Nokia Siemens Networks Global Network Operations Center in Russia

Nokia Siemens Networks has inaugurated its Global Network Operations Center (GNOC) located in Voronezh, Russia. The new center will help telecom operators across Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to improve the speed, quality and efficiency of their services. The facility is designed to manage multi-vendor networks with hundreds of thousands of network elements. http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.c...

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BATS and DragonWave Develop Massive-Capacity, Auto Aiming & Tracking Wireless Systems

Broadband Antenna Tracking Systems (BATS) and DragonWave announced an auto-aiming and tracking wireless system that enables high-capacity backhaul for fixed-to-mobile and mobile-to-mobile applications. The joint solution integrates BATS' automatic antenna aiming and tracking technology with DragonWave's Horizon packet microwave solutions.BATS' auto-aiming and tracking system uses proprietary search patterns and predictive algorithms to automatically...

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Pulse Electronics Offers Vehicle Navigation Antenna with LTE

Pulse Electronics introduced a vehicular mount antenna supporting LTE, 3G, WLAN, and GPS applications. The antenna offers optimized gain over multiple frequency bands. Wider frequency bands (698-960/1710-2170/2300-2700/1575 MHz) are covered in one small, compact 3.5�? (88.3mm) tall, 4.16�? (105.7mm) diameter at base antenna. Pulse said this antenna is ideal for voice, mobile data, fixed broadband, navigation, asset tracking, fleet management, LTE,...

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Sprint Expands Ethernet Access to 25 New Markets

Sprint announced an expansion of its Ethernet access service to 65 markets by the end of 2011, up from 40 U.S. markets today, as well as 37 countries globally. Sprint has enhanced its service by adding new and dedicated speeds to current aggregated speeds, with ranges of 2 Mbps to 10 Gbps, subject to market availability. Businesses can now select from 18 aggregated speeds and 16 dedicated speeds, choosing the port speeds that best fit their network...

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MegaPath Targets Ethernet Services from 680 COs by June 2012

MegaPath, the new local exchange carrier formed through the merger of Speakeasy, Covad Communications and MegaPath, has partnered with ADTRAN for the nationwide expansion of its Ethernet network. MegaPath has over 200 central offices currently in service with plans to offer services in a total of 400 central offices by the end of 2011 and more than 680 central offices by June 2012. ADTRAN is supplying MegaPath with its flagship Total Access 5000,...

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Sensory Networks Releases DPI Software for Cavium's Octeon II Processors

Sensory Networks announced availability of its HyperScan engine with optimized support for the OCTEON II MIPS64 multi-core processor series from Cavium. The new release of HyperScan supports dual-core to 32-core OCTEON II processors, and when benchmarked with a database of complex regular expressions, targeted at intrusion prevention from a tier-1 equipment vendor, delivered Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) throughput of 3Gbps using just two OCTEON...

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Eutelsat's Tooway Satellite Broadband Extends into Turkey

Eutelsat Communications and Eser Telekom announced a three-year distribution agreement valued at EUR 5 million to provide the new generation Tooway satellite broadband service in Turkey, Iraq, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Eser Telekom will use the Tooway service, delivered via Eutelsat's KA-SAT satellite, to provide high-speed broadband to enterprises and consumers beyond reach of terrestrial networks across the region. Eser Telekom is also planning KA-SAT-based...

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Sunrise Telecom Enhances its Cable Plant Maintenance Analyzers

Sunrise Telecom announced the addition of several key new features to its CM3 Series of plant maintenance analyzers. These new features include full DOCSIS 3.0 capability and a unique, one-button proof-of-performance (POP) feature for assuring a simple and seamless validation of required network compliance to stringent FCC standards .The CM3 Series updates incorporate a broad array of gated measurements including composite carrier noise (CCN), composite...

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Service Interoperability for EPON (IEEE P1904.1) Reaches Milestone

A draft IEEE P1904.1 Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (SIEPON) standard has reached Working Group ballot stage, representing a significant milestone for multi-vendor, "plug-and-play" interoperability in EPON systems. The IEEE P1904.1 SIEPON draft standard covers both 1G-EPON and 10G-EPON and describes the transport, service, and control planes. IEEE P1904.1 SIEPON offers clear-cut guidance to component manufacturers,...

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AT&T Launches Wi-Fi Hotzone in Palo Alto

AT&T activated a Wi-Fi Hot Zone n Palo Alto's University Avenue, the heart of the city's popular retail, entertainment and restaurants near Stanford University. The Wi-Fi hot zone covers the 300 block to the 500 block of University Avenue, which consistently sees high customer traffic and mobile data use.Palo Alto is the sixth major market where AT&T has launched Wi-Fi hotzones, following locations in San Francisco, New York City, Charlotte,...

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NetLogic's 28nm XLP Packs up to 80 Cores, Scales to 640 Core System

NetLogic Microsystems unveiled its next generation of XLP II family of processors based on 28nm process technology, packing up to 80 high-performance NXCPUs per chip, and promising 5-7x performance enhancement over the existing XLP processors. Target applications for the new multi-core devices include next-generation LTE mobile infrastructure, data center, enterprise networking, storage and security platforms. NetLogic said its XLP II processor...

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