Virgin Media UK Plans £3 billion Cable Network Expansion

Virgin Media (UK) unveiled  "Project Lightning" -- a plan to extend its fiber-rich cable network to approximately four million additional premises over the next five years. The expansion will increase's Virgin Media addressable market by almost a third; from around half of the country today to nearly 17 million premises by 2020. Virgin Media, which is a subsidiary of Liberty Global plc, expects to invest an additional £3 billion in Project...

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Liquid Telecom Raises $150M for African Fiber Network

Liquid Telecom, a telecom group operating long-haul fiber network in southern and eastern Africa, announced $150 million in new funding to expand its infrastructure. The new funding was structured by Standard Chartered. Liquid Telecom, which is controlled by African telecoms company Econet Wireless, has already built 18,00 0km of fiber across 15 nations, including Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda,...

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AT&T Launches GigaPower across the Kansas City Area

AT&T launched its "GigaPower" all-fiber Internet network in in parts of Kansas City, Mo., parts of Leawood, Lenexa, Olathe, Overland Park, Kansas and in surrounding communities located throughout the metro area. The service boasts Internet access speeds of up to 1 Gbps. Additionally, AT&T announced plans to expand the service to Independence, Mo. and Shawnee, Kansas. “We’ve moved quickly to bring more competition to the Kansas City area...

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Brocade Intros IP Storage Switch for EMC Connectrix

Expanding on its longstanding OEM relationship with EMC, Brocade announced an an IP storage switch EMC's Connectrix family of network switches. The Connectrix VDX-6740B switch can be used to separate IP storage traffic from other data traffic, providing greater reliability and efficiency to legacy deployments where storage traffic and all other network traffic share the same network infrastructure. It provides connectivity for a broad array of EMC...

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Motorola Solutions Acquires Emergency CallWorks for NG9-1-1 Software

Motorola Solutions announced its acquisition of Emergency CallWorks, a privately-held developer of Next-Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) call-taking software for public safety. Financial terms were not disclosed. Emergency CallWorks, which is based in Birmingham, Alabama, offers a helps police, fire and emergency medical teams better manage critical incidents by allowing more information to flow seamlessly from the public, through a 911 network and command...

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IBM and CenturyLink Open Innovation Center in Lousiana

As part of a 10-year agreement between IBM and CenturyLink, IBM will open and staff a new applications development innovation center in Monroe, Louisiana. The facility is expected to create 400 jobs for specialists in application development, application management and system integration. The State of Louisiana will contribute $4.5 million in funding over 10 years to expand key higher education programs, including the computer science program at...

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Huawei Appoints Three Non-Executive Directors to UK Board

Huawei has appointed Lord Browne of Madingley as independent non-executive chairman of its UK subsidiary. In addition, two other non-executive directors have been appointed to the board: Dame Helen Alexander, chairman of UBM plc and Sir Andrew Cahn, who served as chairman of Huawei UK’s Advisory Board from 2011 to 2014. The independent non-executive directors will be responsible for reviewing the performance of Huawei in the UK, where 70 per cent...

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Qosmos Debuts Service Classifier Virtual Network Function (VNF)

Qosmos introduced an ETSI-compliant Virtual Network Function (VNF) or software appliance for use in physical, virtualized and in Software Defined Networking (SDN) architectures. The Qosmos Classifier identifies and extracts traffic information in real time, identifying protocols, types of application, and extracting additional information in the form of metadata. The company said the VNF is especially well-suited to enable intelligent, dynamic...

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Ericsson Intros 200W DC/DC Module for RF

Ericsson introduced a new 200W DC/DC converter module for radio-frequency power amplifier (RFPA) applications and supplying the voltage to power transistors that are used in new generation of integrated radio amplifiers that use semiconductor technologies such as Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor (LDMOS). Ericsson said its new eighth-brick formant offers ultra-wide adjustable output voltage from 15 to 33V, which makes it possible to power...

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