Ericsson's Capital Markets Day: Holding Steady

Ericsson is forecasting that the market for service provider network equipment will grow at a 3% to 5% CAGR from 2010-2013 from a base of USD 94 billion in 2010. The market for mobile network equipment is expected to be a little faster at 6% to 8% CAGR over this same period.While the demand for mobile broadband is surging worldwide and the industry in in the early stages of upgrading infrastructure for 4G, Ericsson cautioned that service provider...

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National Emergency Alert Test Reveals Problems

At 2p ET on Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the FCC, NOAA and communications service providers conducted the first-ever nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System. The test, which did not include mobile networks or social media sites, suffered numerous other gaps in quickly distributing the test message from the White House to TV and radio networks. FEMA said it will take several weeks to analyze the results. http://www.fema.g...

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China Unicom Picks Alcatel-Lucent for GPON in 29 Provinces

China Unicom has selected Alcatel-Lucent for one of the largest fiber broadband access networks to date in China. China Unicom plans to extend its broadband access network with GPON technology in 29 provinces using Alcatel-Lucent's 7360 Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) FX – the company's highest capacity fiber access platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.“This project represents another major milestone in the rapid expansion of broadband in China. It also demonstrates our strong and growing leadership position in the FTTx market...

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China Telecom and China Unicom Face Monopoly Inquiry

China Telecom and China Unicom reportedly are being investigated by China's National Development and Reform Commission for anti-competitive practices, including blocking the entrance of new players. http://www.shanghaidaily....

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FCC and Cable Operators Announce $10/Month Connect Plan

The FCC and leading NCTA cable operators announced a plan to offer all eligible families two-years of $9.95 + tax broadband cable Internet, with a no installation/activation fee option and no modem rental fees (with an option to purchase a $10 modem). The Connect to Compete initiative aims to close the digital divide. One-third of all Americans – 100 million people – haven't adopted broadband at home, according to FCC stats.The program has an in-kind value of more than $2.5 billion if all eligible families take the offer, which represent on average...

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Ericsson's Capital Markets Day: Holding Steady

Ericsson is forecasting that the market for service provider network equipment will grow at a 3% to 5% CAGR from 2010-2013 from a base of USD 94 billion in 2010. The market for mobile network equipment is expected to be a little faster at 6% to 8% CAGR over this same period.While the demand for mobile broadband is surging worldwide and the industry in in the early stages of upgrading infrastructure for 4G, Ericsson cautioned that service provider...

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National Emergency Alert Test Reveals Problems

At 2p ET on Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the FCC, NOAA and communications service providers conducted the first-ever nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System. The test, which did not include mobile networks or social media sites, suffered numerous other gaps in quickly distributing the test message from the White House to TV and radio networks. FEMA said it will take several weeks to analyze the results. http://www.fema.g...

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China Unicom Picks Alcatel-Lucent for GPON in 29 Provinces

China Unicom has selected Alcatel-Lucent for one of the largest fiber broadband access networks to date in China. China Unicom plans to extend its broadband access network with GPON technology in 29 provinces using Alcatel-Lucent's 7360 Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) FX – the company's highest capacity fiber access platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.“This project represents another major milestone in the rapid expansion of broadband in China. It also demonstrates our strong and growing leadership position in the FTTx market...

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China Telecom and China Unicom Face Monopoly Inquiry

China Telecom and China Unicom reportedly are being investigated by China's National Development and Reform Commission for anti-competitive practices, including blocking the entrance of new players. http://www.shanghaidaily....

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FCC and Cable Operators Announce $10/Month Connect Plan

The FCC and leading NCTA cable operators announced a plan to offer all eligible families two-years of $9.95 + tax broadband cable Internet, with a no installation/activation fee option and no modem rental fees (with an option to purchase a $10 modem). The Connect to Compete initiative aims to close the digital divide. One-third of all Americans – 100 million people – haven't adopted broadband at home, according to FCC stats.The program has an in-kind value of more than $2.5 billion if all eligible families take the offer, which represent on average...

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Deca Technologies Targets Wafer Level Chip Packaging

Deca Technologies, a start based in Tempe, Arizona, announced its entrance into the market for wafer level chip scale packaging (WLCSP) services for the semiconductor industry. The company will leverage the solar wafer manufacturing methods of SunPower Corp. and the financial, operational and manufacturing support from Cypress Semiconductor.Deca's initial products include a series of WLCSP (Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging) derivatives targeted at...

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Cloudera Raises $40 Million for Big Data Apache Hadoop

Cloudera, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, closed a $40 million Series D funding round to support its Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services.Apache Hadoop is a powerful and disruptive open source technology that is used by some of the world's leading social media and ecommerce companies, including eBay, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.Cloudera said its goal is to make Hadoop an enterprise-ready solution by delivering...

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Fujitsu Labs and Furukawa Develop 50 Tbps Optical Interconnect

Fujitsu Laboratories and Furukawa Electric Co. disclosed the joint development of an optical interconnect technology that increases the density of fiber-optic lines connecting to a system backplane while enabling high-bandwidth internal communications at speeds of 50 terabits per second (Tbps), ten times faster than is possible with today's copper lines.Conventional interconnects pass electrical signals over copper wires, making it difficult to generate...

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FBI's Operation Ghost Click Dismantles DNS Malware Ring

Operation Ghost Click, a two-year investigation by the FBI, has led to the arrest of six Estonians who are charged with running a sophisticated Internet fraud ring that infected millions of computers worldwide. According to the indictment, beginning in 2007, the cyber ring used DNSChanger malware to infect approximately 4 million computers, including about 500,000 infections in the U.S. of PCs belonging to individuals, businesses, and government agencies. The thieves were able to manipulate Internet advertising to generate at least $14 million...

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Cisco Posts Solid Results, Ahead of Expectations

Cisco posted sales of $11.3 billion for its first fiscal quarter ended October 29, 2011, with net income (GAAP) of $1.8 billion or $0.33 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $2.3 billion or $0.43 per share."We delivered a solid quarter," said John Chambers, Cisco Chairman and CEO. "We've completed the majority of our restructuring and have organized Cisco to successfully execute against our strategy of providing intelligent networks, architectures...

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Amazon Activates New Data Center in Oregon

Amazon Web Services has activated that offer low-cost, low-latency access to key services from the Western portion of the US. The new US West (Oregon) Region supports Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3), SimpleDB, and other cloud services. This is AWS' seventh Region and its fourth in North America. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/11/now-open-us-west-portland-region.h...

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