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First compact, tunable MIMO antenna design covers 12 global TD LTE/LTE FDD/GSM EDGE/TD SCDMA bands from 700 MHz to 2.7 GHz for global LTE roaming and handset economies of scale

Beijing, China and Viera, FL, USA, June 21, 2011—China Mobile Research Institute and SkyCross today announced a demonstration of a tunable, MIMO antenna design for multimode, multiband handsets in LTE deployments around the globe. The world’s first compact, tunable MIMO antenna covers 12 frequency bands ranging from 700 MHz to 2.7 GHz for TD LTE/LTE FDD/TD SCDMA/GSM EDGE/WCDMA deployments worldwide.

China Mobile believes that the convergence of TDD and FDD and the support of multiband are important for the mobile industry to realize the global scale and global roaming capabilities of the LTE standard. Cooperating with industry partners, China Mobile has made great strides in the convergence of TD-LTE and LTE FDD. The vision of “one more

Cisco announced that Comcast has deployed the Cisco Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series (ASR 9000) as part of its next-generation network that is delivering advanced business services in more than 20 major U.S. markets — with expansion into new markets planned in the months ahead.

Comcast is working with Cisco on this deployment based on Cisco’s technology, services, and experience helping network operators scale services to meet business customer demands.

Designed to deliver massive scale and accommodate the projected explosion in global Internet traffic, Cisco’s ASR 9000 provides Comcast with a converged infrastructure that optimizes service delivery through its flexibility, wide array of features and its emphasis on Carrier Ethernet.

Comcast’s Metro Ethernet services, which provide access to the company’s next-generation fiber optic network for businesses with high-bandwidth needs in multiple locations, are part of an ongoing strategy to expand Comcast’s portfolio of business services to more

Humbug Telecom Labs provider of carrier-class fraud prevention, detection and telecom analytics for any size business, today announced the release of their Community blacklist. Telecom fraud is a very real problem that according to the Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA) costs businesses $80 billion each year.

“Fraud happens everywhere from small law firms, accounting offices, even the Department of Homeland Security. Attacks can quickly spread to multiple PBXs on the same network,” said Yaniv Rofé, CEO of Humbug Telecom Labs. “Humbug’s fraud prevention and detection solution stops that from occurring. It’s why leading vendors are beginning to bundle in fraud protection services into existing PBXs.”

Yesterday’s telecom fraud world was a fragmented environment – with each carrier, service provider and even small business fighting alone against invading hackers, abusers, and telecom fraudsters (aka phreakers). Released more

m8 Capital, Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners
Fund Round

June 16, 2011 – Boston, MA – Aylus Networks™, the leading provider of infrastructure software for enabling video communication services over mobile networks, announced today the closing of an equity financing round of $16 million. London UK-based m8 Capital led the financing, with existing backers, Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, who fully participated their pro rata share. Joseph Kim, General Partner of m8 Capital, will be joining the Aylus Board of Directors.

“The dawn of video becoming the new voice is upon us,” said Mark Edwards, CEO Aylus Networks. “The emergence of powerful video-ready smartphones and tablets, high-speed mobile networks, and consumers becoming accustomed to video calling on the desktop establishes the ideal conditions for the mass adoption of mobile video calling. For video calling to be a mass-market phenomenon it needs more

PARIS, June 16, 2011 – Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecommunications service provider, has chosen Ekinops to provide optical transport equipment to connect key Bezeq sites in the north and south of the country.

Ekinops, a leading designer and supplier of next generation optical equipment, and its partner, Rotal Networks, provided Bezeq with a state-of-the art optical transport and DWDM platform, the Ekinops 360. Bezeq is leveraging the platform’s superior optical performance to maximize the capacity of its fiber network.

Bezeq has been on a multi-year mission to upgrade its network and deploy an advanced NGN (Next Generation Network) to support new high-speed broadband services and advanced IP telephony services to its residential and business customers.

