Announced just hours ago, Nokia will be merging with Alcatel-Lucent creating a titanic telecom company with over 100,000 employees and US$27 billion in revenues. Nokia is the one taking control. In the all-share transaction, Alcatel-Lucent shareholders will receive Nokia shares values at $16.6 billion. The combined company will run under the Nokia brand, but will keep […]
Tomorrow, April 15, 2015 will be the 103rd anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The ship that was supposed to be the biggest and greatest ship ever built…until it sunk on its maiden voyage. Bigger didn’t turn out to be better in this case. Two telecom giants, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia have admitted to being […]
There is a lot of old optical transport equipment still out there. SONET, SDH or DWDM. The equipment was deployed 20 or more years ago. It is now manufacturer discontinued, but still going strong. I call these the “the oldies but the goodies”. Such as the Nortel Optera Classic platform, sometimes referred to as the FDN2400 […]
In the original 1968 movie Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston and other astronauts crash land on a planet inhabited by apes with human intelligence and emotions. A classic story of struggle, with man as the underdog against apes. A somewhat similar story is playing out in ancient holy city of Varnasi, India. Network engineers […]
Infinera announced that Facebook deployed an Infinera Intelligent Transport Network to light a 3,998 kilometers route without any regeneration. The systems is capable of delivering up to eight terabits per second (Tb/s) of data transmission capacity. The Facebook terrestrial network runs from a data center in Lulea, Sweden, to what Infinera described as “major hubs throughout […]
Rogers has launched Canada’s first VoLTE service on the LG G3 Vigor handset. Support for more handsets is expected later this year. VoLTE, which allows operators to run voice calls over the 4G network, provides several advantages over carriers still relying on circuit-switched fallback (CSFB): CFSB brings the 2G or 3G network into play when […]
[Shenzhen, China, March 31, 2015] Huawei released their 2014 annual report which showed record revenue and net profit, with financial performance up strongly across all business areas. Overall Group revenue reached CNY288.2 billion (USD46.5 billion), an increase of 20.6% from 2013, and Group net profit reached CNY27.9 billion (USD4.5 billion), up 32.7% year on year. […]
On March 30, 2015, Alcatel-Lucent announced that Verizon will deploy a new optical wavelength routing technology on its U.S. ultra-long-haul network. Combined with the use of electrical switches, the new capability, available on the 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS), will allow Verizon to perform multilayer end-to-end service provisioning. The new wavelength routing capability was developed […]
This NT3H72AA Radio Signal Processor board that was long ago MDed by Nortel. You may think it would be impossible to find a spare, but TruePulse has them in stock. We also have the NT3H32AC, NT3H98AF, NT3H6706, NT3H36BC, NT3H71AA and NT3H73AA. TruePulse stocks all sorts of MDed (manufacturer discontinued) Central Office telecom equipment from Nortel, […]
Over 300 Rotarians, politicians, dignitaries and Rotary supporters congregated at the Sheraton Parkway in Richmond Hill to hear Rotary International President Gary Huang speak. Huang spoke at length about Rotary’s effort to eradicate polio around the world. But more importantly, he inspired hundreds of people to continue the struggle. Regardless of how busy I am […]