Orange and China Telecom Announce Partnership

Orange and China Telecom signed a strategic partnership framework agreement in Beijing. The first areas of cooperation involve providing improved access and services for Orange's business customers in China and China Telecom's in Europe; improved access to international cable networks for both parties; and providing WiFi roaming services for both parties' customers.The agreement, which may be extended to other areas at a later date, covers cooperation...

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Fujitsu Develops 10G PON Amplifier Supporting 128 Split, 40km Reach

Fujitsu has developed new optical amplifier technology with the potential to quadruple the number of splits and double the transmission distance for PON optical access systems. Fujitsu and Fujitsu Laboratories have developed a burst-mode optical amplifier technology with a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), an integrated SOA-array module fabrication technology, and an SOA chip fabrication technology enabling uncooled operation. The company...

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Ericsson: Mobile Data Traffic Doubled from Q2 2010 to Q2 2011

Mobile data traffic from the second quarter of 2010 to the second quarter of 2011, according to findings of a new measurement from Ericsson to be released as part of Akamai's The State of the Internet report.Ericsson measured mobile broadband traffic volumes at four different operators in mature markets in Europe, Asia and North America.Another key finding of the study is that factors including screen size, age and price of the smartphone have a...

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Italy's FASTWEB Deploys 100G DWDM with NSN

FASTWEB is deploying 100G channel optical transmission links between Milan and Rome. The network will be capable of carrying 40 wavelengths at 100G each.The deployment uses Nokia Siemens Networks' hiT 7300 optical network platform and its network management system for planning and automation. The hiT 7300 platform will ensure cost savings by either adopting no dispersion compensation (DCM-free) techniques on new fiber or simply by utilizing the operator's...

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