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Cisco will acquire privately held Ubiquisys, a developer of 3G and LTE small cell technologies, for $310 million in cash and retention-based incentives, Ubiquisys, which is headquartered in Swindon, U.K.,...

A redacted interview between Jim Carroll, Editor of Converge! Network Digest and Manish Gulyani, VP of Product Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent / Nuage Networks. Converge! Digest:  How do you describe the Nuage...

OTEGLOBE, a leading international telecommunications provider in Greece and the Balkans, has deployed Infinera's DTN-X platform to upgrade its TransBalkan Network (TBN), which stretches from Greece to Germany across more...

TIM Brasil has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to deploy an LTE network layer on top of the operator’s existing 2G and 3G networks in the 2.6 GHz frequency band.  Under...

SK Telecom announced the industry's first 802.11ac (5G WiFi) hotspot router. The product integrates Broadcom's BCM4708 and BCM4360, along with Broadcom's TurboQAM (256-QAM mode in 2.4 GHz) for faster throughputs....

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) awarded a multiple year competitive contract known as GSA Region 4 Integrated Telecommunications Services (GRITS) II to Level 3 Communications. The contract allows Level...

Forty years ago today, Martin Cooper placed the first public telephone call using a portable cellular phone. At the time, Cooper was general manager of Motorola's Communications Systems Division. He...

Nuage Networks, an Alcatel-Lucent spin-in venture focused on software defined networking (SDN), made its debut with the introduction of a Virtualized Services Platform(VSP) software suite aimed at automating data center...

NTT Communications has selected Compass-EOS' new r10004 core-grade modular routers for use in its high-capacity transpacific network. The Compass-EOS routers are the world’s first direct silicon-to-photonics-based routers. “We chose Compass-EOS...

Midokura, a start-up with offices in Tokyo, San Francisco and Barcelona, announced $17.3M in Series A funding for its network virtualization technology. Midokura offers an overlay-based network virtualization technology that...

NetSocket, a start-up based in Plano, Texas, raised $9.2 million in Series B funding for expansion of it network assurance expertise into SDN. NetSocket currently offers a Cloud Experience Manager...

The Verizon Financial Network is delivering low latency connection directly to New York metro financial markets from CME Group's data center in Aurora, Illinois. The CME Group Aurora data center...

The IEEE has established a new study group to consider initiating a formal project to standardize 4-pair Power over Ethernet (PoE). A 4-pair Power over Ethernet implementation could provide greater...