Telefónica Adds in Latin America But Europe Drags

The total number of accesses served by Telefónica reached 309 million as of the end of March, up 7% over the year earlier thanks to growth in Latin America.

Revenues totalled 15,511 million euros in the first quarter of 2012, a 0.5% year-on-year increase (-1.8% in the previous quarter), driven by higher sales at Telefónica Latinoamérica (+8.3% year-on-year), which more than offset lower revenues at the European businesses (-6.6% year-on-year). Excluding the negative impact of mobile termination rates cuts, revenues rose by 1.6% from the first quarter of 2011.

OIBDA totalled 5,081 million euros, down 8.8% compared to last year, while operating income was 2,511 million euros. Meanwhile, consolidated net profit for the quarter stood at 748 million euros and was impacted primarily by Telco’s writedown.

“Our earnings for the first three months of 2012 reflect the strategic priorities set for the full year and the success of the company's shift in commercial strategy, which began in the second half of 2011," said Telefónica Chairman César Alierta. “These results are in line with internal estimates and thus allow us to reiterate our financial and operational guidance announced for 2012."

Some highlights from the quarterly report:

• The company is seeking to implement a new approach to handsets subsidies, reducing its upfront costs
• The company is moving from voice to data-centric tariffs
• Smartphones represent 81% of new commercial activity in Europe in Q1
• There were 2x mobile net adds in Latin America vs. Q1 11.
• The company describes Latin America as its "engine for growth".
• There was a similar revenue contribution from Brazil (23%) and Spain (25%).
• CapEx(ex-spectrum)/sales was 11% in Q1, up 1% over the same period last year. CapEx totalled 1,712 million euros in the quarter, up 10.3% year-on-year. The Company continued to devote the bulk of its investments to growth and transformation projects (81% of total CapEx),fostering the expansion of broadband services, both fixed and mobile.
• The company blamed commercial and regulatory costs for its drop in OIBDA.
• Telefónica’s mobile accesses growth in Latin America accelerated to 13% year-on-year in the first quarter boosting the accesses base to 170.8 million users.
• Telefónica’s fixed accesses in Latin America rose by 2% year-on-year to 34.6 million accesses. The Company’s retail broadband accesses climbed by 12% year-on-year to reach 8.0 million and net additions of pay TV customers totalled 2.3 million, up 23% year-on-year. 75% of fixed accesses now include some bundled offer package (+7 percentage points year-onyear), while 89% of broadband accesses are subscribed to a double or triple-play offer.

http://www.telefonica.com 

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ITU: Broadband Remain Unaffordable in Many Markets

While there are some 600 million broadband lines in service worldwide, affordability remains a major obstacle, particularly in Africa, where fixed broadband access costs on average three times monthly per capita income, according to the ITU's newly published "Trends in Telecommunication Reform" annual report.

In contrast, mobile cellular and mobile broadband services remains very competitive in 92 percent of all markets. By the end of 2011, ITU estimated that the number of mobile-cellular subscriptions reached close to 6 billion, representing a global penetration of 86.7 percent and a penetration level of 78.8 percent in developing countries.

Subtitled ‘Smart Regulation for a Broadband World', this year's report sheds light on the often complex legal and regulatory issues now emerging as broadband becomes pervasive and increasingly serves as a driving force for the development of other economic sectors. Case studies and decision trees are provided for national regulators who are working through the process of developing a broadband plan for their country. Ultimately, there is not a single "right" universal service funding model, according to the report, but there are common principles such as economic efficiency, equity, competitive neutrality, technological neutrality, certainty, transparency, and cost effectiveness. http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/treg/publications/trends12.html 

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Verizon Advances Control Plane Strategy, 100G Metro Deployments

Verizon is making progress on two key initiatives that are transforming its global optical network: advanced control plane technology and the extension of 100G into its metro networks.

The integration of additional control plane technology allows electronic devices on its optical network to more easily communicate with each other, simplifying operations and allowing for near real-time provisioning of specified new circuits. Verizon has deployed the Ciena 5430 Reconfigurable Switching System, which features advanced Optical Transport Network aggregation and switching software. The control plane initiative enables end-to-end optical transport network functionality and global mesh architecture capabilities.

