ECI Debuts Integrated OLT for GPON + Active Ethernet

ECI Telecom introduced its 1Net fiber access solution -- a next-generation integrated OLT (I-OLT) platform supporting GPON, active Ethernet (point-to-point), and full traffic aggregation capabilities -- all from a single chassis. The new I-OLT, which is a member of the company's Hi-FOCuS family, is being deployed by a number of operators including Openreach, part of the BT Group.


ECI said its I-OLT allows operators to deploy any mix of FTTx architecture, flexibly supporting GPON for residential services and active Ethernet/point-to-point for business services, while maintaining a single management umbrella. The solution allows flexible slot assignment so that the service mix offered by the access network is adaptable to customer requirements - whether residential, business, wholesale or wireless backhaul.


The fiber access solution is designed to accommodate the constantly growing capacity requirements of access networks, adhering to current and future GPON standards. The I-OLT's multiservice and aggregation capabilities minimize the number of nodes and elements required in the network, leveraging existing copper islands for any FTTx deployment. With full backward compatibility, the I-OLT is operationally compatible with all of ECI's 1Net Hi-FOCuS access solutions. The Hi-FOCuS family offers a unified management system for both copper and fiber deployments, allowing for local or remote provisioning, configuration and control, thus reducing complexities and operational costs.
http://www.ecitele.com

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Juniper Extends Security to Mobile Devices

Juniper Networks is extending its security expertise from the network edge directly to mobile devices -- including all flavors of smartphones and tablets -- both for enterprise users and consumers. At a press event in San Francisco, company officials unveiled the Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite, which provides a number of tools for securing and managing smartphones against a wide range of threats.


The software suite includes anti-virus, personal firewall, anti-spam, loss and theft prevention, and monitoring and control services that could be administered either by an enterprise network manager or by a service provider. Capabilities include parental controls that limit inappropriate device use, such as the sending or receiving of sexually explicit messages or images. The tools include a "locate me" feature for finding lost or stolen devices, locking them, backing them up remotely, and then wiping all their data.


Junos Pulse leverages Juniper's SA Series SSL VPN appliances, Unified Access Control (UAC), and WXC Series Application Acceleration platform. It combines all of these capabilities.


In addition, the company announced the opening of the Juniper Global Threat Center -- a facility located in Columbus, Ohio, that will provide around-the-clock, global monitoring of mobile security threats to consumers and enterprises.


http://www.juniper.net

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Broadband Forum Rolls Out BroadbandSuite 3.2

The Broadband Forum released its BroadbandSuite 3.2, adding enhanced remote management capabilities for service providers who need to support advanced residential gateways and CPE. The new tools provide the ability to manage gateways in new ways, including downloading, installing and activating new software/applications.


BroadbandSuite™3.2 provides enhanced CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP) and establishes a converged Device and Gateway Root Data Model. This release extends Connected Home remote management abilities to enable operators to offer new applications via the gateway, to effectively address the plethora of new devices being introduced to the home, as well as improve back office billing and operations integration. Written in XML, these specifications remove the potential for user interpretation error and provide new implementation ease of data models.
http://www.broadband-forum.org/

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ADTRAN Targets "Ultra Broadband Ethernet"

ADTRAN outlined plans for an "Ultra Broadband Ethernet" architecture positioned as the next step in network access.


This new Ethernet-based architecture and associated products will initially deliver a 100 Mbps symmetrical broadband service scaling to 1 Gbps with ultra-low power requirements and low latency characteristics. The strategy leverages bandwidth capacity gains achieved through vectoring and pair bonding techniques. The architecture enables operators to leverage a variety of deep-fibre service models including Gigabit Ethernet, GPON, and Next-generation PON backhaul.


ADTRAN said it currently has Ultra Broadband Ethernet trials underway with Tier 1 operators in North America, Europe and Asia. More details are expected in the first half of 2011 as the product line becomes commercially available.


