Three new budget based Android 4.1 Jelly Bean tablets have been launched ny Lenovo at MWC 2013. But the prices of these tablets like A1000, A3000 & S6000 still not revealed.

Lenovo A1000 Specifications:

Display Resolution: 7-inch display, 1024×600 pixels.

Processor: MTK, 1.2 GHz Dual-Core

OS: Android 4.1

Storage: 16GB storage, expandable to 32GB total with microSD slot

Connectivity:

Color: Black, White.

Additional Features:

Lenovo A3000 Specifications:

Display Resolution: 7-inch IPS display with 1024×600-pixel resolution

Processor: MTK, Quad core, 1200 MHz

OS: Android 4.1

Storage:microSD expansion (up to 64GB total system storage)

Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microUSB, micfroHDMI, HSPA, GPS, A-GPS.

Color: Black.

Additional Features: In-built browser, Youtube, Picasa

Lenovo S6000 Specifications:

Display Resolution: 10.1 inches, 1280×700 picels.

Processor:MTK 8389/8125 Quad core, 1200 MHz

OS: Android 4.1

Storage:

Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microUSB, micfroHDMI, HSPA, GPS, A-GPS.

Color:

Additional Features: Black.

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Six telecom satellites has been launched by Russia into space via.Soyuz-2.1a rocket.

As per Roscosmos space agency the launch was delayed to bad weather condition. But the satellite took off around  8.04 p.m. Moscow time. The weight of the satellite was around 700 kg & approximately 15 years is the lifetime.

Actually Globalstar has ordered European company Thales Alenia Space to develop this satellite so that it can provide a good quality of personal communication service.

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Another awesome phone named as A5+ launched by Karbonn India in this huge Asian market based on Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread run by 1GHz processor having dual sim facilities run on GSM network.

Some of the interesting features are like 3.5 inch capacitive touch screen with HVGA resolution of 320 by 480 pixels with 3.5 megapixels camera.

For Internet enthusiast there is Wi-Fi connectivity 802.11 b/g/n & 3G internet access speeds up to 7.2 Mbps.

Currently on Infibeam.com website Karbonn A5+ is available at Rs. 4,899.

Reliance Globalcom a unit of Reliance Communication LTD & also the leading global provider of managed network and communication services for multinational enterprises and carriers, has selected Ciena’s market-leading Wave Logic™ coherent optical 100G networking solutions to upgrade its FLAG Europe-Asia (FEA) submarine network.

By selection DWDM solution under Ciena’s OPn architecture it will increase submarine bandwidth on this segment by 10 times, and enables the launch of 10GE and OTU-2 services which will connect the route between Jordan & Egypt to facilitate the surge of high-bandwidth applications such as cloud computing, video conferencing, business continuity/disaster recovery, data center connectivity, and storage area networking, in addition to ever increasing Internet traffic. The upgrade also enables Reliance Globalcom to provide 100GbE for their end customers as required.

Ciena has become a long-standing partner of Reliance Globalcom from earlier times when Reliance decided to roll out 100G solutions in European countries. Reliance Globalcom network announced two 40G deployments in the year 2011 – one to support a 5,000 kilometer submarine link along two key routes connecting Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong, and the other to support a 6,400 kilometer ultra-long haul submarine link connecting the UK, Spain, Italy and Egypt.

 Author: Biswajit Biswas (Technical Writer)

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Omantel the top level operator in Sultanate of Oman having more than 2.7 million subscribers has decided to launch LTE/4G network with the help of Ericsson.

The most truthful reason to launch this new network is to enhance the mobile-broadband experience with higher data speeds & faster access to some newly launched multimedia applications.

Recently in news report COO of Omantel Samy Ahmed Abdulqadir Al Ghassany said that the Ericsson’s overall track record in LTE has proved best in the world. We are positive that, through this collaboration, we will be able to provide our customers with the best end-user.

