Sonus Networks is targeting both service providers and enterprises with two new session border controllers that are designed to simplify network design and add advanced communications features in unified communications environments. In March, the company was noted in an Infonetics Research report as the vendor with the fastest-growing SBC portfolio, gaining an additional 7.3% of the market [...]

Samsung says it has found a way to transmit data in the millimeter-wave frequencies, offering the promise of speeds several hundred times faster than those of current “4G” networks. The company says it has known for years that “5G” communication will require more frequencies, but that until now the millimeter-wave frequencies seemed out of reach [...]

Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications has received six applications from telecom operators interested in participating in the frequency band auction aimed at deploying LTE across the country. The interested firms were DirecTV, Avantel, ETB, Claro, Telefónica and a consortium of companies led by Mexico’s Azteca 4G. Of note was the  absence of applications [...]

 Ixia announced new products for validating and testing the resiliency of enterprise networks, including the ability to simulate a data center rack of virtualized servers. The company’s new RackSim is an industry first, according to Ixia, and simulates all the complexities of a rack of virtual servers in one box. Virtualization of data centers improves [...]

According to a new report from ABI Research, the evolution toward “4G” networks with flat, distributed architectures has significant market implications as wireless operators seek to improve performance by changing the foundation of how their networks are designed. Traditionally, the approach to mobile networks has been based on a hierarchical and centralized core network, ABI [...]

Aruba Networks, Inc. said that that it expects its revenues for the quarter ended April 30 to fall below its guidance, citing delays in customer orders. “In April, we saw a push out in customer orders across the Americas, Europe and Asia,” said Dominic Orr, president and CEO of Aruba. “We attribute this weakness primarily [...]

Wi-Fi company Ruckus Wireless’ revenues jumped 27% year-over-year to $57.2 million, but the company had expected even more and cited delayed deployments for not meeting its guidance for the first quarter of 2013. Net income on a GAAP-basis was $300,000, down from $3.7 million in the year-ago quarter. Selina Lo, president and CEO at Ruckus, [...]

Mobile operators and vendors alike are awakening to the sober reality of the complexity involved in deploying 10s and 100s of hundreds of small cells in a very dense indoor and outdoor area.

The blistering pace of innovation in wireless has many companies evaluating build versus buy decisions as they look for ways to enter new markets. GenBand has a third approach: partnerships. The networking and cloud communications leader is known for strong partnerships; now the company is bringing together 20 companies to create new market opportunities by [...]

Cisco has been boosting its portfolio in the heterogeneous networks arena with a series of recent acquisitions, aiming to become a star player in the small cell space. The company has purchased Intucell for self-organizing network software that reduces interference in small cell deployment, BroadHop for policy control, Meraki in the Wi-Fi arena and most [...]