Softbank Completes Acquisition, Positions Sprint for Accelerated LTE

SoftBank completed its acquisition of Sprint. 

SoftBank paid approximately $16.64 billion to purchase shares from existing Sprint shareholders. It has also agreed to invest an additional $5 billion in Sprint's network, of which $1.9 billion is available at closing .  As a result of the transaction, the ownership of current Sprint equity holders in the new Sprint will be approximately 22 percent, while SoftBank will own approximately 78 percent, both calculated on a fully diluted basis. Sprint Corporation will be listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the ticker symbol, “S.”

Earlier on Tuesday, Sprint completed its acquisition of Clearwire. Sprint paid $5.00 per share, valuing Clearwire at approximately $14 billion, or about $0.30 per MHZ-pop.

Softbank expects the acquisitions will bring $2.0 billion in annual cost savings to Sprint by leveraging economies of scale and operational expertise.  In terms of global procurement, Sprint and Softbank combined have a mobile CAPEX budget of US$11.9 billion, second only to China Mobile (US$20.4 billion), and ahead of AT&T, Verizon, DOCOMO and KDDI.

Next steps:

Complete Network Vision - Sprint must continue executing on its plan to rebuild its infrastructure to catch up to LTE coverage of AT&T and Verizon.  Sprint has articulated plans to get to 200 million POP coverage with LTE (VZ already covers 297 million)

Leverage the Clearwire spectrum,  the largest spectrum portfolio in the U.S. but in the upper bands.  Its spectrum is an average 163 MHz in the top 100  U.S. markets.   Clearwire operates a nationwide WiMAX network and has been planning to make the transition to TD-LTE.  Its main wholesale customer  has been Sprint.  The companies had previously planned on extending the WiMAX arrangement through 2015.  The companies have outlined ways of bridging their FD-LTE and TD-LTE networks with dual-mode devices that are under development.

Bring iDEN spectrum to LTE -- Earlier this month, Sprint pulled the plug on its Nextel iDEN network.  This will add nationwide 800 MHz coverage to the Sprint LTE network.

Continue the Prepaid push -- Sprint already has successful brands with Virgin Mobile and Boost

Strengthen M2M -- Sprint is already active in this area.

http://www.softbank.co.jp
http://www.sprint.com

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T-Mobile Announces Jump! Smartphone Upgrades and LTE Expansion

T-Mobile unveiled its JUMP! program for enabling customers to upgrade their phones up to twice a year.

Basically, the program makes it easier to upgrade to a new device without having to wait out a lengthy contract.  JUMP!, which has an enrollment fee of $10 per month, is packaged with a smartphone insurance program.

New phones are financed through T-Mobile's Equipment Installment Program (EIP). Customers will need to trade in an eligible T-Mobile phone in good working condition at a participating store location. Any remaining EIP payments will be eliminated, and current customers can purchase new phones for the same upfront pricing as new customers, with device financing and Simple Choice Plan, a no-annual-service contract. 

On the network front, T-Mobile announced that its LTE network now reaches 157 million people across the United States in 116 metropolitan areas.  The LTE network was launched just four month ago. The company said it is on target to deliver nationwide LTE network coverage by the end of the year, reaching 200 million people in more than 200 metropolitan areas.

"At some point, big wireless companies made a decision for you that you should have to wait two years to get a new phone for a fair price. That's 730 days of waiting. 730 days of watching new phones come out that you can't have. Or having to live with a cracked screen or an outdated camera," said John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile US. "We say two years is just too long to wait. Today, we're changing all that with the launch of JUMP! "

http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/

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Broadcom's EPON ONU and OLT Chipsets Support DOCSIS Provisioning

Broadcom confirmed that its end-to-end EPON ONU and OLT chipsets and DML software are ready to be deployed in DOCSIS provisioning of EPON (DPoE) 1.0 environments.

Broadcom said the 1G EPON and 10G EPON access technologies offer the bandwidth, scale, and features required to deliver demanding business and mobile backhaul services. CableLabs DPoE 1.0 specification fully supports the DOCSIS provisioning processes.

The company has been collaborating with CableLabs, multi-system operators (MSOs) and industry OEMs on defining the requirements for the DPoE 1.0 specifications.

