Ericsson Announces License Assisted Access (LAA) Small Cells

Ericsson will support License Assisted Access (LAA) capability in its small cells starting in fourth quarter 2015.  This will enable carrier aggregation of licensed with unlicensed bands to effectively address growth in indoor data traffic. T-Mobile US has agreed to trial the technology.  LAA capability will be supported in the Ericsson Radio Dot System for medium and large buildings and the Ericsson RBS 6402 Indoor Picocell for smaller...

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T-Mobile Looks at Unlicensed Spectrum for Potential Boost

T-Mobile is looking at integrating licensed and unlicensed spectrum on its LTE network. In a blog posting, Neville Ray, T-Mobile's CTO, notes there is approximately 550 MHz of underutilized spectrum in the 5 GHz Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (UNII) band, which is available for any use within the FCC’s rules for the UNII band. T-Mobile is considering Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) for its ability to deliver higher peak and average...

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Sprint Secures Vendor Financing from Nokia, Samsung, ALU

Sprint signed three new vendor financing facilities totaling $1.8 billion to purchase 2.5 GHz network equipment and related services from key suppliers. The company also amended some existing equipment credit facilities. Highlights: A new secured facility for up to $800 million has been signed with Nokia Networks, maturing in June 2021. It is backed by credit insurance provided by Finnvera plc, the export credit agency of Finland. A...

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T-Mobile US Added 8.3 million Customers in '14

T-Mobile US continued to acquire market share from its competitors in 2014, adding 8.3 million total net customers for the year. In the fourth quarter, T-Mobile added 2.1 million net customers.  This was the seventh quarter in a row that the Company has generated more than 1 million net customer additions. “While my competitors are hiding behind less valuable connected device subscriber additions and managing profit expectations to the downside,...

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AT&T Adds Rollover Data to Mobile Share Plans

AT&T is adding a Rollover Data feature to its new and current Mobile Share Value customers. This rolls over unused, shareable plan data in a given month roll be used within the next month. "Rollover Data is an added benefit of being an AT&T Mobile Share Value customer and it's just another way that we're saying thanks to our more than 50 million plus Mobile Share Value subscribers," said Glenn Lurie, President and CEO, AT&T Mobility....

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Sckipio Demos OpenFlow over G.fast Distribution Point Unit

Sckipio Technologies, a start-up based in Israel, demonstrated OpenFlow control over a commercial G.fast DPU hardware. The demonstration includes a 16-port fully vectored Sckipio DP3000-EVM G.fast Distribution Point Unit device transmitting over a 50 meter twisted pair binder to 16 separate Sckipio CP1000-EVM units. Sckipio said its demonstration shows ultra high-speed broadband access over telephone wires being controlled using an open framework...

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IBM SoftLayer Data Center Opens in Frankfurt

IBM officially opened its first cloud data center with SoftLayer in Germany.  The new facility in Frankfurt provides customers with a local cloud center to help them meet Germany and Europe’s strict security and data privacy regulations, improving application performance by lowering latency for local customers. The Frankfurt facility is part of SoftLayer’s unique global network, differentiated by its network-within-a-network architecture, and...

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Infonetics: Fibre Channel SAN Shows New Life

Worldwide converged data center network adapter revenue was up 13% sequentially in 3Q14, with converged network adapters (CNAs) in the lead, followed by internet small computer system interface (iSCSI) adapters, according to a new report from Infonetics Research. The report tracks storage area network (SAN) Fibre Channel switches and host bus adapters (HBAs), converged data center network adapters, and switch ports-in-use for storage. Some highlights: In...

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CoreSite Opens Huge Data Center in Reston, VA

CoreSite Realty officially opened the second building on its Reston campus, a new 198,000 square foot facility, of which the 50,000 square-foot Phase 1 turn-key data center capacity was leased in Q4 2014 to a single anchor tenant. Construction has now commenced on Phase 2 of the VA2 build-out, totaling an additional approximate 50,000 NRSF, with completion anticipated in Q2 2015. CoreSite’s Reston campus provides access to nearly 60 network,...

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Procera Updates Guidance, Sees Recovery

Procera Networks updated its financial guidance, saying it now expects revenue for the fourth quarter of 2014 to be in the range of $23.5 million to $24.5 million. The ratio of bookings to revenue for the fourth quarter was above one. The company expects the gross margin rate to be around 60%, to incur a net operating loss on a GAAP basis and to be profitable on a non-GAAP basis for the fourth quarter of 2014. For the fiscal year ended December 31,...

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Cyan Raises Q4 Revenue Range

Cyan released new financial guidance, saying it now expects fourth quarter 2014 revenue to be between $30 million and $31 million, exceeding the company’s prior guidance of $24 million to $26 million. “Fourth quarter revenue outpaced our initial expectations due to strong demand for our Z-Series packet-optical hardware for both metro and regional 100G and packet applications,” said Mark Floyd, Cyan’s chairman and chief executive officer. “We continue...

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Molex Acquires SDP Telecom for RF Components

Molex has acquired SDP Telecom, a maker of RF/microwave solutions for the wireless communications industry. Financial terms were not disclosed. SDP, which is based in Montreal, Canada, has manufacturing facilities in China. SDP will be managed by the RF/Microwave Business Unit that is part of Molex’s Global Integrated Products Division. “Together, Molex and SDP will broaden our RF/Microwave product capabilities and create additional value for our...

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MegaChips Partners with Bosch Sensortec on IoT

MegaChips announced a partnership with Bosch Sensortec to provide a complete reference design for use in smartphones, wearables and other personal devices allowing consumers to monitor their activities in real time. The companies are offering a reference design provides both context and location awareness for health, fitness and indoor navigation monitoring and tracking applications. MegaChips' ultra-low power frizz, combined with the SiTime SiT1602...

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Arbor Networks Appoints CTO

Arbor Networks has appointed Sam Curry to the newly created position of Chief Technology & Security Officer. He previously served as Senior Vice President of Information Security and Chief Information Security Officer at MicroStrategy. Before that, he held a number of significant roles at RSA, including Chief Technology Officer for Identity and Data Protection. Sam also held a number of senior roles at McAfee and Computer Associates, among other...

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