Alcatel-Lucent Appoints VP of Wireless Marketing

Alcatel-Lucent has appointed Parker Moss as Vice President of Wireless Marketing, where he will be responsible for the promotion of the company's wireless products, including the lightRadio portfolio. Parker joins Alcatel-Lucent from the international GSM Association, where he was Head of Strategy. He previously served as Head of Technology & Telecom Research at Reuters and as a Telecoms Equity Analyst at Sanford C Bernstein. http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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House Committee Acts to Halt Any FCC Expenditures Related to LightSquared

The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee voted unanimously to prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from expending any funds related to a conditional waiver it granted to LightSquared until all concerns have been resolved about interference with Global Positioning System (GPS).The "Coalition to Save Our GPS" noted the ongoing concern about harmful interference to GPS systems if the FCC permits LightSquared to deploy 40,000 ground stations using adjacent spectrum. The amendment was offered by U.S. Reps. Steve Austria...

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Verizon's Terremark Expands its Global Reach

Terremark, which was recently acquired by Verizon, announced an expansion of its cloud, security and IT capabilities in North America, Latin America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Specifically, by leveraging Verizon's network and facilities, Terremark will deliver enterprise IT capabilities through nearly 50 leading-edge data centers, greatly boosting Terremark's existing data center footprint and enabling an expansive array of IT solutions.Terremark...

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Huawei Shows Prototype OTN Switch/Router

Huawei disclosed plans for an over-10T MS-OTN (multi-service optical transport network) platform featuring dense OTN cross-connection capacity and packet-based features such as Ethernet Layer 2 switching and MPLS-TP cross-connection. A prototype, which was presented at the WDM & Next Generation Optical Networking 2011 event in Monaco this week, promises 10 Tbps of switching capacity. The device can be upgraded to manage capacity of over 20T.The...

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Krish Prabhu Appointed President of AT&T Labs

Krish Prabhu has been appointed president and CEO of AT&T Labs. He replaces retiring president and CEO Keith Cambron, who has led AT&T Labs since 2005.Prabhu most recently served as CEO of Tellabs. His telecoms industry career began in 1980 at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories. He has served in several telecoms executive positions, including as chief executive officer of Alcatel USA. He also has worked with the start-up and developer communities as a venture capitalist.Prabhu holds a Master of Science degree in physics from the Indian...

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Freescale Teams with QNX Software Systems

Freescale Semiconductor has expanded its relationship with QNX Software Systems Limited, a developer or operating systems and middleware for connected embedded systems, to include solutions for Freescale's QorIQ and PowerQUICC processor families. The companies intend to share IP, invest jointly in product and technology roadmaps, and work together on go-to-market activities.The companies said joint development will initially focus on the use of QNX operating system software, middleware, development tools, and engineering services to create solutions...

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ST-Ericsson Announces Restructuring

Citing recent changes in the business environment and reduced demand for legacy products at certain customers, ST-Ericsson announced a restructuring aimed at achieving about $120 million of annualized savings by the end of 2012. The plan calls for a global workforce review that may affect up to 500 employees worldwide and restructuring costs of $55 million. The company also pushed out the predicted date to return to profitability, saying the target...

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Optus Signs Binding Agreement with NBN Co

SingTel Optus Pty Ltd signed a binding agreement with Australia's NBN Co. to migrate its subscribers off of its HFC network and onto the new fibre-based National Broadband Network. The agreement is subject to ACCC approvals and confirmation of tax treatments.Under the deal, Optus, Australia's second largest retail telecommunications provider, agrees to a fixed-line network preference in favour of NBN Co for residential and small business customers...

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Telstra and Australia's NBN Sign Definitive Agreement

Telstra signed a Definitive Agreements with NBN Co and the Commonwealth for its participation in the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) through the decommission of the Telstra copper network and eventual migration of traffic onto the new fibre infrastructure. The deal provides Telstra with replacement revenue, through disconnection payments as the rollout of the NBN occurs, and new revenues, through access payments for the use of Telstra's...

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Lulz Releases Classified Data from Arizona Police Agencies

The hackers at Lulz Security continued their campaign with a targeted attack on police agencies in Arizona. The attack includes the posting of classified documents related to immigration and narcotics enforcement.Meanwhile, key websites of the Brazilian government remained offline, including the Presidential website and the Ministry of Sports.http://www.convergedigest....

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