Presented by Lindsay Newell, VP of Networks Marketing, Alcatel-Lucenthttp://www.alcatel-lucent....
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Telenor Builds Digital Store with Alcatel-Lucent for Personalized Digital Content
Telenor is building its own stores for delivering personalized digital content for its subscribers. The carrier is using Alcatel-Lucent’s Digital Media Store (DMS) for providing cloud-based access to music, applications, games, e-books and video. The first such Telenor service to launch is in Serbia .Because DMS is cloud-based, Telenor can quickly launch storefronts without deploying local operating platforms, and with minimal adjustments can expand the service to other countries. This enables Telenor to rapidly launch advanced multi-content services...
Canada's Xplornet Raises $125 Million for its 4G Network
Xplornet Communications announced $125 million in private financing to accelerate the deployment of its national 4G network. Xplornet is pursuing a rural broadband strategy using satellites and other means. The company has acquired 100% of the Canadian capacity on two new 4G satellites - ViaSat-1 launched in October and EchoStar XVII (formerly Jupiter) to be launched this summer.John Maduri, Xplornet's Chief Executive Officer commented that: "Xplornet is solving the broadband access divide in rural Canada, and doing so largely with private capital....
Reliance Comm to List its FLAG Undersea Network in Singapore IPO
Reliance Communications announced plans to list its undersea cable business in an initial public offering (IPO) that potential could be valued at over US$1 billion. Media reports state that the company could sell 75% of the undersea cable business.http://www.rcom.co...
Tata Comm Tightens Latency Specs on Global Network with PBB
Tata Communications annnounced a low latency network service connecting major financial capitals in Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The network delivers a pure multipoint Ethernet platform to the financial services sector and other global industries, accelerating global high frequency trading and other low latency applications.Whereas low latency networks have traditionally been offered over MPLS or relatively expensive layer 1 technologies,...
ADTRAN Intros Bring Your Own Device Network Suite
ADTRAN announced a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Network Suite that addresses four key issues for businesses: 1. Highly scalable wireless LAN (WLAN): BYOD will result in a 2x-3x increase in mobile devices that are competing for scarce wireless bandwidth, resulting in a crippling information bottleneck in the organization. Traditional hardware controller-based WLANs are unable to handle the flood of mobile devices, and are prohibitively expensive to...
Metaswitch Names Board Chairman John Lazar as CEO
John Lazar will return to his role as CEO of Metaswitch Networks, replacing Kevin DeNuccio who will continue to assess strategic initiatives that can complement Metaswitch's core business plan and product portfolio. Both executives will remain on the Board of Directors.John Lazar was a key member of the founding team that established the company's carrier division in North America in 2000. Prior to joining Metaswitch, he graduated from the University...
Lantiq and Qualcomm Atheros Enter Home Gateway Collaboration
Lantiq is collaborating with Qualcomm Atheros to produce an advanced broadband home gateway reference design that integrates the Qualcomm Atheros QCA9880 3x3 802.11ac solution and the Lantiq XWAY ARX300 or VRX288 universal gateway chipsets. The companies are providing a complete software and hardware reference design featuring the newest evolution of 802.11 Wi-Fi and proven DSL broadband gateway functionality. The Lantiq XWAY ARX300 and VRX288...
US Ignite Funds Next Gen Research Networks
The National Science Foundation (NSF) that it will serve as the lead federal agency for a new initiative aimed at sparking a new generation of academic networks and transformative applications. US Ignite will expand on investments in the NSF-funded Global Environment for Networking Innovation (GENI) project by stitching together high-speed broadband resources to create a testbed across universities and cities throughout the United States. GENI...
Cisco Open Network Environment Promises Deep Programmability
Cisco outlined its vision for the Open Network Environment (ONE), promising multilayered "full-duplex" programmability across network hardware platforms and its operating systems based on application dynamics. The goal is to enable flexible, application-driven customization of network infrastructures through a rich set of platform APIs, agents and controllers, and overlay network technologies. "The Cisco Open Network Environment is key to our vision...
Brazil Auctions 450 MHz and 2.5 GHz Spectrum
Brazil's National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) attracted first round auction bids valued at US$2.72 billion from six groups for 2.5 GHz frequency bands (intended for 4G) and 450 MHz (dedicated to improving coverage in rural areas).Auction participants include Light / Americel, Tim / Intelig Hi, Live, Sunrise and Sky presented the proposed price and identity documents and licenses.The average premium reached 34.37% compared to the minimum values...
Rethink the IP Core, Part 4 - Introducing the 7950 XRS Family
Presented by Lindsay Newell, VP of Networks Marketing, Alcatel-Lucenthttp://www.alcatel-lucent....
