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02/08/2012
New Orleans iDEN Towers First To Shut Down
In October 2011, Sprint revealed the details of its plans to decommission at least 25,000 “excess capacity” Nextel iDEN sites as part of its Network Vision initiative. A new map on the Nextel channel of its Web site (click here for more information) now allows Nextel subscribers to enter a zip code to determine if […]
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02/08/2012
More Support For World IPv6 Launch
California’s Hurricane Electric, which calls itself “the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone and leading colocation provider,” has thrown its support behind World IPv6 Launch, sponsored by the Internet Society and set for June 6 as a follow-on to World IPv6 Day last year (click here for more information). Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home-networking equipment […]
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02/08/2012
In 2012, Network Testing Rules
According to a wide-ranging spate of predictions for the coming year from IP test solutions provider Ixia, network operators will need to compete and live up to their reliability commitments, maintaining customers by helping to ensure all types of customer service levels meet expectations and contractual requirements. Pre-testing network upgrades and advances prior to initial […]
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02/07/2012
Congestion Tool Could Reduce Daily/Hourly Policies
Ramping up for Mobile World Congress later this month in Barcelona, solutions provider Sandvine unveiled the latest version of Fairshare Traffic Management, its turnkey product for mobile congestion management and analytics that was deployed in more than 50 service provider networks worldwide in 2011 alone. Sandvine’s Fairshare Traffic Management 4.0 interoperates with third-party vendors to […]
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02/07/2012
The Neutral Tandem/Tinet Rebrand
Inteliquent is the new name of the merged Neutral Tandem and Tinet, and the company will continue to offer voice, IP transit, Ethernet and hosted-service solutions to major carriers, service providers and content-management firms. Neutral Tandem purchased Italy’s Tinet SpA in October 2010 as a way of “leverag(ing) our core competencies, expand our global footprint, […]
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02/07/2012
ODU SoC Cuts Size, Power, Production Cost
According to semiconductor maker Broadcom Corporation, its BCM85810 product, which it claims is the world’s first microwave outdoor unit (ODU) on a chip, combines the functionality of as many as 10 off-the-shelf chips, thus reducing the size, complexity, production cost and power consumption of microwave radio frequency units (RFUs). Designed to address the need for […]