UC Berkeley Turns to AT&T for Wi-Fi on Campus

At a time of reduced state funding, the University of California, Berkeley, is turning to AT&T to upgrade Wi-Fi across its 178 acre campus. Under the agreement, AT&T will expand and upgrade voice and data coverage in over 80 buildings and place additional Wi-Fi hotspots on campus and in surrounding areas. AT&T will also upgrade its mobile broadband network on campus."Improving our wireless network and extending mobile services within our buildings can be challenging initiatives, especially at a time when the campus has fewer resources,"...

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Celeno's Wi-Fi Silicon Implemented for Deutsche Telekom's IPTV

Celeno Communications' 802.11n silicon is being used to power Deutsche Telekom's Speedport W 102 Bridge, which is used to distribute the company's "Entertain" IPTV service wirelessly throughout the home. The Bridge can distribute the Entertain IPTV service on multiple set-top boxes (STBs) wirelessly, and to share multi-room digital video recorder (DVR) content wirelessly.In addition, Celeno announced that iiNet, Australia's second largest DSL broadband...

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HickoryTech Acquires a Fiber Network in Fargo for $28 Million

HickoryTech agreed to acquire IdeaOne Telecom Group for $28 million in cash. IdeaOne operates a fiber network in Fargo, North Dakota that serves about 1,900 business customers and 1,700 residential customers. The acquisition will add 225 fiber route miles to HickoryTech's regional network. The fiber network facilities, which extend to 650 on-net fiber-lit buildings, include: multiple 10 GB fiber rings, Ethernet capabilities, soft-switching infrastructure, and colocation services. IdeaOne had fiscal 2010 revenue of $11.1 million.HickoryTech's...

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MRV's CEO Resigns

Dilip Singh has resigned as CEO of MRV Communications. The company has named Chris King as interim CEO. King will continue to hold his current position CFO during this interim period. MRV's Board also announced that it has named Barry Gorsun as President and Chief Operating Officer of MRV Communications. Gorsun will also maintain his role as President of MRV's Optical Communications Systems (OCS) division. http://www.mrv.comIn October, Dr. Ken Shubin Stein resigned as chairman of MRV Communications. He was replaced by Board member Philippe...

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Vitesse Reports Slower Sales in Latest Quarter

Vitesse Semiconductor reported revenue of $30.3 million for its fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011, a decline of 29.3% compared with $42.9 million reported for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010, and a decline of 15.7% compared with $36.0 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2011.Product revenues were $28.9 million, a 32.6% decrease from $42.8 million the same quarter in fiscal year 2010, and a 9.3% decrease from $31.9 million reported for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011. Revenues from licensing intellectual property were $1.5...

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Reuters: Verizon Takes Aim at Netflix

Verizon is preparing to launch an over-the-top subscription video service to compete with Netflix, according to a report from Reuters. Verizon, which has not commented on the report, currently has about 5 million FiOS TV subscribers.Verizon has recently begun streaming content to Microsoft Xbox consoles. It also recently began streaming a livesimulcast of the Longhorn Network – the 24/7 channel devoted to athletic programming and related activities at the University of Texas – and is making it available to Verizon FiOS TV customers across the...

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NSN Boosts CDMA Base Station by 3X

Nokia Siemens Networks is rolling out 1X Advanced technology, which can triple existing CDMA base station capacity when fully implemented. The upgrade will enable mobile operators to handle greater volumes of voice or data traffic in dense metros or to improve coverage. Nokia Siemens Networks said 1X Advanced is also more energy efficienthttp://www.nsn....

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Sprint's Network Vision is Underway -- First Multi-Mode Base Station Deployed

Sprint has deployed the first multi-mode base station as part of its Network Vision architecture. The new base station, which has been activated in Branchburg, New Jersey, is radiating multiple spectrum bands (1.9GHz and 800MHz) and powering both 1x and EVDO services. It is fully integrated with the existing network and performing as expected. Under its Network Vision plan, Sprint intends to repurpose some of its 800MHz spectrum for Sprint 3G...

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Alcatel-Lucent Expands its 100G Reach

Alcatel-Lucent announced a series of improvements to its single-carrier, 100G coherent technology that enables optical waves to travel up to 30% farther, even over poor quality fiber, while opening up many more use cases for 100G optical transport links.The gains, which are achieved using improved signal processing algorithms developed by Bell Labs for overcoming impairments in the fiber, are being delivered in a 100G eXtended Reach (XR) card for...

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UC Berkeley Turns to AT&T for Wi-Fi on Campus

At a time of reduced state funding, the University of California, Berkeley, is turning to AT&T to upgrade Wi-Fi across its 178 acre campus. Under the agreement, AT&T will expand and upgrade voice and data coverage in over 80 buildings and place additional Wi-Fi hotspots on campus and in surrounding areas. AT&T will also upgrade its mobile broadband network on campus."Improving our wireless network and extending mobile services within our buildings can be challenging initiatives, especially at a time when the campus has fewer resources,"...

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Celeno's Wi-Fi Silicon Implemented for Deutsche Telekom's IPTV

Celeno Communications' 802.11n silicon is being used to power Deutsche Telekom's Speedport W 102 Bridge, which is used to distribute the company's "Entertain" IPTV service wirelessly throughout the home. The Bridge can distribute the Entertain IPTV service on multiple set-top boxes (STBs) wirelessly, and to share multi-room digital video recorder (DVR) content wirelessly.In addition, Celeno announced that iiNet, Australia's second largest DSL broadband...

