Eighteen Operators Have Launched LTE in 2011 So Far, Including 3 TDD

The GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) raised its forecast for commercial LTE network launches and is now predicting 100 network launches by end of 2012. Currently, 35 commercial LTE networks are in operation in 21 countries.GSA now counts185 firm commercial LTE network deployments, 64% higher than a year ago, are in progress or planned in 66 countries, including 35 networks now commercially launched. Another 63 operators in 21 additional...

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Telstra Shareholder to Vote Tuesday on NBN Decommissioning Course

Shareholders in Telstra are expected to vote on Tuesday on the historic pact with the Australian government regarding Telstra's role in the National Broadband Network.Telstra's Structural Separation Undertaking (SSU) and Migration Plan has two components: it commits Telstra to structural separation by 1 July 2018. This will occur through the progressive disconnection of fixed voice and broadband services on Telstra's copper and HFC networks, and...

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Level 3 Sets New IP Peering Policy

Level 3 Communications posted a revised peering policy for IP traffic exchanged within the United States. The company said that one fundamental aspect of the new policy is a requirement that carriers adjust routing practices and interconnection locations so that the distance and volume of traffic carried by each party on their backbone network remains equitable.The revised policy sets forth four overarching principles that Level 3 believes should...

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FCC Chairman Announces Public-Private Broadband Adoption Initiative

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced a national public-private partnership program that seeks to overcome the chief obstacles that have prevented one-third of all Americans – 100 million people from adopting broadband high-speed Internet at home. These obstacles are digital literacy, relevance and cost.The FCC will work with public libraries and schools across the country on programs to boost digital literacy, especially among the elderly,...

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Lantiq Brings HD Voice Quality to 2.4 GHz Cordless Home Phones

Lantiq has expanded its family of single-chip solutions for advanced cordless home telephony with a new 2.4 GHz COSIC WDCT device for DECT phones targeted at Asia-Pacific countries and emerging markets that use this unlicensed frequency range. It supports wideband voice and low-rate data services (similar to European CAT-iq™ feature-set) to make the cordless phone a value-added component of a digital home. The device's wideband coding and transmission and advanced acoustic echo cancellation results in brilliant HD voice quality for conversation...

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LightSquared Signs Aircado for Towns and Small Cities

LightSquared signed a wholesale wireless broadband agreement wit Aircado, which is targeting smaller towns and cities across the country. Aircado serves "micropolitan" towns and cities with populations of 10,000-100,000."With LightSquared's nationwide 4G-LTE network, we can implement our unique community-based business model and deliver wireless broadband services to small but important towns throughout America," said Loren Wengerd, Aircado CEO. "LightSquared's network and attractive wholesale-only economics allow us to advance the delivery of...

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IP Smart Object Interoperability Event Held in Silicon Valley

The IPSO Alliance hosted a multi-vendor IP Smart Object interoperability event in Santa Clara, California to implementations of 6LoWPAN, IPv6, and COAP, the new protocol being developed by the IETF for embedded devices.During the interop event, devices using multiple different communications technologies including 802.15.4, 802.15.4e and powerline communications (PLC) shared command and control information directly between devices at the event, as...

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Verizon Wireless' Test Fleet Adds 4G Monitoring Equipment

The fleet of test vehicles operated by Verizon Wireless is being equipped with 4G testing and monitoring equipment to encompass all of the major operating networks in the U.S. today. Specifically, the field testers are using testing equipment from Ascom to perform mobile data tests on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network as it continues to roll out across the country. The collected data will be used to measure network performance, benchmark against...

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BlackBerry Blackout Expands on its Third Day

Research in Motion suffered a third day of disruption to its BlackBerry service with outages and slowdowns expanding to the United States, Canada and corporate networks. RIM's CIO Robin Bienfait began posting regular updates on the crisis, stating that traffic is now moving through the network and that the company hope to restore normal service levels soon. No technical details on the cause of the disruption has been confirmed apart from a switch...

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Pacific Crossing and Infinera Complete 100G Subsea Trial -- 9,500km

Infinera and Pacific Crossing, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications, have completed a 100 Gbps trial using the PC-1 transpacific submarine cable system. The test spanned more than 9,500 kilometers from California to Japan. Infinera said this trial demonstrates the unique ability to deliver two industry firsts. The 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) demonstration was the first transmission of a 100 GbE client service carried across the Pacific using 40 Gbps optical channels with Infinera's FlexCoherent transmission. The success of this trial...

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Clearwire -- 29% Sequential Growth in Wholesale Subscribers

Clearwire updated its guidance for the financial community noting strong growth in wholesale 4G subscribers during Q3. The new figures:Record quarterly revenues of approximately $332 million are expected for the third quarter 2011, representing an increase of approximately 126% year over year.Net wholesale subscriber additions are expected to total a record 1.9 million for third quarter 2011, representing approximately 29% sequential growth in ending...

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Crossbeam's 6th Generation Blades Scale Security to 640 Gbps per Platform

Crossbeam Systems introduced sixth generation network processing blades and a major upgrade to its X-Series Operating System (XOS 9.6), enabling its network security platform to scale up for the security performance requirements of 4G mobile network operators. The Crossbeam X-Series security platform can now scale to cope with 100 million concurrent IP connections and 640 Gbps of full duplex network connectivity.Crossbeam's blades combine Intel core...

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Internet2 & ESnet Activate Transcontinental 100G

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and Internet2 have activated transcontinental 100 Gbps links using coherent technology. The network, which uses Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, now has 100 Gbps optical backbone connections operational between New York, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Sunnyvale spanning a distance nearly 4000 miles. "This new coast-to-coast capacity...

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