The agreement between these two companies will not only benefit the subscribers together with enhanced network quality & higher operational efficiency.

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Ray Hassan, President Ericsson Gulf Countries, said: “Omantel will gain deployment flexibility and simplicity from LTE by providing best in class services to their valued customers. The continuous evolution of Omantel’s network performance demonstrates the strength of our ongoing partnership, and also demonstrates Ericsson’s commitment to deploying high-quality networks for customers using Ericsson’s LTE technology. We will continue to enhance the strategic partnership with Omantel to build an advanced mobile broadband network in Oman, “Ericsson and Omantel share a longstanding relationship which goes back more than 30 years.

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Nokia Siemens Networks has entered a global reseller agreement with Ruckus Wireless to help operators integrate Wi-Fi networks to deliver cost-effective mobile broadband services. The contract, announced today, will enable Nokia Siemens Networks to offer easily deployable and manageable Wi-Fi coverage as part of its comprehensive small cells portfolio.

Nokia Siemens Networks will offer operators the complete line of Ruckus Wireless carrier-class Smart Wi-Fi systems, including indoor and outdoor access points and controllers. It will also deliver the award-winning Ruckus SmartCell™ Gateway 200. The SCG 200 is a new category of wireless service gateways that allows operators to transparently accommodate mobile subscriber devices using trusted Wi-Fi access without requiring any client software. The SCG 200 seamlessly integrates Wi-Fi traffic into operator packet core networks through standard industry interfaces, providing a variety of offloading options.

Enhancing these products is the Nokia Siemens Networks Smart WLAN Connectivity* solution. By seamlessly and smartly integrating Wi-Fi with mobile broadband networks, the solution enables subscribers to use both types of access transparently for a superior mobile broadband experience delivered very cost-effectively by the operator.

“With the explosion of mobile data, operators need more economical and practical ways to handle huge volumes of traffic while maintaining a high quality customer experience,” said Hossein Moiin, chief technology and strategy officer at Nokia Siemens Networks. “With this agreement, we will be able to provide operators with Wi-Fi access and Wi-Fi offload solutions right now for integration into their cellular networks.”

“Operators simply cannot inject capacity into their networks fast enough to address the mountains of data hitting their mobile networks,” said Selina Lo, president and chief executive officer of Ruckus Wireless. “As a result, operators are looking to new solutions that combine carrier-class Wi-Fi with small cell technology that complement their macro environments and can be seamlessly integrated within their existing and future core infrastructures. By working with Nokia Siemens Networks, we can help operators relieve these pressures while scaling to support future mobile broadband services.”

With relatively low deployment costs and long-term technology support from every smart phone and a broad range of client devices, Nokia Siemens Networks expects Wi-Fi to become an integral part of the mobile broadband experience. The company’s strategy is to support that future through the development of heterogeneous networks (HetNets) in which multiple radio access technologies and Wi-Fi will all co-exist, and macro cells will be complemented by a multitude of smaller cells, such as micro, pico and femto cells.

Nokia Siemens Networks will also embrace Wi-Fi in additional ways, such as integrating Wi-Fi from several partners through its Smart WLAN Connectivity solution, and providing small cell concepts, including its Flexi Zone** solution, with built in Wi-Fi access.

To share your thoughts on the topic, join the discussion on Twitter using #CTIA12 and #mobilebroadband.

About Ruckus Wireless

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Ruckus Wireless is a supplier of advanced wireless systems for the explosive mobile Internetworking market. The company markets and manufactures a wide range of indoor and outdoor “Smart Wi-Fi” products for mobile operators, broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises around the world. Ranked as the top telecom company by Inc. Magazine and named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Ruckus invented and has patented state-of-the-art wireless technology, such as adaptive antenna arrays that focus and direct Wi-Fi transmissions over the best signal path, automatically avoiding sources of Wi-Fi interference. These unique capabilities extend signal range, increase client data rates and ensure consistent and reliable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi. With over 55 patents, 13,000 customers, and 4,000 solution partners worldwide, Ruckus employs over 500 staff in 24 countries. To date, the company has shipped over 3 million Smart Wi-Fi systems around the world and has raised $75 million in funding from premier investors such as Meritech Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, SingTel, Focus Ventures, Sutter Hill, Motorola, T-Ventures, Telus Ventures, and Firelake Capital. The company is led by Ms. Selina Lo, president and chief executive officer.