“The DPoE specifications represent a significant achievement on the part of CableLabs, cable MSOs and industry OEMs to create an open standard that achieves full vendor and equipment interoperability. This will further the growth of the cable industry by meeting the bandwidth needs of business users,” said Greg Fischer, Broadcom Vice President and General Manager for Broadband Carrier Access. “As an early supporter of the technology, Broadcom has devoted significant resources to both the standardization process and our product portfolio to make DPoE technology available today.”

CableLabs recently qualified DPoE 1.0 Systems and ONU products through its certification process.

http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s775764

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Amazon Cuts Price for EC2 Dedicated Instances by 80%

Amazon Web Services announced a price reduction of up to 80% on its Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances, which are EC2 instances that run on single-tenant hardware dedicated to a single customer account. Amazon Dedicated Instances offer On-Demand and Reserved Instance purchasing options.

The reduction applies to both the dedicated per region fee and the per-instance On-Demand and Reserved Instance fee across all supported instance types and all AWS Regions. The company posted the following details:

• Dedicated Per Region Fee - An 80% price reduction from $10 per hour to $2 per hour in any Region where at least one Dedicated Instance of any type is running.
• Dedicated On-Demand Instances - A reduction of up to 37% in hourly costs. For example the price of an m1.xlarge Dedicated Instance in the US East (Northern Virginia) Region will drop from $0.840 per hour to $0.528 per hour.
• Dedicated Reserved Instances - A reduction of up to 57% on the Reserved Instance upfront fee and the hourly instance usage fee. Dedicated Reserved Instances also provide additional savings of up to 65% compared to Dedicated On-Demand instances.

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/07/09/price-reductions-on-amazon-ec2-dedicated-instances/

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SanDisk Intros Fastest 64GB microSDXC Card for Smartphones

SanDisk introduced its Extreme microSDHC and microSDXC UHS-I memory cards, delivering 64GB of storage for smartphones, tablets and cameras.

SanDisk says these microSDXC cards are the fastest on the market1, with up to 80MB/sec read and up to 50MB/sec write speeds, allowing faster shot-to-shot performance, rapid data transfer, fast action photography, continuous burst mode and quick file transfers.

“Most high-end smartphones are now driven by high-speed quad-core processors, which deliver Full HD content and applications to large, high-resolution external displays," said Stuart Robinson, director, handset component technologies service, Strategy Analytics. “Such applications require high memory bandwidth which is ideal for the SanDisk Extreme microSDXC card, the world's fastest microSDXC memory solution.”

http://www.sandisk.com/products/memory-cards/microsd/

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Seagate Releases 4TB HDD for Enterprises and Data Centers

Seagate Technology unveiled two new enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDD) optimized for emerging cloud infrastructures and large scale data centers — the Seagate Terascale HDD and the Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7.

The Terascale HDD is the highest capacity HDD (4TB) available in a 3.5-inch enterprise-class SATA HDD and represents Seagate’s lowest $/GB enterprise HDD for use in scalable multi-drive systems.  It features Seagate’s own Instant Secure Erase (ISE) technology, which reduces drive erasure times from hours to milliseconds providing quick, safe and easy drive disposal or repurposing. It also features a low-cost 6Gb/s SATA interface.

The Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v7 is equipped with 1.2TB of data storage providing data centers with both the performance needed for the most write-intensive applications and the scalability to meet storage growth and business objectives. It features one of the highest GB/Watt power optimization and cooling costs in a 2.5-inch enterprise 10K HDD available. The drive also incorporates Seagate’s PowerChoice™ technology which enables IT organizations to tailor systems for enhanced power consumption during idle periods. It is equipped with a 6Gb/s SAS interface.

"Over the next eight years, the capacity shipped into the cloud will double and by 2020 personal and enterprise clouds will account for greater than 60 percent of the total storage capacity shipped. With this huge shift of capacity to the cloud, storage providers will need to deploy more storage quickly all while increasing capacity and lowering energy costs," said Scott Horn, Seagate vice president of marketing. “Engineered with this mind, these new drives deliver on all fronts providing high capacity-to-power ratios and ensuring consistent performance at an affordable cost— making them an ideal solution for the cloud.”

http://www.seagate.com/www/terascale

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Telkom Indonesia Picks ALU for WDM/OTN

Telkom Indonesia has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build a next-generation agile optical network in the Kalimantan and Sulawesi areas, as well as the greater Jakarta region, which generates around 50% of Telkom Indonesia's data traffic. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The network, which will be based on converged WDM/OTN technology will enable Telkom Indonesia to provide 100G capability, will carry over 50% of traffic in the carrier's service area. Alcatel-Lucent is supplying its 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) converged WDM/OTN platform.

