Mobile World Congress Topped 93,000 Attendees

This week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona set a new attendance record for the event -- over 93,000 attendees from 200 countries. The 2015 Mobile World Congress featured more than 2,000 exhibiting companies across 100,000 net square metres of exhibition and hospitality space. More than 3,800 international media and industry analysts attended the event. “As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we are gratified...

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Blueprint: Catch the Customers While You Can!

by Lars Mansson, Senior Director of Product Management and Strategy at DigitalRoute The American entertainer Milton Berle once remarked, “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”  Berle has never been known as a telco BSS visionary, but apply his thinking to the legacy stack and his advice is right on the money. Except, instead of a door, you build an online counting system (for which the door is simply a metaphor). Why do this? Because...

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Qualcomm Adds LTE modes to Snapdragon Automotive Set

Qualcomm has added two LTE modems to its Snapdragon Automotive Solutions portfolio. The Snapdragon X12 LTE modem (9x40) is designed to enable auto manufacturers to develop next-generation systems with advanced telematics and connected infotainment features while supporting greater coverage at download speeds up to Category 10 (up to 450 Mbps in the downlink and 100 Mbps in the uplink). The Snapdragon X5 LTE modem (9x28) is designed to enable automakers...

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Crehan: Sales of Branded Data Center Switches Continue to Grow

Customer deployments of branded data center Ethernet switches grew ten percent in 2014, a slight increase over the 2013 growth rate, despite an increase in white box switch offerings, according to the most recent data center switch report from Crehan Research Inc.  Crehan’s report further shows that branded Ethernet switch shipments in the high-speed top-of-rack, or fixed, segment – where white box switch offerings are most prevalent – increased...

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UNH-IOL Hosts Open Networking Component Interoperability Plugfest

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) hosted the first interoperability plugfest for open networking last month to validate the multi-vendor compatibility of optical transceivers and cables with bare-metal open switches running Networking Operating Systems (NOS) software. "This is a very important milestone in the open networking movement" said Bob Thurston, Director of Integrated Engineering from Fidelity Investments....

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Qualcomm Intros Ultrasonic Fingerprint Authentication

Qualcomm is introducing 3D fingerprint authentication that uses ultrasonic technology to directly penetrate the outer layers of skin, detecting three-dimensional details and unique fingerprint characteristics, including fingerprint ridges and sweat pores. Compared to existing capacitive touch-based fingerprint technologies the company said it is able to achieve government-grade biometric solutions because the scan will be extremely difficult to spoof. QTI’s...

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Ciena Posts Revenue of $529.2 Million

Ciena reported revenue of $$529.2 million for its fiscal first quarter 2015.  This compares with $533.7 million for the fiscal first quarter 2014. Ciena's net loss (GAAP) for the fiscal first quarter 2015 was $(18.8) million, or $(0.17) per diluted common share, which compares to a GAAP net loss of $(15.9) million, or $(0.15) per diluted common share, for the fiscal first quarter 2014. “Our first quarter performance is highlighted by continued...

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Ericsson and Telefónica Extend NFV Research Pact

Ericsson and Telefónica renewed a joint research pact originally made in 2013 to focuses on SDN and NFV. The two companies have set up of a multi-vendor cloud environment to test Ericsson virtualized network functions (VNFs) on top of a cloud infrastructure, including the possibility of using Ericsson VNF Orchestrator.  A key long-term ambition for both companies is also to work together on the operational model definition for virtualization...

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Ericsson and KT Sign 5G Research MoU

At Mobile World Congress, Ericsson and KT agreed to collaborate in 5G network architecture, small cells and heterogeneous networks. "5G will be a key component in the industry's movement toward the Networked Society. KT is an early driver of technology, and we believe that the collaboration with KT will provide benefits to users and to industries. With ultra-high bit rates of more than 10 Gbps, we will deliver radio network capability of more than...

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