"From a performance standpoint, FTTH has been the goal of service providers for years, but the economics are simply not yet there to support deployment to all areas of service provider networks," said Jay Wilson, senior vice president and general manager, ADTRAN Carrier Networks Division. "Ultra Broadband Ethernet is the solution service providers have been seeking. Not only does it meet all of the performance and operational standards required by operators today, but it does so at a fraction of the cost of current solutions, allowing service providers to quickly expand their broadband penetration rates."http://www.adtran.com

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Cavium's NITROX III Packs 16-64 Cores for 40 Gbps Security

Cavium Networks unveiled its NITROX III family of security processors that integrate 16 to 64 purpose-built security RISC cores with high performance compression engines, virtualization hardware and a PCI-Express Gen 2 interface. The processors, which are aimed at secure and virtualized cloud computing and the borderless enterprise applications, deliver performance is up to 10 times greater than alternative multi-chip solutions within the same power envelope.


Cavium said its NITROX III Security Processor family will deliver unmatched SSL and security performance, virtualization features, compression performance and very low power consumption. Product designs will offer up to 64 cores for up to 40Gbps of security performance. The designs will also support 200K RSA Ops/sec for 1024 bit keys and 35K RSA Ops/sec for 2048 bit keys.
http://www.cavium.com

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Verizon Expands its Infrastructure-as-a-Service to Europe, Asia-Pac

Verizon is expanding its Infrastructure-as-a-Service to wholesale customers in Europe and Asia-Pacific, on an individual-case basis. The service has been available to U.S. wholesale customers since June.


Verizon's IaaS is a highly resilient on-demand infrastructure delivery platform that allows wholesale customers to quickly change resources in the quantity and duration necessary to meet changing business needs.
A customer management portal enables wholesale customers to dynamically move, add or remove resources such as physical and virtual services, storage, firewall, backup and support services.
http://www.verizon.com

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Cable&Wireless Opens Second NOC in India

Cable&Wireless Worldwide has inaugurated a new India Centre of Excellence (ICE) in Chennai. It will serve as the company's second Network Operating Center (NOC) in India. The first NOC is located in Bangalore and together these two centres will manage and support communication networks of over 6,500 enterprise and carrier customers across Asia, Europe and the Americas. This represents a 55% increase in C&W Worldwide's India operations' capacity to support the Company's customer base. http://www.cw.com

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Verizon Tests 10 Gbps XG PON2 Technology on FiOS

Verizon has successfully tested pre-standard XG-PON2 technology capable of delivering a 10 Gbps connection both downstream and upstream. The tests were conducted at a customer's business in Taunton, Mass., using the same optical fiber that provides that business with its existing FiOS network connection. None of the FiOS TV connections were affected by the trial, and there was no impairment to the business customer's data service as the GPON and XG-PON2 signals were layered over the same fiber for the trial.


The XG-PON2 trial used a prototype system developed by Alcatel-Lucent, which provides a GPON system used by Verizon, and implemented using the same wavelengths that were standardized for an earlier version of the XG-PON technology. The optical network terminal (ONT) unit placed at the business-customer location supported up to 10 single GigE links, as well as one dedicated link capable of delivering the full 10 Gbps symmetric speeds to a single location. Two PCs, each having a 10 Gbps network interface card, were communicating across the network between the ONT and the line terminal equipment located in the Verizon switching facility in Taunton.


"This trial demonstrates the capacity of Verizon's FiOS network to provide even greater upstream bandwidth capabilities required for adoption on a mass scale of new and emerging residential applications like user-generated video, as well as business services," said Brian Whitton, executive director of technology for Verizon. "High-definition video sharing, 3-D video, video telephony, telemedicine, and offsite backups and storage services are just a few of the applications that will take advantage of the expanded capacity Verizon is demonstrating today."http://www.verizon.com

• In May 2010, Verizon completed a field trial of a second XG-PON fiber-optic distribution system connecting at 10 Gbps downstream and 2.5 Gbps upstream to a FiOS customer location in Taunton, Mass. The test, used Motorola equipment deployed with dual fibers from an OLT (optical line terminal) in a Verizon switching facility to a combiner that coupled the XG-PON system with the existing GPON system. On the customer-facing side of the network, the test data traveled over a single FiOS fiber link to the customer test location.



