TELUS Chooses Astellia for Service Assurance

TELUS has awarded a multimillion dollar contract to supply its unified service assurance system covering 3G UTRAN and Core data networks. The system incorporates Astellia's latest technology including multidimensional analytics for data. http://www.astellia.com http://www.telus....

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Huawei to Launch TV White Space LTE TDD System Trial

Huawei has begun a TV White Space (TVWS) LTE TDD system trial. The company said it gas been working on the technology for the past two years and recently completed a laboratory trial. The next phase—the system performance and interference coordination test and field trial—will be finalized in mid-2012."The LTE TDD system can take full advantage of TVWS bandwidth and enhance spectrum efficiency," said Mr. Tan Zhu, director of wireless strategy department, Huawei. "We have seen that our TVWS LTE TDD system offers broader coverage and fewer sites,...

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Verizon Sees Continued Gains in Smartphones and FiOS

Verizon Communications reported quarterly revenues of $27.9 billion on a consolidated basis, an increase of 5.4 percent compared with third-quarter 2010. Driven by Verizon Wireless and continued growth in FiOS and strategic business services,Verizon posted 49 cents in EPS in the quarter, compared with 23 cents per share in third-quarter 2010."Verizon emerges from the third quarter in a strong position to accelerate growth," said Lowell McAdam, Verizon...

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Rostelcom Tests Huawei's 100G from Moscow to Samara

Rostelecom, the leading fixed network operator in Russia, has completed a coherent 100G trail on a 1,033 kilometer stretch of it's live network between the cities of Moscow and Samara using Huawei's platform. This route is one of the busiest in Rostelcom's network.Huawei's 100G uses ePDM-QPSK (enhanced Polarization Division Multiplexing Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) and is able to perform well in both anti-nonlinearity and ultra-long haul transmission....

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