— Unveiled today, the cloud-based Amdocs Unified Communications offering combines messaging services, video and VoIP calling inside a service-provider-branded app. Accessed via iOS and Android device apps or through a Web portal, it’s compatible with the GSMA’s Rich Communication Services standard, providing future-proofing as well as existing social networks, including
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn; it allows for syndicated interoperability between operators and can be offered to non-subscribers, thus extending brand beyond the operator; and it’s modular, allowing for the addition of advertising and such premium features as video conferencing and whiteboarding to monetize the service.
 
— Fujitsu’s Flashwave CDS Micro Packet Optical Networking Platform (Packet ONP) for optical transport network (OTN) switching not only acts as a muxponder but also provides the functionality for protection switching schemes along with hairpinning and distributed switching applications, the company says. The OTN unit’s range of pluggable optics options includes a 88-channel full-band tunable XFP that allows the user to bypass transponders when colocated with ROADMs, thus saving capex. It also uses Fujitsu’s Netsmart Management complex, which reportedly can decrease a carrier’s opex investment.
 
— Radisys Corporation and Airspan lay claim to developing “the world’s first commercial LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) small-cell solution.” Airspan’s LTE-A-capable AirSynergy 4G leverages the Radisys Trillium TOTALeNodeB small-cell software that’s been enhanced to include such key LTE-A features as soft-frequency re-use via distributed eICIC, Almost Blanking Subframe and range extension.

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