IP and core network equipment vendor Cisco has pulled the plug on its WiMAX base station operation, further highlighting the ill health of the sector.
Industry forums love launching certification programmes, and the Broadband Forum is no different. On Tuesday, at the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress in Paris, the forum announced its first ever certification programme to help drive multi-service network architectures and equipment interoperability testing.
Last week analysts predicted that global mobile data revenues will rise from an estimated $208bn in 2009 to over $330bn in 2013, driven by explosive growth in smartphones and dongles. But with legacy internet addresses almost exhausted, the internet community is running out of time to prepare for future demand.
The executive reshuffle continued at Swedish vendor Ericsson on Thursday, with incoming CEO Hans Vestberg nominating CTO Håkan Eriksson as head Ericsson in Silicon Valley, the centre of the company’s important IP business.
Remote and rural markets represent a vast, untapped opportunity for mobile operators. New innovations in VSAT technology, combined with improvements in cellular infrastructure are enabling operators to pursue the next 2 billion customers. This video highlights how an iDirect IP-based VSAT solution is enabling mobile operators to cost-effectively expand their network capabilities, extend their reach and gain new customers.
Networking giant Cisco continues to increase its presence in the telco space, on Tuesday announcing an agreement to acquire IP and multimedia kit vendor Starent Networks for $2.9bn.
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This paper looks at the strategies of operators in rural and remote areas as well as available backhaul technologies and how these are enabling profitable networks to be deployed in underserved areas. It includes four case studies from mobile operators that have used satellite backhaul to connect remote areas and generate new revenue.
As telecoms networks are in the shift to be packetized and broadband-based, All-IP has been the future development trend of service networks. According to prediction, bandwidth is expected to grow at an annual rate of over 30% in the next five years. The two-layer networking mode “IP over WDM” is gradually replacing the traditional three-layer “IP over SDH over WDM” mode at both backbone layer and metro layer, and the flat architecture enabling carriage of IP packets directly over photonic layer has been an inevitable trend. IP over WDM networking architecture poses new requirements for photonic layer WDM equipments, and WDM layer will take over the networking, service grooming and end-to end circuit monitoring and management functions originally provided by SDH networks.
Kit vendor Nokia Siemens Networks and security and infrastructure firm Juniper Networks cosied up even closer on Tuesday, pooling their respective resources in optical and IP networking.
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Several ISP's in africa including us, invested in Navini Wimax solutions prior to it being bought by Cisco. With Cisco, ...
Great article James and I agree that mobile social network is huge for smartphone and data adoption and drives by ...
Indeed I did Wardell. Amended.
"Then again, the BlackBerry is not a Google-branded device so perhaps this is par for the course."
Did you mean the ...
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