Comcast Tests 1 Tbps, Long-Haul Super-Channel with Ciena

Comcast and Ciena completed a live field trial of a 1 Terabit/sec optical transmission spanning nearly 1,000 km over Comcast’s existing long-haul fiber infrastructure connecting Ashburn, Va. to Charlotte, N.C. The 1 Tbps trial, which took place during the first week of October, carried live data traffic over a 1 Tbps 16QAM super-channel.  At the same time, that network was also carrying customer traffic over 10G, 40G and 100G wavelengths,...

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Vitesse Unveils Jaguar-2 Switch Chip for Carrier Ethernet 2.0

Vitesse Semiconductor introduced its Jaguar-2 single chip solution for MEF Carrier Ethernet 2.0 business services over public and private cloud networks. Jaguar-2 features 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 24 2.5G ports, up to four ports of direct connectivityto 10G optical modules and Layer-3 routing support. Sampling is expected to begin later this quarter. Jaguar-2 leverages Vitesse Service Aware Architecture (ViSAA) to enable advanced Operations,...

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GSA: 222 LTE Networks Launched

Th Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) confirmed that 222 operators have commercially launched LTE services in 83 countries. Some highlights of their most recent report: 109 LTE networks were commercially launched in the past 12 months. 474 operators are investing in LTE in 138 countries, including 421 firm operator commitments to build LTE networks in 128 countries, plus 53 additional operators engaged in various trials, studies, etc. in...

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Alcatel-Lucent Intros Fixed-Access Micronodes

Alcatel-Lucent launched a range of fixed access micro-nodes that combine fiber and VDSL2 vectoring to bring ultra-broadband fixed access to more users, more quickly. The small, customizable, fiber-fed micro-nodes can be deployed on telephone poles, in manholes, in buildings, and any other “fiber-to-the-distribution point” (FTTdp) location, covering 192, 48, 16, or even a single subscriber. The units offer a choice of powering options (remote or...

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Infonetics: Managed Security Services Projected to Grow

Managed security services are projected to grow 45% over the next 5 years, according to a new report from Infonetics.  Major factors include: An increase in the volume, variety, and complexity of threats of all types Security product sprawl A distributed workforce and the proliferation of BYOD erasing network perimeters As IT infrastructure continues its march into the cloud, security will follow: cloud-based security service revenue is...

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Broadcom Posts Revenue of $2.15 Billion, Announces 1,150 Job Cuts

Broadcom reported net revenue was $2.15 billion for the third quarter of 2013, up 2.7% compared with the $2.09 billion reported for the second quarter of 2013 and an increase of 0.8% compared with the $2.13 billion reported for the third quarter of 2012. Net income GAAP) was $316 million , or $0.55 per share (diluted), compared with a GAAP net loss of $251 million , or $0.43 per share (basic and diluted), for the second quarter of 2013 and GAAP net...

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Cloudian Raises Funding from Intel for its Distributed Object Software

Cloudian, a start-up based in Foster City, California, announced Series B funding from Intel Capital. Cloudian develops software for distributed object storage in cloud and enterprise use cases. Cloudian aims to help enterprise IT and cloud service providers (CSPs) to deploy turnkey multi-tenant private and public object storage systems on commodity IA servers, scaling from two servers to exabytes across multiple datacenters with high reliability...

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ZTE Posts 9-Month Revenue of RMB 54.66 Billion (US$8.98b)

ZTE reported a net profit of RMB 552 million (US$90.69 million) from January to September, with basic earnings per share of RMB 0.16, in line with the company’s earlier forecast. Revenue dropped 10% to RMB 54.66 billion (US$8.98 billion). ZTE posted a quarterly profit after extraordinary items in the July-September period, ending a negative sequence that began in the second-quarter of 2012. ZTE forecasts the company will post a full-year net profit...

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