AT&T Announces Shared Wireless Data Plans

Next month, AT&T will begin offering shared wireless data plans that let customers share a single bucket of data across smartphones, tablets, and other compatible devices, plus get unlimited talk and text.  Customers will be able to choose one of the new shared data plans or choose one of AT&T's existing individual or family plans, without a contract extension. There are no changes to AT&T's device upgrade policy, which means...

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The Grum Botnet Meets its Demise

Grum, described as the world's third botnet, has been largely taken offline, following the seizure of command-and-control servers in the Netherlands, Russia and Panama, according to FireEye, which has been tracking the issue. Grum is blamed for generating billions of spam messages daily from at least 120,000 zombie IP addresses around the world. According to the FireEye's blog, Grum's takedown resulted from the efforts of many individuals. Check...

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Verizon Wireless Adds 33 More LTE Markets

Verizon Wireless is activating its 4G LTE network in 33 new markets and expanding in 32 other markets. The company confirmed that it is on track to meet its goal of covering more than 400 U.S. markets by the end of 2012.“Our rollout of Verizon Wireless 4G LTE in the United States is on track and we are confident we will meet our target of providing 4G LTE to our customers in more than 400 markets by the end of the year,” said Nicola Palmer, chief...

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Qualcomm Revenues Hit $4.63 Billion on 3G/4G Expansion

Qualcomm reported quarterly revenues of $4.63 billion, up 28 percent year-over-year (y-o-y) and down 6 percent sequentially. Operating income hit $1.38 billion, up 24 percent y-o-y and down 9 percent sequentially, while net income was $1.21 billion, up 17 percent y-o-y and down 46 percent sequentially."Adoption of 3G and 3G/4G technologies continues around the world, driving strong year-over-year growth in our chipset and licensing businesses this quarter," said Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm. "Looking forward, our growth estimates...

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New OIF Projects Address 100G, 400G and Emerging Control Plane Applications

The OIF has taken on three new projects focusing on 100G and 400G needs for optical and electrical technologies.1. Members of the PLL Working Group are actively assessing the need to synchronize data rates of 4x10G lanes with 4x25G lanes. By mapping an interface IC with fiber optic modules, the Multi-Link Gearbox 2.0 project looks at how to process the link technology with optical interfaces as bandwidth grows to 400G data rates.2. A new project...

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Huawei Announces 2 Tbps Wavelengths Based on DSPs + FEC

Huawei announced a prototype WDM platform capable of delivering 2 Tbps per-channel -- a 20–fold increase over the 100G channels available today. Huawei has previously demonstrated 400 Gbps technology at trade shows earlier this year. The 2 Tbps channel rate is achieved by using intelligent digital signal processing and high performance adaptive-SD FEC technologies. Huawei claims that the 2T signals with 300GHz spectral width can transmit over...

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UNH-IOL and TraceSpan to Provide GPON ONU Conformance Testing

The UNH-IOL will use TraceSpan's GPON Xpert OLT emulator to perform GPON ONU testing in accordance with the Broadband Forum's OD-247 GPON ONU Conformance Test Plan.GPON Xpert combines OLT emulation with passive and objective analysis, and can perform these two functions simultaneously, thus serving as a complete integrated test tool for ONU conformance. The GPON Xpert OLT emulator comes with pre-defined tests for the various OD-247 test cases. Its embedded multi-layer analysis capability automatically compares the ONU's behavior and OD-247 criteria...

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China Mobile and Clearwire Advance Plans for Global Roaming on TD-LTE

China Mobile and Clearwire signed a a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for international roaming between China and the United States using TD-LTE. The carriers are working on the technical means to support international roaming. The companies also expect this agreement to serve as a blueprint for future roaming agreements with other members of the Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI) of which China Mobile and Clearwire are founding members."We...

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