Telkom Indonesia currently provides high-speed broadband to more than 19 million customers and 125 million cellular customers.

"With geography spanning more than 17,000 islands, Telkom Indonesia was looking for a technology provider to build a network foundation that can serve a wide territory cost-efficiently and effectively. The work Alcatel-Lucent is doing will help create a common platform for network capacity and efficiency that covers 200 million residents of Indonesia," stated Bobby Rasyidin, Alcatel-Lucent's Senior Executive in Indonesia.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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Dell Adds Server Streaming to Virtualization Software

The latest release of Dell Wyse WSM desktop and application virtualization software (Version 6) adds server streaming capability.

Dell Wyse WSM delivers operating systems and applications separately to stateless, diskless clients on demand, providing a manageable, reliable and scalable PC computing experience from the cloud. Unlike traditional VDI, Dell Wyse WSM enables the desktop OS and applications to execute locally on the client, giving that client the same look, performance, feel and function of a traditional desktop PC, but storing all OS, applications, and data in the datacenter. With no OS residing on the client, management, support and updates, including Windows XP and 7 migrations, are done centrally and take considerably less time than with a traditional distributed environment.

By adding on-demand delivery of server OS images, Dell said it is enabling another computing alternative that helps organizations quickly stand up new servers where and when needed, and gives employees and students secured access to content regardless of location.

“The new Dell Wyse WSM server streaming feature demonstrates our commitment to making powerful virtualization and cloud computing tools practical and accessible to organizations of all sizes,” said Jeff McNaught, Executive Director of Marketing for Dell Cloud Client Computing. “This release is right in line with our goal is to be the one-stop-shop for any customers looking to reduce costs and enhance business by optimizing their IT systems.”

http://www.dellwyse.com/WSM

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SiTime Introduces TempFlat Technology for MEMS Oscillators

SiTime introduced TempFlat MEMS technology -- an ability to eliminate temperature compensation in precision timing applications, resulting in higher performance, smaller size, lower power and cost.

TempFlat MEMS technology is being used in SiTime’s SiT15xx family of kHz oscillators for Smartphones.  The devices are currently available.

“In 2006, our semiconductor process enabled the first production MEMS oscillator. Since then, we have had many firsts – we introduced a MEMS TCXO, a MEMS oscillator with 500 femtoseconds of jitter, and a clock generator with integrated MEMS – all of which are used in consumer, industrial and cloud applications. Most recently, we entered the fast-growing smartphone market with our TempFlat MEMS-based 32 kHz oscillators,” said Rajesh Vashist, CEO of SiTime. “In 2011, SiTime demonstrated 100 PPB (parts per billion) stability with our high-performance temperature compensation. With TempFlat MEMS, which is 30 times better than SiTime’s prior resonators, we can get to 5 PPB oscillators for Stratum 3E timing in base stations, small cells and optical networking. SiTime is now uniquely able to service all segments of the electronics industry.”

http://www.sitime.com/news/press-releases/451-sitime-reinvents-precision-timing-with-tempflat-mems

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Ceragon Cites $3.5 Million APAC Order for LTE Backhaul

Ceragon Networks reported new orders valued at $3.5 million from a large Asia Pacific (APAC) mobile operator.  The equipment is being deployed as part of the operator's LTE network upgraded.

Ceragon is also supplying a range of professional turnkey services including planning, network design and project management to ensure fast time to market for the operator and fast time to service for its customers.

"Ceragon's microwave backhaul solutions offer operators in the APAC region a quantum leap in capacity for their 3G and 4G network rollouts without sacrificing profitability," said Ira Palti, Ceragon Network's President and CEO.

http://www.ceragon.com

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Xilinx Tapes Out 20nm FPGA with UltraScale Architecture

Xilinx has taped out the semiconductor industry's first 20nm All Programmable device.

