Intel's Highland Forest Revs Up Performance for SDN & NFV

Intel unveiled its third generation “Highland Forest” communications platform aimed at data center, cloud and telco networks.  The new solution combines Intel's latest Xeon E5 processors and a new “Coleto Creek” chipset to perform a variety of traffic workloads, including application, control plane, packet and some signal processing workloads.  The target is to power the next generation of open, standards-based, compute systems for software...

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China Issues TD-LTE Operating Licenses to 3 Carriers

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology officially granted 4G TD-LTE operating licenses to the China Mobile Communications Corporation, China Telecom and China United Network Communications Group Company (China Unicom). China Mobile was also granted permission to operate a fixed-line telecommunications business. http://www.miit.gov.c...

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Marlin Equity Expands its Packet/Optical Portfolio with Acquisition of Tellabs

Marlin Equity Partners, a Los Angeles California-based private investment firm with over US$2.6 billion of capital under management, completed its previously announced acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Tellabs in a deal valued at $891 million ($2.45 per share in cash, representing a 4.3% premium over the closing price on October 18th). Tellabs continues operations as a supplier of packet-optical, mobile backhaul and Optical LAN networking...

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FCC Approves Verizon-Vodafone Transfer Of Control

The FCC approved the transfer of control to Verizon Communications Inc. of Vodafone Group PLC’s stake in Verizon Wireless. Verizon said the $130 billion deal is now expected to close in Q1 2014. Randal Milch, executive vice president – public policy and general counsel of Verizon, said: “We thank the FCC for its quick action in approving our transaction with Vodafone, which will provide Verizon with 100 percent ownership of Verizon Wireless and...

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Washington Post: NSA Tracking Cell Phone Locations

The Washington Post reported that the NSA is collecting nearly 5 billion records a day worldwide related to mobile phone location.  Citing documents revealed by Edward Snowden, the Washington Post says that data on hundreds of millions of devices is being collected from mobile networks globally. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-tracking-cellphone-locations-worldwide-snowden-documents-show/2013/12/04/5492873a-5cf2-1...

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inexio Deploys ADVA 100G Metro in Germany and Luxembourg

inexio, which operates over 5,000 km of fiber routes in Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Luxembourg, Lorraine and Belgium, has deployed the ADVA 100G Metro solution for regional connectivity in Germany and Luxembourg. The network serves both enterprise and residential customers. A long-standing customer of ADVA Optical Networking and Axians, inexio has benefited from the native scalability of the ADVA FSP 3000, gradually expanding its network infrastructure...

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Singapore's StarHub Tests VoLTE with NSN

Singapore's StarHub completed the first Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call based on IR.92 in a live network in Southeast Asia. The tests uses Nokia Solutions and Networks’ end-to-end approach for providing voice call services over LTE. Specifically, StarHub deployed NSN’s Open TAS (Telecommunications Application Server) for voice, Home Subscriber Server (HSS) and IP Multi Media Subsystem (IMS). VoLTE services are part of an existing LTE agreement that...

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Dell'Oro: Service Provider Core Router Market Rebounds

After almost two years of year-over-year declines, the Service Provider Core Router market grew by seven percent in the third quarter of 2013 versus the year-ago period, according to a new report by Dell'Oro Group. “All major core routing vendors have recently introduced, or will soon introduce new core routing platforms with significantly increased capacity,” said Alam Tamboli, Business Analyst at Dell’Oro Group.  “We expect the confluence...

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Mavenir Posts 52% YoY Jump in Revenue - First Report Since IPO

Mavenir Systems reported Q3 revenue of $26.0 million, an increase of 52% year-over-year. GAAP net loss for the third quarter of 2013 was $(4.5) million, compared with $(3.4) million in the third quarter of 2012. GAAP gross profit margin of 47.9% in the quarter was at the high end of the expected range provided in the prospectus for the company's recent initial public offering. Non-GAAP gross profit margin was 49.0%. "Mavenir delivered another...

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Harris Broadcast to Acquire Imagine Communications for Virtualized

Harris Broadcast agreed to acquire Imagine Communications, a supplier of digital video solutions for content providers and system operators, for an undisclosed sum. Imagine Communications supplies TV Everywhere transcoding that utilizes software running in a virtualized blade server environment.  The solution combines video processing, Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) transcoding and statistical multiplexing technology tp provide the bandwidth efficiency...

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Vello Systems Adds to its Management Team

Vello Systems announced two key hires:  Alan McKee, VP – Engineering and Jeff Paine, VP – Marketing. Before joining Vello, McKee was Vice President of Engineering at Intelliden, where he led the product engineering efforts for Intelliden’s award winning R-Series software suite. McKee helped guide Intelliden’s successful acquisition by IBM Tivoli in 2010, where he stayed on to lead the network configuration products for the organization. Jeff...

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