Verizon noted that it has been a pioneer in mesh network architecture, beginning deployments in 2006, which gives the company significant flexibility and precision in routing choices. This architecture creates additional paths to quickly and seamlessly reroute traffic in the event of multiple breaks or network disruptions.

The extension of 100G technology into its metro network worldwide, which follows earlier deployment of 100G in its long haul network, provide greater scalability while supporting higher access speeds. Verizon expects to implement this technology into major metro markets around the world during the first half of 2013.

"By combining our expanded control plane capabilities with extended 100G technology, Verizon is building the network of the future," said Ihab Tarazi, vice president of global IP and transport planning and technology for Verizon. "It’s no longer about miles and scope. It’s about leveraging strategies that further enable us to deliver http://www.verizon.com 

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ADVA Tests OpenFlow for Multi-Layer Network Virtualization

ADVA Optical Networking is pioneering the use of OpenFlow technology to dynamically control wavelength-switched optical networks. Working in cooperation with the University of Essex as part of the OFELIA project, ADVA has developed an optical OpenFlow implementation based on its FSP 3000 transmission platform.

Project OFELIA provides researchers with a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) testbed to experiment with new applications using a web-services approach. The aim is to use a common OpenFlow control for both the packet and optical layers.

The SDN facility at University of Essex comprises packet switches and application servers that can be dynamically connected by optical lightpaths. External users can directly access the facility via GÉANT, a high-bandwidth pan-European backbone that interconnects national research and education networks. Web-based tools and services enable users to request network resources from OFELIA and run, control and monitor their own SDN applications.

"SDN presents a tremendous opportunity for customers to streamline and automate network infrastructure and operations,” said Christoph Glingener, CTO, ADVA Optical Networking. “While server and storage virtualization have been widely adopted, network virtualization is still in its infancy. SDN closes this gap by offering programmable network control, better scalability and faster adoption to virtual machine mobility. We have proven that SDN can seamlessly extend into the optical domain and enables network virtualization across multiple layers. The OpenFlow approach extends our existing SDN solution employing our RAYcontrol control plane."

"It has been exciting developing this OpenFlow solution with the team at ADVA Optical Networking”, commented Professor Dimitra Simeonidou, head of the High Performance Networks Group, University of Essex. “Together we have built an SDN testbed with packet and wavelength switches under a common OpenFlow control. This is something that has never been done before. Researchers can now obtain slices of network infrastructure to program their own virtual multi-layer networks. They can use optical switching alongside packet switching to adapt bandwidth, latency and power consumption to their application needs." http://www.advaoptical.com http://www.fp7-ofelia.eu/ 

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Telstra Announces Application Assured Networking Service

Telstra introduced an "Application Assured Networking" service that provides enterprises with more control over the increasing number of financial, relationship management, IP telephony, video conferencing and other business applications on their network. The new service will initially allow an organisation to produce reports on how networks are being used by applications which can be viewed via an easy-to-use secure online portal on the Telstra Business and Enterprise website.

Telstra said its goal is to optimise the network to ensure the performance of enterprise applications that really count. Enterprises can define application policies for the network which applies Quality of Service and bandwidth controls in real-time or as scheduled.

The new service is available on the Telstra Next IP network. Peer Industries is the first Telstra customer to use the Application Assured Networking service. http://www.telstra.com 

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Telstra Announces Application Assured Networking Service

Telstra introduced an "Application Assured Networking" service that provides enterprises with more control over the increasing number of financial, relationship management, IP telephony, video conferencing and other business applications on their network.  The new service will initially allow an organisation to produce reports on how networks are being used by applications which can be viewed via an easy-to-use secure online portal on the Telstra Business and Enterprise website.



Telstra said its goal is to optimise the network to ensure the performance of enterprise applications that really count. Enterprises can define application policies for the network which applies Quality of Service and bandwidth controls in real-time or as scheduled.


The new service is available on the Telstra Next IP network.  Peer Industries is the first Telstra customer to use the Application Assured Networking service.
http://www.telstra.com

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BT Stays Ahead of Schedule, Increases Dividend

BT reported overall revenue, excluding transit, of GBP 19.307 billion for the fiscal year ending 31-March-2012, down 1.9% for the year. EBITDA came in at over GBP 6 billion, a year earlier than the company's turn around plan anticipated. The company has proposed a final dividend of 5.7p, up 14%, giving a full year dividend of 8.3p, up 12%.

