-set has been designed to support multiple applications ranging from 5Gb/s to 10Gb/s per channel. The company has incorporated features that enable customers to optimize the trade-off between power dissipation and performance of the optical link. This has been successfully demonstrated by transmitting data over...

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BusinessWeek: Skype Fires Executives, Saving Merger Payouts

At least eight senior executives at Skype Technologies SA have been dismissed before the recent acquisition with Microsoft is consummated, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The move is seen as reducing the value of the payout to these employees, as their stock options would have been worth considerably more if they fully vested through the acquisition.http://www.businessweek....

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CommScope to Acquire Australia's Argus for Antenna Technologies

CommScope has signed an agreement to acquire Argus Technologies, a privately-held company headquartered in Bella Vista, New South Wales, Australia, for an undisclosed sum. Argus Technologies, provides high performance, high technology antennas for base stations, stadiums and venues, and other wireless applications. It was founded in 1994 by Dr. Bevan Jones, John Bonello and Danny Schwotzer. CommScope said the deal will broaden its portfolio of antennas,...

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NSN to Demo "Liquid Telco" Concept at CommunicAsia 2011

At this week's CommunicAsia 2011 show in Singapore, Nokia Siemens Networks is showcasing a theme of "Liquid Telco" built around its Liquid Radio and CEM 2.0 technology. The company will focus on practical solutions for enabling extremely flexible networks that dynamically adjust to changing customer demands. The demonstrations will include LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation, enabling CSPs to utilize multiband frequency with greater efficiency, as well...

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Alcatel-Lucent to Develop LTE Components in Russia

State Corporation Russian Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent announced an expansion of their joint venture, Alcatel-Lucent RT, to develop and manufacture LTE components customized for the Russian market. A new R&D center is to be established in St. Petersburg operated by Alcatel-Lucent RT that will be fully integrated with Alcatel-Lucent's wireless operations. This center will be staffed by Russian experts to ensure a focus on the development...

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BTI Systems to Resell DragonWave's Fusion Wireless Systems

BTI Systems and DragonWave are partnering to address the need for backhaul of mobile broadband data from the tower to the switching center by combining the strengths of their respective packet optical metro networking and high-capacity packet convergence solutions. Specifically, BTI Systems will resell and integrate DragonWave's Fusion portfolio of circuit-over-packet and multi-service access products into the BTI Systems portfolio. By combining...

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BTI Systems Introduces All-Packet Mobile Backhaul

BTI Systems introduced its All-Packet Mobile Backhaul Solution for 3G & 4G deployments in metro and regional networks. The Carrier Ethernet-based architecture delivers scalable capacity at the tower using either point-to-point or ring topologies. The solution supports the security, prioritization capabilities and protection strategies to allow various traffic types and multiple wireless operators to transit the same packet connection. Some...

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ZTE's T8000 Passes 100 GigE Testing

ZTE's ZXR10 M6000-16 edge/service router has pass the 100G Ethernet Router Performance and Scalability Independent Test Program, which was organized by the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC). EANTC validated items such as IPv4 forwarding, IPV4 multicast forwarding, IPv6 forwarding, RSVP-TE, MPLS label forwarding, HQoS, L2VPN, L3VPN, load balancing based on IP routes, load balancing based on Link Aggregation, full-rate forwarding for...

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