Xilinx said the ASIC-class programmable architecture, called UltraScale, was developed to scale from 20nm planar, through 16nm and beyond FinFET technologies, and from monolithic through 3D ICs. This on-chip architecture will offer massive data flow and routing capabilities.

Xilinx worked with TSMC to infuse high-end FPGA requirements into the TSMC 20SoC development process.  Xilinx and TSMC also collaborated on 28nm technologies.

Some highlights of Xilinx UltraScale architecture:

• Massive data flow optimized for wide buses that support multi-terabit throughput
• Multi-region ASIC-like clocking, power management, and next generation security
• Highly optimized critical paths and built-in high-speed memory, cascading to remove bottlenecks in DSP and packet processing
• Step function in inter-die bandwidth for 2nd generation 3D IC systems integration
• Massive I/O and memory bandwidth with dramatic latency reduction and 3D IC wide memory-optimized interface
• Elimination of routing congestion and co-optimization with Vivado tools for >90% device utilization without degradation in performance

"With the industry's most aggressive 20nm tape-out schedule, I believe Xilinx is much greater than a year ahead of our nearest competition for high-end devices and about a half a year ahead for mid-range devices," said Victor Peng, SVP of Programmable Products Group. "When you combine TSMC's technology, our UltraScale architecture, and co-optimization with our Vivado Design Suite, we believe we are about a year ahead in delivering 1.5–2X more realizeable system-level performance and integration—an equivalent to a generation ahead of our competition."

Potential applications for UltraScale devices include 400G OTN systems with intelligent packet processing and traffic management, 4X4 Mixed Mode LTE and WCDMA Radio equipment with smart beamforming, video displays at 4K2K and 8K with smart image enhancement and recognition, high-performance systems for intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, and high-performance computing applications in data centers.

http://www.xilinx.com/ultrascale

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Sprint Completes Clearwire Deal, Adding Nationwide Spectrum

Sprint completed its acquisition of Clearwire. Each Clearwire share of Class A common stock was converted into the right to receive $5.00 per share in cash.  The acquisition brings full control over Clearwire's considerable spectrum resources.

The deal was first announced on December 17, 2012 and negotiations continued until Sprint's final offer of June 20th.

Sprint  has argued that its Network Vision architecture will be able to take full advantage of Clearwire’s complementary 2.5 GHz spectrum assets, while achieving operational efficiencies and improved service for customers as the spectrum and network is migrated to LTE standards.

• Clearwire holds the largest spectrum portfolio in the U.S. but in upper bands.  Its spectrum is an average 163 MHz in the top 100  U.S. markets.
  
• Clearwire operates a nationwide WiMAX network and has been planning to make the transition to TD-LTE.  Its main wholesale customer and investor is Sprint, which has extended its 4G agreement through 2015.  The companies have outlined ways of bridging their FD-LTE and TD-LTE networks with dual-mode devices that are under development.

http://www.sprint.com

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AT&T Rolls Out Free, Solar-Powered Mobile Charging Stations in NYC

AT&T is rolling out solar-powered mobile charging stations in key spots across New York City.

The AT&T Street Charge Initiative is a pilot program aimed at providing a public convenience.  AT&T said the idea arose after last year's Hurricane Sandy, when many people struggled to charge their devices.  The new charging stations are being placed in high-traffic locations and will remain in place throughout the summer and fall.

The pilot program is now available at the following locations:

• Coney Island
• Rockaway Beach
• Brighton Beach
• Manhattan Beach
• Hudson River Park
• Rumsey Playfield in Central Park
• Orchard Beach
• Piers 1 and 5 at Brooklyn Bridge Park
• Union Square Park
• Governor's Island

To build the solar charging stations, AT&T partnered with Goal Zero and Brooklyn-based design firm Pensa.

The charging stations are also intended to complement AT&T's Wi-Fi in the Parks program with the City of New York, which is currently providing free Wi-Fi in 28 NYC parks the five boroughs.

http://www.att.com

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Kymeta Raises $50 Million for Broadband Satellite Antennas

Kymeta, a start-up based in Redmond, Washington,  closed a $50 million Series C financing for its Metamaterials Surface Antenna Technology (MSA-T). The company was incubated by Intellectual Ventures and is backed by investments from Bill Gates, Liberty Global and Lux Capital.

