Dell Pushes Ahead into SDN Cloud Data Centers

Dell advanced its strategy for cloud data centers with the introduction of a top-of-rack switch with 40G fabric uplinks and Fibre Channel over Ethernet , high performance 10/40G blade switching products, and the commercial release of OpenFlow software-defined networking in the Force10 operating system. Dell said these additions underline its commitment to software-defined infrastructure. The company is pursuing a "complete and unbiased approach...

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Telefónica Demos Multivendor VoLTE-to-3G Handover

Telefónica Deutschland has demonstrated multivendor handover of Voice-over LTE calls to 3G using Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC).  The handover test was achieved in Germany in a laboratory environment that simulates a real mobile network. Handsets and network components from at least six different manufacturers have been used, including Acme Packet, Ericsson, Huawei, NSN, Qualcomm and Sony Mobile. Telefónica said future benefits...

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Sprint's Network Vision Upgrades Completed at 8,000 Sites

Sprint reported Q4 revenue of $9 billion and full year 2012 consolidated net operating revenue of $35.3 billion. There was a net loss of $1.3 billion and a diluted net loss of $.44 per share for the fourth quarter of 2012 as compared to a net loss of $1.3 billion and a diluted net loss of $.43 per share in the fourth quarter of 2011. "Sprint’s strong performance was fueled by record wireless service revenue on the Sprint platform due to year-over-year...

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Alcatel-Lucent Posts Q4 Revenue of EUR 4.096 Billion, Down 1.3% YoY

Citing persistent cautious spending in Europe and low activity in China, Alcatel-Lucent reported revenue of Euro 4.096 billion for Q4 2012, down 1.3% YoY but up 13.8% compared to the previous quarter.  At constant currency exchange rates and perimeter, revenues increased 16.2% sequentially and decreased 3.9% year-over-year.   Gross margin came in at 30.4% of revenue for the quarter, compared to 34.4% in the year ago quarter and 27.9% in...

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Fujitsu and Panasonic to Combine Semiconductor Units

Fujitsu Limited and Panasonic Corporation agreed to combine their semiconductor businesses into a new company with a fabless business model. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) envisions a new integrated company that focuses on key fields, including LSI devices for high-performance servers and networks in cloud infrastructure, visual and imaging solutions (next-generation DTV, applications for image recognition, etc.), and wireless solutions...

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TIM Brazil Builds Long-haul 100G on G.653 Fiber with Huawei

TIM Brazil has deployed a coherent 100G WDM network over G.653 optical fiber using equipment from Huawei. The G.653 optical fiber (also called dispersion shifted fiber) used on TIM's current networks was generally thought to be incompatible with 100G long-haul WDM due to strong non-linear effects such as four-wave mixing (FWM). Huawei said it was able to overcome these long-haul constraints using modulation format technologies, non-linearity suppression...

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Charter to Acquire Optimum West from Cablevision for $1.6 Billion

Charter Communications, which is the fourth largest cable operator in the U.S., will acquire Cablevision's Bresnan Broadband Holdings (Optimum West) for $1.625 billion in cash.  Optimum West manages cable operating systems in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Utah that pass more than 660,000 homes and serve 304,000 video subscribers and 366,000 customer relationships. "With this transaction, Charter will acquire some of the fastest growing cable...

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