"In what remains a challenging environment we have delivered another year of growth in profits and free cash flow. Our financial strength has allowed us to invest in the business, make a 2bn pounds payment into the pension fund, reward employees and deliver double digit growth in shareholder returns," stated Ian Livingston, Chief Executive.

Some highlights:

Net labour costs decreased by 1% to £4,812m after adjusting for certain labour related costs of £87m classified as other costs in the prior year.

Capital expenditure was £2,594m, in line with a target for the year of around £2.6bn. BT expects capital expenditure to remain at around £2.6bn in 2013.

BT added 589,000 retail broadband customers in the year, representing 54% of the broadband market net additions of 1,085,000 and taking our retail broadband customer base to around 6.3m, up 10%.

Net additions for BT Infinity, the company's super-fast broadband service, were 131,000 in the quarter, and the customer base currently stands at over 550,000.

BT Vision added 28,000 customers in the quarter, bringing the customer base to over 700,000, up 23% on last year.

Business revenue decreased by 6% in the quarter and 5% in the year. Revenue continued to be impacted by lower IT hardware sales reflecting market conditions and a decision in the second quarter to move away from low-margin IT hardware trade sales.
http://www.btplc.com

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ADVA Tests OpenFlow for Multi-Layer Network Virtualization Appliance

ADVA Optical Networking is pioneering the use of OpenFlow technology to dynamically control wavelength-switched optical networks. Working in cooperation with the University of Essex as part of the OFELIA project, ADVA has developed an optical OpenFlow implementation based on its FSP 3000 transmission platform.

Project OFELIA provides researchers with a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) testbed to experiment with new applications using a web-services approach. The aim is to use a common OpenFlow control for both the packet and optical layers.

The SDN facility at University of Essex comprises packet switches and application servers that can be dynamically connected by optical lightpaths. External users can directly access the facility via GÉANT, a high-bandwidth pan-European backbone that interconnects national research and education networks. Web-based tools and services enable users to request network resources from OFELIA and run, control and monitor their own SDN applications.

"SDN presents a tremendous opportunity for customers to streamline and automate network infrastructure and operations,” said Christoph Glingener, CTO, ADVA Optical Networking. “While server and storage virtualization have been widely adopted, network virtualization is still in its infancy. SDN closes this gap by offering programmable network control, better scalability and faster adoption to virtual machine mobility. We have proven that SDN can seamlessly extend into the optical domain and enables network virtualization across multiple layers. The OpenFlow approach extends our existing SDN solution employing our RAYcontrol control plane."

"It has been exciting developing this OpenFlow solution with the team at ADVA Optical Networking”, commented Professor Dimitra Simeonidou, head of the High Performance Networks Group, University of Essex. “Together we have built an SDN testbed with packet and wavelength switches under a common OpenFlow control. This is something that has never been done before. Researchers can now obtain slices of network infrastructure to program their own virtual multi-layer networks. They can use optical switching alongside packet switching to adapt bandwidth, latency and power consumption to their application needs."

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Infonetics: Carrier Wi-Fi Market Takes Off

Infonetics is predicting that the global carrier WiFi equipment market will grow in the high double-digit percents annually at least through 2016, when it will hit $2.1 billion. This pace is already established as Infonetics notes that global revenue for carrier WiFi equipment -- including mobile WiFi access points, WiFi hotspot access points, and WiFi hotspot controllers -- grew 35% in 2011 from 2010.

"Our many recent conversations with mobile operators and equipment vendors validate our view that mobile operators are hot for hotspots,” notes Richard Webb, directing analyst for microwave, mobile offload, and mobile broadband devices at Infonetics Research. "The carrier WiFi equipment market has grown consistently since 2007, initially driven by exploding demand from mobile operators augmenting their 3G and 4G deployments with WiFi hotspot services. The strongest new growth driver is mobile operators deploying carrier WiFi to offload a portion of their mobile data traffic."

