NSN Sees Upstream Gain with HSPA+ Continuous Packet Connectivity

Nokia Siemens Networks has tested Continuous Packet Connectivity (CPC) features that reduce interference on HSPA+ networks thereby providing five times more uplink capacity. This allows operators to support more smartphone users on HSPA+ networks. In addition, smart device batteries last 15% longer while people benefit from a 60% increase in data rates.The tests included field testing using Nokia Siemens Networks’ Flexi Multiradio Base Station with...

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ShoreTel’s Newly Acquired Cloud Division Announces Mobile UC

ShoreTel's recently acquired M5 cloud division is now supporting smartphone access to enterprise voice and unified communications (UC) applications. The initial launch will support iPhones and subsequent releases over the summer will add support for other smartphone and tablet devices including Android and Blackberry. Users are able to leverage a single converged device for both business and personal communications, and access deskphone and UC capabilities on their iPhone without having to learn a new interface. The solution is available to ShoreTel’s...

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Sonus to Acquire N.E.T. for $42 Million

Sonus Networks agreed to acquire Network Equipment Technologies for $42 million in cash ($1.35 per share).NET is a supplier of enterprise-class networking solutions optimized for secure real-time communications in Unified Communications (UC), SIP trunking and Cloud-based deployments. The portfolio includes its flagship Unified Exchange (UX) product line, which enables public and private network operators to simplify their network by converging legacy...

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Sand9 Raises for $23 Million for MEMS Resonators

Sand 9, a start-up based in Cambridge, Mass., raised a total of $23 million in its Series C financing for its MEMS precision timing products for wireless and wired applications.Sand 9's MEMS timing-device platform achieves stringent phase noise and short-term stability requirements for wireless and wired applications. The new funding round was led by Intel Capital with significant participation from Vulcan Capital. Intel Capital and Vulcan Capital...

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Juniper Launches New Jersey OpenLab for SDN

Juniper Networks announced "OpenLab, The Junos Center for Innovation" -- a new facility whose mission is to drive and facilitate network-integrated applications centered around software-defined networking (SDN). The lab is located in Bridgewater, New Jersey, which puts it in proximity to service providers such as AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and several global enterprises like NYSE Euronext, Bloomberg, and others. The OpenLab offers nearly 7,000 square feet of collaboration, lab, rack and conference space, as well as access to application development...

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Freescale Outlines Layerscape Architecture for SDN

Freescale Semiconductor outlined a new software-aware Layerscape system architecture for its third-generation QorIQ portfolio of processors. The new Layerscape architecture aims for greater software programmability and scalability required by network infrastructure to handle the profusion of connected devices, massive datasets, more stringent security needs, real-time service provisioning and increasingly unpredictable network traffic patterns....

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Procera Adds V.P. of Asia Pacific Sales and Services

Procera Networks announced that Patrick Duncan has joined the company as Vice President, Asia Pacific Sales and Services. Duncan previously served at CloudShield Technologies as General Manager of APAC Sales, where he built a regional business from zero presence to establishing customers, partners and revenue in Australia, Korea, Japan, India and Singapore. http://www.proceranetworks....

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Infinera Ships DTN-X with 500 Gbps Super-Channels

Infinera announced first shipments of its DTN-X platform to customers for deployment. The company confirmed multiple trials and purchase orders from new and existing customers for the DTN-X platform, which features 500 Gbps long-haul FlexCoherent super-channels.To date, Infinera has announced plans to deploy the DTN-X platform with two new customers, Cable&Wireless Worldwide for its Europe Persia Express Gateway (EPEG) and DANTE for its GÉANT...

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ZTE Tallies $13.7 billion in U.S. Purchases So Far

Since entering the U.S. market in 2007, ZTE's supply chain purchases in the U.S. have totaled more than $13.7 billion, according to Lixin Cheng, President of North America Region of ZTE Corporation. The company expects it purchases to grow at a 10% rate. ZTE currently operates 10 offices around the country, including five R&D locations and a logistics center. It also has more than 400 employees across North America.Earlier this year, ZTE announced...

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ZTE Shows Single-Chip LTE Smartphone

ZTE Corporation unveiled its first single-chip LTE smartphone, the Grand X LTE (T82), at this week's CommunicAsia2012 in Singapore. The Grand X LTE (T82) will be available in Asia Pacific and Europe in third quarter 2012. The smartphone phone uses the latest MSM8960 chip from Qualcomm, which is based on advanced 0.28nm technology. It is Wi-Fi capable, uses Android 4.0, and features a 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU and an 8 mega-pixel main camera that supports...