• In December 2009, Verizon announced its first field-tests of XG-PON. XG-PON signal was tested independently on a dedicated passive optical network (PON) as well as overlaid on a fiber providing FiOS service to a customer. This test used XG-PON equipment from Huawei.

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NETGEAR's Q3 Revenue Rises 38% YoY

NETGEAR reported Q3 2010 net revenue of $236.0 million, compared to $171.1 million in the comparable prior year quarter, 38% year-over-year growth. Non-GAAP net income was $16.1 million, compared to net income of $11.0 million in the comparable prior year quarter.


Patrick Lo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NETGEAR, commented, "For the third quarter of 2010, we are extremely pleased with our strong back-to-school performance in North America, which helped generate 62% year-on-year growth in that region. We also continue to experience a recovery in demand among small business customers worldwide, as reflected in our strong third quarter SMB revenue. Net revenue from service providers was approximately 19% of total net revenue in the third quarter of 2010, as compared to 25% in the third quarter of 2009, and 16% in the second quarter of 2010. We expect our service provider net revenue to continue to increase sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2010 as our service provider customers continue to phase in Docsis 3.0 equipment."http://www.netgear.com

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Broadcom's Revenue Jumps 44% from Prior Year

Broadcom reported record Q3 2010 net revenue of $1.806 billion, an increase of 12.6% compared with the $1.604 billion reported for the second quarter of 2010 and an increase of 44% compared with the $1.254 billion reported for the third quarter of 2009. Net income (GAAP) was $327 million, or $.60 per share (diluted).


"Broadcom continues to execute exceptionally well with record revenue and earnings in the third quarter of 2010. I am particularly pleased that we had record sales in each of our segments and reached our GAAP product operating margin model of 15% - 17%. These achievements are due to solid growth in our wired and wireless communication businesses, powerfully engineered products and Broadcom's continued commitment to financial discipline," said Scott A. McGregor, Broadcom's President and Chief Executive Officer.
http://www.broadcom.com

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AT&T Wins $18 Million Telepresence Award From U.S. GSA

AT&T Government Solutions has been awarded a task order valued at up to $18 million by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to implement a Cisco TelePresence solution. AT&T will initially deploy 15 telepresence rooms at GSA office locations across the United States, creating a Managed Network Service (MNS) Telepresence. The telepresence rooms will be installed at the 11 GSA regional headquarters and 4 Washington, D.C. area locations, and will be available for use by the GSA and other federal agencies. The task order was awarded under the GSA Networx Enterprise contract vehicle.


GSA manages 9,600 federally owned or leased buildings -- more than 350 million square feet of real estate.
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Video: Next Gen Access - GPON or Active Ethernet?

Presented by Rafael Francis, ECI Telecom
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ZTE Purchases $3 Billion from U.S. Silicon Vendors

ZTE signed purchase agreements valued at a total of US$3 billion over the next three years with five U.S. silicon vendors: QUALCOMM, Texas Instruments, Freescale Semiconductor, ALTERA and Broadcom.


In the past, ZTE noted that it has paid over US$4 billion to U.S. vendors for intellectual property and hardware products.


"As a publicly traded and transparent company with more than 18.72% equity owned by European and American investors, we believe it is very important for ZTE to cooperate with U.S. partners and continue to increase our investment in the U.S. market," said Mr. Ye Weimin, Senior Vice President of ZTE Corporation. "We are keen to deepen our relationships with both U.S. suppliers and telecom carriers in order to meet the needs of our U.S. customers and provide highly secure and innovative products and solutions. It's an exciting time for ZTE and we are very optimistic about what can come from today's signed agreements."http://www.zte.com.cn

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Sigma Designs Shows its G.hn Chipset

Sigma Designs unveiled its G.hn chipset for home entertainment. The device, which is expected to start sampling early next year, will enable home networks that can run up to 3 Gbps using any wire (coax, phone lines and power lines) that is available in the home.


