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YouTube delivered more than 8 million concurrent livestreams of Felix Baumgartner's record setting sky dive.   The Red Bull Stratos Mission  not only sets the record for the highest jump from a platform (128,100...

By Jimmy Mizrahi When P-OTS, or packet-optical transport systems, hit the market a few years ago, they brought with them a host of promises for more efficient and cost-effective next-generation...

The second two Galileo satellites were launched by Arianespace from French Guiana using Russian-built Soyuz ST vehicle.  The first two Galileo navigational satellites were launched a year ago. The Galileo...

ITU Telecom World 2012, which is being held this week at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, brings together government ministers, regulators and manufacturers for five days of discussion and debate....

Telefónica agreed to sell its Atento call center business to Bain Capital for EUR 1 billion. Atento operates 165 contact centers in 17 countries and employs 156,000 employees. The business...

Deutsche Telekom expects the  T-Mobile USA + MetroPCS merger to be completed in Q2 2013.  Tim Höttges, Deutsche Telekom's CFO, said the stock-swap transaction will not involve any cash changing hands...

Over 300 government agencies and 1,500 education institutions are now using Amazon Web Services for applications including big data analytics, high performance computing, web and collaboration applications, archiving and storage,...

Fidelity Investments will build a massive data center in Papillon, Nebraska (a suburb of Omaha). Fidelity has committed to invest a minimum of $200 million to construct and outfit the...

Sprint announced the next 20 cities in its LTE rollout, including parts of the San Francisco Bay region, sections of Indiana and southwest Florida.  These rollouts are underway.  Sprint's LTE...

The Broadband Forum and the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) conducted the first interoperability testing of chipsets supporting the ITU-T’s new G.vector specifications. Broadcom, Ikanos, Lantiq, Realtek and Triductor all...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will loan EUR 500 million to Ericsson to support its R&D efforts for the next generation of mobile broadband technology.  The load is designated for...

Ikanos announced its Velocity-3 Vectored VDSL chipset and software solution. The company's "NodeScale" Vectoring technology identifies and cancels VDSL crosstalk on up to 384 copper lines in a bundle.  The...

Juniper Networks  introduced its scaled-up MX2020 and MX2010 3D Universal Edge Routers, packing up to 80 Tbps of routing capability in a single chassis and adding new virtualization capabilities for multivendor applications....