Avago Sees Continued Revenue Gains

Avago Technologies reported net quarterly revenue of $603 million, an increase of 8 percent compared with the previous quarter, and up 10 percent from the same quarter last year. Gross margin was $297 million, or 49.3 percent of net revenue. This compares with gross margin of $275 million, or 49.1 percent of net revenue last quarter, and gross margin of $263 million, or 47.8 percent of net revenue in the same quarter last year."During the third quarter...

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WSJ: Sprint to Sell iPhone from October

Sprint will begin selling the iPhone 5 in mid-October, according to The Wall Street Journal. AT&T and Verizon Wireless are expected to get the device in the same time frame. None of the companies commented directly on the report. http://www.wsj....

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Motorola Spins Out Orthogon and Canopy Businesses as Cambium Networks

Motorola Solutions announced a deal to sell its Point-to-Point (PTP or Orthogon) and Point-to-Multipoint (PMP or Canopy) Wireless Broadband Networks businesses to Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Financial terms were not disclosed.The Motorola PTP and PMP businesses will operate as an independent company under a new name -- Cambium Networks. The new Cambium Networks will continue to supply unlicensed and licensed solutions that...

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Siklu Brings its Millimeter Wave Radios to North America

Siklu Wireless, a start-up based in Petach Tikva, Israel, announced its entrance into the North American market.The flagship Siklu EtherHaul E-band radio operates in the licensed 71-76/81-86GHz portion of the spectrum and delivers 1 Gbps capacity. http://www.siklu....

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Spreadtrum Cites Leadership in TD-SCDMA

Having secured design wins for its TD-SCDMA chips with both tier-1 OEM handset manufacturers and independent design houses serving the Chinese market, Spreadtrum Communications announced that it has achieved a leadership position in China's TD-SCDMA market. The company claims to have more than 50% market share of TD-SCDMA shipments in the first half of the year, according to numbers from IHS iSuppli. Spreadtrum expects TD-SCDMA uptake to accelerate in the second half of 2011, bringing the overall market from 34 million units shipped in 2010 to...

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LightSquared Signs Another LTE Wholesale Customer - InterGlobe

LightSquared announced a multi-year wholesale agreement with InterGlobe Communications, a business integrated service provider primarily serving the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania region.InterGlobe, a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC), will become a wholesale customer on LightSquared's 4G-LTE network. InterGlobe will add high-speed mobile data and satellite services to its range of business communications solutions that include VoIP, high-speed Internet, video teleconferencing and IP telephony services offered to its growing number...

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Xtera Selected for GOKI Pacific Cable System

AT&T has contracted Xtera Communications and Kokusai Cable Ship Co. to build the GOKI (Guam, Okinawa, Kyushu, Incheon) submarine cable system.Xtera will provide project management, system design, system integration and the Submarine Line Terminal Equipment (SLTE). Kokusai Cable Ship Co., Ltd. (KCS) will recover and re-lay portions of Transpacific-5 (TPC-5) and a retired regional submarine cable, as well as supply new cable and submerged equipment that will become part of the new solution.Xtera and KCS will partner to build the 4200 km GOKI...

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Alaska's Matanuska Telephone Deploys ADTRAN

Matanuska Telephone Association, a leading provider of communications services for south-central Alaska, has selected ADTRAN for its network. The initial deployments were focused on the delivery of voice, high-speed data and IPTV services, followed soon thereafter by FTTP for delivery of high-bandwidth services for schools and residential customers. "As a service provider in a very competitive market, the ability to add new and advanced services easily can be the difference between growing our business or handing it over to the competition,"...

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China Telecom Sees Faster Growth in Mobiles, Steady Growth in Fixed Broadband

China Telecom reported a surge in 3G subscriptions, continued fast growth in fixed line broadband and a steady loss of traditional access lines. Growth in mobile subscriptions is about 3X the growth in wireline broadband lines. The growth rate in mobile revenue (50%) is even higher than for fixed Internet access (13%)For the first six months of 2011, China Telecom posted operating revenues of RMB 120.1 billion, up by 11.7%. "In the first half of...

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Cisco Introduces Machine-to-Machine Gateway Router

Cisco introduced a gateway router designed to extends corporate 3G/4G wireless WAN network services to small devices in challenging environments far beyond the confines of headquarters. The Cisco 819 Integrated Services Router (ISR) Machine-to-Machine Gateway brings networking capabilities into non-traditional IP devices for machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity. Cisco estimates that technologies such as the Cisco 819 ISR will help connect more...

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Ethernet Alliance Hosts Energy Efficient Ethernet Plugfest

The Ethernet Alliance hosted six companies during an Energy Efficient Ethernet subcommittee interoperability plugfest held earlier this month: Broadcom, Intel, LSI, Marvell Technology Group Ltd., Qualcomm Atheros and Vitesse Semiconductor.The plugfest, which was hosted at the UNH-IOL, the Interoperability Lab at the University of New Hampshire, was intended to verify interoperability of EEE devices that support the 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T EEE...

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Zain Saudi Arabia Selects Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS

Zain Saudi Arabia has selected Alcatel-Lucent's IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to respond to the sharp increase in bandwidth requirements and to keep pace with subscribers' demands. As part of this project, Alcatel-Lucent is deploying its 7750 Service Router (SR) and 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR) along with the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) and the Alcatel-Lucent 5650 Control Plane Assurance Manager (CPAM). Zain...

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6connect Secures Funding for IPv6 Transition Tools

6connect, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, secured $2 million in a Series A financing for its IPv4 to IPv6 network automation platform.6connect, which was founded in 2009, offers a suite of software tools for migrating to and managing IPv6. Clients in production with 6connect IP address management, Domain Name Server (DNS) and peering automation tools include Tier 1 ISPs, global Enterprises, and international organizations.The funding...

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