Samsung Galaxy S4 Covers Six LTE Bands

Samsung unveiled its GALAXY S 4 smartphone featuring a larger screen size and battery, quad core and octo core processors, better camera sensors and a number of distinguishing software enhancements.  Key specs includes: 5-inch Full HD Super AMOLED (1920 x 1080) display, 441 ppi 1.9 GHz Quad-Core Processor / 1.6 GHz Octa-Core Processor, depending on market Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) 13 megapixel rear camera 2.5G (GSM/ GPRS/ EDGE): 850 /...

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Fujitsu Develops DMT for High-Speed Optical Links

Researchers at Fujitsu have achieved 100 Gbps optical transmission by running Discrete Multi-Tone (DMT) modulation/demodulation on digital signal processors (DSPs) originally intended for 10 Gbps per channel rates. The DMT modulation/demodulation format, which is used in xDSL, divides the data into multiple subcarriers (carrier waves), and multi-level modulation is used for each subcarrier to achieve high transmission speeds.  To optimize each...

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Fujitsu Powers Atacama Compact Array Supercomputer

Fujitsu has supplied 35 of its PRIMERGY x86 servers and a specialized computational unit to power the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) Correlator supercomputer system, which will be employed as part of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) project, a radio telescope featuring unprecedented sensitivity and resolution deployed in Chile. Fujitsu said the ACA Correlator supercomputer is capable of reading up to 512 billion data samples...

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Reliance Globalcom Implements Ciena's GeoMesh on Trans-Atlantic Network

Reliance Globalcom is upgrading its trans-Atlantic FA-1 South submarine network with Ciena’s GeoMesh solution, which is based on the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform powered by WaveLogic 3 coherent optical processors and optical bypass. The upgrade will make the Reliance Globalcom trans-Atlantic submarine network capable of supporting OTN-based client services from OTU2 (10G) to OTU4 (100G). It will allow Reliance Globalcom to provide 100GbE services...

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Japan's KVH Deploys Cyan for 100 Gigabit Ethernet

KVH is deploying Cyan's optical transmission platform to deliver point-to-point 100 Gigabit Ethernet service in Japan. The service is expected to launch between many of Japan's major metropolitan markets. KVH, which serves over 500 financial services customers in Japan, completed field trials of the new service earlier this year using the Cyan Z-Series packet-optical transport platform (P-OTP), XC-2800 2.8 Tbps multi-layer switch fabric, and DTM-100G...

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Vertical Systems Group: Fiber Reaches 36% of U.S. Commercial Buildings

Optical fiber facilities currently reach 36.1% of U.S. commercial buildings, leaving the remaining 63.9% in the 'Fiber Gap' with no accessibility to fiber-based network services, according to latest research from Vertical Systems Group. However despite today's gap, business fiber availability has more than tripled since 2004 when the penetration rate was 10.9%. "Direct fiber is clearly the preferred access technology for Carrier Ethernet services,...

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Equinix Opens Second Seattle Data Center

Equinix inaugurated its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in downtown Seattle in a facility adjacent to its existing SE2 data center, which is located in the Westin Building carrier hotel. The new IBX will add approximately 51,000 square feet of data center space and capacity for more than 1,000 cabinet equivalents to Equinix’s presence in the Seattle market. The new data center offers direct connectivity to the Seattle Internet...

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COLO@ Upgrades with ADVA FSP 3000

COLO@ has selected ADVA Optical Networking’s FSP 3000 to increase capacity at their 34 Peachtree data center facility in downtown Atlanta. Specifically, COLO@ has secured an additional dark fiber ring consisting of two pairs of fiber running between its at 34 Peachtree, and 56 Marietta, which isone of the most highly connected locations in the U.S.  @COLO is using the the newly installed ADVA FSP 3000 DWDM equipment to turn up circuits...

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Netflix Offers US$100,000 Cloud Computing Prize

Netflix is offering US$100,000 in prize money to developers to improve the features, usability, quality, reliability and security of cloud computing resources. The Netflix Cloud Prize is divided into 10 categories that offer a US$10,000 prize each, judged by a panel of independent, renowned, technology pioneers.  Winners will be announced in October with prizes presented at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re:Invent conference in November....

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Ceragon Secures $73.5 Million Credit

Ceragon Networks closed on a three year $73.5 million of secured credit loans with an additional credit of up to $40.2 million available for bank guarantees. The financing used by Ceragon to manage fluctuating working capital needs, mainly related to the deployment of its equipment at tier 1 operators and for general corporate purposes. http://www.ceragon.c...

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