May 19, 2013
Telecom Lead India: Cisco continues to lead the global carrier Wi-Fi equipment market in 2012. Cisco on Wednesday said its wireless revenue increased marginally to $523 million in Q3 FY 2013 from $520 million. Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers said that cloud, mobility and video are coming ...
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Telecom Lead India: Bharti Airtel has saved Rs 2,000 per PC by moving from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 7. This translates in to huge saving as Bharti Airtel’s headcount stood at 26,596 in Q4 FY 2013 against 23,413 in Q3 FY 2013. Bharti Airtel has added 3,183 jobs in the fourth quarter of ...
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Telecom Lead India: The Maharashtra State Road Transport (MSRTC) will install Wi-Fi in 100 Shivneri AC Volvo buses connecting Mumbai to Pune. Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan will inaugurate the service this week. The free Wi-Fi network will be provided in 100 Shivneri buses from ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: ZTE India is in talks with telecom operators to increase its revenue from enterprise business. “We are talking to telecom operators to procure our enterprise solutions for their own customers. This strategy will help us in significantly improving our enterprise revenue in ...
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Telecom Lead Africa: Microsoft announced a TV white spaces pilot project in Tanzania to provide affordable wireless broadband access to university students and faculty. The IT giant has tied up with the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) and UhuruOne to provide affordable ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Boingo Wireless has signed managed Wi-Fi services deal with three major airports in China: Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN), Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA). Boingo has launched Wi-Fi services at ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Cisco has expanded services to help utilities enhance grid operations with greater levels of automation and security and changing regulatory requirements. Cisco Connected Grid Security Architecture simplifies policy administration, strengthens security controls and ...
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Telecom Lead America: The San Antonio Independent School District has deployed Dell Latitude 10 tablets running Microsoft Windows 8 in 33 campus libraries. The San Antonio Independent School District has 90 campus libraries at present. The first phase of the district’s literacy initiative to ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Cisco on Tuesday said its new products — based on 802.11ac wireless networking standard — boost enterprise Wi-Fi speeds. Cisco claims that Wi-Fi speeds can achieve data transfer speeds of up to one gigabit per second — to download significant amounts of Web ...
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Telecom Lead America: Asia Pacific leads all geographic regions in 1G/10G/40G/100G networking port shipments, aided by increasing adoption in previously lagging emerging economies and ubiquitous Ethernet services, says Infonetics Research. The demand for 10 Gigabit, 40 Gigabit, and 100 Gigabit ...
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Telecom Lead America: Cisco has unveiled new solutions that deliver higher performance, scalability and reliability in enterprise storage area networks (SANs). The new solutions include the Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director, which delivers three times the bandwidth of any storage director in ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: ZTE has been ranked as #2 player in WLAN access point space with 12 percent market share after shipping 1 million units in 2012. According to the March 19 Gartner-published, “Market Share: Enterprise WLAN Equipment, Worldwide, 4Q12 and 2012,” ZTE held No. 2 world market share ...
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Telecom Lead America: Rogers Communications has acquired BLACKIRON Data for $200 million to enhance its data center and cloud computing services. BLACKIRON Data is a pure-play provider of data center and cloud computing services in Canada with approximately 4,000 customers. Rogers Business ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Cisco chairman John Chambers says an Indian can succeed him as CEO when he steps down sometime in the next two-to-four years. Chambers has helped grow the company from $70 million when he joined Cisco in January 1991, to $1.2 billion when he assumed the role of CEO, to ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: H10 Hotels Chain has deployed Alvarion’s carrier-grade Wi-Fi solution to deliver voice, data and video services in Spanish-based hotels. Francisco Menendez, CEO, WifiSafe, which deployed the Wi-Fi solution, said: “The high performance radios provide extended reach covering ...
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Telecom Lead India: Infosys says it signed 18 enterprise mobility deals in Q4 2012-13. For Infosys, enterprise mobility is a big focus area. The IT-BPO major helps its enterprise customers to become more efficient and customer centric. Infosys, which assists global clients to realize the full ...
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