Softbank Completes Acquisition, Positions Sprint for Accelerated LTE

SoftBank completed its acquisition of Sprint.  SoftBank paid approximately $16.64 billion to purchase shares from existing Sprint shareholders. It has also agreed to invest an additional $5 billion in Sprint's network, of which $1.9 billion is available at closing .  As a result of the transaction, the ownership of current Sprint equity holders in the new Sprint will be approximately 22 percent, while SoftBank will own approximately 78...

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T-Mobile Announces Jump! Smartphone Upgrades and LTE Expansion

T-Mobile unveiled its JUMP! program for enabling customers to upgrade their phones up to twice a year. Basically, the program makes it easier to upgrade to a new device without having to wait out a lengthy contract.  JUMP!, which has an enrollment fee of $10 per month, is packaged with a smartphone insurance program. New phones are financed through T-Mobile's Equipment Installment Program (EIP). Customers will need to trade...

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Broadcom's EPON ONU and OLT Chipsets Support DOCSIS Provisioning

Broadcom confirmed that its end-to-end EPON ONU and OLT chipsets and DML software are ready to be deployed in DOCSIS provisioning of EPON (DPoE) 1.0 environments. Broadcom said the 1G EPON and 10G EPON access technologies offer the bandwidth, scale, and features required to deliver demanding business and mobile backhaul services. CableLabs DPoE 1.0 specification fully supports the DOCSIS provisioning processes. The company has been collaborating...

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Amazon Cuts Price for EC2 Dedicated Instances by 80%

Amazon Web Services announced a price reduction of up to 80% on its Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances, which are EC2 instances that run on single-tenant hardware dedicated to a single customer account. Amazon Dedicated Instances offer On-Demand and Reserved Instance purchasing options. The reduction applies to both the dedicated per region fee and the per-instance On-Demand and Reserved Instance fee across all supported instance types and all AWS Regions....

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SanDisk Intros Fastest 64GB microSDXC Card for Smartphones

SanDisk introduced its Extreme microSDHC and microSDXC UHS-I memory cards, delivering 64GB of storage for smartphones, tablets and cameras. SanDisk says these microSDXC cards are the fastest on the market1, with up to 80MB/sec read and up to 50MB/sec write speeds, allowing faster shot-to-shot performance, rapid data transfer, fast action photography, continuous burst mode and quick file transfers. “Most high-end smartphones are now driven by high-speed...

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Seagate Releases 4TB HDD for Enterprises and Data Centers

Seagate Technology unveiled two new enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDD) optimized for emerging cloud infrastructures and large scale data centers — the Seagate Terascale HDD and the Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7. The Terascale HDD is the highest capacity HDD (4TB) available in a 3.5-inch enterprise-class SATA HDD and represents Seagate’s lowest $/GB enterprise HDD for use in scalable multi-drive systems.  It features Seagate’s...

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Telkom Indonesia Picks ALU for WDM/OTN

Telkom Indonesia has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build a next-generation agile optical network in the Kalimantan and Sulawesi areas, as well as the greater Jakarta region, which generates around 50% of Telkom Indonesia's data traffic. Financial terms were not disclosed. The network, which will be based on converged WDM/OTN technology will enable Telkom Indonesia to provide 100G capability, will carry over 50% of traffic in the carrier's service...

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Dell Adds Server Streaming to Virtualization Software

The latest release of Dell Wyse WSM desktop and application virtualization software (Version 6) adds server streaming capability. Dell Wyse WSM delivers operating systems and applications separately to stateless, diskless clients on demand, providing a manageable, reliable and scalable PC computing experience from the cloud. Unlike traditional VDI, Dell Wyse WSM enables the desktop OS and applications to execute locally on the client, giving that...

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SiTime Introduces TempFlat Technology for MEMS Oscillators

SiTime introduced TempFlat MEMS technology -- an ability to eliminate temperature compensation in precision timing applications, resulting in higher performance, smaller size, lower power and cost. TempFlat MEMS technology is being used in SiTime’s SiT15xx family of kHz oscillators for Smartphones.  The devices are currently available. “In 2006, our semiconductor process enabled the first production MEMS oscillator. Since then, we have had...

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Ceragon Cites $3.5 Million APAC Order for LTE Backhaul

Ceragon Networks reported new orders valued at $3.5 million from a large Asia Pacific (APAC) mobile operator.  The equipment is being deployed as part of the operator's LTE network upgraded. Ceragon is also supplying a range of professional turnkey services including planning, network design and project management to ensure fast time to market for the operator and fast time to service for its customers. "Ceragon's microwave backhaul solutions...

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