ADTRAN Lands Active-Ethernet FTTH Contract in Alabama

MonCre Telephone Cooperative (MonCre), a telephony, broadband and internet service provider based in Ramer, Alabama, has selected ADTRAN for a complete network migration to Active Ethernet-based Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) services. When the upgrade is complete, MonCre will have approximately doubled its network capacity to support high-bandwidth triple-play and Ethernet services to 100% of its residential and business customers in Montgomery, Crenshaw, Pike and Bullock counties. The deployment will use the ADTRAN Total Access 5000's Active Ethernet...

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Alvarion Sees Q3 Decline, Hit by Open Range's Chapter 11

Alvarion reported Q3 revenues of $47.0 million, a decrease of 15.2% from $55.4 million in the second quarter of 2011, and a decrease of 13.0% from $54.0 million in the third quarter of 2010. GAAP net loss in the third quarter of 2011 was ($7.5) million, or ($0.12) per share, including charges of approximately $7.1 million related to the bankruptcy filing of Open Range Communications."Our Q3 results were in line with our expectations and we again reported a non-GAAP operating profit as well as a non-GAAP net profit," said Eran Gorev, President and...

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Alvarion to Acquire Wavion for Outdoor Wi-Fi

Alvarion agreed to acquire privately-held Wavion, an Israel-based developer of carrier-grade WiFi solutions, for approximately $30 million in cash, including an assumed earn-out. Wavion supplies WBS omni-direction and sector base stations, which operate at 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 700 MHz. Wavion leverages two-way spatially adaptive beamforming and Multiple Input Multiple Output ( MIMO) technologies. The company's revenues for the last twelve months were approximately $16 million. Alvarion said the acquisition marks another milestone in its plan of...

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Clearwire Adds 1.9 Million 4G Users in Q3

Clearwire reported continued demand for its 4G services as it reported record adds and revenue. Clearwire added 1.89 million total net new subscribers in Q3, comprised of 35 thousand retail and 1.86 million wholesale net new subscribers. The company ended third quarter 2011 with approximately 9.54 million total subscribers, up 240% from 2.81 million subscribers in third quarter 2010. The subscriber base consists of 1.32 million retail subscribers...

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Sprint Lawsuit vs AT&T + T-Mobile to Proceed

A U.S. District court judge has ruled that Sprint's lawsuit seeking to block the AT&T + T-Mobile deal does have grounds to proceed. AT&T had sought to have the case thrown out. http://www.sprint.comIn September, Sprint filed its own lawsuit in federal court in the District of Columbia seeking to block AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA. Sprint cited Section 7 of the Clayton Act, arguing that the deal would hurt consumers, as well as Sprint and other independent operators....

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ADTRAN Lands Active-Ethernet FTTH Contract in Alabama

MonCre Telephone Cooperative (MonCre), a telephony, broadband and internet service provider based in Ramer, Alabama, has selected ADTRAN for a complete network migration to Active Ethernet-based Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) services. When the upgrade is complete, MonCre will have approximately doubled its network capacity to support high-bandwidth triple-play and Ethernet services to 100% of its residential and business customers in Montgomery, Crenshaw, Pike and Bullock counties. The deployment will use the ADTRAN Total Access 5000's Active Ethernet...

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Alvarion Sees Q3 Decline, Hit by Open Range's Chapter 11

Alvarion reported Q3 revenues of $47.0 million, a decrease of 15.2% from $55.4 million in the second quarter of 2011, and a decrease of 13.0% from $54.0 million in the third quarter of 2010. GAAP net loss in the third quarter of 2011 was ($7.5) million, or ($0.12) per share, including charges of approximately $7.1 million related to the bankruptcy filing of Open Range Communications."Our Q3 results were in line with our expectations and we again reported a non-GAAP operating profit as well as a non-GAAP net profit," said Eran Gorev, President and...

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Alvarion to Acquire Wavion for Outdoor Wi-Fi

Alvarion agreed to acquire privately-held Wavion, an Israel-based developer of carrier-grade WiFi solutions, for approximately $30 million in cash, including an assumed earn-out. Wavion supplies WBS omni-direction and sector base stations, which operate at 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 700 MHz. Wavion leverages two-way spatially adaptive beamforming and Multiple Input Multiple Output ( MIMO) technologies. The company's revenues for the last twelve months were approximately $16 million. Alvarion said the acquisition marks another milestone in its plan of...