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is the world’s specialist in mobile broadband. From the first ever call on GSM, to the first call on LTE, we operate at the forefront of each generation of mobile technology. Our global experts invent the new capabilities our customers need in their networks. We provide the world’s most efficient mobile networks, the intelligence to maximize the value of those networks, and the services to make it all work seamlessly.

Source : Press Releases

MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, has been conferred the ‘Best Innovation in Mobile Video Technology’ Award at the National Telecom Awards 2012, organized by CMAI, for its latest path-breaking audio-video compression software, ‘Mobile Theater’. CMAI is a national apex association of India with over 48,500 members and 50 international MoU partners.

The award ceremony was held on May 8th 2012 at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi. The nominations were adjudged on various criteria such as technology innovation, commercial success, execution of strategy and dedication to research and development by an eminent Jury Committee consisting of members from Department of Commerce, Law, Telecom, IT and industry associations’ representatives, former bureaucrats, and secretary/CMD from Telecom/BSNL/MTNL. The award selections have been vetted by international knowledge partners Mazars International and Dion.

MediaTek’s new audio-video compression software ‘Mobile Theater’ allows users to store digital or audio files of up to 50 film clips on a 2GB T-card. The software runs both MPEG-4 and H.264, among other popular digital video/audio coding formats. This ensures that the files compressed by “Mobile Theater” will play on almost any brand of feature phones. Many of India’s major handset brand names including, Micromax, SPICE, Karbonn, Lava, MAXX, Videocon, Onida, Intex, Lemon, have embraced MediaTek’s latest technological innovation. ‘Mobile Theater’ optimizes subtitle crispness and sound quality parameters to ensure that compressed video/audio files retain high fidelity. Besides solving the problem of video or audio files taking up excessive memory space in handset devices, ‘Mobile Theater’ also offers a clear improvement in the image and sound quality of compressed files during playback. In addition, “Mobile Theater” software also supports 2D/3D content switching.

On receiving the ‘Best Innovation in Mobile Video Technology’ award, Grant Kuo, Managing Director, MediaTek India, said “Since 15 years, MediaTek is committed to growing the global mobile ecosystem by introducing revolutionary technologies that enhance the experience of the handset users and provide them with the best-in-class multimedia solutions at affordable prices. As the world’s leading handset IC solutions provider, MediaTek has packaged ‘Mobile Theater’ with advanced multimedia features that give more added value to both smart and feature phone users at no added cost. We are proud on receiving this award which recognizes MediaTek’s relentless focus on delivering innovative, feature-rich yet cost-effective solutions to meet consumer’s entertainment, communication and information needs.”

The CMAI National Telecom Awards recognize outstanding contributions to the field of communication, ICT, multimedia, and infrastructure and provide greater encouragement and impetus to the players for their contributions in building a robust National Telecom Network and providing an effective means of Communication. MediaTek was also the recipient of Best Technology for Mobile Phone awarded at the 5th National Telecom Awards 2011 by CMAI Association of India.

Nokia Siemens Networks completes the sale of its fixed line Broadband Access business to ADTRAN

Nokia Siemens Networks announced today that the company has completed the transaction to sell its fixed line Broadband Access business and associated professional services and network management solutions to ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN). The transaction was initially announced in December 2011.

As of May 4, 2012, the business, including approximately 340 employees globally in engineering, R&D, sales and professional services, transferred to ADTRAN.

