Japan's SOFTBANK MOBILE has selected Ericsson's SSR 8000 family of Smart Services Routers as its main Evolved Packet Core (EPC) packet gateway node. Financial terms were not disclosed. Junichi Miyakawa,...
Alcatel-Lucent’s Board of Directors named Michel Combes as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2013. Previously, Michel Combes (51) was CEO of Vodafone Europe and a Board...
Building on its carrier SDN announcement in January, Juniper Networks outlined the next steps it will take to bring the power and efficiency of virtualization to mobile packet cores. Juniper's...
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BridgeWave Communications introduced a multi-gigabit capable, millimeter wave backhaul solution designed for LTE networks. The BridgeWave Flex4G leverages exclusive Silicon Germanium RF technology to deliver line-rate, full-duplex 1Gbps in an...
Orange, Ericsson and Qualcomm have demonstrated the use of L-band frequencies (1452-1492 MHz) as a supplemental downlink technology on a mobile network. The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administration...
Gigamon announced a holistic approach for ensuring visibility across mobile operator networks being deluged by big packet flows. Whereas conventional networking monitoring and test approaches are struggling to keep up...
NTT DOCOMO will begin developing high-capacity base stations built with advanced Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture for its next-generation LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) mobile system. The carrier is looking to accelerate...
NTT DOCOMO successfully connected an active antenna to a commercially operational LTE base station. Active antennas are expected to be widely used in LTE and LTE-Advanced base stations to improve...
IT organizations are seeking to transform their traditional colocation environments with “cloudy colo” capabilities that deliver hybridization with cloud services as well as cloud-like visibility and control, according to a...
Metrored has selected Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform equipped with WaveLogic Coherent Optical Processors to support a new international long-haul link between Mexico and the United States. The upgraded connection will...
Service Provider SDN Service Chaining and Big Data Analytics Use Case for SDN SDN and Open Flow
AT&T is opening up its application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow solution providers to develop their own customized solutions for a differentiated experience. A newly launched AT&T Partner Exchange promises...
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