IBM's Silicon Nanophotonics Integrates 25G Tranceivers in 90nm CMOS

IBM has integrated multiple optical components alongside electrical circuits using 90nm semiconductor process technology. Essentially, IBM has successfully added a variety of silicon nanophotonics components, such as wavelength division multiplexers (WDM), modulators, and detectors, alongside CMOS electrical circuitry using a conventional semiconductor foundry. IBM’s CMOS nanophotonics used transceivers exceeding 25 Gbps per channel. IBM said...

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Cisco Announces CRS-3 and ASR 9000 Deployment with Telefónica

Telefónica Global Solutions will deploy the Cisco CRS-3 and ASR 9000 Series routers for enhanced capacity, high resiliency, and robust IPv6 support. Financial terms were not disclosed. Telefónica's network connects more than 100 locations in more than 60 cities and 40 countries connecting the main cities of Europe, Latin America, the United States and Asia. Cisco said its CRS offers the possibility of future upgrading capacity for its core network...

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ST Exits Wireless Broadband to Focus on Sensors, Embedded Processing

STMicroelectronics unveiled a new corporate strategy under which it will exit the ST-Ericsson partnership and the wireless broadband market, choosing instead to focus on sensors and embedded processing. “Our new strategy is centered on leadership in sense and power and automotive products, and in embedded-processing solutions. Our specific focus is on five product areas: MEMS and sensors, smart power, automotive products, microcontrollers, and...

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Bharti Airtel Installs Huge Video Wall for Network Monitoring

Bharti Airtel has installed a 3600-square-foot video wall powered by Nokia Siemens Networks’ dashboard solution at its new Network Experience Centre in Manesar near Gurgaon, India. The wall monitors and analyzes the various aspects of the operator’s entire network operations, and presents them in a unified video view. “As data use continues to surge in India, we have consistently evolved our network to provide the best service quality and customer...

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Pica 8 Unveils its SDN Architecture

Pica 8, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California and Beijing, China, introduced its SDN reference architecture, including a physical open switch, a hypervisor virtual switch and an SDN controller leveraging the OpenFlow 1.2 standard. Unlike earlier SDN entries that target enterprise data centers, Pica 8 has set its sights on  data centers for cloud, portal and service providers. Pica8’s PicOS supports OpenFlow 1.2, it also integrates with...

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Rio Tinto to Deploy Private LTE Network in Australia with Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent will provide Rio Tinto with an end-to-end private 4G LTE network, comprising radio access network (RAN) products including distributed eNodeB base stations operating at 1800MHz, as well as its Evolved Packet Core and Mobile Backhaul capabilities using the 9500 Microwave Packet Radio. Alcatel-Lucent is also providing its 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS)and its 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) network management solution, as well...

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Huawei Builds an R&D Base in Finland

Huawei will invest EUR 70 million over a five-year period to establish a research and development (R&D) center in Helsinki, Finland.  The facility initially will hire 30 employees and target its research on software development for smartphones, tablets and rich-media devices, optimizing the user experience of existing operating systems such as Android and Windows Phone 8. Huawei already operates a modem and technology design center in Sweden...

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Juniper Cites Another QFabric Customer

Klarna, a Swedish e-commerce company that provides payment services for online storefronts, has built its new data center based on Juniper Networks' QFabric architecture. Juniper confirmed that Klarna has deployed a QFX3000-M QFabric System, a high scale network fabric, to ensure the company can manage increased demand for capacity, scalability and flexibility as the volume of online payment data grows by significant amounts each month. The QFX3000-M...

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