Kymeta has said its mTenna product line will simplify the satellite connection needed for broadband Internet on the go, anywhere in the world. The company uses metamaterials to manipulate electromagnetic radiation to electronically point and steer a radio signal toward a satellite. The technology could be used to maintain a continuous broadband link between a satellite and a moving platform such as an aircraft, car or boat. The metamaterials could be manufactured using established lithographic techniques.  The technology will be used in flat, thin, light, and highly adaptable antennas and communication terminals.

Kymeta has already demonstrated a metamaterials-based antenna establishing a connection with a Ka-band satellite. The connection used an aperture size of 15 by 17 inches and was about one centimeter thick. The antenna was powered by a USB cable using less than three watts of power to drive the electronic beamforming antenna.

In the latest funding round, existing Kymeta investors including Bill Gates, Lux Capital and Liberty Global were joined in the financing by Osage University Partners and The Kresge Foundation.

http://www.kymetacorp.com/

• Earlier this year, Kymeta announced a partnership with Inmarsat to develop a beam forming antenna that would enable business jets of any size to access high-speed broadband connectivity globally through Inmarsat’s Global Xpress (GX) service. The advanced and proprietary Kymeta Aero Antenna will be designed for GX.

• Kymeta is the second company to spin out of Intellectual Ventures. The first, TerraPower, was created in 2008 to develop a new class of nuclear reactor.

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Infonetics Raises VoLTE Forecast

Infonetics Research has increased its VoLTE forecast following the rollout experience of SK Telecom earlier this year.  Infonetics now expects more than 8 million VoLTE subscribers and 12 commercial rollouts by year.

"On the VoLTE front, the success of SK Telecom's VoLTE adoption-3.6 million subscribers in April 2013-has lifted our forecast: we now expect 12 commercial VoLTE networks and 8 million VoLTE subscribers by year-end, with about three-quarters of those in Asia Pacific," stated Stéphane Téral, Infonetics Research's principal analyst for mobile infrastructure and carrier economics and co-author of the report.

Meanwhile, over-the-top mobile VoIP subscribers nearing 1 billion mark.

"While Skype dominates the over-the-top mobile VoIP space, the market is seeing other applications such as Fring, KakaoTalk, Line, Nimbuzz, WeChat and Viber gain in strength," notes Diane Myers, Infonetics Research's principal analyst for VoIP, UC and IMS. "But the fact remains that most OTT mVoIP providers are making very little money per user. In 2012, the average revenue per user was a meager US$7.13 annually. Since this alone is an unsustainable business model, most providers are turning to advertising, third-party apps and wholesale arrangements with traditional operators."

Some highlights:

• The number of global OTT mobile VoIP subscribers shot up more than 550% in 2012, to over 640 million, and is expected to approach the 1 billion mark in 2013
• Microsoft/Skype had roughly 40% of all active users of OTT mobile VoIP services in 2012
• Infonetics projects the number of VoLTE subscribers to grow at a 145% compound annual growth rate from 2012 to 2017
• Combined, over-the-top mobile VoIP and VoLTE services are expected to become a $16 billion business by 2017

http://www.infonetics.com
http://www.infonetics.com/pr/2013/Mobile-VoIP-Services-and-Subscribers-Market-Highlights.asp

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Lumos Networks Lights 100G Wavelengths Across Mid-Atlantic States

Lumos Networks launched 100Gbps wavelength services across its Mid-Atlantic fiber network., which spans over 5,800 route miles across Virginia, West Virginia and portions of Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, and Maryland.

Lumos said a single 100 Gbps wavelength is more economical for its customers than operating multiple 10 Gbps wavelengths.

“This service is poised to handle the ever growing demand for increased bandwidth of both wholesale and enterprise customers. 100Gbps is in early adoption stage and is being used by carriers to support network transport. Similar to 1Gbps wavelength service, Lumos anticipates increased adoption as enterprise demand increases. By launching this product today, Lumos is demonstrating that they are ready to meet the growing demand for this high capacity service,” said Lumos Networks Vice President of Product Management & Engineering Craig Drinkhall. “We see a migration to 100Gbps across our footprint as necessary to meet the dramatic surge in network traffic,” he added.

http://www.lumosnetworks.com

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Sandvine's Service Delivery Engine Supports 3GPP Release 11

Sandvine released an updated version of its Service Delivery Engine (SDE) platform version with new Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) functionality to roll out revenue generating services faster than ever before, such as roaming notifications, bill shock prevention, family plans and data bundles.

