Huawei starts up LTE commercial support group

Chinese vendor Huawei has introduced a business initiative designed to explore the application scenarios for SDN in carrier networks, to help operators better understand the technology’s commercial value.

Time:2013-06-17

Huawei and China Unicom Conducts a Large-Scale 100G Commercial Pilot Backbone Network

China Unicom is conducting a 100G network, a prelude to its mass 100G rollout. This pilot network uses Huawei's SD FEC technology over the ultra-long-haul transmission section of the 100G network.

Time:2013-05-20

NSN, Ericsson, Hauwei Sign MOU for OSS Interoperability

Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson and Huawei have put together and signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) enabling the use of OSS innovations across the industry. To help operators simplify network operations and reduce costs, the companies have agreed to cross-license the OSS interfaces used for multi-vendor network management.

Time:2013-05-14

Huawei to set up second R&D centre in India

Telecom gear maker Huawei will set up a new research and development (R&D) centre in Bangalore with an investment of $ 150 million (about Rs 813 crore) in the second half of this year.

Time:2013-05-14

China Mobile and Huawei bring 4G to the Everest

China Mobile's Tibet unit has hold a 4G trial network launching ceremony on the afternoon of June 11th, it announced that more than 50 4G experience locations were already deployed, and the 4G era is speeding up to embrace Tibet, a consecrated border land of China.

Time:2013-04-17

Huawei, Optus launch world-first TD-LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation network in Australia

Huawei and Optus have announced the world's first deployment of Carrier Aggregation technology on a live, commercial TD-LTE (Time-Division Long Term Evolution) network, with speeds hitting more than 160Mbps, Huawei Australia announced on Thursday.

Time:2013-03-19

Fiber in Europe bucks economic trends

As the industry gears up for the FTTH Council Europe’s 2013 conference in London February 19-21, Lightwave European Correspondent Kurt Ruderman asked fiber-optics analyst Richard Mack of CRU International to evaluate the European scene in 2012 and to discuss his outlook for fiber and cable in 2013, particularly as it relates to FTTx in Europe.

Time:2013-02-28

Asia-Pacific LTE Subscriptions Are Expected to Double to 72.1 Million by the End of 2013

In 4Q-2012, the LTE subscription in Asia-Pacific has increased by 60.92% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ), reaching 34.6 million. ABI Research expects that the LTE subscription market will continue to grow rapidly in 2013 to reach 72.1 million. “The operators in South Korea have aggressively promoted LTE since launch. For example, SK Telecom, the largest operator in terms of subscriptions, had gained 7 million LTE subscribers by the end of 2012, and aims to secure 13 million by the end of 2013, a feat that will mean 50% of its subscribers will be on LTE,” said Marina Lu, research associate at ABI Research.

Time:2013-02-22

Optical network trends for 2013

If the past year could be defined by a few big headlines, one would be “Economic Crunch Hasn’t Slowed Urgency for Network Capacity.” Or how about “Network Players Constantly Evolving Business Models to Support New Era of Connected Living”?

Time:2013-02-17

Future-proofing the Optical Transport Network

Technology is at its most useful when it’s flexible enough to adapt to changing needs. Take WiFi as an example; imagine how complex it would be if there were half a dozen different WiFi standards out there. But wait…there actually are at least nine different 802.11 WiFi variants– but part of the WiFi standards process is to ensure that different implementations are flexible enough to negotiate the highest data rate for most combinations of client and base station.

Time:2013-01-08