FCC Frees Up 30 MHz of Spectrum in 2.3 GHz Band

In its effort to remove regulatory barriers, the FCC adopted rules to enable Wireless Communications Service (WCS) licensees’ to use a total of 30 megahertz of underutilized spectrum in the 2.3 GHz band for wireless broadband services.  Of the 30 megahertz of total spectrum, 20 megahertz may be used for mobile broadband services and 10 megahertz for fixed broadband services, with possible future use as downlink spectrum...

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Mellanox Hits Q3 Revenue of $157 Million, up 17% Sequentially

Mellanox posted revenue of $156.5 million for the third quarter of 2012, up 17.2 percent from $133.5 million in the second quarter of 2012, and up 129.6 percent from $68.2 million in the third quarter of 2011. GAAP gross margins in the third quarter of 2012 were 69.1 percent, compared with 68.8 percent in the second quarter of 2012, and 64.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011. “Our third quarter results demonstrate the company’s continued...

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Verizon to Transfer Pension Plan Obligations Worth $7.5 Billion to Prudential

Verizon Communications announced plans to transfer $7.5 billion in management pension plan obligations to The Prudential Insurance Company of America pursuant to which the Verizon Management Pension Plan (the "Plan").  This will help transfer $7.5 billion of Verizon's nearly $30 billion in outstanding pension obligations. Under the agreement, the Plan will purchase a group annuity contract from Prudential, which will then assume the obligation...

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Google Opens North Carolina Data Center to Street View

Google posted a Street View tour of its massive data center in Lenoir, North Carolina.  A YouTube guided tour is also online. Some notes from the production Google highlights its custom server design Each piece of data is stored on at least 2 servers Important data is back-up to tape libraries http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/streetview/ Here are the locations of Google data centers: Americas Berkeley County,...

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Alcatel-Lucent and Citrix Partner on Carrier Clouds

Alcatel-Lucent is working with Citrix to accelerate the arrival of a new class of ‘carrier cloud’ solutions.  Specifically, Alcatel Lucent is delivering a "Citrix Ready" verified solution,  CloudBand Management System and CloudBand Node, which combines the computing power and flexibility of the cloud with the high performance, reliability and security of communications networks. The "Citrix Ready" designation identifies products...

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Japan's NICT Develops White Spaces Prototype

Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has developed a prototype wireless device that operates in the TV White Space (TVWS) spectrum (470 MHz - 710 MHz) and based on the IEEE 802.11af draft specification.  NICT said its prototype verifies the physical (PHY) and media access control (MAC) layer design of the draft specification. It uses a single 6 MHz TV channel to operate and is implemented...

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Level 3 Expands Data Center in Quito, Ecuador

Citing growing market demand, Level 3 Communications announced an expansion of its data center in Quito, Ecuador.  The company now operates 14 data centers in Latin America.  All of the facilities are on its global network. "The Ecuadorian market shows a growing demand for data housing, hosting and value-added services," said Francisco Guzman, Level 3's head of Sales and Services in Ecuador. "The trend to outsource these services to...

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Alcatel-Lucent Confirms Role in China Mobile’s TD-LTE

China Mobile has awarded a major contract to Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell to support its TD-LTE trial network rollout as it extends services to 10 cities. Under the terms of the contract, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell will deliver approximately 3,000 base stations in the cities of Shanghai, Nanjing and Qingdao, three major economic hubs of China. The company will supply its end-to-end TD-LTE solution including the baseband part of the...

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RagingWire to Build Another Massive Data Center in Ashburn, VA

RagingWire Data Centers, which operates 650,000 square feet (60,000m2) of wholesale and retail data center space in Northern California and Northern Virginia, has paid $20 million offer to acquire 75 acres of land in Ashburn, Virginia. RagingWire said it plans to build  a 750,000 square foot (69,000m2) data center in phases on the site.  RagingWire currently operates a 150,000 square foot facility in Ashburn, along with...

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Belgacom Moves Ahead with Large VDSL2 Vectoring Trial

Belgacom has confirmed its plan for a nationwide upgrade of its large VDSL2 network, which currently serves more than one million active lines. The next step will be large-scale customer trials using Alcatel-Lucent's VDSL2 Vectoring technology. Tests of the new technology are confirming the possibility of a dedicated speed of 50 Mbps to a vast majority of customers, along with a guaranteed high quality video experience.  Belgacom’s current...

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Zayo Continues to Build its Footprint with latest Acquisition -- First Telecom

 Zayo Group, agreed to acquire First Telecom Services, which operates a fiber network across the northeastern and midwestern United States, for $110 million. First Telecom Services manages a network of over 8,000 route miles of fiber and approximately 500 on-net buildings. It provides dark fiber and wavelength services across its 11 state footprint, with the highest concentration of network and revenue in Pennsylvania and Ohio. FTS’ customers...

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