Australia's nbn Tests Alcatel-Lucent's G.fast

Australia’s nbn national broadband network completed a trial of Alcatel-Lucent's G.fast technology, which uses copper infrastructure that extends the last few hundred meters into the premises to achieve speeds of close to 1 Gbps. nbn's stated goal is to provide affordable ultra-broadband download speeds of at least 25 Mbps to eight million premises and at least 50 Mbps to 90 percent of premises with fixed-line access by 2020. nbn is using a mix...

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Ericsson Cites Slowdown in 4G Rollouts in China

Ericsson's overall sales for Q3 2015 increased by 3% YoY to reach SEK 59.2 billion (approximately US$6.98 billion).  Sales, adjusted for comparable units and currency, decreased by -9% due to lower sales in Networks, where the company cited a slowdown of the 4G deployments in mainland China. Network sales in North American have stabilized. This was partly offset by sales growth in Professional Services, where sales increased by 15% YoY. Gross...

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Huawei Marine to Build Brazil-to-Cameroon Cable

Huawei Marine has been commissioned to construct the Cameroon-Brazil Cable System (CBCS), a 6,000-km undersea network linking Fortaleza (Brazil) and Kribi (Cameroon). The cable system, which is sponsored by CamTel and China Unicom, will have an initial system capacity of 32 Tbps over 4 fiber pairs. Huawei Marine will deploy its 6fp submarine Repeater 1660, the industry’s first titanium repeater, which boasts a slim-line profile to allow direct...

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