AT&T confirmed that wireless data volume on its network doubled in 2011, thanks to the proliferation of smartphones. In fact, the company stated that over the past five years, AT&T’s wireless data traffic has grown 20,000%.http://www.att....
Monday, February 13, 2012
Peoples Telephone Launches 700 MHz LTE in Rural Texas
Peoples Telephone Cooperative (a NetAmerica Alliance Member) has begun offering 4G LTE data service in rural Texas. The company has replaced its fixed wireless WiMax offering with 4G LTE running on their 700MHz license. They are using the NetAmerica Alliance's UniPort Home Gateway which offers both wired Ethernet and Wi-Fi within the home while connecting over broadband wireless to Peoples' newly deployed 4G LTE network. Access to customer premise devices such as the UniPort came through the technology partnership with Ericsson which NetAmerica...
Aereo Readies TV Streaming in NYC - Tiny Antennas in Data Centers
Aereo, a start-up formerly known Bamboom Labs, announced $20.25 million in venture funding to support its upcoming launch of a TV streaming service in New York City. Aereo concept is to provide each subscriber with a dedicated, miniaturized antenna and DVR installed in its data center. The antenna captures free, over-the-air TV content, which is then streamed over IP to the subscriber's laptop, tablet, smartphone, AppleTV or Roku set-top-box. Aereo’s...
FCC Requests $347 Million for 2013 Budget
The FCC is requesting a budget of $346,782,000 to carry out the FCC’s functions and meet the expectations of Congress. This is up from $339,844,000 requested in FY 2012.In addition, the FCC expects to recover $91 million over the year from auction cost recovery reimbursements and other miscellaneous reimbursements for a Grand Total Budget Authority of $441,569,000 for FY 2013. This compares with a Grand Total Budget Authority of $433,131,000 in...
Intel Discloses Details on "Crystal Forest"
Intel disclosed several significant features of its upcoming "Crystal Forest" next-generation communications platform. Intel said Crystal Forest will enable equipment manufacturers to consolidate three communications workloads – application, control and packet processing – on multi-core Intel architecture processors to deliver better performance and accelerate time to market. Some key points on Crystal Forest:Crystal Forest is expected to deliver...
NTIA Concludes LightSquared Network Incompatible with GPS
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) submitted its final conclusion to the FCC: LightSquared's proposed mobile broadband network will impact existing GPS services and "there is no practical way to mitigate the potential interference at this time." The NTIA states that while future technologies may mitigate the interference, current federal, commercial and private users of GPS will not be able to replace their systems...
NeoPhotonics Posts Q4 Revenue of $57 Million
NeoPhotonics reported record Q4 2011 revenue of $57.2 million, an increase of $14.3 million, or 33% from the third quarter of 2011, and an increase of $7.0 million, or 14%, from the fourth quarter of 2010, inclusive of revenue attributable to Santur Corporation, which was acquired on October 12, 2011. Gross margin for the fourth quarter of 2011 was 21.5%. Loss from continuing operations for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $22.8 million, as compared to loss from continuing operations of $4.2 million in the third quarter of 2011 and income from continuing...
Ericsson Opens Global NOC in Mexico
Ericsson has inaugurated its new global network operations center (GNOC) in Mexico City, strengthening its footprint in Latin America. The new facility, called Ericsson Tecnoparque in Mexico City houses highly skilled ICT and services professionals. Ericsson also operates another Global Service Center (GSC) in Mexico that delivers remotely and serves operators and service providers mainly in North and Latin America. It is also building up LTE competence to cater for the growing demand of LTE in Latin America. http://www.ericsson....
Alcatel-Lucent Extends Carrier Wi-Fi with lightRadio
Alcatel-Lucent introduced a lightRadio Wi-Fi solution that combines its strengths in the radio access network and IP routing to enable high-capacity, seamless and secure Wi-Fi in mobile broadband networks. Whereas carriers today typically use Wi-Fi hotspots merely as a data offload tool, Alcatel-Lucent said its goal is to integrate Wi-Fi directly into small-cell base stations and cellular networks. For the consumer, this will enable a seamless...
JAB Broadband Expands Deployment of DragonWave Packet Microwave Links
JAB Broadband, a top-tier Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) based in Colorado, is using DragonWave's packet microwave radios to support its fixed wireless broadband internet and digital voice telephone services . JAB has ordered an additional mix of 200 DragonWave Horizon links for its aggressive network upgrade initiatives currently underway.JAB Broadband currently has 110,000+ subscribers in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Texas and Illinois....
Cisco: Mobile Data Traffic to Grow at 78% CAGR through 2016
Worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold over the next five years, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month by 2016, according to Cisco's newly published Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 78 percent over the period of 2011 to 2016.The leading causes of this torrid growth are the rapid penetration of mobile connectivity across all societies worldwide and growing...