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Boingo Adds 75,000 Hotspots in Korea with SK Tel

Boingo Wireless signed a network access agreement with SK Telecom giving its customers access to more than 75,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in airports, hotels, convention centers, restaurants and office locations across Korea. Boingo's roaming partners, including Wi2, BT Openzone and Orange France, can also extend network access to their customers, providing seamless roaming options for international travelers.Boingo's aggregated network now extends to over...

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NSN Sees Upstream Gain with HSPA+ Continuous Packet Connectivity

Nokia Siemens Networks has tested Continuous Packet Connectivity (CPC) features that reduce interference on HSPA+ networks thereby providing five times more uplink capacity. This allows operators to support more smartphone users on HSPA+ networks. In addition, smart device batteries last 15% longer while people benefit from a 60% increase in data rates.The tests included field testing using Nokia Siemens Networks’ Flexi Multiradio Base Station with...

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ShoreTel’s Newly Acquired Cloud Division Announces Mobile UC

ShoreTel's recently acquired M5 cloud division is now supporting smartphone access to enterprise voice and unified communications (UC) applications. The initial launch will support iPhones and subsequent releases over the summer will add support for other smartphone and tablet devices including Android and Blackberry. Users are able to leverage a single converged device for both business and personal communications, and access deskphone and UC capabilities on their iPhone without having to learn a new interface. The solution is available to ShoreTel’s...

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Sonus to Acquire N.E.T. for $42 Million

Sonus Networks agreed to acquire Network Equipment Technologies for $42 million in cash ($1.35 per share).NET is a supplier of enterprise-class networking solutions optimized for secure real-time communications in Unified Communications (UC), SIP trunking and Cloud-based deployments. The portfolio includes its flagship Unified Exchange (UX) product line, which enables public and private network operators to simplify their network by converging legacy...

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Sand9 Raises for $23 Million for MEMS Resonators

Sand 9, a start-up based in Cambridge, Mass., raised a total of $23 million in its Series C financing for its MEMS precision timing products for wireless and wired applications.Sand 9's MEMS timing-device platform achieves stringent phase noise and short-term stability requirements for wireless and wired applications. The new funding round was led by Intel Capital with significant participation from Vulcan Capital. Intel Capital and Vulcan Capital...

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Juniper Launches New Jersey OpenLab for SDN

Juniper Networks announced "OpenLab, The Junos Center for Innovation" -- a new facility whose mission is to drive and facilitate network-integrated applications centered around software-defined networking (SDN). The lab is located in Bridgewater, New Jersey, which puts it in proximity to service providers such as AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and several global enterprises like NYSE Euronext, Bloomberg, and others. The OpenLab offers nearly 7,000 square feet of collaboration, lab, rack and conference space, as well as access to application development...

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Freescale Outlines Layerscape Architecture for SDN

Freescale Semiconductor outlined a new software-aware Layerscape system architecture for its third-generation QorIQ portfolio of processors. The new Layerscape architecture aims for greater software programmability and scalability required by network infrastructure to handle the profusion of connected devices, massive datasets, more stringent security needs, real-time service provisioning and increasingly unpredictable network traffic patterns....

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Procera Adds V.P. of Asia Pacific Sales and Services

Procera Networks announced that Patrick Duncan has joined the company as Vice President, Asia Pacific Sales and Services. Duncan previously served at CloudShield Technologies as General Manager of APAC Sales, where he built a regional business from zero presence to establishing customers, partners and revenue in Australia, Korea, Japan, India and Singapore. http://www.proceranetworks....

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ZTE Tallies $13.7 billion in U.S. Purchases So Far

Since entering the U.S. market in 2007, ZTE's supply chain purchases in the U.S. have totaled more than $13.7 billion, according to Lixin Cheng, President of North America Region of ZTE Corporation. The company expects it purchases to grow at a 10% rate. ZTE currently operates 10 offices around the country, including five R&D locations and a logistics center. It also has more than 400 employees across North America.Earlier this year, ZTE announced...

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ZTE Shows Single-Chip LTE Smartphone

ZTE Corporation unveiled its first single-chip LTE smartphone, the Grand X LTE (T82), at this week's CommunicAsia2012 in Singapore. The Grand X LTE (T82) will be available in Asia Pacific and Europe in third quarter 2012. The smartphone phone uses the latest MSM8960 chip from Qualcomm, which is based on advanced 0.28nm technology. It is Wi-Fi capable, uses Android 4.0, and features a 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU and an 8 mega-pixel main camera that supports...

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Boingo Adds 75,000 Hotspots in Korea with SK Tel

Boingo Wireless signed a network access agreement with SK Telecom giving its customers access to more than 75,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in airports, hotels, convention centers, restaurants and office locations across Korea. Boingo's roaming partners, including Wi2, BT Openzone and Orange France, can also extend network access to their customers, providing seamless roaming options for international travelers.Boingo's aggregated network now extends to over...

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