Sprint Spark Gets Rolling with Up to 60 Mbps in Multiband Devices

Sprint's new "Spark" network architecture, which leverages carrier aggregation, is now available in 11 markets across the U.S. with peak downlink speeds of 60 Mbps. Sprint Spark uses carrier aggregation to combine FDD-LTE at 800 MHz and 1.9 GHz with TDD-LTE at 2.5GHz. Sprint Spark is now available in the following 11 markets: Austin, Texas; Chicago; Dallas; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Fort Worth, Texas; Houston; Los Angeles; Miami; New York; San Antonio,...

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T-Mobile to Pay Early Termination Fees, Claims Fastest LTE

T-Mobile US promised to pay early termination fees (EFT) of up to $350 per line for customers who switch from AT&T, Verizon or Sprint. Customers who hand in their eligible devices at any participating T-Mobile location and switch to a postpaid Simple Choice Plan can receive a $300 credit based on the value of their phone, when they purchase a new smartphone from T-Mobile. In a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, T-Mobile CEO said the offer...

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Facebook to Acquire Little Eye Labs for Mobile App Analytics

Facebook will acquire Little Eye Labs, a start-up based in Bangalore, India, offering software tools to measure, analyze, and optimize the performance of Android apps.  Financial terms were not disclosed. Little Eye software provides detailed stats on how much power, data, CPU, memory and disk space the app is using. A Visual Correlation Engine then provides analysis around the app and the collected data. Little Eye Labs, which was founded...

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Apigee Acquires InsightsOne for Big Data Analytics

Apigee has acquired InsightsOne, provides big data predictive intelligence to help businesses understand consumer preferences, for an undisclosed sum. InsightsOne, which is based in Santa Clara, California, delivers big data predictive intelligence products to marketers and customer service organizations serving the healthcare, financial services, telecommunication, and ecommerce sectors. For example, InsightsOne can predict which healthcare payer...

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Citrix Acquires Framehawk for Desktop Virtualization over Wi-Fi, Cellular

Citrix has acquired Framehawk, a start-up based in San Francisco that develops optimization software for extending virtual desktops and applications to mobile devices over Wi-Fi and cellular.  Financial terms were not disclosed. Citrix said the Framehawk platform will combined with its HDX technology in the Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop products. Framehawk’s leadership and engineering teams will be integrated into the Enterprise and Service...

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New 802.11ac-2013 Spec Hits 7 Gbps in 5 GHz Band

IEEE announced approval the 802.11ac-2013 specification amendment, which enables wireless LAN data rates up to 7 Gbps in the 5 GHz band, more than 10 times the speed that was previously standardized. The IEEE 802.11ac-2013 gains are achieved by multiple concurrent downlink transmissions, referred to as “multi-user multiple-input, multiple-output” (MU MIMO). Smart antenna technology and up to four simultaneous user transmissions enables more efficient...

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Frontier Enhances its Ethernet Virtual Private Line Service

Frontier Communications has enhanced its Ethernet portfolio with traffic prioritization based on user-defined applications. Frontier is introducing two new Ethernet offerings for Retail and Wholesale users. Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) Gold focuses on businesses needing point-to-point design within Frontier’s QoS-enabled markets, requiring service level agreements (SLAs) surrounding bandwidth guarantees, a limited delay in traffic prioritization...

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VIZIO + Netflix: Ultra HD Content Will be Primarily Streamed

At CES 2014, VIZIO introduced its new P-Series Ultra HD Full-Array LED Smart TV collection, with pricing starting at $999.99 for a 50" model.  The VIZIO P-Series supports the HEVC Codec for Ultra HD streaming and is powered by a six-core processor that combines a quad-core GPU and dual-core CPU.  The HEVC H.265 codec supports Ultra HD enabled apps such as Netflix, with HDCP 2.2 support also built-in, allowing playback of protected Ultra...

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TDF Deploys Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical in France

TDF, continental Europe’s biggest owner of broadcast and telecoms masts, has deployed Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform equipped with WaveLogic 3 Coherent Optical Processors One Control Unified Management System to deliver 100G services in France. TDF, which provides radio and television transmission along with other multimedia services, such as digitization of content, encoding and storage, operates a network spanning 4,200km betweekn data...

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Alcatel-Lucent Supplies IP/MPLS for Colombia's Lazus

Alcatel-Lucent will supply its IP/MPLS solution to Lazus, a telecommunications operator working under the model carrier to carriers in Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica. The IP/MPLS solution, to be deployed for metro networks in nine Colombian cities this year, will deliver high-bandwidth, high-performance mobile backhaul and wholesale metropolitan services for IPTV and Triple Play, business and cloud service providers. Lazus plans to use Alcatel-Lucent's...

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Sprint Announces Group Discounting with "Framily" Plan

Sprint is rolling out a new "Framily" plan that provides discounts when up to 10 lines are combined into a single account. The more people added to the group, up to 10 phone lines, the greater the savings for everyone on the plan. All members of the group can customize their plan. Each line can be billed separately. “The Sprint Framily Plan redefines the way we think of family plans and gives our customers the power to decide who will be a part...

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Barracuda Launches Backup-as-a-Service

Barracuda Networks introduced its new Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) offering in the U.S..  The service allows Barracuda Backup 190 and 390 to be purchased as an annual service that includes an appliance, Energize Updates, Instant Replacement and Unlimited Cloud storage. This new service gives customers an alternate method of purchasing Barracuda Backup with a smaller up-front cost. "Purchasing Backup-as-a-Service is a simple and more cost-effective...

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Arbor Networks Appointa Matthew Moynahan as President

Arbor Networks appointed Matthew Moynahan to the position of President, replacing Colin Doherty. Mr. Moynahan had been senior vice president of product management and corporate development at Arbor since 2012. Previously, he was  president and chief executive officer of Veracode, a leader in application security. Before that, he served as a vice president at Symantec in several roles, including the consumer products and client and host (server)...

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