U.S. Intelligence Committee Investigates Huawei and ZTE

The U.S. House of Representatives'  Committee on Intelligence held an open hearing in Washington, D.C. to question Huawei and ZTE about possible threats they pose to national security. Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said he called the hearing because "Huawei and ZTE provide a wealth of opportunities for Chinese intelligence agencies to insert malicious hardware or software implants into critical telecommunications components and systems....

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NeoPhotonics Optimizes GPON Transceiver for 1:128 Split

NeoPhotonics introduced a multiport Mode Coupling Receiver (MCR) optical line terminal (OLT) transceiver for gigabit passive optical networks (GPON) in an SFP form factor and for use in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks.  The new devices allows FTTH operators to optimize GPON bandwidth utilization. NeoPhotonics said its platform PIC technology enables an economical SFP form factor, which is compatible with the installed base of GPON OLT...

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Huawei Updates its SingleFAN Access Platform for 10G PON, Copper Vectoring

Huawei announced its new generation multi-mode & dual-core MxU with support for PON/10G-PON multi-mode uplink and Vectoring downlinks over copper access at up to 100 Mbps.  Huawei's MxU is the key processing module in its SingleFAN solution, which is the company's unified platform for PON, P2P, DSL, coax, E1, and other network access infrastructure. The upgraded MxU now leverages dual-core CPUs to improves processing speed and enable better...

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Huawei Wins Big Managed Services Deal with VimpelCom Russia

VimpelCom Russia, one of the world's largest integrated telecom operators, awarded a five year contract to Huawei to manage its integrated telecommunications network. VimpelCom will transfer an estimated 1,300 employees to Huawei, which will then take complete responsibility for the multi-vendor, multi-technology fixed and mobile networks, which cover the Volga and the Far East. The scope of work includes end-to-end network management, including...

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Huawei's Ren Zhengfei Meets with the President of the European Council

Huawei CEO and Founder, Mr. RenZhengfei met with the President of the European Council, Mr. Herman Van Rompuy at the council's headquarters in Brussels to discuss the development of the economy and the ICT industry in both China and Europe. Mr. Ren said that mutual trust-based collaboration and investment between China and Europe in the ICT industry will drive the acceleration of technological innovation and support the openness of the marke...

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