Sigma Designs notes that this level of in-home networking performance far exceeds the throughput of existing wireless technologies and is well-suited for media-rich applications, such as distributing HD video or telepresence sessions throughout a home.


Sigma's forthcoming CG5110 chip builds on the baseline G.hn spec approved by the ITU by implementing advanced MIMO techniques. Italso supports backward compatibility with today's mass deployments of HomePNA and
HomePlug AV.


"Sigma's new G.hn chipset delivers all the promise of G.hn: breakthrough performance in every way and yet helps service providers radically decrease their costs to install and operate home networks," said Gabi Hilevitz, vice president and general manager of Sigma Designs' Home Connectivity Group. "Until today, there was no universal solution for wired home entertainment networking. For each market, you had to develop a proprietary solution. Now, a single standards-based solution can cover the entire world and provide a highly reliable and
easy way to move rich content inside the home."http://www.sigmadesigns.com

• Last year, Sigma Designs acquired CopperGate Communications for approximately $116 million. Founded in 2000, CopperGate offered silicon solutions that drive home entertainment networks based on HomePNA. Its technology portfolio spans across all three wire-types: coax, phone, and power. CopperGate was also one of the leading contributors to the next generation home networking standard, G.hn.

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Tellabs Debuts Ethernet Access Switches for Mobile Backhaul

Tellabs introduced two new Ethernet access switches aimed at providing backhaul for 4G and LTE networks. Both products complement the Tellabs 8600 managed edge system of MPLS-based multiservice solutions. Both switches will be integrated under the Tellabs® 8000 Intelligent Network Manager.


Tellabs 8609 Access Switch -- a 1RU multiservice device with an enhanced switching and routing capacity of 10 Gbps. The compact Tellabs 8609 switch is designed for cell-site locations and Ethernet ring applications. It offers a rich set of interface modules and boasts high port-density for 2G and 3G networks as they evolve to 4G and LTE. The Tellabs 8609 switch will be generally available in the second quarter of 2011.


Tellabs 8611 Access Switch -- a flexible switch with control redundancy designed for large cell-site locations or hub applications in the network. The energy-efficient, 2RU device offers 10 Gbps switching and routing capacity. It is further supported by a long list of Ethernet OAM (operations, administration and maintenance) and packet connectivity features to provide services with carrier-grade reliability and manageability for the service provider. The Tellabs 8611 switch will be available in the third quarter of 2011.


"The Tellabs 8609 and 8611 access switches expand the Tellabs 8600 product family by offering a significant leap in node throughput, Ethernet port density and multiservice switching and routing capabilities," said Mika Heikkinen, vice president and general manager, Tellabs managed access products. "The platform also shares common hardware components, resulting in 2 scalable and compact form factors operating in a low energy footprint, and enabling customers to realize a cost-efficient total investment for 3G, 4G and LTE."http://www.tellabs.com

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Ikanos' NodeScale Vectoring Delivers 100 Mbps Boost to DSL

Ikanos Communications introduced its "NodeScale Vectoring" technology for mitigating crosstalk in copper access network and thereby enabling 100 Mbps DSL performance and above on loops within typical distance ranges. Other impediments including AM radio signals, power lines, lightning and other atmospheric elements inject even more noise into the copper network.



Ikanos' NodeScale Vectoring technology employs advanced algorithms and compression in high-performance central office silicon to relieve these sources of noise in the copper binder. Unlike line card vectoring, the Ikanos NodeScale Vectoring technology cancels noise across an entire network node from 192 to 384 ports or more.

