Cisco: Global Mobile Data Traffic to Grow 13-fold by 2017

Global mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold over the next five years, reaching 11.2 exabytes per month (or an annual run rate of 134 exabytes) by 2017, according to the newly released,  sixth annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast.  This represents a  compound annual growth rate of 66% -- a slight decline from the 70% CAGR forecast last year due a slowdown in connected laptop sales especially...

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EarthLink Offers Private MPLS Access for Cloud Services

EarthLink is introducing a Data Center Connect option that enables clients to leverage the EarthLink private MPLS network to access the cloud by interconnecting one or more sites to EarthLink SSAE 16 SOC 2 compliant data centers. The Data Center Connect service ensures that the client's application traffic between the data center and the MPLS network is protected by redundant paths and infrastructure, enhancing service availability and improving...

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AT&T Signs Telepresence Deals with Tata Comm and T-Systems

AT&T signed new global telepresence interconnection agreements with T-Systems and Tata Communications. AT&T also announced that its telepresence solution is one of the first Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC) compliant services, offering customers multi-vendor video collaboration across a range of service providers.  In addition, AT&T has expanded its offering with BT and Orange Business Services through the OVCC’s first...

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Tarana Wireless Target Small Cell Backhaul with Concentrating Multipoint Topology

Tarana Wireless, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, emerged from stealth and announced its entry into the market for small cell backhaul equipment. Tarana will feature a Concentrating Multipoint (CMP) backhaul topology comprised of two different wireless devices – concentrator nodes (CN) and end nodes (EN). Each EN connects directly to a small cell and provides dedicated backhaul capacity. Tarana devices are configured to form a single...

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Infinera Posts Q4 Revenue of $128 Million and 22 DTN-X Commitments

Infinera reported Q4 2012 revenue of $128.1 million compared to $112.2 million in the third quarter of 2012 and $112.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. GAAP gross margins for the quarter were 34% compared to 37% in the third quarter of 2012 and 40% in the fourth quarter of 2011.  GAAP net loss for the quarter was $(16.1) million, or $(0.14) per share, compared to net loss of $(19.1) million, or $(0.17) per share, in the third quarter...

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Dell'Oro: Wireless LAN Market to Expand 49% in 5 Years

Overall Wireless LAN market revenues are forecast to exceed $11 billion in 2017, nearly 50 percent greater than 2012 revenues,according to a newly released market forecast report by Dell'Oro Group. Key drivers include deployment of Service Provider WiFi (SP WiFi), the 802.11ac upgrade cycle, cloud-managed WLAN, consumer video over WiFi, and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend. "Today's enterprise applications are now built for mobile devices,...

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Telecom Argentina Reports Performance Indicators

Telecom Argentina reported 2012 revenue of 22,177 million pesetas, up 19.6% over 2011, while operating income rose 9.6%.  The 2012 CAPEX amounted to 3,257 million pesetas, up 2.0% over the 2011. Telecom Argentina also released the following performance indicators: http://www.telecom.com.a...

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Telecom NZ Selects Alcatel-Lucent for 100G

Telecom New Zealand will deploy an Alcatel-Lucent 100G optical network to more than 30 cities nationwide. The upgraded backbone will support high-speed transport services and the introduction of a retail fibre product as part of the New Zealand government’s Ultra-Fast Broadband initiative. Network launch is slated for the middle of 2013.  Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alcatel-lucent.c...

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SK Broadband Picks Alcatel-Lucent's 1850 Transport Switch

SK Broadband, a subsidiary of SK Telecom, has picked Alcatel-Lucent to build a packet transport network for enterprise data services in South Korea.  Specifically, SK Broadband will deploy Alcatel-Lucent’s 1850 Transport Service Switch managed by its 1350 Optical Management Suite (OMS). Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alcatel-lucent.c...

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