Orange Launches 100 Mbps "Fibre Pro" FTTH at EUR 69

Orange has begun marketing a "Fibre Pro" broadband service with 100 Mbps symmetric speeds.The "Fibre Pro" offer includes fixed-line telephony (including functions such as multiple-call), Internet and television, as well as a range of services designed to meet the needs of professionals such as a personalized URL, a fixed IP address, an "e-mail for professionals" service and the digital fax. Customers also benefit from technical assistance for setting-up...

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EarthLink to Deploy ADTRAN Gear

ADTRAN will supply switches, routers and gateways to EarthLink for the nationwide launch of its EarthLink Business Complete suite. EarthLink’s Complete, which is offered in every state in the continental U.S., combines hosted Voice over IP applications and private MPLS networks with equipment, mobile and security options. EarthLink will deploy ADTRAN’s NetVanta series of switches and routers and Total Access 900 series of IP Business Gateways to deliver its integrated, hosted network management solution.http://www.adtran.com http://www.eart...

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NEC Debuts 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet OpenFlow switch

NEC introduced its UNIVERGE ProgrammableFlow PF5820 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) OpenFlow switch delivering 1.28 terabits of capacity.The new PF5820, which builds on NEC’s ProgrammableFlow Software Defined Network Architecture (SDN), is designed for building high-performance, secure and programmable networks. Other products in this family include the NEC ProgrammableFlow Controller and PF5240 1/10 GbE Switch.The PF5820 provides 48 10GbE SFP+ ports...

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Clearwire Pulls in $716 Million for its TDD-LTE Rollout

Clearwire closed $734 million in funding needed for the continued rollout of its network.The funding consists of $402.5 million from the public offering of 201,250,000 shares of Class A common stock at $2.00 per share. An original offering announced on December 5, 2011 comprised 175,000,000 shares of Class A common stock. An additional 26,250,000 shares of Class A common stock was added pursuant to the underwriters’ exercise of their over-allotment...

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Orange Launches 100 Mbps "Fibre Pro" FTTH at EUR 69

Orange has begun marketing a "Fibre Pro" broadband service with 100 Mbps symmetric speeds.The "Fibre Pro" offer includes fixed-line telephony (including functions such as multiple-call), Internet and television, as well as a range of services designed to meet the needs of professionals such as a personalized URL, a fixed IP address, an "e-mail for professionals" service and the digital fax. Customers also benefit from technical assistance for setting-up...

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EarthLink to Deploy ADTRAN Gear

ADTRAN will supply switches, routers and gateways to EarthLink for the nationwide launch of its EarthLink Business Complete suite. EarthLink’s Complete, which is offered in every state in the continental U.S., combines hosted Voice over IP applications and private MPLS networks with equipment, mobile and security options. EarthLink will deploy ADTRAN’s NetVanta series of switches and routers and Total Access 900 series of IP Business Gateways to deliver its integrated, hosted network management solution.http://www.adtran.com http://www.eart...

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NEC Debuts 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet OpenFlow switch

NEC introduced its UNIVERGE ProgrammableFlow PF5820 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) OpenFlow switch delivering 1.28 terabits of capacity.The new PF5820, which builds on NEC’s ProgrammableFlow Software Defined Network Architecture (SDN), is designed for building high-performance, secure and programmable networks. Other products in this family include the NEC ProgrammableFlow Controller and PF5240 1/10 GbE Switch.The PF5820 provides 48 10GbE SFP+ ports...

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Clearwire Pulls in $716 Million for its TDD-LTE Rollout

Clearwire closed $734 million in funding needed for the continued rollout of its network.The funding consists of $402.5 million from the public offering of 201,250,000 shares of Class A common stock at $2.00 per share. An original offering announced on December 5, 2011 comprised 175,000,000 shares of Class A common stock. An additional 26,250,000 shares of Class A common stock was added pursuant to the underwriters’ exercise of their over-allotment...

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ESnet Opens National Dark Fiber Testbed for GreenTouch Testing

The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) will be made available to GreenTouch members to conduct energy efficiency network research. ESnet is a national dark fiber testbed network linking thousands of DOE scientists to each other and to international collaborators. The testbed is a key component of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Networking Initiative (ANI), a program created through a $62 million American Recovery and Reinvestment...

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Uruguay's ANTEL is First LTE Operator in South America

Uruguay's Administración Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (ANTEL) is the first operator in South America to launch a commercial LTE service. The Antel "Internet Vera" LTE service is initially available in Punta del Este and will be extended to Montevideo and other areas of the country during 2012.Antel has teamed with Alcatel-Lucent for an end-to-end LTE solution, including LTE base stations (eNodeBs), the IP wireless Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and...

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Fujitsu, NEC and Anritsu Test 100G OTN Interoperability

Fujitsu, NEC, and Anritsu participated in an interoperability test of an OTN interface that accommodates 100-Gbps Ethernet.These tests were carried out as part of the "Ethernet over OTN Technology R&D Project," one of the joint research topics for collaboration among industry, academia, and government being pursued by the Interoperability Working Group (chaired by Naoki Yamanaka of Keio University)(7) of the Kei-hanna Info-Communication Open...

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Verizon to Deploy Cisco CRS-3 for 100G Edge Access

Verizon will deploy Cisco's CRS-3 Carrier Routing System platform to terminate 100G connections closer to the network edge and customer's network facilities. Specifically, Verizon will deploy the CRS-3 platform in the first half of 2012 to provide 100G edge access to the IP network and upgrade its FiOS core network. Verizon has relied on Cisco's CRS-1 platform in the network for more than four years, allowing the company to easily transition to the...

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Cablevision Argentina Deploys 100G with Alcatel-Lucent

Cablevision Argentina, one of the Latin America’s largest cable TV and Internet services providers, will be the first cable operator in South America to deploy 100G technology in its network. lcatel-Lucent is supplying its 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) featuring next-generation 100G coherent technology to dramatically improve capacity scalability.Cablevision has more than three million CATV customers and more than one million Internet users...

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ConteXtream Targets Software-Defined Networking for Access and Hosting & Cloud Providers

ConteXtream, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California with R&D in Petach Tikva, Israel, introduced a cloud-scale overlay grid architecture that leverages a distributed control plane instead of a centralized controller to deliver software-defined networking capabilities for broadband access network operators and cloud service providers. The ConteXtream Grid is a distributed virtual L4-7 switch that works as an overlay on existing networks to...

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