ADTRAN Continues Roll -- Sales up 23% to $184 Million

ADTRAN's Q2 sales increased 23% to an all time record level of $184,227,000 for the quarter, compared to $150,361,000 for the second quarter of 2010. Net income increased 33% to $36,943,000 for the quarter, compared to $27,751,000 for the second quarter of 2010. Earnings per share, assuming dilution, increased 27% to $0.56 for the quarter, compared to $0.44 for the second quarter of 2010.ADTRAN Chief Executive Officer Tom Stanton stated, "Our Company...

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Eutelsat's Tooway Signs Partner for Ukraine

Eutelsat Communications announced a distribution agreement for the Tooway broadband satellite service with Eurosat-Ukraine, an affiliate of Altegrosky, a leading provider of satellite-delivered telecoms services in Russia and CIS countries. The new contract covers distribution to consumers in the Ukraine of the Tooway new generation satellite broadband service, which is delivered via Eutelsat's KA-SAT satellite. The service promises download speeds...

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Nokia and Siemens Partnership Continues in NSN

Nokia and Siemens have completed a strategic review of their joint venture, Nokia Siemens Networks, and have decided against pursuing a private equity investment or sale."We believe that the current shareholders are in the best position to further enhance the value of the company," said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, chairman of Nokia Siemens Networks.The company cited "good progress" in its turnaround plan, with first quarter 2011 results marking a third...

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FCC Tightens E911 Location Accuracy Requirements

The FCC took action to strengthen the Enhanced 911 (E911) location accuracy rules for wireless carriers.Wireless carriers typically provide E911 location using either a "handset-based" method, where location information is generated by GPS or similar technology installed in the caller's handset, or a "network-based" method, where location information is generated by triangulating the caller's wireless signal in relation to nearby cell sites in the...

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T-Mobile USA Continues Roll Out of HSPA+ 42

T-Mobile USA has expanded portions of its HSPA+ mobile broadband network to support top theoretical peak speeds up to 42 Mbps. The upgraded network is now available to more than 170 million people across the United States. Ericsson is playing a key role in the network upgrade.T-Mobile's aggressive rollout plan called for doubling its HSPA+ network speeds by mid-2011.T-Mobile customers now have access to the 42 4G network in Baltimore; Boston; Charlotte,...

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Department of Energy Builds National 100GigE Research Net

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Internet2 announced plans to build one of the world's fastest and most advanced scientific networks on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy (ESnet). Berkeley Lab has received $62 million in funding to create the Advanced Networking Initiative (ANI) in order to develop a 100 Gbps prototype network between DOE's supercomputing centers to facilitate research and experimentation around this...

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EZchip Implements OpenFlow 1.1 on its Network Processor

EZchip Semiconductor has implemented the latest OpenFlow spec, version 1.1, on its NP-4 network processor by several independent bodies. EZchip noted that while the previous version of OpenFlow, version 1.0, has seen multiple silicon-based implementations, the recently released version 1.1 strains silicon implementations by requiring a high degree of packet processing flexibility, in particular performing repetitive nested lookups in various tables....

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ZTE Claims 24 x 1.3 Tbps WDM Record

ZTE achieved a signal transmission record of 24 Tbps (24 x 1.3 Tbps) over its WDM platform -- a new world record for optical transmission. The result was published as a Post Deadline Paper (PDP) at the recent Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) 2011 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. ZTE said it expects 1 Tbps bit rate per channel to become the industry mainstream after 100 Gbps.ZTE's record-breaking 24 Tbps WDM system carried 12 C-band signals...

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