Ericsson Showcases 5G, Cloud RAN, IoT at #MWC16

Ericsson will be showcasing 5G radio prototypes, cellular IoT and cloud RAN at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Ericsson announced 5G partnerships with Vodafone and Telefónica. Phase 2 of Ericsson's 5G Radio Test Bed, which includes 5G radio prototypes set for operator field trials in 2016, will be running live and with advanced features such as Massive MIMO and beam tracking.  Ericsson demos for MWC include: Telehaptic...

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CableLabs Eyes Symmetric Multi-Gigabit DOCSIS

During its recent 2016 Winter Conference, CableLabs unveiled a Full Duplex DOCSIS technology that aims for multi-gigabit rates.  The breakthrough increase in the upstream speeds for DOCSIS delivered broadband service is achieved by applying emerging techniques from wireless networks to the cable infrastructure. CableLabs said this new approach significantly increases upstream data capacity in order to enable symmetric multi-Gigabit broadband...

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T-Mobile Beats Expectations, Adds 2.1 Million in Q4

T-Mobile added 2.1 million net customers in Q4 2015, bringing its total customer count to more than 63 million at year-end 2015. Some highlights: Service revenues for the fourth quarter of 2015 grew 11.7% year-over-year, primarily due to rapid growth in the company’s customer base.  T-Mobile’s total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2015 grew by 1.1% year-over-year. 1.3 million branded postpaid net adds in 4Q15  17,000 branded postpaid...

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Ciena Expands Blue Orbit SDN/NFV Ecosystem

Ciena has added six organizations to its Blue Orbit ecosystem for SDN and NFV: Active Broadband Networks, Calix, Centina Systems, Dell, Qwilt, and Silver Peak. Existing Blue Orbit partners include: VNFs: BlackRidge Technology, Brocade, Certes, EXFO, Fortinet, GENBAND, Metaswitch Networks, PowerDNS, Spirent Communications, Versa Networks Physical Network Elements: Accedian, Omnitron Systems, RAD, Telco Systems Virtual Infrastructure: ADI Engineering,...

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ADVA's Ensemble Division Focuses on NFV

ADVA Optical Networking launched Ensemble, a strategic division and product suite focused purely on network functions virtualization (NFV). The division combines the software engineering capabilities of ADVA Optical Networking and the NFV portfolio of its most recent acquisition – Overture. “What we’re announcing here isn’t simply a new division or a combined product suite. It’s our stake in the NFV landscape – a signal to our customers and to the...

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Cohere’s OTFS Scales MIMO without Signal Drop

Cohere Technologies, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, has validated the ability of its Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space (OTFS) to consistently maintain high-speed connectivity, even when encountering the most difficult scenarios for wireless networking. The company said its OTFS outperformed all other modulation schemes that were tested, and was able to extract high-speed capacity that perfectly scaled with the addition of additional...

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Avi Launches Container Service Fabric for Mesosphere, Docker

Avi Networks and Mesosphere introduced an integrated solution to help enterprises build and deploy microservices applications at scale using Docker Containers. The Avi Vantage Platform works with the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) and Docker containers to provide a dynamic service fabric for micro-segmentation, service discovery, graphical application maps, load balancing, and autoscaling capabilities deployed across thousands of...

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ARM Positions Cortex-R8 for 5G, Storage

ARM's newest Cortex-R8 processor, which is expected to arrive later this year, will enable chip designers to double the performance of ARM-based modem and mass storage device SoCs. The company said its Cortex-R8 based SoCs feature a quad-core CPU configuration, coherency system and rich set of memory and peripheral interfaces. The design promises the scalable performance, low power, fast and highly deterministic interrupt response times and extremely...

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Level 3 Appoints President of N. America and APAC

Level 3 Communications named Laurinda Pang as the Regional President of North America (NA) and Asia Pacific (APAC). Pang previously served as executive vice president and chief administrative officer for Level 3. Prior to joining Level 3, Pang held executive positions at Global Crossing and Frontier Communications. "We are excited to have Laurinda in this role, she has an impressive track record of transformative leadership and we look forward...

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Mellanox Supplies100G InfiniBand for European Supercomputer Center

The Flemish Supercomputer Center (VSC) in Belgium has selected Mellanox’s end-to-end 100Gb/s EDR interconnect solutions to be integrated into a new LX-series supercomputer from NEC. The system will be the fastest supercomputer (peak performance of 623 Teraflops) and the first complete end-to-end EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand system in Belgium. “Mellanox is thrilled to contribute to a project that will accelerate scientific discovery and has the capability...

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Netronome Signs Partners for its Agilio Server-Based Networking

Netronome announced partnerships with Broadband, Colfax International and DSCon to bring its Agilio Server Networking Platform to end-users in North America, Western Europe, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Broadband, Colfax and DSCon join existing Netronome worldwide channel partners in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. “The Agilio server-based networking platform enables businesses of all sizes to dramatically increase...

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