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is the world’s specialist in mobile broadband. From the first ever call on GSM, to the first call on LTE, we operate at the forefront of each generation of mobile technology. Our global experts invent the new capabilities our customers need in their networks. We provide the world’s most efficient mobile networks, the intelligence to maximize the value of those networks, and the services to make it all work seamlessly.

With headquarters in Espoo, Finland, we operate in over 150 countries and had net sales of over 14 billion euros in 2011. http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

Nokia Siemens Networks has introduced two innovations that allow operators to deliver mobile broadband more effectively with their existing spectrum. They form part of the company’s Liquid Radio GSM software suite*, the industry’s first complete offering for frequency re-farming that ensures exceptional flexibility in using limited GSM spectrum more efficiently.

Nokia Siemens Networks

Described by the company as Energy Efficient Coverage (EEC)**, the first innovation enables existing GSM spectrum to support up to double the amount of traffic. Alternatively, it can achieve the same GSM performance using less spectrum, thus freeing up more frequencies for WCDMA re-farming. In addition it can significantly improve network coverage.

The second innovation is Configurable Carrier Bandwidth*** for WCDMA. This allows WCDMA carrier bandwidth to be set in software configurable steps of 200 kHz from the very narrow 3.8 MHz up to 4.2 MHz, depending on an operator’s spectrum. It gives operators full flexibility to allocate more GSM spectrum to WCDMA as it becomes available. The feature also allows co-location of GSM and WCDMA on the same frequency band for operators with extremely limited spectrum.

The two new software features will be available commercially in the second half of 2012.

“Mobile spectrum is scarce, and operators want to maximize the GSM spectrum they can re-farm to WCDMA and LTE,” said Dhruv Khanna, head of sales development for Mobile Broadband, North America, Nokia Siemens Networks. “Our software suite addresses this challenge. Operators can re-farm using much narrower spectrum than before, deliver GSM and WCDMA with 30% less spectrum, and also lower total cost of ownership by 20%. Moreover, they can deliver a vastly improved user experience, and potentially attract more customers to increase revenues.”

Operators can deploy the features with Nokia Siemens Networks’ Single RAN platform via a simple software upgrade to evolve their networks smoothly, and cost-efficiently manage the huge growth in mobile broadband traffic.

To help operators increase network capacity and improve network performance, Nokia Siemens Networks offers planning and implementation services for WCDMA and LTE re-farming. By supporting more than 65% of commercial WCDMA and over 50% of commercial LTE re-farming networks, the company is the leader in spectrum re-farming services.

Source: Nokia Siemens Networks Press Releases

Alcatel-Lucent  today announced a major upgrade of its award-winning data center switching solution or ‘fabric’, the Alcatel-Lucent Mesh. By extending high-performance 40 gigabit Ethernet (40 GigE) links throughout the Mesh, the company has dramatically increased the speed, responsiveness and flexibility of enterprise data center networks, making them better able to support bandwidth-devouring, real-time applications like video collaboration, virtual desktop, and the growing array of cloud services.

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To complete the evolution to 40 GigE in the Mesh, Alcatel-Lucent has added 40 GigE capabilities to its OmniSwitch 10K Modular Ethernet LAN Chassis, a high-performance network core switch. This move – coupled with the use of a technique called ‘Shortest Path Bridging’ which optimizes server-to-server communications across the entire Mesh -enables enterprises to essentially transform their data center networks into private clouds, giving them the flexibility to reconfigure data center resources quickly and easily.

To complement the 40 GigE enhancements, the Alcatel-Lucent Mesh has also been verified as Citrix Ready™.  The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, and ultimately provide a seamless experience for users. Alcatel-Lucent is collaborating with Citrix to support the growing demands of mobile workstyles, cloud services and the variety of new applications being delivered across enterprises wide area networks (WANs), and to support the introduction of virtualized desktops, that place a burden on the network and require a greater level of infrastructure support.

