China Mobile has awarded a major contract to Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell to support its TD-LTE trial network rollout as it extends services to 10 cities. Under the terms of the contract, Alcatel-Lucent...
RagingWire Data Centers, which operates 650,000 square feet (60,000m2) of wholesale and retail data center space in Northern California and Northern Virginia, has paid $20 million offer to acquire 75 acres of...
Belgacom has confirmed its plan for a nationwide upgrade of its large VDSL2 network, which currently serves more than one million active lines. The next step will be large-scale customer...
Zayo Group, agreed to acquire First Telecom Services, which operates a fiber network across the northeastern and midwestern United States, for $110 million. First Telecom Services manages a network of...
Alcatel-Lucent is adding a fiber troubleshooting capability based on Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR) to its access platforms. The Bell Labs solution plugs into a network’s existing fiber access nodes and is...
Microsoft agreed to acquire StorSimple, a start-up developing Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS) solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. StorSimple, which is based in Santa Clara, California, offers solutions that combine the data...
Verizon Wireless has acquired wireless assets in New Mexico RSA #6, owned by E.N.M.R. Telephone Cooperative and its subsidiary Plateau Telecommunications and operated under the brand name Plateau Wireless. Financial...
Space Data Corp. and Lemko have deployed a satellite-based commercial LTE network in Atqasuk, Alaska. offering mobile broadband data speeds of over 70Mbps. Lemko's DiMoWiNe (Distributed Mobile Wireless Network) software...
Interoute, which operates a pan-European network spanning across 60,000km of lit fiber, has activated 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services using Infinera's DTN platform -- making it the first to broadly offer 100...
Ericsson introduced Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) functionality for its SSR 8000 Smart Services Router family. Ericsson said its next generation Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) supports up to 768,000 subscribers in...
Dell is now selling an OpenStack-powered cloud appliance developed by Morphlabs that enables wholesale hosting companies to a private cloud service. The new Dell mCloud Helix is a PowerEdge C6220...
Cisco announced a series of enhancements to its collaboration portfolio, delivered via public, private or hybrid cloud models. "At Cisco, we're seeing exceptional growth and adoption across our collaboration cloud...
The North West Branch of MegaFon, one of the three largest mobile operators in Russia, has tested a 100G DWDM implementation with Cisco. The tests were conducted based on other...
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