Some notes from the Infonetics' Carrier Wi-Fi Survey:

• Two-thirds of the service providers that Infonetics interviewed have already deployed 20,000 to over 150,000 WiFi access points (APs) in public spaces.
• Street coverage is seen as one of the areas of greatest deficit for WiFi coverage; by 2013, the percentage of service providers planning to deploy WiFi for street coverage jumps to 79%.
• Complementing the mobile data service by enhancing throughput is currently the top deployment driver for carrier WiFi, followed by the scarcity of licensed spectrum.
• Nearly all respondent carriers plan to increase the number of access points deployed by 2013, so Infonetics expects significant carrier WiFi deployment over the coming year.
• Smartphones and tablets are named by mobile operators as the top mobile broadband devices driving their 2013 deployments of public WiFi networks.

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Sprint Offers Extended Mobile Safety Enhancements

Sprint introduced a collection of mobile family safety and device security bundles aimed at protecting mobile users. Sprint Guardian features mobile apps from Safely and Lookout for use of Sprint Android-powered devices.

Safely provides location tracking for phone-carrying children. Parents can lock their child’s phone on demand or schedule locks – during dinner, school or late at night. They can browse the child’s contacts and apps downloaded to the phone. Safely also enforces limits on texting while driving when traveling more than 10 mph. Incoming calls are sent to voicemail and distracting alerts are suspended while a car is in motion. The service is priced at for $9.99 per month for up to five lines on an account.

Lookout is a service that protects mobile devices from loss and malware for $4.99 per month for up to five lines on an account.

Sprint customers also have the option to purchase both bundles for a single monthly fee of $14.98.

"With Sprint Guardian, we’re helping to make it easy for individuals and families to manage how their children are using their mobile phone and giving them the tools they need to protect their wireless devices from theft, loss and malware," said Fared Adib, vice president-Product Development, Sprint. “Sprint is pleased to be the first in the industry to unify innovative safety and security applications from Safely and Lookout in two simple bundles at a great value for our customers." http://www.sprint.com http://www.safely.com 

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Huawei Achieves 150 Mbps in European LTE Cat 4 Field Trial

Huawei has achieved data rates of 150 Mbps in an LTE Category 4 field trial on a commercial LTE network in Europe.

The trial was based on an LTE Category 4 device powered by the first Hisilicon LTE multi-mode chipset to support LTE R9. http://www.huawei.com 

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Ericsson Debuts Smaller Smart Services Router, Adds Akamai CDN Sharing

Ericsson has expanded its Smart Services Router 8000 portfolio with a smaller 10-slot model operators to deploy the SSR family in different parts of the network: IP Edge and aggregation. A 20-slot version of the SSR debuted last year.


The 10-slot SSR 8010 consumes only 3.3 watts per gigabit of traffic throughput and offers a smaller footprint while using the same universal slots, hosting the same hardware and software components, and using a common management system as the larger chassis.


Jan Häglund, Head of Product Area IP & Broadband, Ericsson, says: "The introduction of the SSR 8010 highlights Ericsson's ongoing focus on developing 4th-generation IP solutions that can scale in multiple dimensions - data, control and service. Given we anticipate that the traffic between data centers and end users will quadruple to close to 1,000 exabytes annually by 2016, demand for smart solutions of this type is expected to be strong."


The SSR 8010 will be commercially available in Q3 2012.


Separately, Ericsson announced its Smart Cloud Accelerator solution for providing a unified caching solution for content delivery.  It optimizes over-the-top traffic and monetizes cloud content for operators, adding Akamai capabilities to Ericsson's SSR 8000 family of routing gateways. This allow operators to manage and deliver both their own content and that provided by third parties.


Ericsson confirmed that is using unified caching technology from Akamai to provide for dynamic capacity sharing between operators and their CDN customers, as well as over-the-top Internet traffic.

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Polaris Wireless Develops High-Accuracy Mobile Location Surveillance App

Polaris Wireless introduced a mobile location surveillance application for providing accurate mass location of all mobile devices operating on a cellular network, on-demand location, subscriber device tracking, and geo-fence capabilities to field agents on their mobile devices.



Altus Mobile is powered by Polaris Wireless Location Signatures technology and is the latest feature of Altus, the company's intelligent surveillance application suite for law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide.   Altus is the industry's only software-based surveillance solution that enables accurate mass location - providing users the ability to simultaneously locate all subscriber devices in a wireless network in real time and on a historical basis. The Wireless Location Signatures (WLS) technology identifies the location of a wireless device to within 50 meters, even in tough urban and indoor environments.


