Sprint's Network Vision Sees Some Delays

Sprint’s Network Vision program  now has over 4,300 cell sites on air and the number either ready for construction or currently being updated has more than doubled in the last three months to more than 13,500.  Sprint has completed leasing and zoning permits on more than 20,000 sites.  Weekly construction starts are up over 250 percent from the second quarter but the company now expects to bring 12,000 sites on air approximately one...

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Telefónica Digital Acquires TokBox for Video Platform

Telefónica Digital has acquired TokBox, a San Francisco based start-up developing a platform for live video-based communications services.  Financial terms were not disclosed. TokBox's OpenTok Video Platform enables enables video calling to be integrated into websites and mobile applications. TokBox launched the OpenTok Video Platform in November 2010 with companies such as American Idol, Ford and Diet Coke having used its technology. Telefónica...

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Deutsche Telekom Builds Massive Data Center (150,000m2)

Deutsche Telekom has broken ground on Germany's largest data center -- a massive facility that will be built on a surface area the size of approximately 30 soccer fields (i.e., 150,000m2) in Biere, Saxony-Anhalt. The new facility, which will be the 90th data center operated by Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems subsidiary, will operate as a twin of another data center already running in Magdeburg.  The new construction in Biere will form a "TwinCore"...

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Internap Plans Another Huge Data Center for New Jersey

Internap Network Services announced plans for a new data center in Secaucus, N.J. to serve the New York metro area.  The company's wo existing New York data centers are nearing capacity over the next twelve months. Internap said this data center will measure about 100,00 square feet (9,290 m2) and employ the latest power and cooling technologies to deliver power densities of up to 12 kW per cabinet.  The new Secaucus data center will add...

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Apple Sells 26.9 Million iPhones in Q3

Apple reported robust demand for its iPhones. The company sold 26.9 million iPhones in Q3, representing 58% unit growth over the year-ago quarter, and up from 20.3 million in the previous June quarter.   A total of 125 million iPhones have been sold to date. Another note -- Apple is now holding $121.25 billion in cash. http://www.apple....

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Vertical Systems: Business Ethernet Passes Legacy Bandwidth

Vertical Systems Group calculates that business Ethernet service have passed a significant milestone:  global bandwidth purchased for business Ethernet service connections surged past the volume of bandwidth utilized for legacy data services.  This bandwidth crossover milestone was reached in the U.S. market in 2011. Connection speeds available for Ethernet services range from sub-10 Mbps rates to above 10 Gbps. "Global growth...

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China Mobile Awards TD-LTE Contract to NSN

China Mobile has selected Nokia Siemens Networks for the deployment of TD-LTE in three cities by the end of 2012 as part of its large-scale, pre-commercial trial of TD-LTE. Nokia Siemens Networks will deploy its TD-LTE 8-pipe radio and Flexi Multiradio Base Stations. In addition, Nokia Siemens Networks will help China Mobile with Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) technology testing in Hangzhou, a technique used to offer voice calls alongside TD-LTE...

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Telesis Tanzania Picks Alcatel-Lucent for LTE

Telesis Tanzania, a new carrier which operates as a Mobile Virtual Network Aggregator (MVNA) supporting services for a number of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), has selected Alcatel-Lucent to deploy LTE. For the project, Alcatel-Lucent will provide its 4G LTE solution including Radio Access network (RAN) products, the Evolved Packet Core solution (EPC), the Service Aware Manager the Subscriber Data Manager, Convergent Charging System as well as its services expertise including project management, integration and optimization. The mobile...

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Ericsson Appoints Head of Research

Ericsson has appointed Dr. Sara Mazu as Head of Ericsson Research, Group Function Technology, replacing Jan Färjh, who has taken up another position within Ericsson as Head of  Standardization and Industry, Group Function Technology. Mazur, who holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, is currently Vice President and Head of System Management within Business Unit Networks. Her most recent focus has been on unit-wide technology...

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