DOCOMO Develops 5-Band LTE Base Station Antenna

NTT DOCOMO has developed a base station antenna that supports five frequency bands, including Japan's newly allocated 700MHz band for LTE DOCOMO plans to begin installing 700MHz-compatible base stations in preparation for the new spectrum, which will become available for use in commercial LTE service in Japan from early 2015. The new antenna the same size as DOCOMO’s existing four-band antennas for 800MHz, 1.5GHz, 1.7GHz and 2GHz. http://w...

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Ericsson: Mobile Data Doubled from 4Q11 to 4Q12

Global mobile data traffic doubled between Q4 2011 and Q4 2012, according to the newly released Ericsson Mobility Report. Mobile data traffic grew by 28 percent between Q3 and Q4 2012. Some highlights of the report: There was a net gain of 140 million subscriptions globally (30 million of which were in China). During 2012, smartphones accounted for 40 percent of new mobile phone sales, compared with 30 percent in 2011. Global mobile penetration...

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Ericsson Releases MINI-LINK Backhaul for Small Cells

Ericsson is expanding its MINI-LINK wireless backhaul portfolio with several new models aimed at small cell deployments. The products being launched are: MINI-LINK SP 415 and 420 - packet aggregation nodes for L3 VPN based on IP/MPLS MINI-LINK PT 3060 - microwave node optimized for small-cell deployments (60GHz) MINI-LINK PT 6020 - 1Gbps (in one 250MHz carrier) microwave node in the E- band (70-80GHz) MINI-LINK LH Compact - long-haul microwave...

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Ericsson Adds Wi-Fi Gateway to SSR Edge Router

Ericsson SSR 8000 family of edge routers with new Service-Aware Support Node (SASN) and Wi-Fi Gateway capabilities. The Ericsson Service-Aware Support Node provides policy control, enabling the SST to ensure differentiated services. Meanwhile, the new Ericsson Wi-Fi Gateway integrates Wi-Fi and mobile-broadband networks for a seamless user experience when switching between access types. The Ericsson Wi-Fi Gateway offers a network-controlled, clientless...

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Taiwan's ZyXEL Licenses Alcatel-Lucent’s Small Cell Software

ZyXEL has agreed to license and integrate small cell product software from Alcatel-Lucent. As part of Alcatel-Lucent’s Software Licensing Program, ZyXEL will integrate Alcatel-Lucent’s residential small cell software with its own broadband and wireless products, to provide consumers with high-speed, high-performance connections to the mobile broadband network in their homes. "At ZyXEL, our mission is to develop IP-enabled wired and wireless broadband...

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Belgacom Picks Alcatel-Lucent's XRS Core Router

Belgacom has selected Alcatel-Lucent's Extensible Routing System (XRS)to expand its network infrastructure as it continues to address the exponential growth in bandwidth demand driven by demand from customers, businesses, data centers and content platforms.  Financial terms were not disclosed. Alcatel-Lucent has previously announced that Telefonica plans to deploy the XRS in Argentina and the Czech Republic. http://www.alcatel-lucent.c...

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Mavenir Moves to Virtualize the IMS Core

Mavenir Systems announced a Virtualized IMS Solution for 4G core networks, including VoLTE & RCS 5. Mavenir is using its Automated mCloud Manager in conjunction with VMware's virtualization technology along with off-the-shelf hardware. The goal is to offer virtualized IMS solutions that can be flexibly deployed to meet business needs such as multi-tenancy and capacity elasticity. Mavenir noted that leading Tier-1 operators in Europe are...

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TE Connectivity Introduces 10 Gbps Serial Link Combiner for Small Cell Networks

TE Connectivity introduced a 10 Gbps optical transport Serial Link Combiner (SLC) for small cell backhaul. TE’s SLC is a CPRI rate muxponder that can support up to 225 MHz of spectrum over a single fiber pair. The SLC combines up to three 3.072 Gbps fiber links to a single 9.8304 Gbps (10 Gbps) single-mode or multi-mode fiber pair. And each SLC chassis supports four 10 Gbps links for a combined 900 MHz of available transport capacity. The company...

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Gee Rittenhouse Named President of Bell Labs

Alcatel-Lucent named Gee Rittenhouse as President of Bell Labs, replacing Jeong Kim, who is to return to his native South Korea, where he is to be appointed as the country’s new Minister of Future Creation and Science. Gee Rittenhouse, currently chief operating officer of Alcatel-Lucent’s technology platforms business, has an extensive experience within Bell Labs, as head of Bell Labs Research and in overseeing all Bell Labs research centers and...

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