USA Reaches Deals with Canada & Mexico on 700 MHz Sharing along Borders

The FCC announced deals with Industry Canada and Mexico's Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) for sharing commercial wireless broadband spectrum in the 700 MHz band along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican border areas. The arrangement with Industry Canada also calls for sharing spectrum in the 800 MHz band. Under the arrangements, licensees on both sides of the borders will have greater access to the 698-758 MHz and 776-788...

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Cisco Wins 3-Year Support Deal with du

Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du) has awarded a three-year contract to Cisco for network support and optimisation services for existing and future network infrastructure growth.Cisco Capital (Dubai) arranged financing. The deal provides du with a predictable and optimized Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) over three years. http://www.cisco....

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Extreme Networks Posts Revenue of $89.8 Million

Extreme Networks reported quarterly net revenue of $89.8 million, as compared to $85.5 million for the same period last year. Quarterly net product revenue was $73.8 million, up 4% YoY, and service revenue was $16.0 million, down 8% YoY. Estimated net loss on a GAAP basis for the quarter was $2.1 million or a loss of $0.02* per diluted share, including the impact of a $2.8 million charge for a previously announced restructuring, net of reversals, and $1.5 million in stock-based compensation. For the quarter, total net revenue in North America...

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Verizon Inks Mobile Payment Deal with American Expres

Verizon Wireless will integrate American Express' new "Serve" digital payment and commerce platform on many of its mobile phones and tablets. Serve simplifies the online checkout experience by authenticating a mobile number, then allowing a customer to make a purchase on-screen. Verizon Wireless customers will be need to establish Serve accounts that will enable them to make payments and redeem offers for goods and services directly from their mobile...

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euNetworks Cuts Latency on London to Frankfurt Route

euNetworks Group has optimised the London to Frankfurt low latency route on its dedicated finance network. The company said it is now linking key Finance Exchanges and Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) in London to Frankfurt with a lowest one way latency of 4.29 milliseconds. Additionally, following optimisation from Slough, west of London, to Frankfurt, one way latency on this route is now 4.56 milliseconds. http://www.eunetworks....

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Level 3 Connects London Stock Exchange

Level 3 Communications now offers connectivity to its colocation facility at London Stock Exchange Group's Data Center in the City of London. The new point-of-presence (PoP) offers connectivity into Level 3's global network. http://www.Level3....

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Microsoft GFS Datacenter Tour

This video traces Microsoft's data centers since 1989 through today's high-efficient Gen 4 designs. Microsoft currently delivers over 200 cloud services to more than a billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 70 countries. http://www.youtube.com/user/MSGFST...

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Infinera and SEACOM Test 500 Gbps PICs

Infinera and SEACOM, a leading pan-African telecommunications provider, has completed testing of five 100 Gigabit per second (100 Gbps) coherent optical signals transmitted over 1732 km. The 500 Gbps trial ran over and was looped back across SEACOM's newly built 930 km Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) fiber route which links the SEACOM Mtunzini cable landing station in KwaZulu Natal to the Teraco data center in Johannesburg. The trial used Infinera's 500...

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Windstream Acquisition of Paetec Brings Greater Size, Business Reach

Windstream agreed to acquire PAETEC Holding Corp. for approximately $2.3 billion. PAETEC is a competitive local exchange carrier and provides telecommunications services primarily to business customers in 46 states and the District of Columbia. The company operates seven data centers in the U.S. and owns approximately 36,700 route miles of fiber in portions of 39 states and the District of Columbia. It has approximately 5,000 employees, including...

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Telstra Files its Structural Separation Plan

Telstra officially filed a Structural Separation Undertaking (SSU) and Migration Plan with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), paving the way for the decommission of the Telstra copper network and eventual migration of traffic onto the new fibre infrastructure of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN).The Structural Separation Undertaking (SSU) has two components:it commits Telstra to structural separation by 1 July 2018....

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Inmarsat Picks Launch Partner for Global Xpress

Inmarsat has selected International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of three Inmarsat-5 satellites for its forthcoming Global Xpress network, which promises global, mobile broadband speeds of up to 50 Mbps for users in the government, maritime, enterprise, energy and aeronautical sectors. Inmarsat is investing an estimated amount of US$1.2 billion in the Global Xpress program, which includes launch costs. The Inmarsat-5 satellites are based...

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Vitesse Appoints CFO

Vitesse Semiconductor announced the appointment of Martin S. McDermut as senior vice president, finance and chief financial officer, replacing Rich Yonker who has served as chief financial officer since 2006. McDermut was previously the managing director of Avant Advisory Group, a financial advisory and management consulting firm to entrepreneurial and middle market companies. He has also served as chief financial officer for publicly traded companies including Iris International Inc. and Superconductor Technologies Inc. http://www.vitesse....

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Huawei Appoints a High Profile Security Officer

Huawei appointed John Suffolk as its Global Cyber Security Officer. Mr. Suffolk will be based at the Huawei global headquarters in Shenzhen and will report directly to Ren Zhengfei, CEO of Huawei. He will be in charge of developing, managing and supervising Huawei's cyber security assurance strategy and system, which will be adopted by all business units across the company's global offices. Suffolk comes to Huawei from his position as Chief Information...

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mimoOn Partners with TI for Small Cell LTE Base Stations

mimoOn, which offers LTE software licensing for Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms, is working with Texas Instruments for 3GPP compliant LTE PHY software. TI will offer complete PHY software for LTE Release 8 and 9 for its' KeyStone multicore architecture, with a specific focus on its newest TMS320TCI6612 and TMS320TCI6614 System-on-Chips (SoCs). These SoCs are especially designed for small cell base stations in the enterprise, pico and metro...

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