NSN Supplies Circuit Switched Fallback to KDDI

Nokia Siemens Networks is implementing its Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) technology to enable CDMA and LTE technologies to work together in KDDI’s network in Japan. Nokia Siemens Networks’ CDMA-LTE CSFB solution is implemented via software on the existing CDMA 1X system, which interfaces with KDDI’s LTE network. Exhaustive trials of end-to-end CSFB have already been successfully conducted and the nationwide deployment will be completed by mid...

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Government Agencies Find Harmful Interference from LightSquared

Department of Defense and Department of Transportation have concluded that LightSquared signals cause harmful interference to the majority of tested general purpose GPS receivers. Final analysis of data from last month's test will take several more weeks to complete. Then a report will be filed with the NTIA and FCC.Separate analysis by the Federal Aviation Administration also found interference with a flight safety system designed to warn pilots of approaching terrain. LightSquared's CEO, Sanjiv Ahuja, issued the following statement: "We are...

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Huawei and Indonesia's Telkomsel Open Innovation Centre

Huawei and ,Telkomsel, the leading operator in Indonesia, opened a new innovation centre and LTE demonstration in Bandung. The R&D facility focuses on high definition video, FTP throughput, live high-speed Internet, and digital shopping mall demonstrations. The LTE demonstration is showing Huawei's SingleRAN LTE solution delivering downlink data rates of up to 71.4 Mbps with 10 MHz bandwidth.Telkomsel is deploying Huawei's SingleRAN in its networkhttp://www.huawei....

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Broadcom Raises its Q4 2011 Guidance

Broadcom raised its Q4 2011 financial guidance, citing strong shipments. The new guidance:Net Revenue: Increased to the high end of the prior range to approximately $1.8 billion.Product Gross Margin (GAAP and Non-GAAP): Increased to the high end of the prior range to roughly flat sequentially.R&D Plus SG&A Expenses (GAAP and Non-GAAP): Estimated to be approximately $5 million favorable on a GAAP basis and at the midpoint of prior guidance on a non-GAAP basis due to slower than anticipated hiring ramps and certain credits in the period.Ending...

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Ericsson's Chief Brand Officer Steps Down

Cesare Avenia, Ericsson's Chief Brand Officer, is leaving the company this month. No replacement will be named. http://www.ericsson....

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Brazil's Sky Deploys TD-LTE with Nokia Siemens Networks

SKY, the largest satellite Pay-TV operator in Brazil, has launched a TD-LTE service in Brasilia. Nokia Siemens Networks is the sole vendor for the launch.Under a three year contract, Nokia Siemens Networks supplied its Flexi Multiradio Base Station. The company has also provided its FlexiPacket Microwave transport platform and Evolved Packet Core (EPC), along with its NetAct network management system to provide consolidated configuration, monitoring...

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Caltech Physicists Transfer Data at 186 Gbps

At last month's SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) conference in Seattle, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Victoria, the University of Michigan, the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Florida International University and others, transferred data in opposite directions at a combined rate of 186 Gbps.Using a 100-Gbps circuit set up by Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network (CANARIE) and...

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NSN Supplies Circuit Switched Fallback to KDDI

Nokia Siemens Networks is implementing its Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) technology to enable CDMA and LTE technologies to work together in KDDI’s network in Japan. Nokia Siemens Networks’ CDMA-LTE CSFB solution is implemented via software on the existing CDMA 1X system, which interfaces with KDDI’s LTE network. Exhaustive trials of end-to-end CSFB have already been successfully conducted and the nationwide deployment will be completed by mid...

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Government Agencies Find Harmful Interference from LightSquared

Department of Defense and Department of Transportation have concluded that LightSquared signals cause harmful interference to the majority of tested general purpose GPS receivers. Final analysis of data from last month's test will take several more weeks to complete. Then a report will be filed with the NTIA and FCC.Separate analysis by the Federal Aviation Administration also found interference with a flight safety system designed to warn pilots of approaching terrain. LightSquared's CEO, Sanjiv Ahuja, issued the following statement: "We are...

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Huawei and Indonesia's Telkomsel Open Innovation Centre

Huawei and ,Telkomsel, the leading operator in Indonesia, opened a new innovation centre and LTE demonstration in Bandung. The R&D facility focuses on high definition video, FTP throughput, live high-speed Internet, and digital shopping mall demonstrations. The LTE demonstration is showing Huawei's SingleRAN LTE solution delivering downlink data rates of up to 71.4 Mbps with 10 MHz bandwidth.Telkomsel is deploying Huawei's SingleRAN in its networkhttp://www.huawei....

