Telecom
BB SAT begins satellite broadband service in Japan
BB SAT (Japan) has announced the commencement of its satellite broadband service in Japan. The service, aimed primarily at consumers and SME/SOHO customers, will provide service to Japan’s Digital Divide areas and to ADSL users who, because of distance from ADSL provisioning facilities, receive poor quality service. The BB SAT service will provide 2.5 Mbps [...]
Alca-Lu expands IP transformation of network for Delta Telecom
Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded an extension contract by Delta Telecom, a data, voice and backbone service provider in the Caucasus region, to extend its IP Multi-Protocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) backbone network. The scope of the contract includes design, deployment and maintenance of the network. Alcatel-Lucent believes its Carrier Ethernet and IP/MPLS solutions will enable Delta [...]
Bharti Airtel, AJC collaborate on connectivity solution
Australia Japan Cable and Bharti Airtel have announced a partnership agreement to interconnect their current and future networks in Guam. The agreement will allow both parties to offer services from a number of locations including Singapore and the USA West Coast to Australia. Bharti Airtel believes this will pave the way to offering new and [...]
TM selects Alcatel-Lucent to expand its network
Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded a E7m contract for the expansion of Telekom Malaysia’s (TM) 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. The contract will see a network expansion in the central and northern regions of Peninsular Malaysia, two of the country’s most densely populated regions, and is aimed at moving the country closer to being a broadband nation. [...]
Turk Telekom selects Envivio Convergence series encoding platform
Envivio, a technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, has announced that its Convergence Series video headend has been selected for Turk Telekom’s IPTV project in Turkey. Turk Telekom will use Envivio 4Caster C4 SD and 4Caster HD30 HD MPEG-4 AVC encoders and the 4Manager NMS, to deliver an extensive [...]
Alca-Lu, Thales to expand Turkish Railways’ high-speed signalling network
Alcatel-Lucent and Thales have been awarded a contract extension for the Ankara-Istanbul High Speed Railway signalling & telecommunications Project Phase-1 with Turkish Railways (TCDD) valued at E13m. Under this new extension project, Alcatel Lucent will be providing a turnkey integrated communications system, and is responsible for project management and network integration services. Thales will provide [...]
Ericsson achieves 0.5Gbps data rate with VDSL2 technology
Ericsson has informed that it has performed, what it claims to be, the world’s first live demonstration of a VDSL2-based technology achieving data transfer rates of more than 0.5Gbps. Thw company believes this will allow operators to offer low-cost, high-performance connectivity to an increased range of mobile backhaul customers, enterprise users and residential customers. The [...]
Ericsson, DT trials higher bandwidth optical transmission
Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom have successfully made a field trial of higher bandwidth optical transmission. Besides others, Ericsson and DT are engaged in the public funded R&D project 100GET, where this test took place. Ericsson informed that the new technology (delivered in this trial from the Marconi MHL 3000 WDM platform) will accommodate customer’s steady [...]
Oki launches Session Border Controller ‘CenterStage NX3200′ for NGN
Oki Electric Industry has announced it is the first in the industry to add a carrier-grade wideband codec conversion function to its session border controller (SBC) ‘CenterStage NX3200.’ The equipment is compatible with wideband codecs such as ITU-T G.711.1, and can simultaneously transfer large amounts of data between voice and video codecs used in mobile [...]
BT launches IVPN service for large organisations
BT has launched its BT Intelligent Virtual Private Network (iVPN) service in 172 countries, in a bid to allow global organisations to better manage and improve the performance of their IT network and business applications, and reduce technical and operational costs. Bt informed that the development of BT iVPN was made possible by its investment [...]
