Verizon to Acquire Intel's Cloud TV Assets

Verizon Communications agreed to acquire the assets of Intel Media, a business division dedicated to the development of Cloud TV products and services. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal includes intellectual property rights and other assets that enable Intel’s OnCue Cloud TV platform. Verizon will also make employment offers to substantially all of the approximately 350-person Intel unit, which will continue to be based in Santa Clara...

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Verizon: 44% of Post Paid on LTE, Remaining Copper Lines < 1 Million

Verizon reported Q4 2013 revenue of $31.1 billion, a 3.4 percent increase compared with fourth-quarter 2012, with 84 percent of revenues generated by Verizon Wireless, FiOS and strategic enterprise services.  EPS for Q4 2013 came in at $1.76 in EPS in fourth-quarter 2013, compared with a loss of $1.48 per share in fourth-quarter 2012. Fourth-quarter 2013 results included an after-tax gain of $3.7 billion, or $1.29 per share, primarily non-cash...

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ONF Appoints Huawei’s Serge Manning to Head Wireless and Mobile WG

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has appointed Dr. Serge Manning, senior manager for corporate standards at Huawei, as the chairperson of the ONF Wireless and Mobile Working Group. The recently formed Working Group was created to collect use cases and determine architectural and protocol requirements for extending OpenFlow-based technologies to wireless and mobile domains. The goal is to propose common ground architectural frameworks that will...

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Video: ONF's Dan Pitt Discusses SDN for Wireless & Mobile

http://youtu.be/R0rXfAtPvPQ Work gets underway at The Open Networking Foundation's (ONF's) new Wireless and Mobile Working Group.  Dan Pitt, Executive Director of the ONF, comments on the appointment of Dr. Serge Manning, senior manager for corporate standards at Huawei, as chairperson of the working grou...

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TeliaSonera IC Expands European Backbone with Coriant's 100G Transport

TeliaSonera International Carrier (TSIC), has selected Coriant's hiT 7300 DWDM platform to enable 100G connectivity across its new Warsaw-Brno-Frankfurt route, which connects to TSIC’s existing Pan-European, pan-North American and transatlantic DWDM network.  Financial terms were not disclosed. "The addition of this new fiber Warsaw-Brno-Frankfurt fiber delivers increased diversity and higher performance on a strategic route supporting not...

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BT Achieves Record Optical Spectral Efficiency in Tests with ALU

Alcatel-Lucent and BT achieved optical transmission speeds of up to 1.4 Tbps, with a record spectral efficiency of 5.7 bits per second per Hertz (b/s/Hz), in a trial last autumn over a 410 km fiber link between BT’s Adastral Park research campus in Ipswich and the BT Tower in London. The field trial used a new "flexible grid: infrastructure (Flexgrid) to vary the gaps between transmission channels, usually set at 50 GHz, to a new spacing of 35 GHz...

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ASSIA and Lantiq Sign Vectored VDSL Cross-license Deal

Lantiq and ASSIA Inc. announced a collaboration and cross-license agreement for the management of vectored systems. Lantiq has shipped nearly two million vectored VDSL ports to its DSLAM vendor customers. ASSIA’s DSL Expresse management software manages approximately 20 percent of all DSLs worldwide. The companies said the combination of ASSIA's DSL Expresse Smart Vectoring management software with Lantiq vectored VDSL chipsets enables broadband...

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Dell'Oro: Optical Transport Equipment Sales to Hit $15 Billion by 2018

Total optical transport equipment revenues are forecast to reach $15 billion by 2018, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. DWDM equipment sales are expected to drive the majority of the optical market’s growth for the next five years. “The most significant of a number of trends unfolding in the optical market, is the rapid expansion of 100 Gbps DWDM wavelength shipments, as its use moves beyond the core network and into the metro network,”...

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Dell’Oro: LTE RAN Revenues to more than Triple by 2018.

The Mobile Radio Access Network (RAN) LTE equipment market is forecast to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21 percent between 2012 and 2018, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group.  The top three vendors in the LTE RAN market on a revenue basis in Q3 2013 were Ericsson, Huawei, and Alcatel-Lucent. “The pace of change throughout the device, application, and infrastructure ecosystem is impacting service providers’ mobile...

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Savvis Rebrands as CenturyLink Technology Solutions

Savvis has adopted the CenturyLink Technology Solutions brand. It continues to offer a broad set of colocation, managed services, cloud and network offerings. “We are pleased to become CenturyLink Technology Solutions, as aligning our brand with CenturyLink demonstrates the deeper ties to the broad portfolio of IT solutions that we collectively deliver for businesses,” said Jeff Von Deylen, president of CenturyLink Technology Solutions. “While we...

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