A new 100 Gigabit-per-second (100G) submarine cable system has been deployed by Alcatel-Lucent where Reliance Jio Infocomm has signed an agreement where consortium comprises of Vodafone Group, Dialog Axiata, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat),Omantel and Telekom Malaysia.

Barka (Oman), Fujairah (United Arab Emirates), Mumbai and Chennai (India), Ratmalana (Sri Lanka), Penang (Malaysia) and Singapore were the name of the six countries where Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) cable system is providing in & out connectivity by maintaining robustness and reliability of the system.

2014 is the year planned to start the operation commercial basis.Middle East, the Indian sub-continent and the Far East will face the continued growth of new applications & services by maintaining  an ultra high design capacity.

“BBG, the first system to be lit as 100G on day-1 will be a step change in capacity on this important route.  The bandwidth, resilience and traffic routing of the BBG configuration, and Alcatel-Lucent’s capabilities and track record, give us the confidence that this system will be able to address the fast-evolving expectations of our customers in line with their demands. .” commented by Chairman of the BBG Interim Procurement Group,Edward West.

“We are pleased to deliver to the BBG consortium state-of–the-art technology and solutions that will help them flexibly and reliably manage bandwidth expansion on-demand. As a leader in advanced coherent technology, Alcatel-Lucent’s 100G technology and advances in its branching unit set a new benchmark for the supply of fully robust high capacity systems with a clear upgrade path to higher speeds,” quoted by  Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks,President Philippe Dumont.

Recently a business deal has been struct between telecom giant equipment maker Ericsson & world’s largest software Corp. Microsoft regarding IPTV Mediaroom to provide television facilities in handset via.internet.

If the deal really happens then Ericsson will become the prime global leader in IPTV markets.

As per news the deal will close in the second quarter of 2013 & company is not yet revealing the price of this deal. Already worldwide more than 400 employees working in Mediaroom located at Mountain View, California.

Again Ericsson predicted that the IPTV subscribers will hit 76 million subscribers by 2013 & 105 million subscribers in 2015.

The technology via which different types of multimedia contents can be transmitted over telecom & cable networks through internet can be regarded as IPTV. The main moto of Ericsson is to supply mobile companies this new technology so that the mobile firm can compete with cable, satellite and web-based media providers.

Ericsson Senior Vice President and Head of Business Unit Support Solutions Per Borgklint commented that ”This acquisition contributes to a leading position for Ericsson with more than 40 customers, serving over 11 million subscriber households.”

4G mobile network contract has been woned by major Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei to create such an unique infrastructure in New Zealand.

Huawei New Zealand CEO Arthur Zhang, told that “The announcement is a significant milestone for Huawei in New Zealand, and is a strong sign of the confidence in Huawei’s technology and its position as the market leader in 4G LTE globally”

The reason to choose Huawei as per David Havercroft CTO in New Zealand commented that First Huawei is the leader in LTE deployment over  countries & secondly the true nature of pushing the growth of technology one step ahead.

Already 3 months trial has been run on places like Auckland and Rotorua & company is running on some exciting developments like carrier aggregation. This new technique allows users to use 2 different spectrum & the data transfer speed may reach up to 250 Mbps.

Havercroft commented that “While such technology is some way from launching commercially, it is very exciting to be working with a technology partner who has this level of capability, and a massive commitment to research and development that we can bring to New Zealand.”

There was a dispute arose betweem Swedish Telecom gear maker Ericsson & Samsung another electronics based korean firm who has filed a counter petition in U.S. court.

In the recent years legal battle has been fought between several technology based firms where cut throat competitions has been prevailed like Apple has sought to get its market share & to re-occupy billions of dollars investment in research & development wings.

Actually the reason behind Samsung was put to justice as on different cases company has failed to sign license agreements on the technological backgrounds used on behalf of Ericsson.

 As per Samsung commented Ericsson has overcharged them, so Samsung has filed a petition in the district court of Texas.

Ericsson was alleged by Samsung on the terms of breaking the patent rights of technology where Ericsson’s base assumes to be the strongest & Samsung is gradually expanding its network.

Samsung’s Court Document stated that “Ericsson seeks to extract a usurious ransom that dwarfs the amounts paid by Samsung in two prior agreements (with Ericsson) as well as the payments made by any other Ericsson licensee,”

Ericsson was alleged on behalf of infringing its network technology patents as per Samsung commented.

In 2012 6.6 billion is the patent revenue arosed from Swedish Company’s end which up from last year 2011 i.e. 6.2 billion & 4.6 billion in 2010. 225 billion was the total revenues arosed from Ericsson’s whole business last year.

 Euro 737 million i.e. about Rs. 5,192.57 crore is the figure released from NSN India in Dec 31st 2012 i.e. 19.1 percent decline of revenue occured due to the net sales figure drop since the telco operators hasn’t bought telecom gears as per expected.

In 2011 Euro 911 million was the net registered sales from company’s point of view.

If we compared year 2011 with 2012, then net 2 percent decline in total revenue has come up, like 13.37 billion euro in 2012 & 13.64 billion euro in 2011 despite some issues like divestments and restructuring plans.

 NSN commented that “Overall, since 2010, we have reduced component costs as a result of annual purchase price negotiations. During that period we have also experienced some wage inflation, particularly in China, where the rising cost of prices for goods such as food has driven inflationary pressure in salaries. Similar pressures are evident in India.”

