LightSquared's CEO Resigns

Following its failure to gain regulatory approval, LightSquared announced the resignation of its CEO, Sanjiv Ahuja. He will continue as Chairman of the board. The company is currently searching for a new CEO.LightSquared also affirmed its intention to work through the regulatory issues and ultimately build a wireless network.Philip A. Falcone, CEO and CIO of Harbinger Capital Partners stated:"LightSquared's objective, through its wholesale business model, is to provide increased competition and lower prices in the telecommunications industry,...

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Intel's Medfeld Atom Processors Offers LTE/3G/2G

Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Intel CEO Paul Otellini disclosed plans to expand Intel's smartphone silicon ambitions, including early smartphone design engagements with Orange, India's Lava International, ZTE, and Visa.Specifically, Intel announced plans for three new smartphone SoCs. The Intel Atom processor Z2460, formerly codenamed “Medfield,�? will now support speeds up to 2GHz. Intel also announced the Atom Z2580 processor...

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KT Selects Mindspeed Chips for LTE Small Cells

KT has approved Mindspeed’s Transcede SoC baseband processors for its LTE small cell dual mode (LTE and 3G) small cell base stations.“Mindspeed is delighted that our Transcede platform has been chosen by KT for their next-generation femtocell development project," said Dr. Naser Adas, vice president and general manager, wireless and customer premises equipment (CPE), at Mindspeed. “We have been impressed by KT’s expertise and experience in LTE Cloud-RAN small cell technology and look forward to supporting their new product development efforts."Separately,...

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Alvarion Shows its Wi-Fi Offload Solution with Hot Spot 2.0

Alvarion introduced its Wi-Fi mobile data offload solution for 3G and LTE networks. It implementation uses two-way beamforming Wi-Fi technology to provide access to the Internet. Alvarion offers an embedded access controller direct tunneling from base stations to the operator’s core. The solution is Hot Spot 2.0 and 802.11u ready permitting a cellular-like experience over the Wi-Fi network with zero-configuration from the user.http://www.alvarion....

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Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile Sign lightRadio Architecture Deal

Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile have signed a co-creation agreement under which teams from the two companies are conducting joint development and test activities on a series of lightRadio projects at Alcatel-Lucent’s Stuttgart lab. This follows the non-binding MoU signed between Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile in mid 2011. It also builds on the collaboration between the companies on the delivery of superfast mobile broadband using TD-LTE technology.Alcatel-Lucent...

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Ericsson Pitches Self-organizing Networks

At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012, Ericsson is launching a self-organizing networks (SON) Optimization Manager that automates the process of optimizing the capacity, coverage and quality of mobile networks.The company is taking a number of the network optimization and management features developed for LTE and extending them for multi-standard networks. Whereas optimization is traditionally a slow, complex process carried out at regular intervals by teams of network experts, SON Optimization Manager automates the process.Ulf Ewaldsson, Senior...

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Ericsson joins OpenStack

Ericsson has joined the OpenStack project, an open-source community dedicated to creating cloud software. Ericsson plans to contribute to further developing OpenStack to support carrier-grade services and applications. OpenStack provides a flexible alternative cloud management solution that is based on open-source components.At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012, Ericsson is demonstrating a unique virtual data center manager solution based on OpenStack that coordinates three data centers distributed across different continents. Slices of virtual...

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NEC Delivers 2048 QAM Microwave Transmission

NEC announced plans to implement 2048 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (2048QAM) within its iPASOLINK microwave product family in the second half of 2012. This will deliver up to 40% per-channel capacity relative to the systems commonly in operation today which employ up to 256QAM. Furthermore, NEC's design also supports a full sequence of Adaptive Modulation in all steps from 2048QAM down to QPSK. The company said this feature allows scalable addition of capacity without compromising the reach and availability of transmission links deployed in...

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Ceragon Networks Posts Reports Record Q4 Revenues

Ceragon Networks reported revenue for its fourth quarter which ended December 1, 2011 of 2011 reached $118.5 million, up 77% from $67.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, and up 2% from $116.1 million in the third quarter of 2011. Net loss (GAAP) for the fourth quarter of 2011 was ($8.2) million or $(0.23) per basic share and diluted share, compared to net income of $3.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, or $0.11 per basic share and $0.10 per diluted share. Revenues for the full year of 2011 were $445.3 million, up 78% from $249.9 million...

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Infrastructure Winners at Mobile World Congress

Winners of the 17th Annual Global Mobile awards in infrastructure and services categories at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona:Best Infrastructure TechnologyWinner: Alcatel-Lucent - lightRadio NetworkBest Mobile Broadband TechnologyWinner: KT - KT's Premium WiFi SolutionBest Technology BreakthroughWinner: Vodafone Group PLC - Quad Rate Technology: an evolved path doubling the efficiency of mobile voiceBest Cloud Based TechnologyWinner:...

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Cisco Leaps Forward in the Small Cell + Hot-Spot 2.0 Market

Cisco is pushing ahead into the market for carrier-grade, end-to-end Wi-Fi and small-cell infrastructure.At Mobile World Congress, Cisco unveiled Next-Generation Hotspots (NGH) for seamless roaming, as well as a new Small Cell Gateway based on the Cisco ASR 5000 Series Mobile Multimedia Core Router.For its Wi-Fi access points, Cisco is now embedding Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA)-approved NGH technology based on the Hotspot 2.0 specification established by the Wi-Fi Alliance. The company has deployed over 12 million access points, the majority...

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