Level 3 Expands its Content Delivery Network

Level 3 Communications announced a substantial expansion to its content delivery network (CDN), increasing its footprint with new points of presence (PoP) in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. "Level 3 has a strategic focus around growing its content delivery network to address the ever-increasing globalization and mobility of entertainment, news and sports content," said Mark Taylor, vice president of Media and IP Services at...

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NSN Enhances TD-LTE base station for 2.6 GHz Spectrum

Nokia Solutions and Networks introduced a TD-LTE 8-pipe radio module for Band 41 spectrum at 2.6 GHz.  The new base station component is the industry’s highest capacity 8-pipe radio module. NSN said its new radio module is ready for the evolution of carrier aggregation and capable of supporting an unprecedented 120 MHz of bandwidth that can deliver more than 1.2 Gbps of total site throughput from a single unit. It supports three sectors in...

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Mavenir Completes IPO -- VoLTE and IMS

Mavenir Systems completed its IPO, offering 5,450,000 shares of common stock at an initial price of $10.00 per share. The shares are not trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “MVNR”. Shares of MVNR closed on Thursday at $9.55, down 4.5% from the opening price. Mavenir's mOne Convergence Platform for mobile service providers supports Voice-Over-LTE (VoLTE) and Rich Communication Services 5.0, as well as Voice over Wi-Fi...

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Vitesse Refinances Loan

Vitesse Semiconductor amended its senior secured loan agreement with Whitebox VSC Ltd. giving the Company rights of pre-payment, modifying interest rates and extending the maturity date to August 31, 2016. As part of the loan refinancing, Vitesse repurchased $13.7 million of convertible second lien debentures held by Whitebox, reducing the company's total indebtedness. The new terms provide Vitesse with working capital to further fuel its new product...

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Octasic Introduces Mini Base Station with 20km Reach

Octasic introduced its newest Small Cell platform supporting all cellular standards: GSM/EDGE, WCDMA, HSPA, and LTE. The OCTBTS 3000 is an OEM-ready platform that includes baseband hardware and software, an RF front end, and a power-efficient application processor. The complete platform fits into a compact 70x75 mm form factor. Capacity ranges from 8 to 32 active users across the various cellular standards. Applications include: network extension...

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MRV's 10RU OptiDriver Transport Platform Packs 80 Wavelengths

MRV introduced its new "OptiDriver" high-density, 10 Gbps optical transport platform featuring built-in testing and rapid turn up capabilities. MRV said its OptiDriver was designed for intelligent ROADM and 100Gbps transport. The chassis supports modules from other MRV optical transport products and is fully integrated into MRV’s advanced Pro-Vision service delivery and provisioning platform, with built-in processing support for current and emerging...

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Spirent and Luxoft Show OpenFlow Compliance Test Solution

Spirent Communications and Luxoft announced an OpenFlow Compliance Testing solution for automating QA and regression testing for OpenFlow products. The solution is being shown at the fourth semi-annual ONF Plugfest being hosted at the Spirent Proof of Concept (SPOC) lab in Sunnyvale, CA, November 4-8, 2013. Solution highlights include: OpenFlow 1.3 and 1.4 Compliance Testing – Spirent’s iTest OpenFlow Compliance Test Solution Pack, powered by...

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Pluribus Appoints Kumar Srikantan as CEO

Pluribus Networks, a start-up developing software and hardware network virtualization platforms for the cloud, named Kumar Srikantan as its new president and CEO. Srikantan previously served as general manager and vice president of Cisco’s Enterprise Backbone Business Unit, as well as vice president of marketing for the Cloud Switching and Services Technology Group. Pluribus Networks has pioneered a distributed bare-metal network hypervisor OS...

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Telekom Malaysia Activates Undersea Cable to Hong Kong and Japan

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has activated "Cahaya Malaysia", an undersea cable networkin between Malaysia–Hong Kong and Hong Kong–Japan. The cable initially supports 40 Gbps digital coherent optical transmissions technology and is designed for upgrade to 100 Gbps and a full capacity of up to 10 Tbps. Cahaya Malaysia was built in collaboration with Japan's NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) and...

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