Klaus Oestermann, Group VP & GM Cloud Networking Group, Citrix said: “Networking infrastructure has taken center stage as the unstoppable forces of mobility and cloud transform the demands of the datacenter.  With the Citrix cloud networking portfolio including NetScaler 10 and Branch Repeater 6 we are giving enterprises the same cloud platform capabilities to power their business that the largest public clouds have enjoyed for years.  This is game changing, and we are excited to work with one of the world’s leading communications companies to usher in this new era.  As a charter member of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise’s ecosystem program, we will be able to give our enterprise customers the confidence to deploy full interoperable Citrix Ready solutions.”

Camille Janssens, ICT Director of DHL Expresssaid: “The demand for more bandwidth is a constant challenge. New technology implementations like those from Alcatel-Lucent are delivering the ability to scale to faster speeds in the future while creating a highly reliable data center capable of acting as a global hub.”

About Alcatel-Lucent’s Data Center Switching Solution, the Mesh

The Alcatel-Lucent Mesh uses a unique ‘direct connect’ architecture – where elements of the network are directly connected to each other without a central hub – to weave together smaller groupings of switches, called ‘pods’ and form a single, seamless data center network that can easily allow resources to  be automatically reallocated. The Mesh delivers low-latency, server-to-server connectivity and can scale in size from as few as 100 to over 14,000 server-facing ports with just two core switches. This scalability provides customers with the option to deploy a small data center fabric and grow as needed with the deployment of additional 10GigE capable servers. Alcatel-Lucent’s data center network solution, essentially a private cloud, can be integrated with Alcatel-Lucent’sCloudBand carrier cloud solution, creating a hybrid cloud model where employees can access a wide array of data and applications anywhere and on any device.

Specific attributes of the Mesh include:

• Low-Latency wire-rate bandwidth - Where 40 GigE connections within the Mesh provide 1GigE and 10GigE server facing ports, which are perfect for new real-time applications requiring low latency bandwidth, such as the delivery of cloud and virtual desktop services to mobile devices
• Applications managed as services - Where the network automatically adjusts to follow virtual machine movement both within and between data center sites for better efficiency and reduced costs
• Shortest Path Bridging – A standard driven in part by Alcatel-Lucent in which the network provides scalable, multi-path, server-to-server connectivity that is cloud compatible enabling the optimized delivery of cloud services
• Simplified operations - Where virtual chassis technology allows multiple switches to be managed as if they were a single switch
• Ready for storage convergence - Where ‘loss-less’ Ethernet technology supports both iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)  paving the way for combining applications and storage networks into a single network in the data center
• Reduced complexity - Where Virtual Edge Port Aggregation (VEPA) technology enables a single control point for quality of service (QoS), management, and security. This ensures that there is a consistent application of QoS and security for all switching while removing duplication of management tasks
• Long-term sustainable deployment - The solution is currently ready to support 100GigE which is already available on elements of our IP portfolio

About the Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch^TM 10K Modular Ethernet LAN Chassis

The new 10 GigE and 40 GigE options for the Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 10K provides unmatched port density and wire-rate bandwidth. These new options provide value and flexibility to the customer to select the bandwidth mix and density they need today, with an upgrade option through a software license in the future, providing a pay-as-you-grow model and decreasing the barriers to scale up. These new options also allow the OmniSwitch 10K to reach a wider segment of the market that can benefit from the reliability of a chassis. The new 10 GigE and 40 GigE options will be available in Q3 2012.

About Application Fluent Networks

Application Fluent Networks enable a high-quality end-user experience for delivery of real-time applications along with reduced complexity for IT and network managers. This is achieved through simplified, resilient and low-latency network architecture with built-in security. To improve end-user productivity, an Application Fluent Network also features automatic controls for adjusting application delivery based upon profiles, policies and context. Application Fluent Networks also deliver streamlined operations through automated provisioning and low power consumption.

Source : Alcatel Press Releases