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Cisco completed its acquisition of privately held Ubiquisys for approximately $310 million in cash and retention-based incentives. Ubiquisys, which is based in Swindon, U.K., specializes in 3G and LTE small-cell...

Colt Technology Services announced "the largest cloud footprint in Europe" via its data centers in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland. Colt is using a standardised orchestration layer...

Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS) agreed to sell its Allstream division to Accelero Capital Holdings , an investment and management group, for $520 million, subject to certain customary adjustments.  The deal...

Telstra turned on its 1,500th LTE base station. The network is expected to cover 2/3's of Australia's population by the end of June.  The company said it is deploying "dozens"...

Google will acquire Makani Power, a start-up that has been developing kites capables of holding wind turbines. The idea is for a tethered wing to generate 30 kW of electricity...

A new CloudEthernet Forum has been established to address the specific issues of scaling and applying suitable Ethernet services to meet the stringent demands of delivering cloud services. The CloudEthernet...

Internet2 has established a direct peering relationship with two Microsoft cloud services:  Windows Azure and Microsoft Office 365 Education. These services will enable unmetered access to both the high-performance computing...

May 22nd marked the 40th anniversary of the day Bob Metcalf sketched out the basic concept of Ethernet. The anniversary was marked in commemorative event at the Computer History Museum...

BT conducted a series of trials of 100, 200, and 400G, as well as an "800G super-channel," using equipment from Ciena. The trials, which occurred in March 2013, ran over...

The FCC will allocate $300 million in a second round of Connect America Phase I incremental funding to further leverage private investment in rural America and accelerate the availability of broadband to...

Mavenir introduced a Unified Access Gateway (UAG) for converged core network services across Circuit Switch (CS) and IP Multimedia System (IMS) networks. The UAG is a standard IMS Session Border...

Verizon Wireless announced availability of the Samsung Galaxy S4.   Pricing is set at $199 with a new two-year contract activation.  Key features include LTE connectivity, 13–megapixel camera, 5–inch full...

ARSAT, a state-owned telecommunications operator in Argentina, will upgrade its network to 100G using Alcatel-Lucent’s Agile Optical Networking technology. The first routes to be upgraded are Buenos Aires to Mendoza,...