Savi Technology, which is a Lockheed Martin company, announced William Clark has joined the company as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. He will be responsible for all marketing functions at the company, including market and product strategies, go-to-market activities, branding, communications,...
Over the past week, a wide breadth of telecom companies have completed Long Term Evolution tests.Nokia Corp. announced results last week from the first phase of a trial that the company claimed achieved 100 megabit-per-second data transfer speeds. The trial was conducted by the...
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. This mantra seems to ring remarkably true at Alcatel-Lucent, evident by its wide reach and the position it finds itself in the telecom industry.The telecom equipment maker fused a breadth of French and American experience together...
The "merger of equals" between Alcatel Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. is officially moving forward with Lucent's chief executive, Pat Russo, set to lead the yet-to-be-named Paris-based telecom giant, the companies said.Alcatel's Mike Quigley, corporate operations officer, will be part of a multicultural management...
WASHINGTON-Experts said a merger between French telecom giant Alcatel SA and U.S.-based Lucent Technologies Inc. likely would undergo intense scrutiny over national security implications, possibly delaying but not necessarily dooming a blockbuster vendor deal that could become a major test case for congressional-driven reforms...
MURRAY HILL, N.J-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it won a contract to conduct a threat assessment of Europe's wireless, wireline and Internet networks. The contract, which was awarded by the 25-member state European Commission, calls on Lucent to perform a comprehensive analysis of the factors...
MURRAY HILL, N.J—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it won a contract to conduct a threat assessment of Europe’s wireless, wireline and Internet networks.The contract, which was awarded by the 25-member state European Commission, calls on Lucent to perform a comprehensive analysis of the factors influencing...
The very mention of Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem puts a whir in many propeller hats. The whirring is justified to a certain degree, but wireless carriers have approached investment in IMS technology with much caution. To understand their position, it's essential to first understand...
Most venture capitalists dream of finding the next billion-dollar company hiding in an inventor's garage. Andy Garman, however, dreams of finding the next billion-dollar company hiding inside a current billion-dollar company. Garman is a managing partner with New Venture Partners L.L.C., a venture-capital firm...
ST. LOUIS-U.S. wireless operators will slowly migrate from CDMA networks to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing technology as they move from third generation to fourth generation, according to a report from the Rysavy Research and Datacomm Research Co. The study predicts that wireless local area...
Mobile workers are discovering there's nothing more tethering than wireless devices. As advancing technologies enable 24/7 communications and monitoring capabilities, the once-clear lines between "company time" and "private time" are blurring. Employees are wrestling with how to be accessible without sacrificing their personal lives,...
PHILADELPHIA-Bell Labs said it has discovered two ways to reduce congestion and ensure smooth traffic in both cellular networks and wireless local area networks.In a paper titled, "Network Deformation: Traffic-Aware Algorithms for Dynamically Reducing End-to-end Delay in Multi-hop Wireless Networks," the authors demonstrate that...
Described by its supporters as disruptive, MIMO (multiple in, multiple out) technology has spawned a triangle of love and suspicion.Airgo Networks, which claims to have pioneered the idea of MIMO as we currently know it, said it is pleased the industry is embracing the...
Fresh with a government deal to test its Packet Blast technology, Lucent Technologies Inc. confirms a trend that proclaims packet technology is king in the wireless space.The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency demonstrated this with an $11.5 million award to allow Lucent to...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced two new executive appointments Tuesday. The company has appointed Jan M.K. Jaferian as its new intellectual property business president and John DeBono as its new investor relations vice president.Jaferian, who comes from Xerox Corp. where she was most...
SAN FRANCISCO-Researchers from Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Labs announced what it describes as the world's first turbo decoder chip for terminals that support an enhanced version of UMTS called High Speed Downlink Packet Access."The Bell Labs-designed chip, which will be licensed to manufacturers of...
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MeshNetworks offers .11b access point, routerNEW YORK-With Federal Communications Commission technical approval now in hand, MeshNetworks, Maitland, Fla., has made commercially available a new 802.11b access point and a router the company believes will bring to wireless communications the inherent strengths of the wireline...
NEW YORK-SK Telecom, which is conducting a field trial of Flarion Technologies' mobile broadband system, has made a strategic investment of undisclosed size in the U.S. company.Building on flash-OFDM, which Bell Labs developed, Flarion's system allows licensed wireless operators to provide fully mobile broadband...
NEW YORK-SK Telecom, which is conducting a field trial of Flarion Technologies' mobile broadband system, has made a strategic investment of undisclosed size in the Bedminster, N.J., company.Building upon flash-OFDM, which Bell Labs developed, Flarion's system allows licensed wireless operators to provide fully...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said that Bell Labs has designed two prototype chips that will enable mobile devices to receive more than 19 megabits of data per second on 3G networks.The chips are part of a multiple input/multiple output technology called Bell Labs...
ORLANDO—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association honored three recipients of its 2002 President's Awards last night. The annual awards go to individuals and companies who have made an outstanding contribution to the industry throughout the last year.Smith Bagley, founder and chief executive officer of...
WARREN, N.J.—Wireless power amplifier supplier Celiant Corp. announced it purchased most of the assets of Fujant Inc., which was a power amplifier start-up company."Current industry conditions favoring consolidation allowed us to buy, at a significant discount, assets that mesh well with our product and...
