América Móvil and Alcatel-Lucent build submarine cable for 100G transmission
Telecom Lead America: América Móvil, a wireless services provider in Latin America, in association with Alcatel-Lucent, is constructing 17,500km submarine cable system designed for...
Teradata launches integrated CSP Next Generation Analytics Framework for telecom operators
Telecom Lead America: Teradata (TDC), an analytic data solutions company, has launched its integrated CSP Next Generation Analytics Framework for telecom operators.
The Teradata CSP...
MACH’s new Bill Shock Prevention solution to increase mobile data roaming
Telecom Lead Europe: MACH has launched its new Bill Shock Prevention solution designed to increase confidence of mobile data users during roaming.
The company claims...
MTS Russia deploys ECI Telecom’s OMLT platform to enable 100G
Telecom Lead Europe: Russian mobile operator MTS has deployed ECI Telecom’s Apollo Optimized Multi-Layer Transport (OMLT) platforms to enable 100G.
With more than 1,000 km,...
Juniper Networks PTX5000 Packet Transport Switch to power Optus’ core network
Telecom Lead Asia: Optus, which is working with Nokia Siemens Networks as a partner for its network initiatives, has selected the Juniper Networks PTX5000...
Guavus inks Big Data alliance with Teradata to target telecom operators
Telecom Lead America: Guavus, a provider of big data analytics solutions, has inked partnership with Teradata, an analytic data solutions company.
Telecom service providers (CSPs)...
Kineto Wireless unveils Smart Comms app for mobile operators to reduce OTT challenges
Telecom Lead America: Kineto Wireless, a provider of telco-OTT solutions, has launched its Smart Comms application for mobile operators.
Kineto will be present at Mobile...
Ericsson’s Victoria Strand to head GCC and Pakistan unit
Telecom Lead Asia: Ericsson has appointed Victoria Strand as head of the GCC and Pakistan Unit, part of the Ericsson Middle East Region.
Strand will...
ITU members approve new video coding standard
Telecom Lead Asia: ITU members have approved a new video coding standard -- High Efficiency Video Coding’ (HEVC).
The new codec will reduce the burden...
SIM card shipments to increase 5% to 5.5 billion units in 2013
Telecom Lead Asia: SIM card annual shipments are expected to increase by 5 percent in 2013 to 5.5 billion units.
ABI Research says growth is...
Huawei and Vodafone announce trial of 2 Tbit/s optical fiber transmission technologies
Telecom Lead Asia: Huawei and Vodafone announced the trial of 2 Tbit/s optical fiber transmission technologies on Vodafone’s live network.
The field trial achieved 2...
Asia Pacific drives Nokia Siemens’ Q4 revenue up 5% to €3.988 billion
Telecom Lead Europe: Nokia Siemens Networks has posted 5 percent increase in revenue at €3.988 billion in Q4 2012 from €3.815 billion in Q4...
Cisco to buy SON software provider Intucell for $475 million
Telecom Lead Asia: Cisco is set to buy Intucell, a self-optimizing network (SON) software provider for $475 million.
The acquisition of the Israel-based company enables...
Outdoor small cells to reach 500,000 units in 2013: ABI Research
Telecom Lead America: ABI Research forecasts that outdoor small cells will reach 500,000 units in 2013.
Outdoor small cell unit growth dropped slightly as 2012...
Harris unveils new power amplifier providing better capacity and efficiency
Telecom Lead Asia: Harris Corp. has introduced a new power amplifier that provides greater capacity, efficiency and range to wideband tactical networking.
Harris’ new UL-Band...
Fujitsu and Motorola Mobility test an interoperable GPON-WDM solution for US DoD
Telecom Lead America: Fujitsu and Motorola Mobility have tested an interoperable GPON-WDM (Gigabit Passive Optical Networking – Wavelength Division Multiplexing) solution for the United...