Telenor Builds Digital Store with Alcatel-Lucent for Personalized Digital Content
Telenor is building its own stores for delivering personalized digital content for its subscribers. The carrier is using Alcatel-Lucent’s Digital Media Store (DMS) for providing cloud-based access to music, applications, games, e-books and video. The first such Telenor service to launch is in Serbia .Because DMS is cloud-based, Telenor can quickly launch storefronts without deploying local operating platforms, and with minimal adjustments can expand the service to other countries. This enables Telenor to rapidly launch advanced multi-content services...
Canada's Xplornet Raises $125 Million for its 4G Network
Xplornet Communications announced $125 million in private financing to accelerate the deployment of its national 4G network. Xplornet is pursuing a rural broadband strategy using satellites and other means. The company has acquired 100% of the Canadian capacity on two new 4G satellites - ViaSat-1 launched in October and EchoStar XVII (formerly Jupiter) to be launched this summer.John Maduri, Xplornet's Chief Executive Officer commented that: "Xplornet is solving the broadband access divide in rural Canada, and doing so largely with private capital....
Reliance Comm to List its FLAG Undersea Network in Singapore IPO
Reliance Communications announced plans to list its undersea cable business in an initial public offering (IPO) that potential could be valued at over US$1 billion. Media reports state that the company could sell 75% of the undersea cable business.http://www.rcom.co...
Tata Comm Tightens Latency Specs on Global Network with PBB
Tata Communications annnounced a low latency network service connecting major financial capitals in Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The network delivers a pure multipoint Ethernet platform to the financial services sector and other global industries, accelerating global high frequency trading and other low latency applications.Whereas low latency networks have traditionally been offered over MPLS or relatively expensive layer 1 technologies,...
ADTRAN Intros Bring Your Own Device Network Suite
ADTRAN announced a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Network Suite that addresses four key issues for businesses: 1. Highly scalable wireless LAN (WLAN): BYOD will result in a 2x-3x increase in mobile devices that are competing for scarce wireless bandwidth, resulting in a crippling information bottleneck in the organization. Traditional hardware controller-based WLANs are unable to handle the flood of mobile devices, and are prohibitively expensive to...
Metaswitch Names Board Chairman John Lazar as CEO
John Lazar will return to his role as CEO of Metaswitch Networks, replacing Kevin DeNuccio who will continue to assess strategic initiatives that can complement Metaswitch's core business plan and product portfolio. Both executives will remain on the Board of Directors.John Lazar was a key member of the founding team that established the company's carrier division in North America in 2000. Prior to joining Metaswitch, he graduated from the University...
Lantiq and Qualcomm Atheros Enter Home Gateway Collaboration
Lantiq is collaborating with Qualcomm Atheros to produce an advanced broadband home gateway reference design that integrates the Qualcomm Atheros QCA9880 3x3 802.11ac solution and the Lantiq XWAY ARX300 or VRX288 universal gateway chipsets. The companies are providing a complete software and hardware reference design featuring the newest evolution of 802.11 Wi-Fi and proven DSL broadband gateway functionality. The Lantiq XWAY ARX300 and VRX288...
US Ignite Funds Next Gen Research Networks
The National Science Foundation (NSF) that it will serve as the lead federal agency for a new initiative aimed at sparking a new generation of academic networks and transformative applications. US Ignite will expand on investments in the NSF-funded Global Environment for Networking Innovation (GENI) project by stitching together high-speed broadband resources to create a testbed across universities and cities throughout the United States. GENI...
Cisco Open Network Environment Promises Deep Programmability
Cisco outlined its vision for the Open Network Environment (ONE), promising multilayered "full-duplex" programmability across network hardware platforms and its operating systems based on application dynamics. The goal is to enable flexible, application-driven customization of network infrastructures through a rich set of platform APIs, agents and controllers, and overlay network technologies. "The Cisco Open Network Environment is key to our vision...
Brazil Auctions 450 MHz and 2.5 GHz Spectrum
Brazil's National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) attracted first round auction bids valued at US$2.72 billion from six groups for 2.5 GHz frequency bands (intended for 4G) and 450 MHz (dedicated to improving coverage in rural areas).Auction participants include Light / Americel, Tim / Intelig Hi, Live, Sunrise and Sky presented the proposed price and identity documents and licenses.The average premium reached 34.37% compared to the minimum values...
Sprint Deploys Ciena 6500 for Network Vision
Sprint is upgrading its optical backbone network with Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, which converges Ethernet, TDM, and WDM capabilities. Financial terms were not disclosed.The updated network, powered exclusively by Ciena, will enable Sprint to enhance transport network scalability, cost and performance. It will support core network speeds of 40G and 100G today with the ability to scale to 400G and beyond in the future. Ciena sais the 6500...