Altus Mobile allows field agents to simultaneously track suspects on a Smartphone or tablet, and make life-or-death decisions in real time by receiving up-to-date intelligence from headquarters, such as:

• Past and current locations of suspects



• Locations where two or more suspects meet



• Occasions where suspects enter/exit a restricted area



• Visualization of suspects' surroundings by augmented reality



• Nearby locations of authorities (police, military, etc.)

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BT's Wholesale Fibre Footprint Passes Ten Million Premises

BT's wholesale fibre broadband service is now available to ten million premises across the UK. The company was due to pass that milestone by the end of 2012 so it is several months ahead of schedule.



BT is investing £2.5 billion to make fibre broadband available to around two thirds of UK premises by the end of 2014 and has recruited hundreds of extra engineers in the past year to help with the roll-out.


BT chief executive Ian Livingston added: "Our engineers have worked tirelessly this past year and BT has made a real commitment to the UK’s infrastructure. Rolling out fibre is no easy task and so to have passed ten million premises in such a short time is fantastic. Our roll-out is one of the fastest in the world and our engineers deserve lots of credit. The UK is making great progress with fibre broadband. There are more than half a million customers already using the service and more than 60 ISPs trialling or offering services."

http://www.btplc.com

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Symantec Tightens Enterprise Mobility Security

Symantec introduced a number of enterprise mobile security features aimed at the "Bring Your Own Device" crowd.



Symantec now offers tools to help organizations containerize corporate applications and protect sensitive data. The app and data protection capabilities, which are offered in both SaaS and on-prem models, enables enterprises to distribute, secure and control applications and data without requiring them to manage the complete devices. The MAM offers an ability to natively protect and control iOS, Android and HTML5 apps.


Symantec is preparing to launch a Data Loss Prevention for Mobile solution that will help CIOs to monitor and control the transmission of confidential data from mobile devices without restricting users’ access to applications.


Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center (CIC) for Mobile, an extension of Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, helps manage SSL certificates across large and complex networks.


In addition, Symantec is introducing a Code Signing for Android tool that allows developers to digitally sign their .APK files for the Android platform. This cloud-based service also allows developers to securely manage their certificate keys and store their signed applications, all from a single intuitive cloud-based console. Symantec Code Signing for Android also has the first ever dedicated Android Root certificate from a security vendor.
http://www.symantec.com

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Sprint Awarded $2 Billion Contract

The Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA), a purchasing consortium composed of 15 states, has awarded Sprint a four-year, $2 billion contract to serve as one of its wireless products and services providers. The contract with WSCA, a national public sector purchasing consortium, represents one of the largest for Sprint in 2012.


WSCA participants will be able to take advantage of the full suite of Sprint wireless products and services, including devices, unlimited data plans, accessories, applications and end-to-end solutions.
http://www.sprint.com

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SiTime Hits MEMS Milestone: 100 Million Timing Devices Shipped

SiTime Corporation, which specializes in silicon MEMS timing solutions, announced a major milestone: cumulative shipments of its MEMS oscillators, clock generators and resonators have exceeded 100 million units.


Over 800 electronics companies have adopted SiTime’s Silicon MEMS timing solutions in more than 100 unique applications.


“SiTime’s unique MEMS and analog technology is transforming the decades-old timing industry with revolutionary products that offer unsurpassed performance, flexibility and reliability,�? said Rajesh Vashist, CEO of SiTime. “Our silicon-based technology has enabled dramatic advances in performance that have not been replicated by the quartz industry. Today, our products are 250 times better in stability and jitter than our first product in 2007, and we continue to innovate at this accelerated pace. In addition, SiTime’s MEMS timing products are up to 500 times more reliable than quartz oscillators. Almost every major electronics company has either shipped product with our MEMS solutions or is evaluating them and it is only a matter of time before volumes of MEMS oscillators will exceed that of legacy quartz oscillators."
http://www.sitime.com

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Broadcom Unveils 100 GE Switching Silicon with L2-4 Classification

Broadcom unveiled its 100 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switching solution designed for next gen data center switching platforms with densities up to 4,000 100GbE ports.

