March, 2009

Allows Mobile Operators to Enhance Network Performance and Customer Experience TEWKSBURY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Starent Networks, Corp. (Nasdaq: STAR), a leading provider of infrastructure solutions that enable mobile operators to deliver multimedia services, today announced its suite of intelligent In-line Services will be available for its LTE evolved packet core (EPC) offering. Starent’s In-line Services help operators improve the subscriber experience and the performance of the core...

WBR 500r advanced eNodeB features flexible deployment options for operators to deliver compelling mobile broadband services with lower total cost of ownership SCHAUMBURG, Ill., March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc., (NYSE: MOT) , a leading provider of broadband networks, will showcase its Wireless Broadband Radio (WBR) 500r Long-Term Evolution (LTE) eNodeB at CTIA Wireless 2009. The WBR 500r is Motorola's latest advancement in bringing to market a very agile zero footprint LTE solution...

Common Testing and Acceptance Practices Will Ensure CDMA2000 Operators Are Among the First to Deploy LTE LAS VEGAS, March 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The CDMA Certification Forum(R) (CCF) today announced it is working directly with several operators and vendors from around the world to meet their requirements for testing and certifying LTE devices and their aggressive LTE network deployment schedules. The testing and acceptance of CDMA2000(R)/LTE multimode devices will abide by the specifications...

Service Quality, Reliability and High Bandwidth Support Top-Quality Service, Help Fulfill the Promise of Emerging Wireless Broadband Services; Verizon Wireless Signs Up to Ensure Industry-Leadership Position BASKING RIDGE, N.J., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- To help wireless carriers stay ahead of the growing demand for top-quality, high-bandwidth wireless services, Verizon has begun using its advanced fiber-optic network to provide links to cellular towers and mobile switching offices. The new links...

IPv6 to IPv4 interworking provides critical support for 3G/4G wireless access and large government networks; SIP-T, SIP-I and SIP interworking bridges heterogeneous SIP networks to PSTN BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE )--Acme Packet® (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, today announced the availability of two new interworking functions for the Acme Packet Net-Net® session border controller (SBC) family designed to extend the reach of Session Initiation Protocol...

SANTA ANA, Calif., Mar 25, 2009 (BUSINESS WIR E) ----Many of the 2.4 million pilgrims who visited the holy city of Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia this past December for the annual Hajj season - or those who reside in or visited the Al-Bait Towers at King Abdul Aziz Endowment - benefited from uninterrupted access to wireless voice and data services, accomplished courtesy of a state-of-the-art in-building wireless coverage system designed by Powerwave Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:PWAV), a global...

Lays Basis for True Next-Generation Over-the-Air Management Infrastructure SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- InnoPath Software, the leader in over-the-air Customer Care, is partnering with its Tier 1 operators globally as part of their planned LTE deployments. This game-changing technology lays the basis for a new mobile landscape, a true next-generation, over-the-air management infrastructure in support of activation and care, and provides a clean break from OMA-CP vendors and their now obsolete...

Solutions to be Delivered by Kapsch CarrierCom TEWKSBURY, Mass .- Starent Networks, Corp. (Nasdaq: STAR), a leading provider of infrastructure solutions that enable mobile operators to deliver broadband multimedia services, today announced mobilkom austria group (mag) has selected Starent’s multimedia core solution for deployment in its mobile operator member companies across Europe for UMTS and LTE mobile broadband services. Starent is working with Kapsch CarrierCom, Austria for the solution...

LTE continues to gain momentum. For some operators, LTE cannot come soon enough, states the latest report from Analysys Mason entitled Operator strategies for network evolution: the road to LTE, which details how wireless data traffic will grow tenfold in developed markets in the period to 2015. However, there are many roads to a data-optimised RAN and LTE is only one component. “LTE can provide data at a sixth of the price of basic W-CDMA. In the long term, it may be the only way to profitably...

Powerful 405S and 460S PowerPC technology enables IPTV and 4G applications SAN JOSE, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- GDA Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of configurable, reliable and production-proven Intellectual Property (IP) solutions and services for Communication, Storage and Consumer markets, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to become an IBM Power Architecture Power Design Center. The agreement provides GDA the right to directly sublicense PowerPC processor cores...

Top 3GPP LTE protocol stack vendor, 4M Wireless Ltd., has licensed its LTE protocol stack to a cutting edge fabless semiconductor company. London, United Kingdom - 18 March 2009 - 4M Wireless Ltd., the leading supplier of LTE protocol stack software has licensed its technology to a fabless semiconductor company developing a 4G multi-mode baseband chip for LTE. 4M Wireless licensed its technology at the beginning of 2009 to the baseband chipset vendor. The 4M Wireless LTE protocol stack is compatible...

Shenzhen, China.- Huawei Technologies ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next-generation telecommunication solutions to operators around the world, today announced that, responding to the urgent needs of the Austrian market, it has successfully implemented a replacement of T-Mobile Austria’ s core data network 3 months ahead of planned schedule. Huawei’ s advanced intelligent packet switch platform exactly matched T-Mobile’ s needs to cater to the increasing demand for...

According to a top executive at the company, MetroPCS plans to launch Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in the second half of 2010, The flat-rate regional carrier will launch the 4G standard next year, according to Tom Keys, the company's chief operating officer, in an interview with the blog GigaOM. Keys did not specify a specific timetable, but said, "It is our desire to deploy LTE in 2010, probably the latter half." MetroPCS, which currently operates a CDMA network on AWS and...

Wireless operators deploying next generation technologies will be evaluating upgrades to their backhaul networks for better enabling bandwidth-intensive communications, a process simplified by the next generation microwave planning software solution, iQ.link®XG Version 9.0, from Comsearch, a CommScope, Inc. company. iQ.linkXG helps network engineers easily deploy microwave links by analyzing, designing, optimizing and maintaining a comprehensive database of their network. Backed by over 30 years...

LTE has emerged as one of the leading next-generation wireless technologies and Award Solutions’ Senior Consultant, Don Hanley, simplifies all the new labels and acronyms in the newly published “LTE and 1x/1xEV-DO Terminology and Concepts” white paper along with a listing of “LTE-1x/1xEV-DO Terms Comparison” compiled by many of the Award Solutions team. Mobile WiMAX is also an emerging broadband wireless technology that promises high-speed data services and Award Solutions’...

As leading Japanese mobile carriers work to complete the industry's first commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) system network by the end of 2009, Freescale is doing its part to foster the build out of next-generation mobile broadband in Asia and beyond. Leading base station equipment manufacturer Fujitsu Limited is leveraging high performance processors from Freescale Semiconductor to deliver the flexibility and raw computing power necessary to help the world's leading carriers facilitate...