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Broadcom Raises its Q4 2011 Guidance

Broadcom raised its Q4 2011 financial guidance, citing strong shipments. The new guidance:Net Revenue: Increased to the high end of the prior range to approximately $1.8 billion.Product Gross Margin (GAAP and Non-GAAP): Increased to the high end of the prior range to roughly flat sequentially.R&D Plus SG&A Expenses (GAAP and Non-GAAP): Estimated to be approximately $5 million favorable on a GAAP basis and at the midpoint of prior guidance on a non-GAAP basis due to slower than anticipated hiring ramps and certain credits in the period.Ending...

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Ericsson's Chief Brand Officer Steps Down

Cesare Avenia, Ericsson's Chief Brand Officer, is leaving the company this month. No replacement will be named. http://www.ericsson....

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Brazil's Sky Deploys TD-LTE with Nokia Siemens Networks

SKY, the largest satellite Pay-TV operator in Brazil, has launched a TD-LTE service in Brasilia. Nokia Siemens Networks is the sole vendor for the launch.Under a three year contract, Nokia Siemens Networks supplied its Flexi Multiradio Base Station. The company has also provided its FlexiPacket Microwave transport platform and Evolved Packet Core (EPC), along with its NetAct network management system to provide consolidated configuration, monitoring...

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Caltech Physicists Transfer Data at 186 Gbps

At last month's SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) conference in Seattle, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Victoria, the University of Michigan, the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Florida International University and others, transferred data in opposite directions at a combined rate of 186 Gbps.Using a 100-Gbps circuit set up by Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network (CANARIE) and...

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Alvarion Sets 2012 Financial Targets

Alvarion issued revised guidance for Q4 2011 and set new financial targets for 2012 and beyond as it integrates recently acquired Wavion and implements its multi-technology wireless broadband strategy.Looking ahead, Alvarion said it will focus on business segments which are expected to be less sensitive to global economic conditions, focus on areas in which it can add significant value to customers, reduce or postpone investment in areas that are...

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Orckit-Corrigent Supplies Packet Transport Network in Honduras

Cable Color, a leading telecommunication service provider in Honduras, has selected Orckit-Corrigent’s IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP based CM-4000 PTN switches and the accompanying CM-View network management system to introduce a networking environment for broadband and enterprise VPN services. Orckit-Corrigent’s CM-4000 portfolio is a series of small, medium and large capacity Packet Transport Network switches that offer any combination of Ethernet, SDH...

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OFS Laboratories Develops Optical Resonator

Researchers from OFS Laboratories have developed a way to manufacture long chains of microresonators by making nanoscale changes to the diameter of normal optical fiber. The breakthrough may pave the way for storing light as memory. The work is described in the Optical Society’s (OSA) journal Optics Letters."Optical computers, which use light particles—photons—in place of electrons to process and store information, have the potential to be much...

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Fujitsu Releases 100G Packet ONP

Fujitsu introduced a packet optical networking platform (Packet ONP) that employs the latest digital coherent technology with DP-QPSK optical modulation to enable ultrafast optical transmission speeds of 100Gbps x 80W over long distances. The Packet ONP platform employs a modular architecture that enables flexible assembly of WDM and packet transmission. It also features high-speed switchover to back-up lines in under 50ms in the event of network...

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Huawei Claims TDD DSL Achieves Symmetric 1 Gbps over Twisted Pair at 100m

Huawei announced a prototype Giga DSL system that employs time division duplex (TDD) to achieve a total upstream and downstream rate of 1,000 Mbps over a single twisted pair. The company said that by using low-power spectral density in-signal transmission, its Giga DSL prototype reduces radiation interference and power consumption, and provides a total upstream and downstream rate of one Gbps within 100 meters, and 500 Mbps-plus within 200 meters.Huawei...

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Alcatel-Lucent Introduces 40GigE module for the OmniSwitch 6900

Alcatel-Lucent introduced a 40 GigE switching module for its OmniSwitch 6900 enterprise network switch. The new module enables multiple switches to be linked together to create a "40 GigE Pod", which will help enterprises prepare their data center networks for the emerging "carrier cloud" category of services. The 40GigE Pod is a highly dense, any-to-any interconnection of OmniSwitch Top-of-Rack switches.Alcatel-Lucent is also expanding its Data Center Switching Partner ecosystem with companies including Emulex, NetApp and VMware. http://www...

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