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06/29/2011
Alcatel-Lucent Touts New Silicon For Routers
A new network processor from Alcatel-Lucent, the Flex Path 3 (FP3), can support 400 Gbps transmission speeds, and it will be at the heart of the company’s IP service routing portfolio – from metro to edge to the core of its High Leverage Network (HLN) architecture. The FP3 comes as two chips: a package processor […]
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06/28/2011
Time to Cut the Cord on Cable Regulation?
by Morag Lucey, senior vice president/Marketing and Product Management, Convergys’ Smart Revenue Solutions Back in 1992, Congress might have been excused for believing that the cable television industry needed regulatory oversight. With just one major cable operator per locality, an early 1990s surge in rates, and a dearth of comparable alternatives, the cable sector seemed […]
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06/28/2011
AT&T/T-Mobile Deal Could Benefit The CWA
It’s no secret that, for more than a decade, the United States has fallen behind nearly every other developed country when it comes to broadband speed and proliferation. AT&T, in its continuing lobbying efforts to push approval of its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, claims it will invest an additional $8 billion (over and above […]
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06/28/2011
Napatech Introduces Quad Port 10G Adapter
Napatech has a new 4-port 10 GbE intelligent network adapter. The NT40E2-4 provides the same feature set at double the port density of the NT20E2 (2 ports 10G). The new NT40E2-4 provides the same features and performance for both SONET/SDH and Ethernet interfaces. The announcement of the NT40E2-4 follows the recent announcement of the NT40E2-1 […]
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06/28/2011
Mobile Payment Use Expands, Says Juniper
A report by analyst firm Juniper Research forecasts that the number of mobile phone users making payments for digital goods will reach 2.5 billion worldwide by 2015, up from 1.8 billion forecast for 2011. This represents a growth of 40 percent.?? Mobile tickets for transport and entertainment were found to be two of the key […]
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06/28/2011
Affinegy Wins NCTA CIO.IT Competition
Affinegy was selected by cable Chief Information Officers as a winner of the CIO.IT Competition at The Cable Show 2011. ??Sponsored by the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA), over 45 companies applied to present their solutions for some of cable’s greatest IT challenges. Eight finalists were chosen to present in two sessions with a […]