The company calculates that its method can double the performance of VDSL at most loop lengths, achieving 150 Mbps rates at 300 meters, and 100 Mbps at 500 meters.


Ikanos' NodeScale Vectoring complies with the International Telecommunication Union standards group (ITU-T) G.vector standard (G.993.5), which provides for dynamic spectrum management level 3 (DSM-3) through the use of advanced crosstalk cancellation techniques.

"Ikanos' NodeScale Vectoring technology will deliver the performance of fiber at one-tenth the cost of fiber-to-the-home," said John Quigley, CEO and president at Ikanos. "With NodeScale Vectoring, we believe that service providers will save billions of dollars on broadband deployments by delivering high-speed, highly reliable Internet access and premium services over their existing copper infrastructure."


The complete Ikanos system includes NodeScale Vectoring compatible line cards, Vector Computation Engines and G.vector-ready customer premises equipment. The system can be deployed flexibly to increase the performance of existing VDSL nodes, as part of ADSL network upgrades and in copper plants that previously served only plain old telephone service (POTS). Since the same Ikanos chipset supports vectored and non-vectored deployments, upgrades can occur on a line-by-line basis for a pay-as-you-go vectored network deployment.
http://www.ikanos.com

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Alcatel-Lucent Supplies LTE Public Safety Net in Colorado

Alcatel-Lucent has supplied LTE gear for an emergency communications demonstration network in Boulder, CO, which is being managed by the Public Safety Communications Research program, which was established by the US Department of Commerce.


"The demonstration network developed by the joint NIST-NTIA Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program is an important part of the strategy for a nationwide interoperable Public Safety Broadband network in 700 MHz. Here in the Boulder area, we will provide a common field environment for manufacturers, carriers, and public safety agencies to test and evaluate advanced broadband communications equipment and software tailored specifically to the needs of emergency first responders." explained Derek Orr, Program Manager, NIST/OLES, Public Safety Communications.


In addition Alcatel-Lucent -- in cooperation with the Alexandria Police Department -- recently conducted a live demonstration of data capabilities for first responders using the LTE Public Safety Broadband (PSBB) spectrum. This was the first live application of PSBB radio spectrum in the United States.
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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Brunei Picks Huawei for FTTH

Telekom Brunei Berhad, the only fixed network operator in Brunei, has selected Huawei as the exclusive supplier for the Brunei Next Generation Broadband Network FTTH project.


The network will cover four major areas in Brunei and will offer subscribers a maximum data transfer rate of 150 Mbps. Huawei will deliver an end-to-end turnkey services package that includes active and passive equipment, holistic ODN (Optical Distribution Network) network designs, and construction management. This project will be carried out in four phases and the resulting network will serve over 40,000 subscribers in Brunei after its completion.
http://www.huawei.com

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Arbor: Google Represents 6.4% of all Internet Traffic Worldwide

Based on its traffic forensics, Arbor Networks calculates that Google now represents an average 6.4% of all Internet traffic. In a blog posting, Craig Labovitz notes that Google continues its rapid growth trajectory -- the is only one global Tier1 provider that still carries more traffic than Google, that Google now has direct peering (i.e. not transit) with more than 70% of all providers around the world, and that Google is employing global content caches to lighten its traffic loads.http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2010/10/google-breaks-traffic-record/

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Texas Instruments Posts Strong Q3, up 30% YoY

Texas Instruments reported Q3 2010 revenue of $3.74 billion, up 30% over the same period last year and up 7% sequentially. Net income came in at $859 million and earnings per share of 71 cents.


"Our strong performance was driven by growth in all of our segments," said Rich Templeton, TI chairman, president and chief executive officer. "TI's continuing transformation to a company focused on Analog and Embedded Processing delivered new highs for both gross and operating margins. Strong earnings per share demonstrate the combined impact of solid profits and our diligence to return excess capital to our shareholders through stock repurchases.
http://www.ti.com

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