Video: Building Small Cells with Software Defined Radio Flexibility

In this episode of the Radisys partner video series, Doug Morrissey, Chief Technical Officer of Octasic, discusses the development of a small cell base station. Octasic's PHY features a 20 km reach and multistandard support (GSM, 3G and LTE). The software defined radio (SDR) covers all bands and the software stack supports all standards....

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Google Confirms Austin, Texas as its 2nd Fiber City Project

Austin, Texas is the next Google Fiber city. Two years after launching the first Google Fiber project in Kansas City, Google confirmed its intention to bring a similar network to Austin by mid-2014.  Google provides a free 5-7 Mbps data service to residents who pay the upfront fiber connection fee.  Service plans then scale up to symmetric Gigabit connectivity ($70 per month).  A separate Google Fiber TV service now...

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AT&T Counters Google with Offer to Build 1 Gbps Fiber Service in Austin

AT&T is prepared to build an advanced, residential fiber network in Austin, Texas to rival Google's planned deployment. AT&T said it expects the city of Austin will grant it the same terms and conditions as Google on issues such as geographic scope of offerings, rights of way, permitting, state licenses and any investment incentives. “Most encouraging is the recognition by government officials that policies which eliminate unnecessary regulation,...

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Deutsche Telekom Tests Huawei's LTE Active Antenna System

Deutsche Telekom has tested Huawei's advanced LTE Active Antenna System (AAS) on an LTE trial network in Germany. Huawei described the trial as the first of its kind because the AAS used active vertical beamforming for data throughput gains of up to 70%. Huawei's AAS solution integrates the active transceiver array with the passive antenna array to reduce cable loss and significantly simplify site engineering. The solution also takes full advantage...

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Canada's Shaw Tests 400G in Live Network with Alcatel-Lucent

Canadian operator Shaw Communications has successfully tested Alcatel-Lucent's 400 Gbps data transmission over an existing optical link carrying live network traffic.   The trial ran over a 400 km route between Calgary and Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, using Shaw’s current 100G transport network and Alcatel-Lucent's 1830 PSS with the 400G Photonic Service Engine (PSE). Alcatel-Lucent said the 400 Gbps trial demonstrates the capability of...

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XO Picks Ciena for Digital Video Transport Service

XO Communications has selected Ciena’s Digital Video Transport solution to deliver native digital video transport services to media and entertainment customers across the XO nationwide network. The service, which is underpinned by XO Communications’ coast-to-coast 100 Gbps network, will allow XO Communications to transport high-definition (HD) video content for its customers without affecting original quality. The service will multiplex different...

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Arista Integrates with OpenStack and OpenFlow

Arista Networks is integrating its EOS (Extensible Operating System) natively with OpenStack as well as delivering enhanced OpenFlow extensions via direct flow-based configuration interfaces and data-plane programmability. The idea is to enhance cloud networking workflows for rapid cloud provisioning. The OpenFlow extensions into Arista EOS gives customers the ability to implement both IP and OpenFlow in a heterogeneous solution. Standard OpenFlow...

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Kabel Deutschland Picks ADVA for 10G/100G Network

Kabel Deutschland, the largest cable operator in Germany, has selected ADVA Optical Networking's 100G coherent transport for a new nationwide backbone network. Kabel Deutschland will deploy ADVA's 100G technology along with multi-degree, directionless ROADMs. The fully meshed network consists of 26 major nodes and more than 50 intermediate sites.  Financial terms were not disclosed. “After a thorough selection process, it became clear which...

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Orange Business Launches Cloud Identity Security Service

Orange Business Services introduced a cloud identity federation service that provides users with a centralized and unique authentication method to access their resources wherever they are – hosted within the company or in the cloud – on any device. The Orange Flexible Identity offering, which will be available in the second half of 2013, is an enterprise cloud solution that will allow security administrators to define custom profiles and access...

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Extreme Networks Extends its Open Fabric Edge

Extreme Networks announced further expansion of its Open Fabric network architecture, which enables Unified Communications (UC), Physical Security (PhySec) systems, Audio-Video Bridging (AVB), and WLAN on a single converged network for enterprises. The enhancements bring scalability (1-40GbE), reliability, advanced services and customization through an open standards approach to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for enterprises. Highlights...

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