Deutsche Telekom Looks to LTE-A, Vectoring+Fiber, City Wi-Fi and Project TeraStream

Deutsche Telekom unveiled plans to push its LTE network to 150 Mbps downlink speeds, to expand its fiber optic infrastructure and reach around 24 million households with up to 100 Mbps service by the end of 2016, and to transform Hamburg into the first “WiFi city”. In a press conference ahead of next week's IFA trade show in Berlin, executives from Deutsche Telekom described the network infrastructure the Group is implementing as "the best possible...

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KT Gains 1.8 GHz Spectrum for LTE-A Launch

KT is preparing to launch LTE-A service this month using carrier aggregation technology to achieve downlink speeds of up to 150 Mbps.  The Korean operator secured the 1.8 GHz frequency band at auction last week. The license covers 20 MHz in the band. KT, which currently has about 6.5 million LTE subscribers, plans a nationwide rollout over the coming months, beginning in Seoul. The company has about 100,000 base stations ready for upgrade....

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Digital Realty Acquires Data Center in Osaka

Digital Realty Trust announced its entrance into the data center market in Japan with the acquisition of a 15,000 square meter site in Osaka at a purchase price of $10.5 million. "Our customers continue to demand enterprise-quality data centres on a global scale," said Michael F. Foust, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Realty. "The acquisition of our first site in Japan enables us to expand our world-class data centre platform to meet the growing...

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Siklu Joins Cisco Small Cell Wireless Backhaul Ecosystem

Siklu Communication's small cell wireless backhaul solutions are now part of the Cisco Small Cell Wireless Backhaul Ecosystem. Siklu’s Gigabit capacity small form factor millimeter wave radios provide a solution for both the small cell backhaul and small cell offload to the macro cell backhaul network. Its EtherHaul-600T is a palm-sized all-outdoor small cell backhaul product operating in the 57-66 GHz V-band that enables rapid deployment anywhere,...

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Microsoft to Build $250M Data Center in Finland

Microsoft plans to invest $250 million to build a new data center in Finland. The new facility will serve Microsoft consumers in Europe. The announcement was made in conjunction with Microsoft's bid to acquire Nokia's device business. Microsoft operates a major data center in Dublin, Ireland. http://www.microsoft.com In February 2012, Microsoft announced an additional US$130 million investment to expand its data centre located in Dublin, Ireland....

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RiverMeadow Closes $12 Million for Cloud Migration Tools

RiverMeadow Software, a start-up based in San Jose, California and Westford, Massachusetts, has closed a $12 million Series B financing round to support its automated server migration solution developed specifically for carrier and service provider clouds. RiverMeadow Cloud Migration SaaS version 2.0 automates the migration process for moving both Linux and Windows servers into public, private or hybrid clouds. Unlike other solutions that migrate...

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