Alessandro Talotta, Executive Officer of National Wholesale Services at Telecom Italia gives his one-minute take on what's hot in business Ethernet services.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014
GEN14: What's Driving Business Ethernet Services?
by James E. Carroll
Vertical Systems Group recently reported that customer installations of Carrier Ethernet services in the U.S. will reach one million ports in 2018. The projected figure includes all retail Ethernet services at speeds ranging from sub-10 Mbps to more than 10 Gbps.
So, what's driving the market for business Ethernet?
The recent MEF GEN14 conference in Washington, D.C., which brought together over 1,000 attendees...
Telekom Austria A1 Rolls Out LTE-A Carrier Aggregation
Telekom Austria Group's subsidiaries A1 in Austria and Si.mobil in Slovenia are activating LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation to deliver higher bandwidth in select locations.
Working with Ericsson, A1 is using LTE Carrier Aggregation on two 20 MHz frequency blocks from the 800 and 2600 MHz frequency bands, which it acquired in auction in autumn 2013. In Austria, A1 has already started upgrading currently existing mobile base stations in Graz, especially...
Bidding for AWS-3 Spectrum tops $37 billion
After 35 rounds, bidding in the FCC's Advanced Wireless Services (AWS-3) auction has reached $37.5 billion.
A total of 1,614 licenses total are up for auction, covering 65 MHz of spectrum in the 1695-1710 MHz, 1755-1780 MHz, and 2155-2180 MHz bands ("AWS-3" bands).
The 1695-1710 MHz band is authorized for low-power mobile transmit (i.e., uplink) operations only. The 1755-1780 MHz frequencies in the paired 1755-1780/2155-2180 MHz band are authorized...
GENBAND and Nokia Collaborate on VoWiFi/VoLTE
Nokia Networks will offer GENBAND´s QUANTiX evolved Packet Data Gateway (ePDG) as part of its voice evolution solutions, including Voice over WiFi. The GENBAND ePDG will be integrated into Nokia’s Liquid Core portfolio to support multimedia voice, data and video sessions and anywhere/any-device services.
The ePDG is a key component of GENBAND’s Wireless Access Gateway solution and enables Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) and Voice over LTE (VoLTE)...
A10 Networks Adds Advanced DDoS Mitigation
A10 Networks introduced new advanced DDoS mitigation capabilities for its Thunder TPS platform.
The new functionality blocks additional attacks such as the recent POODLE attack, and provides advanced rate-limiting for granular Layer 4-7 control to enable mitigation. The company said its Thunder TPS Release 3.1 includes comprehensive detection capabilities with access to over 400 global, destination-specific and behavioral counters, to eliminate...
American Tower to Acquire Bharti Airtel's Towers in Nigeria
American Tower agreed to acquire over 4,800 communications towers in Nigeria from Bharti Airtel.
Airtel will be the anchor tenant on the portfolio under a lease with a ten-year initial term.
“We are pleased to announce the launch of our operations in Nigeria while expanding our relationship with Airtel, one of the leading multinational operators in the world,” said Jim Taiclet, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Tower....
American Tower to Acquire TIM Celular's Towers in Brazil
American Tower agreed to acquire two portfolios of towers in Brazil from TIM Celular S.A., which is owned by Telecom Italia S.p.A..
The first portfolio includes approximately 5,240 towers. The second portfolio includes approximately 1,240 towers, which are subject to certain preemptive acquisition rights held by third parties. The total consideration is expected to be approximately 3.0 billion Brazilian Reais (approximately $1.2 billion at the current...
Telekom Austria Group Raises EUR 997 million
Telekom Austria Group raised approximately EUR 997 million by floating 221.5 million shares. This brings the total number of shares outstanding from 443.0 million to 664.5 million.
Telekom Austria said it intends to use the net proceeds of the capital increase to re-establish its target capital structure and maintain a credit rating of at least BBB (stable) by Standard & Poor's.
http://www.telekomaustria.c...
Networking Event Calendar 2015 - Conferences & Exhibitions
Events we'll be covering in 2015...
Conference
Opening Day
Location
International CES
6-Jan-2015
Las Vegas
DesignCon 2015
27-Jan-2015
Santa Clara
SPIE Photonics West
9-Feb-2015
San Francisco
Linley Data Center Conference
25-Feb-2015
Santa Clara
Mobile World Congress
2-Mar-2015
Barcelona
Open Compute Summit
9-Mar-2015
San Jose
MPLS & SDN World Congress
17-Mar-2015
Paris
Gigaom Structure Data
18-Mar-2015
San...
