Technology

Are Huawei & ZTE Fading Superstars? New Investments Seen Mostly as a Publicity Ploy!

December 12, 2012
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A close up of ZTE Set-Top

For several years now, China’s Huawei and ZTE had very strong growth rates and became major players in the telecom equipment market.  Both companies also make low cost mobile phones that are popular all over the world (yes, they are sold in the U.S.). But their growth seems to be slowing and ZTE actually had…

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NSN Exits Optical Network Business; Who will be the last optical network vendor(s) standing?

December 3, 2012
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Fiber optic spool on trailer credit, Ken Pyle

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is selling its optical networking business unit to private investment firm Marlin Equity Partners, a Los Angeles-based private investment firm with over $1bn of capital under management.  The new company intends to operate as “an industry leader in the fragmented optical networking sector.”   This  transaction is another step in the transformation of…

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Trends in Cloud Data Center, Networking & Mobile Apps- from the Server Design Summit

November 30, 2012
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Introduction “The data center is the cloud,”  said 40 year IT veteran Dileep Bhandarkar, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft, during the closing panel session at this year’s Server Design Summit, which was held November 27-28, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. Whether that will  be as famous a tagline as Sun Micro’s, “The network is the computer,” remains…

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Google Advocates Unlicensed Spectrum Sharing via TV White Spaces for Wireless Broadband Access

November 13, 2012
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Heat map showing number of channels available for white space communications. Rural areas have the greatest availability. Image courtesy of Google.

Alan Norman, Principal of Google’s Access Strategy group, presented the company’s plans for wireless broadband using white spaces at a Nov 2nd Wireless Symposium sponsored by Joint Venture Silicon Valley. Mr. Norman joined Google’s Access Strategy team in 2010 and has since worked on a variety of projects and initiatives. Google’s goal is to support…

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What Carriers Must Do to Accelerate Innovation-Summary of Telecom Council TC3, Part 3

October 7, 2012
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Disclaimer: We were originally going to highlight the WiFi Hotspot 2.0 Panel Session in this part 3 summary, but no comments or suggestions were received.  An assessment of this initiative to integrate WiFi hotspots with 3G/4G mobile networks, along with the associated standards from Wi-Fi Alliance (Hotspot 2.0 ) and the Wireless Broadband Alliance (Next Generation Hotspot) can be provided under a consulting…

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