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HickoryTech Acquires a Fiber Network in Fargo for $28 Million

HickoryTech agreed to acquire IdeaOne Telecom Group for $28 million in cash. IdeaOne operates a fiber network in Fargo, North Dakota that serves about 1,900 business customers and 1,700 residential customers. The acquisition will add 225 fiber route miles to HickoryTech's regional network. The fiber network facilities, which extend to 650 on-net fiber-lit buildings, include: multiple 10 GB fiber rings, Ethernet capabilities, soft-switching infrastructure, and colocation services. IdeaOne had fiscal 2010 revenue of $11.1 million.HickoryTech's...

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MRV's CEO Resigns

Dilip Singh has resigned as CEO of MRV Communications. The company has named Chris King as interim CEO. King will continue to hold his current position CFO during this interim period. MRV's Board also announced that it has named Barry Gorsun as President and Chief Operating Officer of MRV Communications. Gorsun will also maintain his role as President of MRV's Optical Communications Systems (OCS) division. http://www.mrv.comIn October, Dr. Ken Shubin Stein resigned as chairman of MRV Communications. He was replaced by Board member Philippe...

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Vitesse Reports Slower Sales in Latest Quarter

Vitesse Semiconductor reported revenue of $30.3 million for its fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011, a decline of 29.3% compared with $42.9 million reported for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010, and a decline of 15.7% compared with $36.0 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2011.Product revenues were $28.9 million, a 32.6% decrease from $42.8 million the same quarter in fiscal year 2010, and a 9.3% decrease from $31.9 million reported for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011. Revenues from licensing intellectual property were $1.5...

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Reuters: Verizon Takes Aim at Netflix

Verizon is preparing to launch an over-the-top subscription video service to compete with Netflix, according to a report from Reuters. Verizon, which has not commented on the report, currently has about 5 million FiOS TV subscribers.Verizon has recently begun streaming content to Microsoft Xbox consoles. It also recently began streaming a livesimulcast of the Longhorn Network – the 24/7 channel devoted to athletic programming and related activities at the University of Texas – and is making it available to Verizon FiOS TV customers across the...

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NSN Boosts CDMA Base Station by 3X

Nokia Siemens Networks is rolling out 1X Advanced technology, which can triple existing CDMA base station capacity when fully implemented. The upgrade will enable mobile operators to handle greater volumes of voice or data traffic in dense metros or to improve coverage. Nokia Siemens Networks said 1X Advanced is also more energy efficienthttp://www.nsn....

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Sprint's Network Vision is Underway -- First Multi-Mode Base Station Deployed

Sprint has deployed the first multi-mode base station as part of its Network Vision architecture. The new base station, which has been activated in Branchburg, New Jersey, is radiating multiple spectrum bands (1.9GHz and 800MHz) and powering both 1x and EVDO services. It is fully integrated with the existing network and performing as expected. Under its Network Vision plan, Sprint intends to repurpose some of its 800MHz spectrum for Sprint 3G...

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Alcatel-Lucent Expands its 100G Reach

Alcatel-Lucent announced a series of improvements to its single-carrier, 100G coherent technology that enables optical waves to travel up to 30% farther, even over poor quality fiber, while opening up many more use cases for 100G optical transport links.The gains, which are achieved using improved signal processing algorithms developed by Bell Labs for overcoming impairments in the fiber, are being delivered in a 100G eXtended Reach (XR) card for...

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Qualcomm Atheros Samples HomePlug Green PHY

Qualcomm Atheros has begun sampling its HomePlug Green PHY silicon designed for embedded smart energy and automation applications in homes and buildings. The company said that the power saving mechanism in its HomePlug Green PHY can reduce the consumption of a power line communications (PLC) device versus a HomePlug AV solution. HomePlug Green PHY is a new standard for powerline communications that is interoperable with the IEEE 1901/HomePlug AV...

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Cisco Positions CloudVerse to Build Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds

Cisco outlined its new "CloudVerse" framework for building, managing and connecting public, private and hybrid clouds. The goal is to help businesses to realize all of the benefits of clouds: improved agility, better economics, enhanced security and a dynamic, assured experience. Cisco CloudVerse combines these key cloud elements – Unified Data Center, Cloud Intelligent Network, and Cloud Applications and Services.Unified Data Center changes is...

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Idaho's Syringa Selects ADVA FSP 3000

Syringa Networks, an Idaho-based regional provider of high-speed fiber optic services, has selected the ADVA FSP 3000 to provide connectivity throughout its Idaho footprint. The ADVA FSP 3000 is a scalable WDM system specifically designed for multiplexing, transporting, and protecting high-speed data, storage, voice and video applications. http://www.advaoptical....

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National LambdaRail Connects NOAA's Supercomputing Facilities

National LambdaRail's next-generation research network, NWave, will interconnect the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) research supercomputing facilities. NLR is the coast-to-coast, high-performance network owned by the U.S. research and education community.Under the contract, NLR has tapped Indiana University's (IU) Global Research Network Operations Center (GRNOC). NWave, financed under the American Recovery and Reinvestment...

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