Qualcomm Appoints Matt Grob as CTO

Qualcomm announced the appointment of Matt Grob as executive vice president and chief technology officer (CTO), replacing Roberto Padovani, who will remain an executive vice president and will continue to provide his guidance in support of Qualcomm's research, development, standards and emerging technology efforts.In addition to the new role of CTO, Grob will continue to lead Qualcomm's Corporate R&D division and provide oversight to Qualcomm Corporate Engineering Services. Grob joined Qualcomm in 1991 as an engineer working on modem designs...

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Sierra Wireless Supplies LTE Devices for AT&T's Upcoming Launch

Sierra Wireless will supply the first devices for AT&T's pending LTE network in five cities this summer. The first two devices are the AT&T Mobile Hotspot Elevate 4G (also known as the Sierra Wireless AirCard 754S mobile hotspot) and the AT&T USBConnect Momentum 4G (the Sierra Wireless AirCard 313U USB modem. Both devices will be available to AT&T customers this summer. AT&T recently announced plans to roll out its 4G LTE network...

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AT&T Completes Divestiture of Alestra (Mexico)

ALFA completed its purchase of AT&T's 49 percent stake in Alestra, the Mexican telecom company. ALFA is now the sole shareholder of Alestra. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.att.com http://www.alestra.com.mx Alestra offers a range of business-class services, including converged communications, hosting and cloud capabilities. The company operates a 40 Gbps fiber network spanning 6,700 kms. across Mexico, including 1,750 kms of...

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NETGEAR Chooses Quantenna 4x4 MIMO Chips for Video over Wi-Fi

NETGEAR will develop next generation residential gateway and video bridge products based on Quantenna Communications'Full-11n 4x4 MIMO chipset to enhance their wireless video distribution capabilities.Quantenna's family of Full-11n™ chipsets uses the company's cost-optimized, third-generation 4x4 MIMO technology to deliver up to 600 Mbps of bandwidth. The chipsets enable manufacturers to build products for delivering IPTV and other video streaming...

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Tekelec's LTE Diameter Routing and HSS Deployed by Tier One

Tekelec's integrated Home Subscriber Server (HSS) address resolution database and its LTE Diameter Signaling Router (DSR) have been deployed by a tier-one North American Service Provider. This allows the service provider to scale LTE services by routing Diameter messages to the appropriate HSS in the network. Tekelec's LTE products include: Home Subscriber Server which serves as the central authentication and mobility management point in LTE Evolved...

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Bharti Airtel Picks IBM for IT Support Across Africa

Bharti Airtel has awarded a 10-year contract to IBM to provide IT solutions to its employees across 16 African countries. In terms of the agreement, IBM will provide a standard operating environment, help desk and desk side support to enhance employee efficiency and convenience. The announcement builds on a strategic partnership signed in late 2010 to manage the computing technology and services to power Airtel's mobile communications network spanning...

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Chile's Entel Deploys Dual-Carrier HSPA for 42 Mbps Peak

Chile's Entel is launching dual carrier HSPA technology for peak downstream rates of up to 42 Mbps. Ericsson is the lead supplier. Commercially, Entel will offer plans with a maximum speed of 22 Mbps, with an average download speed of 6 Mbps, positioning the company well ahead of the game as compared to competitors. Antonio Büchi, CEO for Entel, says: "We proudly launch DC-HSPA+ 42Mbps technology, making Entel the operator with the fastest mobile...

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Qualcomm Atheros Introduces 1 Gbps EPON Chip

Qualcomm Atheros introduced a low power 1 Gbps Ethernet passive optical networking (EPON) chip. The QCA8829 offers power consumption of less than 200mW for grid applications with Gigabit Ethernet (GE) PHY sleep mode enabled and less than 600mW when running full 1 Gbps throughput with GE PHY enabled. The 76-pin package size fits into a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) optical module, simplifying system design for plug-and-play connection with an...

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AT&T Deploys Bloom Energy Fuel Cells

AT&T will deploy Bloom Energy Servers at eleven sites in California to power their operations. The Bloom Boxes leverage solid oxide fuel cell technology to deliver clean, reliable, affordable onsite power from either natural gas or biogas. Deployment sites include facilities in Corona, Fontana, Hayward, Pasadena, Redwood City, Rialto, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Jose, and San Ramon.The installations will provide 7.5 megawatts (MW) of power...

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Citrix Acquires Cloud.com for Hypervisor-agnostic Scaling

Citrix Systems has acquired Cloud.com, which provides software infrastructure platforms for cloud providers, for an undisclosed sum. Cloud.com delivers an open source software platform for launching either public or private cloud environments. The company currently has over 50 large-scale production clouds in deployment.The Cloud.com product line is a hypervisor-agnostic solution for building clouds the way the world's largest and most successful...

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Cisco Live! Keynote Highlights: Enterprise Collaboration, Cisco Restructuring

As it works through its restructuring, Cisco is determined to remain a customer-driven company said John Chambers, speaking at the Cisco Live! event in Las Vegas. The restructuring primarily aims to simplify the company's operations, refocus on core areas of network switching, routing and collaboration, and to speed-up decision making. Multiple groups inside the company are being integrated by network architecture. The sales organization is being...

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Cisco Overhauls Catalyst 6500 with 2 Tbps Engine, Better IPv6, Upgraded NetFlow

Cisco unveiled a set of enhancements to its flagship Catalyst 6500 Series Switches to help enterprise customers to evolve their network infrastructure for the proliferation of connected devices, growth of video traffic, cloud computing business models and increasingly mobile workforces. The company also updated Cisco IOS software with over 200 new features.The newly overhauled Catalyst 6500 offers seamless IPv4 and IPv6 support from the switch's...

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Hong Kong's New World Telecom Tests 100G with Alcatel-Lucent

Hong Kong-based New World Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent to prepare its optical network for 100G transmission. At the heart of the Alcatel-Lucent-provided solution is the 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS), which will enable New World Telecom to support a mixture of 10G, 40G and 100G channels on the same fiber pair. Financial terms were not disclosed.Johnny Cheung, Executive Vice President, Networks and IT of New World Telecom, said: "Alcatel-Lucent...

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