August 13, 2012

Deals Of The Day 08/13/12

Level 3 Communications signed a multi-year agreement with Time Warner Cable that will expand the MSO’s national network by delivering additional core infrastructure services for redundancy and reliability. The two also will exchange IP traffic between their respective backbone networks…Sprint was tapped to provide 2,000 Direct Connect handsets equipped with an Actsoft GPS tracking and navigation solution to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support its nationwide Mass Evacuation Program. FEMA says it will use Sprint Direct Connect to send and receive critical information to first responders in times of national emergencies…Iowa utility Muscatine Power & Water is using Israel-based Alvarion’s carrier-class BreezeMAX Extreme solution operating in the 3.65 GHz band to deliver broadband services to local businesses and residents. Six new base stations have been deployed in rural and underserved areas…RF Micro Devices has begun production shipments of its ultra-high efficiency power amplifiers to Samsung to support the next-gen Galaxy S3 4G LTE smartphone that will feature a dual-core, multi-mode 3G/LTE modem.