Everything Everywhere Appoints New CEO

Everything Everywhere, the joint venture that operates the networks for T-Mobile (UK) and Orange (UK), appointed Olaf Swantee as CEO effective as of 1-Sept-2011, replacing Tom Alexander. who has resigned for personal reasons and to pursue other interests. Swantee, an economics graduate with an MBA from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris – École des Affaires de Paris (ESCP-EAP), is currently France Telecom's Executive Vice President, Operations...

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Huawei Launches Dual-mode WiMAX/LTE

Huawei launched a series of convergent WiMAX/LTE solutions, including a SingleRAN WiMAX/LTE base station, the world's first WiMAX/HSPA dual-mode handset equipped with Android 2.2, the first commercial LTE TDD/FDD dual-mode USB dongle, and the first LTE TDD/FDD/UMTS/GSM multi-mode USB dongle. Huawei's SingleRAN WiMAX/LTE base station offers the ability for parallel transmitting in dual-mode. In this solution, remote radio units (RRU) are able to...

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Cisco Confirms 6,500 Job Cuts, Additional Transfers

Cisco confirmed a workforce reduction of approximately 6,500 employees, including approximately 2,100 employees who elected to participate in a voluntary early retirement program. The cuts will occur across the global workforce across all functions.Cisco said the job cuts include a reduction totaling approximately 15 percent of vice president level and above employees. This represents a reduction of approximately 9 percent of Cisco's regular full-time workforce. Cisco plans to notify impacted employees in the United States, Canada and select countries...

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Pacific Fibre Picks TE SubCom for 12.8 Tbps Undersea Cable

Pacific Fibre has awarded a supply contract to TE SubCom for its forthcoming 12,750km trans-Pacific cable.Pacific Fibre, which was founded in 2010, will deliver the longest and most technically advanced undersea cable systems linking Australia, New Zealand and USA. The two-cable system will link Australia and New Zealand via a trans-Tasman cable, while connecting New Zealand to the United States via a trans-Pacific cable. The cable landing points...

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Aviat Appoints New CEO, Quarterly Sales Seen Ahead of Expectations

Aviat Networks, which supplies wireless transmission solutions, has appointed Michael Pangia as its new CEO, replacing Chuck Kissner, who will continue as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Pangia previously was Aviat Networks' SVP and Chief Sales Officer since he joined in March 2009 and was part of the management team that led the restructuring and turnaround efforts over the past year. Prior to joining Aviat Networks, Pangia held a number of...

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Cisco Catalyst Pushes 60-watt Power over Ethernet

Cisco introduced the first 60-watt Power over Ethernet capability via a new module for the Catalyst 4500E Switch. Cisco's new Universal Power Over Ethernet (UPOE) linecard and UPOE splitter enables any device requiring up to 60-watt power to be powered by Cisco's Catalyst 4500E Switches. This includes Cisco IP phones, personal telepresence systems, compact switches and wireless access points. Cisco said this is twice the power per port compared...

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NetLogic and EZchip Collaborate on Terabit-class Packet Processing

NetLogic Microsystems and EZchip Semiconductor are collaborating on high performance, merchant, packet-processing solutions for IPv6-ready Terabit class systems. The companies are optimizing and and implementing exclusive operational modes in both EZchip's NP-4 100Gbps network processor (NPU) and NetLogic Microsystems' NL11k knowledge-based processor. In addition, the companies are collaborating to further enhance the performance optimizations and...

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Vitesse Delivers 14 Gbps Adaptive Quad Channel Extender

Vitesse Semiconductor introduced a multi-protocol, adaptive quad channel extender for next-generation protocols such as 10G/40G/100G Ethernet, Infiniband FDR, and 16G Fibre Channel. The new VSC7224 delivers a data rate range from 155 Mbps to 14.1 Gbps and power consumption as low as 100mW per channel.The device offers a comprehensive, low power signal integrity solution which can adaptively compensate for signal degradation in challenging network...

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NoaNet Deploys ADVA FSP 3000

The Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) has selected the ADVA FSP 3000 to enable the extension of high-speed broadband service to nearly every underserved area of Washington state. NoaNet first deployed ADVA Optical Networking's platform in 2005 and will again rely on the FSP 3000 as it undertakes a network expansion funded in part by an $134-million Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) federal stimulus grant. ADVA Optical Networking's...

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EANTC and Ixia Deliver 100 GigE Test Methodology

Ixia is working with EANTC to deliver testing criteria, methodology, and administration of multiple vendors' 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) switches. This EANTC-led, industry-first set of benchmark tests provides carriers, data center managers, and application service providers with a detailed insight into various Higher Speed Ethernet (HSE) products using a consistent test methodology via Ixia's 100GE testing solution. The first tests in this series occurred in May and June and were published by Light Reading. http://www.ixiacom.com http://www.ea...

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Ciena Supplies Coherent 100 GigE for Romanian Educational Net

The Romanian Educational Network (RoEduNet) has deployed Ciena's coherent optical technology for the first live 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network in Eastern Europe. The next-generation infrastructure, deployed together with Ciena's BizConnect partner Felix Telecom, connects Bucharest, the capital of Romania, with Iaşi, the country's second largest city located more than 450 kilometers to the north. The deployment forms part of an expansion of RoEduNet's...

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