AT&T's Project VIP Will Bring Wireless + Wireline Integration

Project VIP is on track and will deliver multiple benefits to AT&T as its wireless and wireline networks become more tightly integrated, said John Donovan, Senior Executive Vice President - AT&T Technology & Network Operations, speaking at the Citi Global Internet, Media & Telecommunications Conference on January 9th. Objectives of the three year Project VIP include: Densification of the wireless grid through multiple technology...

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Equinix Invests in Fourth Data Center in Tokyo

 Citing high demand for data center services in Japan, Equinix announced plans to invest $43 million  to build its fourth International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center, TY4, in Ōtemachi, Tokyo. The new TY4 IBX data center  will be launched in two phases, providing total capacity of 750 cabinet equivalents. The first phase, scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2013, will offer initial capacity of 450 cabinet equivalents....

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ETNO Looks for Further Deregulation in European Telecom Markets

The European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) will undertake a review of national markets with a goal determining where further deregulation could lead to increased investment. ETNO said the main changes to the recommendation should include: A reduction of the number of markets, in particular the retail market for access to the fixed telephone network: no competition issues are observed on this market where fixed telephony...

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Nokia Tops Q4 Estimates and NSN Hits Record Q4 Profits

Nokia reported good news:  sales of Devices & Services exceeded expectations and achieved underlying profitability in the fourth quarter 2012.  Specifically, its Mobile Phones business unit and Lumia portfolio delivered better than expected results; and operating expenses were lower than expected.  Devices & Services non-IFRS operating margin for the fourth quarter 2012 now expected to be between break even and positive 2 percent. In...

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Mirantis Raises $10 Million for OpenStack

Mirantis, a start-up based in Mountain View, California with offices in Russia and Ukraine, raised $10 million in venture funding for its OpenStack systems integration work. Mirantis' goal is to make a vendor-agnostic OpenStack cloud simple and predictable for service providers, SaaS vendors, and enterprises. Mirantis was an early OpenStack advocate, since the open source project was introduced in 2010 and recently joined Dell and Intel as founding...

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Consumer electronics Revenues Pegged at $209 Billion for 2013

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) estimates that revenues for the consumer electronics (CE) industry are projected to grow nearly three percent, reaching a new record-high of $209.6 billion for 2013 for the U.S. market.  This compares with 2012 sales of  $204 billion, which was up five percent from 2011. Mobile connected devices continue to drive industry growth: Tablet computing will continue double-digit growth in 2013....

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JDSU Hires Susan Spradley as GM of Communications Test and Measurement

JDSU named Susan Spradley as senior vice president of its communications test and measurement business unit.  Reporting to David Heard, CommTest’s president, she is responsible for the development and management of the communications test product portfolio, including instruments, probes, software applications and service assurance solutions. Spradley brings more than 20 years of telecommunications industry experience to JDSU, serving in executive...

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Sandvine Confirms $6.5 Million in Follow-on Orders, Adds Dermot O'Carroll to Board

Sandvine confirmed the receipt of more than $6.5 million in follow-on Network Policy Control orders from a Top-5 Asian communications service provider. Sandvine announced initial orders from the customer in May 2012. Since May 2012, Sandvine has announced orders from certain Tier-1 Asian operators that total approximately $20 million and has reported the highest market share in the region. “This is a multi-phase project and the deployment has...

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Sandvine Posts Q4 Revenue of $27.5 Million

Sandvine reported $27.5 million in revenue for its fourth quarter of 2012, non-IFRS income of $6.9 million and net income of $6.5 million. During the quarter, Sandvine recorded a one-time, $3.8 million reduction in operating expenses for Ontario government funding related to its ongoing project under the Next Generation of Jobs Fund.  Full year results included revenue of $87.9 million and a non-IFRS loss of $2.7 million (net loss of $5.0 million). Some...

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Broadcom Ships GPON Gateway Chip for China

Broadcom introduced a highly integrated gigabit passive optical network (GPON) Home Gateway Unit (HGU) system-on-a-chip (SoC) that supports China Telecom's E8C specification, which is required for all GPON deployments in China. The new BCM68571 GPON home gateway chip features line rate packet processing, a quad port FE switch, PCI Express, USB 2.0 and SIM card controller. The Chinese market continues to grow and is poised to be a leading GPON region...

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Broadcom is onto its 9th Generation of ADSL Gateway Silicon

Broadcom is now shipping its ninth generation ADSL gateway silicon.  Broadcom said its new BCM6318 ADSL2+ gateway complements the existing xDSL product lines by offering an ultra-low cost solution for entry level products. It features multiple Ethernet ports coupled with expansion ports to enable USB 2.0, and Wi-Fi. "As ADSL deployments increase in emerging markets, they become more mature. Simple bridge products must be replaced by more sophisticated...

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Shehzad Merchant Appointed CTO of Extreme Networks

Extreme Networks promoted Shehzad T. Merchant to the position of Chief Technical Officer (CTO). Merchant holds 10 technology patents for networking including Policy-based quality of service, unified, configurable, adaptive network infrastructure, VLAN aggregation, and security/access intrusion detection.  Recently, Merchant has shaped the company's Open Fabric data center strategy for open networking for virtualized data center and cloud...

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