SES-3 Satellite Successfully Launched

The SES-3 satellite was successfully launched on board an ILS Proton launch vehicle from Kazakhstan.The SES-3 satellite, which is the largest was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, carries 24 C-Band transponders and 24 Ku-Band transponders (36 MHz), generates approximately five kilowatts of payload power, and features a design life of 15 years. It will replace SES' existing AMC-1 satellite at the orbital position of 103 degrees West, a highly...

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Telecom NZ to Close CDMA Network on 31-July-2012

Telecom New Zealand confirmed that its CDMA mobile network will close on July 31, 2012. The carrier launched its GSM-based XT mobile network in 2009. A number of promotions are underway to help the remaining CDMA users make the conversion. http://www.telecom-media.co...

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Orange Reaches Content Partnership with CANAL+

The France Telecom Group (Orange) and CANAL+ finalized a strategic partnership, which calls for CANAL+ Group's acquisition of a 33.33% minority interest in Orange Cinema Series. The deal ensures content production continuity for the Orange Cinema Series package and broader distribution for CANAL+ content. Orange will continue to distribute its multichannel package and related interactive services to its customers; CANAL+ will offer the package...

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Extreme Networks Announces Job Cuts, Higher Sales Forecast

Extreme Networks announced 110 job cuts -- or 16% of its worldwide workforce. The cuts are expected to lower operating costs in FY'12 by approximately $20 million with the goal of enabling the company to achieve consistent double digit operating income. The company will take a pretax restructuring charge of approximately $3.5 million in its fiscal Q4 which ended July 3, 2011.Extreme Networks also announced that it anticipates that Fiscal Q4 2011 revenue will be above prior guidance of $80-$85 million, and will be in the range of $88 - $90 million....

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Fujitsu Leads in U.S. Optical Patents -- 111 Last Year

Fujitsu was awarded 111 optical technology patents in 2010 by the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO)-- more than double the number received by the closest competitor - marking the sixth consecutive year that Fujitsu led the field in optical innovation. Since 2006, Fujitsu's advances in optical communications have garnered the company nearly three times the number assigned to the next optical developer on the list."The world's largest and most forward-thinking organizations look to Fujitsu's optical communications solutions to enable next-generation services...

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Taoglas Launches a LTE SMT Antenna with 70% Efficiency

Taoglas, which develops antenna solutions to the M2M market, introduced its "Viking" antenna, a LTE, septa-band, surface mount antenna (SMT). It delivers efficiency of over 70% in a design that is significantly smaller than current market wide-band antennas. This multi-band cellular antenna covers all worldwide cellular bands from 700 MHz to 960 MHz and 1710 MHz to 2170 MHz for GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, DCS, PCS, UMTS, HSDPA, GPRS, EDGE and LTE. The PA.700.A...

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Level 3 Confirms Q2 Financial Expectations

Level 3 Communications confirmed the following previously issued expectations for the second quarter 2011:the company expects sequential growth in Core Network Service revenue to strengthen,low double digit percentage growth in consolidated adjusted EBITDA in 2011 vs. 2010,capital expenditures of approximately 12 percent of Communications revenue for the full year 2011, free Cash Flow roughly breakeven for the last three quarters of 2011 in aggregate. These expectations exclude any effect from the pending Global Crossing acquisition.http://www...

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Spotify Launches Online Music Streaming in U.S.

Spotify launched its online music service in the U.S. market, offering users the ability to stream more than 13 million tracks on demand. Spotify will be marketed both as a premium monthly subscription service and a version which is free for consumers to use, and supported by advertising.Some key stats: Founded: 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.Location: Headquarters in the UK with offices in Stockholm, Paris, Oslo, Madrid, Amsterdam and...

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IBM Opens Cloud Data Center in Japan

IBM announced the opening of a Cloud Data Center in Japan along with a dedicated data center for LotusLive, its cloud collaboration service. The new IBM Cloud Data Center is located in Makuhari, Japan.IBM said the new facilities extend its globally-integrated cloud delivery network of cloud computing centers that serve in over 50 countries around the world with centers based in Singapore, Germany, Canada, and the United States; and 13 global cloud...

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ESnet Appoints Policy Board: Vinton Cerf, Jagdeep Singh, David Clark...

The Department of Energy's ESnet, the Energy Sciences Network, has appointed the following distinguished leaders to serve for three-year terms on its Policy Board:Larry Smarr, founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at the University of California San Diego and UC Irvine. Previously Smarr was the founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois,...

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Metaswitch Enhances Colibria Rich Communications Server

Metaswitch Networks released an RCS-e 1.1 compliant Instant Messaging Server for pre-IMS and IMS deployments in mobile, fixed and converged networks. The enhanced Rich Communications Suite is a strategic initiative supported by five of the leading European operators: Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and Vodafone. It delivers a simplified extension to voice and text, enabling subscribers to send instant messages, video chat and...

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NSN Supplies T-Mobile USA's HSPA+ Upgrade

Nokia Siemens Networks confirmed that it has participated in the upgrade of portions of T-Mobile USA's 4G (HSPA+) network."T-Mobile's 4G network is now faster than ever before and continues to deliver a faster, more reliable broadband experience in more places than any other carrier," said Neville Ray, chief technology officer, T-Mobile USA. "Nokia Siemens Networks' Single RAN has helped us to enhance our existing network through a software upgrade...

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Nimble Raises $25 Million for Flash + iSCSI Storage

Nimble Storage, a start-up based in San Jose, California, raised $25 million in an over-subscribed Series D round for its converged iSCSI storage, backup and disaster-recovery solution. Nimble's solution is based on a patent-pending Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture. This enables fast inline data compression, intelligent data optimization leveraging flash memory and high-capacity disk, instant optimized backups, and WAN-efficient...

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Apica Offers Cloud & Mobile Load Testing

Apica, a start-up based in Stockholm, raised $2 million in Series B funding to bring its load testing and performance-monitoring services for cloud and mobile applications to the U.S. market. The company has opened an office in Palo Alto, California. The company recently unveiled Apica Watch, a new cloud service with full support for Selenium, giving customers the ability to monitor their websites from a true end-user perspective. Apica also launched...

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Telekomunikacja Polska Deploys Cisco CRS-3 and ASR 9000

Telekomunikacja Polska (TP), Poland's leading telecommunications provider, has selected Cisco Carrier Ethernet solutions for its IP next generation network. Specifically, TP will deploy the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System and Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers for enhanced capacity, high resiliency and robust IPv6 support. Financial terms were not disclosed.France Telecom is a major shareholder of the Telekomunikacja Polska group.http://www.cisco....

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U.S. Department of Defense Outlines Cyberspace Strategy

The United States must be prepared to respond to hostile acts in cyberspace, said Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn, III, speaking at the National Defense University, Washington, D.C., and "reserves the right, under the laws of armed conflict, to respond to serious cyber attacks with a proportional and justified military response at the time and place of our choosing." Lynn confirmed that in a single intrusion this March, cyber attackers...

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