CTO Perspectives: Radisys' Manish Singh on Network Innovation

Converge! Digest: Every study points to an aggressive growth in mobile video traffic over the next few years.  How will the network evolve to address this challenge? Manish Singh:  Yes, if you look at the fastest growing segment of the mobile networks, it is video. One of the challenges operators face is that  traffic is not necessarily monetizable.  So what Radisys is doing is really enabling operators to...

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CTIA: U.S. Mobile Operators Invested $30.1 Billion in 2012, up 19%

The U.S. wireless providers increased their annual network investments from $25.3 billion in 2011 to $30.1 billion in 2012 (up 19 percent), according to CTIA-The Wireless Association's semi-annual survey. CTIA represents the U.S. wireless communications industry. The investments represent approximately 25% of the world's total wireless capital expenditures fo 2012 , even though the U.S. has only five percent of the world's wireless users. "The...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom: 61% of Broadband Lines Now on FTTx

Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom reported Q1 2013 net revenue of NT$56.63 billion (US$1.92 billio), up 2.1% compared to last year.  This total was comprised of 49.3% mobile, 10.6% internet, 31.9% domestic fixed, 6.7% international fixed, and the remainder was from other businesses. Some highlights for Q1 2013: As of March 31st, the number of FTTx subscribers reached 2.79 million, accounting for 61.2% of total broadband users. Moreover, the...

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Sprint Gives 60-Day Notice on Shutdown of iDEN Network

Sprint confirmed that June 29, 2013 will be the last full day of service for its Nextel iDEN network. Sprint said it will shut down iDEN switch locations in rapid succession on June 30, followed by powering down equipment and eliminating backhaul at each cell site. The transition of Sprint’s push-to-talk service from iDEN to CDMA is part of the company’s Network Vision plans. Customer migration initiatives have been underway for the past 11...

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Mellanox to Showcase Quagga L3 Stack on its Ethernet Silicon

Mellanox Technologies is planning to showcase its new Open Ethernet platforms at next week's Interop in Las Vegas. The Open Ethernet demonstration will include Quagga L3 open source stack running on top of Mellanox’s SwitchX based 10/40/56GbE switch systems. Mellanox describes its Open Ethernet initiative as an alternative approach to traditional closed-code Ethernet switches, providing customers with full flexibility and freedom to custom-design...

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Intel Picks COO for Next CEO

Intel's board of directors named Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer (CEO), succeeding Paul Otellini who steps down later this month. Krzanich has served as Intel's chief operating officer since January 2012 and has been with the company since 1982. The board of directors also named Renée James to be president of Intel. She has served as chairman of Intel's software subsidiaries -- Havok, McAfee and Wind River -- and also currently...

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Mexico Undertakes Telecom Reform

Mexico will undertake a structural reform of its telecom sector after its Congress voted almost overwhelming to create a new regulatory autonomous body with the power to revoke licenses of monopolies.   Carlos Slim's America Movil holds an estimated 80% of the wireline sector and 70% of the wireless sector. http://www.congreso.gob.mx/...

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Procera Lands Multi-Million Dollar Follow-On Order in Europe

Procera Networks confirmed a a multi-million dollar follow-on order from a Tier 1 European network operator for multiple PacketLogic PL20000 systems.  The equipment will be used to expand the existing deployment and provide more capacity and functionality for the operator. The PL20000 platform supports up to 320Gbps and up to 5 Tbps per cluster of Intelligent Policy Enforcement (IPE) providing scalability for up to ten million subscribers...

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FeedHenry Raises $9 Million for HTML5

FeedHenry, a start-up based in Ireland with offices in Boston, raised US$9 million for its cloud- based mobile enterprise application solutions. FeedHenry's mobile application development platform enables development of native, hybrid and HTML5 apps that securely connect to multiple backend systems and supports deployment of server-side code to private, public or hybrid cloud environments.  The company said its solution offers IT departments...

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