Optus Exceeds 2.3 Gbps Mobile Downlink with Carrier Aggregation

Australia's Optus has exceeded a downlink rate of 2.3 Gbps from a live mobile tower by combining its various spectrum bands. The company's two "Gigasite" towers were built by Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) and Huawei. One site has been built at St Marys in Sydney’s western suburbs, and the other built at Lambton in Newcastle, approximately 160 km north of Sydney. To measure performance, Optus and its vendor partners mobilised a total of 16 test...

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NEC Deploys an SDN at Tokyo Station

NEC is deploying a "common station network" utilizing SDN at Tokyo Station, one of the world’s busiest train stations, for the East Japan Railway Company. The SDN, which is scheduled to be complete in March of this year, will provide flexible connectivity for a variety of applications and data management systems. Key features of the common station network at Tokyo Station: The common station network utilizes NEC’s UNIVERGE PF Series, the world’s...

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IBM Launches Watson Mobile Developer Challenge

At Mobile World Congress, IBM kicked off a Watson Mobile Developer Challenge.  Over the next three months, the global challenge invites mobile developers and entrepreneurs to share their best ideas to build and develop mobile apps into prototypes. The program, being driven by the newly formed IBM Watson Group, aims to encourage developers to spread cognitive computing apps into the marketplace. "The power of Watson in the palm of your hand...

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