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Alcatel-Lucent reaffirmed as leader in CDMA with latest Dell’Oro Group report

Continuous innovations ensure the smooth interoperability of operators’ 3G and 4G networks by evolving their CDMA/EV-DO installed base towards all-IP and LTE technology more

Ericsson awarded its largest fiber-to the-home contract in... more
TeliaSonera International Carrier continue expansion of IP... more
EADS Defence & Security demonstrate latest TETRA... more

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Agilent Technologies announces handheld spectrum analyser

Makes infield measurements easier, faster, more precise more

Hitachi Cable develops the world's first 40 Gigabit port... more
New York and New Jersey get “business class” optical... more
Funambol introduces world's first commercial open source... more

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Datacentre transformation and the Cloud

Cloud Computing is popularly understood from the user perspective, meaning software as a service provided over the Internet and not hosted on the user’s own infrastructure. As such the user pays only for the actual usage and can avoid unnecessary capital expenditure. But the principle can also apply to a large enterprise that chooses to create its own cloud by consolidating resources into a datacentre accessible across the corporate WAN and then extending access across the Internet to serve its mobile workforce, partners or customers. Whether the datacentre is consolidated physically or virtually becomes less of an issue than the relationship between the corporate WAN and the wider Internet availability. When providing services such as social networking, search engines, auction sites etc, the entire business moves into the cloud... more