“Half of the country is already connected to the new NGN and in 2011 we expect to reach 80 percent” said Mr. Itzik Cohen, director of transport and data engineering at more

NeoPhotonics Increases Capacity and Commences Volume Shipments of PIC-Based Integrated Coherent Receivers
for 40 and 100 Gbps Systems

NeoPhotonics Quadruples ICR Capacity to Support Demand for High-Speed Coherent Fiber Optic Transport Systems

San Jose, CA – June 15, 2011 – NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading designer and manufacturer of photonic integrated circuit, or PIC, based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications networks, today announced that it has quadrupled capacity for PIC-based Integrated Coherent Receivers (ICR) for state-of-the-art 40 and 100Gbps coherent fiber optic transport systems.

The Company believes that the industry is coalescing behind the “coherent technology” approach for high-speed “backbone” networks. By combining the NeoPhotonics™ PIC-based ICR, which has one of the industry’s highest signal detection responses, with advanced digital signal processing on each channel, the coherent approach is designed to provide service providers a solution for leveraging their existing fiber more

NeoPhotonics to Present at OIDA Workshop on
“Photonic Integration for High Capacity Data Transport”

Presentation Will Describe the Performance of PIC Based Components
for 100Gbps Coherent Data Transmission Systems

San Jose, CA – June 9, 2011 – NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading designer and manufacturer of photonic integrated circuit, or PIC, based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications networks, today announced that Vice President of Marketing G. Ferris Lipscomb will present a talk entitled “Performance of Photonic Integrated Circuits for Coherent Data Transmission” as part of the Optoelectronic Industry Development Association (OIDA) Workshop on “Photonic Integration For High Capacity Data Transport,” which is being held in tandem with the Optical Society of America’s “Advanced Photonics Congress.”

The talk will take place Monday, June 13th, 2011, from 2:05 – 2:30 PM, at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto, Canada.

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ISCO IDENTIFIES COMPLEX INTERFERENCE INTRUSIONS IN 3G WIRELESS NETWORKS –
ANALYSIS AND COUNTERACTIVE MEASURES OUTLINED IN NEW GUIDE

Spectrum Conditioning, Based on Proteus® with PurePassTM Digital Signal Processing, Improves
Speed, Utilization and Performance of Wireless Networks

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL – June 8, 2011 – ISCO International has issued a new guide that outlines a variety of interference sources that contribute to suboptimal performance in 3G networks. ISCO has found a number of infrastructure or network configuration issues that negatively impact a previously neglected link in the wireless service experience – the uplink from the subscriber to the base station tower. Interference sources range from the relatively well-known, repeaters and amplifiers, to unexpected events such as intermodulation due to transmitter cross-coupling or non-linear effects in the physical environment.

Using digital signal processing ISCO adds intelligence to the uplink, also known as the RX feed more

SFR France has selected the Cisco carrier-grade CGv6 solution as a first step in the transition of their network infrastructure to IPv6.

SFR, the second largest telecommunications operator in France, has deployed the Cisco ASR 1000 Series router, enabling IPv6 access to the Internet for residential customers.

SFR required a simple, cost effective solution to transition its IPv4 network to IPv6. The Cisco ASR 1000, utilizing Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (LT2P), enabled SFR to leverage its existing investment in IPv4 network access infrastructure to quickly provide IPv6 services to their customers.

Enabling the Cost-Effective Transition to IPv6

- Because of the exponential growth of Internet services and increasing number of end users, Service Providers are looking for new ways for their current network architecture to meet the needs of Internet-ready appliances, new applications, and services. IPv6 is designed to enable service providers to meet more

Cisco announced that Tata Communications will deploy the Cisco ASR 9000 Series edge routers — powering its next-generation Ethernet network service throughout India.

Cisco predicts that the number of network-connected devices will be more than 15 billion, twice the world’s population, by 2015. In the fifth annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2010-2015) released last week, the company also said the total amount of global Internet traffic will quadruple by 2015 and reach 966 exabytes per year.

The projected increase of Internet traffic between 2014 and 2015 alone is 200 exabytes, which is greater than the total amount of Internet Protocol traffic generated globally in 2010.

On the verge of reaching 1 zettabyte, which is equal to a sextillion bytes, or a trillion gigabytes by 2015, global IP traffic growth is driven by four primary factors, according to Cisco: an increasing number of devices; more more