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Clearwire Adds 1.9 Million 4G Users in Q3

Clearwire reported continued demand for its 4G services as it reported record adds and revenue. Clearwire added 1.89 million total net new subscribers in Q3, comprised of 35 thousand retail and 1.86 million wholesale net new subscribers. The company ended third quarter 2011 with approximately 9.54 million total subscribers, up 240% from 2.81 million subscribers in third quarter 2010. The subscriber base consists of 1.32 million retail subscribers...

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Sprint Lawsuit vs AT&T + T-Mobile to Proceed

A U.S. District court judge has ruled that Sprint's lawsuit seeking to block the AT&T + T-Mobile deal does have grounds to proceed. AT&T had sought to have the case thrown out. http://www.sprint.comIn September, Sprint filed its own lawsuit in federal court in the District of Columbia seeking to block AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA. Sprint cited Section 7 of the Clayton Act, arguing that the deal would hurt consumers, as well as Sprint and other independent operators....

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TeliaSonera Tests Infinera's Terabit Optical Transport

TeliaSonera International Carrier has completed a test of Infinera's Terabit optical transmission based on 500 Gbps super-channels. The demonstration spanned 1,105 kilometers of fiber between Los Angeles and San Jose, California and used elements of the new Infinera DTN-X platform. The test added a terabit of capacity to a route carrying 300 Gb/s of production capacity. “Our vision is to offer customers leading-edge services that efficiently scale their business. As 10 Gb/s services proliferate and 100 Gb/s router ports emerge, we are trialing...

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ADVA Optical Networking: Introducing 100G Metro

Stephan Rettenberger discusses 100G Metro and examines how this industry first is about to alter today's metropolitan networks. http://www.advaoptical.com In September, ADVA Optical Networking introduced a 100G Metro blade for its FSP 3000 DWDM platform promising competitive pricing compared with 10x 10G solutions. The new solution offers efficient 100 Gbps data transport across distances of up to 500km for service providers or large enterprises. The...

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Sprint Begins Selling AirWalk's Enterprise Femtocell

Sprint has begun reselling AirWalk's enterprise femtocell as part of its own in-building solutions product portfolio. The product branded Sprint AIRAVE Pro Connect is available for Sprint's Custom Network Solutions customers to accommodate the rapid growth of indoor mobile traffic. AIRAVE Pro Connect is the world's first enterprise-grade CDMA femtocell.Building on Sprint's ongoing relationship with Ericsson for Sprint Network Advantage and Sprint...

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Radisys video: Building Blocks for Small Cells, VoLTE and DPI

Radisys' CTO Manish Singh discusses the transformation underway following the acquisition of Continuous Computing and key trends in heterogeneous networks, Voice over LTE, and DPI carrier systems. http://www.radisys....

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Broadcom Spins New EPON OLT System-On-Chip

Broadcom introduced its BCM55524 Quad Port Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) Optical Line Terminal (OLT), packing twice the density and power per port of its existing EPON OLT system-on-a-chip (SoC). The new SoC combines the functionality of up to seven application-specific standard parts (ASSPs) and eliminates seven on-board memory devices, dramatically reducing system costs by up to 50 percent. The BCM55524 quad OLT is designed to work...

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Cambium Networks Takes Flight -- a Spin-out from Motorola Solutions

Cambium Networks, previously Motorola Solutions' Point-to-Point (PTP or Orthogon) and Point-to-Multipoint (PMP or Canopy) Wireless Broadband Networks division, has begun operations as an independent company. Cambium offers a portfolio of fixed wireless high-speed backhaul and access solutions for a wide range of customers and industries, including Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs), enterprises, utilities, municipalities, public safety...

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GSMA Video: $1.2 Trillion M2M Opportunity in 2020

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, which was backed by AT&T, Deutsche Bank, KT, Telenor Connexion and Vodafone, and developed...

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Traffix Systems Raises $7 Million for Diameter Network Signaling

Traffix Systems, a start-up based in Israel with offices in Freehold Township, New Jersey, secured $7 million in financing for its next-generation, network signaling solutions. The Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller (SDC) enables carriers to maximize network performance with routing, load balancing and gateways solutions based Diameter signaling. Diameter can be used to enable Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) management for...

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Qualcomm Sees Continued Gains in Smartphones, Sales Up 39% YoY

Qualcomm reported quarterly sales of $4.12 billion, up 39 percent year-over-year (y-o-y) and 14 percent sequentially, Net income was$1.06 billion, up 22 percent y-o-y and 2 percent sequentially.During the quarter, CDMA-based Mobile Station Modem (MSM) shipments reached 127 million units, up 14 percent y-o-y and 6 percent sequentially.The company currently holds $20.9 billion in cash, up from $18.4 billion a year ago.“I am very pleased with our performance...

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