Dell'Oro: Wireless Packet Core Market Grew 33% in Q2

Wireless packet core (WPC) market revenues grew 33% over the last year during the second quarter of 2011, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. Ericsson maintained its market share lead in revenues, followed by Huawei.The report shows that 2Q11 revenues reached over $630 million. Equipment types that are included in the WPC market include Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN), Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN), Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN)...

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Apple Wins EU Injunction Against Sales of Samsung Galaxy Smartphones

A court in the Netherlands issued a injunction prohibiting the sale of Samsung Galaxy Smartphones in the EU beginning October 3. The preliminary ruling concerns three patent infringement claims brought by Apple. The merits of the case have not yet been decided. http://www.apple.com http://www.samsung....

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Ericsson Acquires Telenor Connexion's M2M Platform

Ericsson has acquired Telenor Connexion's M2M (machine-to-machine) technology platform. The deal includes the transfer of ten employees who will continue to work with development of the service offering provided on Ericsson's Device Connection Platform. Telenor Connexion also becomes the first customer to Ericsson on the platform. No financial details about acquiring the assets have been announced.Ericsson's M2M service, the Device Connection Platform,...

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China Unicom Sees Growth in 3G and Broadband Bundled Services

China Unicom experienced continued growth in 3G subscriptions and in fixed broadband access during the first half of 2011 as the number of fixed line and PHS customers continued to decline, leading the company to report revenue of RMB 101.385 b billion, up by 22% over the same period last year. Profits came in at RMB 2.637 billion, down by 5.5% compared with the same period last year.In the first half of the year, operating cash flow was RMB 34.352...

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Altera Ships Fastest FPGAs with 28 Gbps Transceivers

Altera has begun sampling the first FPGA featuring 28-Gbps transceivers. The Stratix V GT devices, which are the highest bandwidth and highest performance FPGAs released to date, are optimized specifically for use in the latest generation of 40G/100G applications and beyond. The devices support backplane, optical module and chip-to-chip applications through four 28-Gbps transceivers, 32 full-duplex, 12.5-Gbps transceivers, and up to 4x72-bit DIMM...

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Optical Internetworking Forum Launches Next Gen Interconnect Project

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) members initiated a Next Generation Interconnect Framework project which explores various applications spaces for high speed optical and/or electrical interconnect and identifies the necessary elements for follow on implementation agreements (IA). Next gen interconnects are needed for very short reaches within the blade, longer reaches between blades (backplanes) and chassis-to-chassis. Implementations agreements...

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COMPTEL Lobbies for Amendment to ILECs' Intercarrier Compensation Plan

COMPTEL, which is an industry association representing competitive communications service providers and their supplier partners, filed comments with the FCC regarding universal service and intercarrier compensation (ICC) reform. Specifically, COMPTEL is proposing a Competitive Amendment to the ILECs' ABC Plan released in July. The amendment seeks to:Remove Uncertainty Regarding IP-to-IP Interconnection – Since the circuit-switched architecture...

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Vermont's Shoreham Deploys Positron's Aktino

Shoreham Telephone, a telecommunications company in Vermont, has deployed Positron's Aktino AK355 FlexStream platform to enable 45 - 100 Mbps of capacity over copper for Tier 1 wireless carriers. Positron said its solution was selected for its single span rate and reach. The company said it was the only solution provider to meet Shoreham's bandwidth expectations of up to 18 Kft with no repeaters (average 50 Mbps) and was unique in delivering 70 Mbps over a four mile loop with one FlexStream AIR regenerator. http://www.positronaccess.com http...

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Metaswitch Appoints CFO

Metaswitch Networks has appointed Thomas L. Cronan III as chief financial officer of the company. Stephen Halstead, currently in the role of chief financial officer, will report to Mr. Cronan. Cronan previously served as chief financial officer of Aviat Networks. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Cronan served as the senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Redback Networks Inc., where he worked closely with Kevin DeNuccio to create...

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Aviat Posts Revenue of $121 Million

Aviat Networks reported Q4FY11 revenue was $120.9 million, compared with $107.6 million in the year-ago quarter, which is at the high end of the company's prior guidance. The company reported a net loss, including discontinued operations, of $19.8 million or $(0.34) per share, compared with a net loss of $88.8 million or $(1.49) per share in the year-ago quarter. Loss from continuing operations was $6.2 million or $(0.11) per share compared with the loss from continuing operations of $80.7 million or $(1.35) per share in the year-ago quarter....

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Gulf Bridge to Launch 100 Gbps Undersea Connections

Gulf Bridge International (GBI), the Middle East's first privately-owned submarine cable operator, is planning to launch 100 Gbps connections on some segments its new network. According to regional news sources, GBI is aiming to be among the first undersea systems to go live with wholesale 100 Gbps connections. http://www.gbiinc.com In March 2011, Gulf Bridge International (GBI), the Middle East's first privately-owned submarine cable operator,...

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