Sandvine’s SDE is a fully-compliant PCRF product conforming to 3GPP Release 11. It can work in conjunction with Sandvine’s Policy Traffic Switch (PTS) to provide a unified platform for network policy control in fixed, mobile and converged operator networks, or alternatively the SDE interfaces with third party Policy and Charging Enforcement Functions (PCEFs).

Sandvine’s Service Delivery Engine 7.0 features include:

• Unified policy definition, decision and enforcement across the control plane (PCRF) and the data plane (PCEF).
• Shared policy engine with the Policy Traffic Switch (PTS), enabling high performance policy control without overwhelming signaling traffic
• Application-centric, standards-based PCRF, capable of signalling policy enforcement to third party GGSNs or PGWs via standard Gx interface
• 3GPP Release 11 standards compliance 
• Integration with existing B/OSS systems through standard interfaces
• Built-in integration with Sandvine’s Usage Management product to capitalize on revenue generating opportunities including service tiers, roaming notifications, bill shock prevention, family plans, day passes and third party promotions
• ServiceDesigner graphical interface for rapid service creation 

Sandvine said its solution has been selected and/or deployed for more than twenty LTE networks.

“As mobile networks migrate from 3G to LTE, the need for universal service plans that bridge these technologies is critical,” said Don Bowman, CTO, Sandvine. “Sandvine’s latest SDE release builds on our existing foundation in the control plane and opens the doors for future developments in Software-Defined Networking.”

http://www.sandvine.com

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Ghana's Surfline Deploys LTE with Alcatel-Lucent

Surfline Communications, a new mobile operator, is planning to launch Ghana’s first 4G LTE service in Q1 2014. Initial LTE coverage will be in the capital, Accra, followed by all major cities and a nationwide rollout.

Alcatel-Lucent will provide hardware and software, along with installation, optimization, maintenance and managed services.  This includes the LTE Radio Access Network, the Evolved Packet Core, and professional services to install, optimize, maintain and manage the LTE network.

Surfline is owned by Skybridge Investments Ltd. a wholly owned Ghanaian company and headquartered in Accra, Ghana.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com
http://surflinegh.com/

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CloudSigma Joins Equinix in Zurich and Washington, D.C.

CloudSigma has deployed in Equinix’s Zurich and Washington D.C. facilities as part of a new partnership to market cloud and data center services in North America and Europe, with future plans to deploy in newly emerging digital markets such as Brazil, the United Arab Emirates and Asia Pacific.

Equinix will offer CloudSigma as a best-of-breed cloud provider to its existing customers with a direct connect private line, making it easy for companies to adopt hybrid cloud architectures. In turn, CloudSigma will gain access to Equinix’s 4,000+ customers to offer its uniquely customizable and unrestricted public cloud IaaS.

“CloudSigma is a global company with ambitions to expand its presence in Europe and North America, as well as newly emerging digital markets such as Brazil, the United Arab Emirates and Asia Pacific, fueled by our existing customers’ demand. Equinix is a perfect strategic match for this expansion due to its innovative culture, proactive partnership approach, global footprint and the IBX connectivity solution," stated Bernino Lind, chief operating officer at CloudSigma.

CloudSigma is based in Zurich and also operates a facility in Las Vegas.

http://www.cloudsigma.com
http://www.equinix.com

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GTS Central Europe Deploys Ciena's Packet Optical for 100G

GTS Central Europe, which provides integrated telecommunications solutions and data center services throughout Central and Eastern Europe, has deployed Ciena’s converged packet optical  solutions to upgrade its international network to 100G.

The deployment uses Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform with WaveLogic 3 Coherent Optical Processors to provide 100G capacity along its high-traffic routes in Poland, Czech Republic and Germany.  The 6500 platform will support 100GE services in addition to unregenerated 100G wavelengths over distances of 1400 kms on GTS’ transport network.

GTS had previously deployed Ciena’s 4200 Family, CoreStream Agility Optical Transport System and packet networking products throughout its network.

http://www.ciena.com

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