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 in Europe (except France) and Sourcing. Prior to telecommunications, Olaf had 17 years experience in the IT industry, holding senior leadership, sales and marketing positions with HP, Compaq and DEC in Europe and the United States.
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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 support dual modes of WiMAX and LTE TDD at the same time. Software upgrades enable greater flexibility for the operator.


Huawei's B8200 WiMAX/HSPA dual-mode Android handset is able to support multiple bands, such as UMTS 900/2100MHz, GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800MHz, as well as WiMAX 2.5GHz access.


The new E398 LTE TDD/FDD USB dongle promises peak data rates of up to 100 Mbps.


The E392 LTE TDD/FDD/UMTS/GSM multi-mode USB dongle supports global roaming and can switch between different networks. It will be commercially launched during the second half of 2011.
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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 during the first week of August. The remainder of the global workforce reductions are expected to occur at a later date in compliance with local laws and regulations.


Cisco said these cuts will result in pre-tax restructuring charges to its GAAP financial results of no more than $1.3 billion over several quarters, consisting of severance and other one-time termination benefits.


In addition, Cisco will sell its set-top box manufacturing facility in Juarez, Mexico, to Foxconn Technology Group. The approximately 5,000 people employed at the facility will become employees of Foxconn in the first quarter of fiscal 2012 and no job losses are expected as a result of the sale. This figure is in addition to the approximately 6,500 employees impacted by the reduction in workforce and the voluntary early retirement program.
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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 will be in Sydney, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; and Los Angeles, California in the United States.


The cables will each have two fiber pairs, with an ultimate cable design capacity of 12.8 Tbps.


Pacific Fibre is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.
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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 executive positions at Nortel Networks in Sales, Operations, and Finance. As President of the Asia Region, he had P&L responsibility for $1.8 billion in sales.


In addition, Aviat announced that is Q2 financial results are likely to come in ahead of its previously issued guidance. On May 5, 2011, the company provided revenue guidance of $105 million to $120 million for the fourth quarter FY2011, based on backlog, business trends and operational changes, and some supply risks specific to Japan. Although results are not yet finalized, the company now believes revenue for its fourth quarter FY2011 will be in the range of $115 million to $120 million. In addition, the company expects to report that the orders book-to-bill ratio was greater than 1 and that the company's cash balance increased from end of the previous quarter. http://www.aviatnetworks.com

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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 to competing products.


Up to 120 UPOE ports can be supported in a single Catalyst 4500E chassis. Cisco Universal Power Over Ethernet utilizes standard Cat 5e or higher cabling and RJ45 connectors to enable an easier deployment of this solution within existing infrastructures.


Additionally, Cisco announced that Samsung zero client desktop virtualization devices and BT IP turrets have integrated Cisco UPOE technology into their devices to allow customers the immediate advantage of using their existing Cisco network to power these solutions. http://www.cisco.com

• Cisco has been a leader in delivering PoE since 2000 when it introduced 7-watt inline power over Ethernet for powering Cisco IP Phones.

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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 tight coupling between EZchip's next-generation NP-5 200Gbps NPU and NetLogic Microsystems' next-generation of knowledge-based processors at the 28 nm node.


"We are excited to expand upon our long-standing collaboration with EZchip on multiple generations of our respective best-in-class products," said Chris O'Reilly, vice president of marketing at NetLogic Microsystems. "With each successive generation, we have seen an increase in the content of EZchip's network processors as well as our knowledge-based processors per line card offering increasing levels of performance and functionality. This trend bodes well for both our companies as customers are expected to continue to demand higher performance, more intelligence and greater functionality."


"Our collaboration with NetLogic Microsystems brings together the best technologies to produce solutions that enable customers to meet the challenges of ever increasing performance requirements," said Amir Eyal, vice president of business development at EZchip. http://www.netlogicmicro.com http://www.ezchip.com

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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 environments. It features Vitesse's proprietary adaptive FlexEQ technology.


Vitesse's VSC7224 delivers a hardware-based equalization suite, capable of equalizing multiple 14 Gbps signals over ranges greater than 65 inches of FR4 board trace or 20m of 24AWG twin-ax copper cable.


It uses four Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE) taps to combat impairments in the signal from crosstalk and reflections, achieving an Isolation to Crosstalk Ratio (ICR) of better than 12dB.


Vitesse said the hardware-enabled adaptive receiver on the VSC7224 eliminates the arduous process of manually optimizing each individual lossy channel.


"The combination of autonomous adaptive equalization and a Clock & Data Recovery (CDR) unit that can be used at multiple speeds to effectively reset the jitter budget, makes this channel extender extremely useful for next-generation systems, especially to reduce system design time and improve yields," said Abhi Dugar, research manager, wired communications semiconductor research at IDC. "As networks move to mixes of Ethernet, Infiniband, and Fibre Channel, it becomes increasingly important to design for multiprotocol environments operating at a variety of rates."  http://www.vitesse.comwww.vitesse.com/products/product.php?number=VSC7224

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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 multi-degree reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) affords NoaNet the flexibility to dynamically bring customers onto the network, which is planned to extend to more than 3,000 miles over the next three years. The FSP 3000 will help NoaNet deliver reliable, high-speed Internet access to schools, libraries, emergency responders, hospitals, government agencies, businesses and individuals in virtually every inhabited location of Washington. http://www.advaoptical.com

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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.eantc.com/

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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 existing nationwide optical infrastructure, which is based on Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform and Common Photonic Layer, by simply adding 100G wavelengths alongside 10G wavelengths. Felix Telecom is responsible for the design, installation, deployment and ongoing service for both RoEduNet's existing 10G network as well as the new 100G infrastructure.


RoEduNet, the Romanian National Research and Education Network (NREN), connects universities, schools, research centers and cultural institutions across the country. RoEduNet is part of GÉANT – the European education and research network linking academic and research institutions in more than 30 European countries. http://www.ciena.com

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