As per company’s report “Five businesses have been divested, with two more divestments ongoing. We have exited multiple poorly performing contracts and ceased from active business in several countries.”

Euro 1 billion was the target set by NSN in November 2011 as per cost saving & employee reduction i.e. 17,000 globally plan. Already it has shifted its focus from countries like Japan, USA to deliver such higly tech advanced equipments and to review certain under-performing countries or contracts with a view to exiting if necessary.

 58,411 employees across the globe &  including 10,192 employees in India were reported from NSN end at the end of 2012.

 Ericsson  the Swedish telco equipment maker has appointed a new head for India, his name is Chris Houghton.

As per company’s statement Mr. Houghton will directly report to Asia-Pacific Senior Vice President Mats H Olsson.

 There were different designations attached with Mr. Houghton appointment as a Head of Customer Unit UK and Ireland and Managing Director Ericsson UK will be put to effect from June 2013.

 Already Mr. Hughton who has worked for twenty-five years after heading to the UK from Japan, Sweden & Hungary.

Hans Vestberg, Ericsson President and CEO “Together with the team in India he (Houghton) will work to extend our footprint in the region and assisting our customers in their work to capture value in a rapidly transforming telecoms market.”

Houghton said “India is a strategic region for Ericsson. I am excited to lead the legacy of 110 years in India. Ericsson’ commitment to India’s telecom growth is steadfast.”

BH Telecom will deploy 3G HSPA+ radio network & additional services with the help of Nokia Siemens Network in northern and eastern parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Nedzad Rešidbegovic, CEO of BH Telecom “Our customers are increasingly adopting advanced smartphones and tablets which require the best quality possible in terms of coverage and network performance.Subscribers will soon enjoy high-speed mobile broadband services such as video downloads and internet browsing with data speeds up to 30Mbps.’’

 Flexi Multiradio Base Station one of most energy efficient & global award winning product from NSN will help BH Telecom for 3G deployment on the 2100MHz and 900MHz bands for greater coverage, as well as Dual Cell HSPA+ for higher data speeds. Again it is confirmed from NSN’s end that it will improve & upgrade the multivendor network management system NetAct to efficiently monitor, optimize and configure BH Telecom’s networks.

Elvedina Vugic, BH Telecom account manager at Nokia Siemens Networks “Maintaining growth and market leadership requires constant innovation and improvements”.

Videocon is planning to roll out 4G(LTE) services in India by joining hands with Nokia Siemens Networks(NSN).

As per 4G auction data which held in last year November month where Videocon bagged 4G licenses in seven circles like Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh (East and West), Bihar and Jharkhand.

But there is some issue i.e. Videocon will use the same 2G 1800 MHz band for deploying its 4G network. So, company has decided to roll out only 4G data services while the voice services in this network will not be available as because the required handset is not available in the market, so company will provide respective frequency band dongle.

“4G Network is capable of providing comprehensive Internet Protocol-based telecom solutions that allows voice, data and streamed multimedia services in a seamless manner at much higher data speed than the existing generation network including 2G and 3G” as per CEO & Director of Videocon Mobile Services Arvind Bali.

 Videocom will face direct challenge from some major telco operators like Reliance Infocom & Bharti Airtel. As per recent data collected Airtel has launched the 4G network in some selected circles like Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata. Since setting up such ultra fast mobile broadband network requires quite a large investment & quite an amount of time.

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 A new IP series phone has been launched by Huawei under name eSpace 7900, as we know this company has a decent reputation of  leading Chinese information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider.

Already this new series of IP Phone has won a 2013 iF Design Award by putting an user-friendly design into the global market for local consumer use.

If we compare this new Huawei eSpace 7900 IP Phone with traditional phone then we say simply that this new phone possess new era of lifestyle. Thsi new phone consist of 25 mm thickness slim design.

Huawei  joined hands with acosutics to deliver high voice quality by revolutionising its audio technology.

The phone design is much like elegant & ergonomic & also possess visual and tactile comfort.Advanced Audio Coding-Low Delay (AAC-LD) full-band voice codec with a sampling rate as high as 48 kHz is the latest audio based technology used by Huawei to provide HD quality performance.

eSpace 7910 (a budget-friendly IP phone), eSpace 7950 (a business IP phone), and eSpace 7903X (an expansion module for eSpace 7950) were the different models used by Huawei IP Series Phone.

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Already Alcatel-Lucent has won a huge contract of 1 billion USD for RCOM for 7 years  managed services in India & now it has won contract for managed and transformation services to Telewings Communications Private Limited a total own unit of Telenor Company operating in India, but this service for Alcatel-Lucent will be operating in 3 circles like Gujarat, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh covering over 250 million subscribers.

Key Facts:

• Telewings will benefit from Alcatel-Lucent’s proven experience and delivery model, ensuring customers have the highest quality network experience possible.
• Alcatel-Lucent will leverage its global managed services expertise and tools to deliver network transformation services focusing on improved customer experience management and operational efficiency.
• Bell Labs, the research organization within Alcatel-Lucent, will provide expertise on network and business modeling to achieve Telewing’s transformational objectives.
• Alcatel-Lucent will deploy established standards-based network performance tools and expertise to improve and transform existing networks.
• As a leader in transformation and managed services, Alcatel-Lucent has a proven track record of supporting customers through highly skilled and experienced local presence, along with the benefit of a company with global scale.

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