Altair Partners with ZTE on AXGP TDD-LTE Silicon for Japan

Altair Semiconductor has teamed up with ZTE to conduct a joint AXGP trial in Japan. AXGP stands for "Advanced eXtended Global Platform," and is a Japanese 4G standard that is fully compliant with the TD-LTE specification. The trial combines Altair's commercial FourGee LTE chipset and ZTE's infrastructure and is being performed in conjunction with a large Japanese carrier. Altair is rapidly extending its footprint in the Japanese market, having recently...

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Tennessee's Twin Lakes Picks ADTRAN

Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corp., Tennessee's largest telephone cooperative, has selected ADTRAN's extensive broadband portfolio and Advanced Operational Environment (AOE) services management solution for use throughout its network. Twin Lakes will use a Broadband Stimulus award to reach over 12,000 business and residential customers with IPTV and high-speed service via Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH). In addition, the service provider is also expanding the use of the ADTRAN solutions for high-bandwidth mobile backhaul applications. http://www...

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F5 Expands its BIG-IP Application Delivery Controllers

F5 Networks has expanded its range of Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solutions with a new BIG-IP 11000 platform specifically designed for high levels of throughput for application acceleration and data center-to-data center replication. The new platform boasts up to 20 Gbps of LAN-side throughput, 16 Gbps of hardware compression, and optional solid-state drives. F5 is also introducing Federal Information Processing Standard-compliant Hardware...

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NTT Com Activates Low-Latency POP with Chicago Mercantile Exchange

NTT Com will begin providing its ultra-low latency Arcstar services at the western Chicago suburb co-location data center of the CME Group, which operates large derivatives and futures exchanges in Chicago and New York City, as well as online trading platforms. The CME Group was formed through the merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). NTT Com's service will allow CME Co-Location Services customers premier access to the Asian markets. http://www.us.ntt....

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Emerson Wins $100 Million Contract for Australia's NBN

Emerson Network Power has been selected by the National Broadband Network Company (NBNCo) to design, supply, install, and commission 10 network facilities centers across Australia as part of the rollout of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN). The contact is valued in excess of $100 million.Emerson will supply it full product suite, including high-efficiency power systems (Trinergy and ASCO); Liebert precision cooling systems and SmartAisle...

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GSMA Sees a US$1.2 Trillion Opportunity for Service Providers with Connected Devices

The GSMA calculates that the number of total connected devices will increase from approximately 9 billion today to more than 24 billion in 2020, and within that, mobile connected devices will grow 100 percent from more than 6 billion today to 12 billion in 2020. This will create an addressable revenue opportunity for mobile operators of nearly US$1.2 trillion by 2020, a sevenfold increase from expected revenues in 2011, according to the GSMA study,...

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BlackBerry Suffers Outage Across Europe, Middle East & Africa

Research In Motion's BlackBerry service suffered a widespread outage affecting millions of users on multiple networks across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa. News reports cited a problem originating at a data center in England. The service was gradually restored after several hours. http://www.rim.c...

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Verizon Wireless to Activate LTE in 22 More Cities on Oct 20

Verizon Wireless will turn on its 4G LTE network in 22 new cities and expand the network in four cities on Oct. 20, and will turn on the 4G LTE network in 13 cities and expand in five cities on Nov. 17. This means the Verizon Wireless LTE network will be in 178 cities across the U.S. by mid-November. Verizon Wireless is now supporting 13 4G LTE-enabled devices. http://www.verizonwireless....

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Broadcom Develops 100 Mbps Ethernet PHY for Cars

Broadcom introduced a physical layer transceiver (PHY) for automotive networks. The Broadcom BroadR-Reach BCM89810 PHY is designed for 100 Mbps Ethernet connectivity over unshielded single twisted pair wiring in vehicles. It performs all of the physical layer functions for encoded Ethernet packets over unshielded copper wire and is fully compliant with RGMII and MII interface specifications, providing compatibility with other Ethernet devices within the vehicle. http://www.broadcom....

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Huawei Shows 40G PON Prototype with 1:512 Split Ratio

Huawei announced a prototype PON platform that delivers 40 Gbps downstream and 10 Gbps upstream. The system, which has been tested and certified by the China Telecom Beijing Research Institute, supports a 1:512 optical splitting ratio and a transmission reach of 20 kilometers. “Huawei's 40G PON system is highly compatible with existing GPON and XGPON systems and its transmission convergence layer maximally leverages existing GPON and XGPON structures,�?...

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AT&T Upgrades Manhattan Networks

AT&T added and/or upgraded 130 cell sites across Manhattan this summer, including sites in the Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Morningside Heights, East Harlem, Central Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood.AT&T noted that it also plans to install additional radio carriers at more than 30,000 cell sites nationally this year, enabling new layers of spectrum capacity to carry larger volumes of mobile broadband traffic. http://www.att....

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MSF: Progress in Voice-over-LTE

Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is making progress with multiple vendors now demonstrating interoperable platforms and major carriers demonstrating successful interconnects. Last month, the MSF (MultiService Forum), backed by the GSMA, hosted a VoLTE Interoperability Event held simultaneously in Dusseldorf, Germany and Beijing, China. VoLTE calls were successfully completed within each host site (including MMTel services) as well as between the host sites...

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ZTE Wins TDD Contract with Japan's WCP

Wireless City Planning, a new wholesale mobile network operator in Japan led by SOFTBANK, has selected ZTE to supply radio access equipment based on AXGP (Advanced eXtended Global Platform) -- a technology similar to TD-LTE -- to build its next-generation mobile network in Japan. ZTE was chosen by WCP as its primary strategic partner for China Mobile, Hutchison Whampoa and KPN . We have chosen ZTE, the world's leading telecommunications equipment provider, as our partner to build the world's largest TDD network. We hope that ZTE can maintain its...

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Openreach Selects ADVA FSP 3000

Openreach, the infrastructure division of BT Group, has selected ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000 as the foundation for its new Optical Spectrum Access product (OSA) within its Optical Spectrum portfolio. Openreach will use the ADVA FSP 3000 to transport enormous amounts of data throughout the U.K. securely and with the lowest latency possible. Applications include data center connectivity for cloud and virtualized services, business continuity...

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Ukraine's Eurotranstelecom Deploys 100G with Ciena

Ukrainian-based Eurotranstelecom has commercially deployed 100G technology in its nationwide backbone network covering the key regions in Ukraine and linking it to Russian, Polish, Hungarian and Slovakian networks. The deployment uses Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform equipped with WaveLogic Coherent Optical Processors.The first 100G link is 560 km long and connects the capital Kiev to Kharkov in the northeast of the country. ETT plans to extend its 100G network to major Ukrainian regional centers such as Lvov, Donetsk, Odessa, and Dnepropetrovsk,...

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