VMware to Acquire AirWatch for Mobile Mgt. & Security

VMware agreed to acquire AirWatch, a leading supplier of enterprise mobile management and security solutions, for approximately $1.175 billion in cash and approximately $365 million of installment payments and assumed unvested equity. AirWatch, which is headquartered in Atlanta, offer Mobile Device Management, Mobile Application Management and Mobile Content Management. It claims more than 10,000 customers globally and has about 1,600 employees...

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Tata Communications Completes 100G Upgrades to Pacific Cables

Tata Communications completed a 100G upgrade along the TGN-Pacific (TGN-P) submarine cable system that connects the U.S. to Japan and three routes in the TGN-Intra-Asia (TGN-IA) market across Asia. With these upgrades complete, Tata Communications now has 100G deployed across major routes around the world on its own infrastructure -- the first private subsea cable owner to achieve this. The upgrades on the TGN-P submarine cables – which is the longest...

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Telstra Global Expands MPLS Network

Telstra Global activated new MPLS Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam and Chicago. The company's MPLS network now offers more than 1,900 POPs worldwide, including 377 PoPs in Europe and 341 PoPs in the United States. Telstra Global's Network Operations Centre proactively monitors the new PoPs and associated infrastructure via the Customer Control Centre – a unified portal interface designed to enhance communications between...

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Pacnet Enhances Wavelength Protection of International Private Lines

Pacnet is enhancing its Wavelength Premium International Private Line (Wave Premium) service now that its 100G Asia-Pacific network upgrade has been completed. The expanded network capacity provides carriers and service providers higher availability and priority restoration capabilities through unparalleled route diversity. Pacnet offers Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with service credits up to 100 percent of monthly service charges, and will significantly...

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FCC Opens Auction for 1915-1920 MHz and 1995-2000 MHz Bands

The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau commenced the qualified auction of 176 H Block licenses in the 1915-1920 MHz and 1995-2000 MHz bands (Auction 96). The FCC qualified 23 bidders to participate in the auction. Bids are being taken electronically using RSA SecurID tokens.  Three rounds of bidding will be held each day. Anonymous bidding procedures are in effect for Auction 96. http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/default.htm?job=auct...

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Verizon to Add SAP HANA to Cloud Infrastructure

Verizon Enterprise Solutions plans to deploy the SAP HANA platform in Verizon's data centers, making it available to customers across Verizon's cloud offerings, including eCloud, Managed Hosting and the new Verizon Cloud. SAP HANA is the in-memory data base platform at the core of SAP's cloud vision. SAP HANA was introduced to the market two years ago and has since gained more than 3,000 customers. "As cloud computing trends upward in our industry,...

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AT&T to Double Down on Austin Fiber Rollout as Sales Exceed Expectations

AT&T confirmed that sales of the fiber broadband service in Austin, Texas has exceeded its expectations. AT&T now plans to expand the all-fiber network to reach twice as many Austin area households in 2014. Planned expansions in 2014 include areas of Zilker, Homestead, and North Lamar, among many other neighborhoods throughout the city. AT&T U-verse with "GigaPower" currently offers consumer broadband speeds at up to 300 megabits per...

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Austrian Utility Carrier Tests WDM-PON with ADVA

ADVA Optical Networking, Energie AG Oberösterreich Data GmbH (Data GmbH) and ELCON Systemtechnik GmbH,are conducting a WDM-PON trial in Allhaming, Austria. The network uses dedicated wavelength connections to subscribers, achieving symmetrical access speeds exceeding current commercial offerings by more than a factor of 10. Allhaming was chosen for the trial because of its location in an underserved rural area with poor broadband access. ADVA said...

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DragonWave Supplies Microwave Backhaul for Gogo's Expansion

DragonWave has been selected as a microwave solutions provider for backhaul connectivity as part of Gogo‘s ongoing expansion efforts. Gogo will use the DragonWave Horizon Quantum and Horizon Compact+ radios for linking its remote tower locations back into a wired network.  DragonWave’s links are designed into the Gogo network by Future Technologies Venture. Gogo's in-flight services are available on more than 2,000 commercial aircraft and more...

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NextG-Com Launches LTE Release 11 Protocol Stack

UK-based NextG-Com has launched an LTE protocol stack compliant to 3GPP Release 11 and designed for niche markets such as machine-to-machine (M2M) devices, LTE backhaul, relay nodes, routers and gateways. The company said its ALPS 520 suite has been tested against 3GPP standard conformance test cases and includes a host of tools - Trace, ASN.1, SE-RTOS™ - that help to accelerate product development and reduce third party licensing costs. It also...

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Mobily Picks NSN for Network Upgrade in Riyadh

Mobily (Etihad Etisalat Company) has selected Nokia Solutions and Networks’ Single RAN to upgrade its network, including refarming of the GSM 900 MHz band to 3G.  NSN will upgrade Mobily’s 2G, 3G (WCDMA) and TD-LTE networks in the centeral region including Riyadh, the largest city in Saudi Arabia. Under the contract, NSN is providing Mobily with its Flexi Multiradio 10 Base Station. The company is also providing its network management software,...

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