Broadcom said a key innovation in its highly integrated BCM88650 system on chip (SoC) is that the features and functionality of a complete line card have been combined into a single chip. The chip can process a single stream of 200Gbps traffic at Layer 2-Layer 4 with integrated advanced packet classification and deep-buffer traffic management features to support data center, carrier Ethernet and packet transport requirements.

The new BCM88650 works with Broadcom's FE1600 (BCM88750) fabric for highly scalable systems a few hundred Gbps of aggregate capacity A chassis with a total capacity of 25Tbps can be designed for the core of the data center or the carrier core network. Multiple chassis of different capacities can be interconnected to create a scalable core platform and deliver up to 4,000 wire-speed ports of 100GbE or their 40GbE/10GbE equivalent.


Highlights include:

• Integrates advanced packet classification, deep-buffer traffic manager, and cell based fabric interface



• Integrated 1/10/40/100GbE network interfaces eliminates the need for additional components



• Programmable packet classification engine with built-in support for data center, metro Ethernet
  and transport applications



• Large on-chip classification databases can be extended using a companion Broadcom/NetLogic processor



• Deep buffers with distributed scheduling scheme allowing state of the art hierarchical QOS, transmission scheduling and flow control schemes



• Fully compatible with Broadcom's XLP multi-core processors and NL8865x knowledge-based processors for best-in-class control plane and expanded L2-4 header processing performance



• Fully supported by Broadcom's common Application Programming Interface (API).

Broadcom plans to offer different versions of the BCM88650 series for data center, enterprise, carrier access, metro Ethernet, and transport designs. Sampling is underway and production volume is slated for the second half of 2012.

http://www.broadcom.com

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Verizon to Market FIPS-140-2 Encrypted Mobile Voice Services to U.S. Government

Verizon will begin selling secure mobile voice services to the U.S. government using technology from Cellcrypt, a provider of government-grade encrypted voice-calling software. The two companies will jointly market Cellcrypt's mobile voice-encryption solution to military, intelligence and civilian agencies.


Cellcrypt helps address the potential risks of interception of sensitive voice communications. The technology is
currently undergoing trial testing with several government agencies. The yet-to-be named co-branded service will be available for sale this fall. When launched, the Verizon-Cellcrypt service will be supported on smartphones and tablets running on the widely used Android, BlackBerry and iOS mobile operating systems. The downloadable software application, which supports federal information processing standard 140-2, will work across cellular, Wi-Fi and satellite networks, including Verizon's wireless networks.


"The threats posed by cyberattacks are real and increasingly focused on U.S. national security interests," said Janet Schijns, vice president of vertical solutions, Verizon Enterprise Solutions. "By leveraging our combined strengths, Verizon and Cellcrypt will provide government agencies with an easy-to-deploy and interoperable mobile voice-encryption solution designed to maintain the security and integrity of sensitive communications."


FIPS 140-2, created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is a U.S. government computer-security standard used to accredit cryptographic hardware and software.
http://www.verizon.com
http://www.cellcrypt.com

• Cellcrypt leverages Encrypted Mobile Content Protocol (EMCP), an Internet Protocol (IP) based technology that optimizes delivery of encrypted data between mobile devices over wireless networks.

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Comcast and Verizon Wireless Extend Co-Marketing

Comcast and Verizon Wireless are moving ahead with their co-marketing agreement with special bundled offers in a number of markets.


Depending on the package chosen, new and existing customers of both Comcast and Verizon Wireless could qualify for cash incentive between $50 and $300, and/or a "double your data package" on the Comcast Xfinity Internet service and a doubling of a 4G LTE data plan from Verizon Wireless.


"Because mobility is a top priority of the consumer, we co-developed an offering that provides a terrific wireless, entertainment and communications experience in one spot," said Jonathan Lecompton, president, Verizon Wireless Georgia-Alabama Region. "Comcast continues to deliver exceptional entertainment and communications services and the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network is the ideal complement to complete the package."

In addition to Atlanta, Comcast and Verizon Wireless are expanding the offer to five additional markets today: Chicago; Colorado; Kansas City, Mo.; Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.; and Salt Lake City. Earlier this year, Verizon Wireless and Comcast launched in Portland, Ore.; San Francisco; and Seattle.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/xfinityhttp://www.comcast.com/wireless

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