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Nortel's LTE Patent Licensing Play
May 8, 2008
Last month a group of vendors agreed to commit to a licensing framework, whereby they would license their patents relating to the next-generation wireless technology LTE, or Long-Term Evolution, according to “fair and reasonable” terms.
Long-Term Evolution is a 3GPP (third-generation partnership project) effort to enhance the next generation of UMTS with regard to cost, services, spectrum usage and interoperability.
The technology is designed to speed up network data transfer rates, enabling for example, faster video streaming, photo sharing, and music downloading.
The group which includes the likes of Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications most notably does not include Qualcomm, which earlier this year announced plans to develop LTE chipsets.
Now, in a move they hope will accelerate the global adoption of LTE by service providers, handset manufacturers and end-users, Nortel has announced a competitive royalty rate for its standards-essential patent claims for LTE handsets.
In a statement, Nortel said they will “license its LTE standards essential patent claims for LTE handsets at a royalty rate for approximately 1%, subject to reciprocity, defensive suspension, and grantback to Nortel products, services, and solutions, as well as other customary license terms and conditions.”
Nortel hopes that by publishing its patent royalty rates it will provide “increased transparency and predictability of IPR costs” which would eliminate any cost uncertainties in handset costs from stunting the adoption and growth of technologies like LTE.
Tags: 4G, ericsson, LTE, mobility, nokia, Nortel, Qualcomm, Siemens
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WSJ Rumor: Sprint to T-Mobile?
May 5, 2008A report in The Wall St. Journal has Sprint Nextel Corp. as a takeover candidate, with Germany’s T-Mobile a prime candidate to pull off the deal.
If the deal were to go through, it would make T-Mobile the largest U.S. cellular carrier, vaulting it past AT&T and Verizon Wireless to the number one spot.
While it does make for interesting speculation, let’s not get worked up over it yet. Rumors such as these are what fuels Wall Street, and The Journal said deliberations were at "a preliminary stage and management may very well turn away," and cited sources as saying the arrangement, "could still be weeks, or even months away."
The rumored deal does make sense on several levels, and with the Euro so strong against the dollar, it might simply amount to be too good a deal for Germany’s T-Mobile to pass up on the opportunity to purchase Sprint Nextel’s spectrum and 50 million+ customers.
As they say, watch this space…
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WSJ Rumor: Sprint to T-Mobile?
A report in The Wall St. Journal has Sprint Nextel Corp. as a takeover candidate, with Germany’s T-Mobile a prime candidate to pull off the deal.
If the deal were to go through, it would make T-Mobile the largest U.S. cellular carrier, vaulting it past AT&T and Verizon Wireless to the number one spot.
While it does make for interesting speculation, let’s not get worked up over it yet. Rumors such as these are what fuels Wall Street, and The Journal said deliberations were at "a preliminary stage and management may very well turn away," and cited sources as saying the arrangement, "could still be weeks, or even months away."
The rumored deal does make sense on several levels, and with the Euro so strong against the dollar, it might simply amount to be too good a deal for Germany’s T-Mobile to pass up on the opportunity to purchase Sprint Nextel’s spectrum and 50 million+ customers.
As they say, watch this space…
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Foundry at Interop: New Modules, Green Award
May 1, 2008I had the opportunity to meet with Foundry Networks at Interop this week, to discuss their latest offerings, a pair of high-density interface modules to its data center switching and routing product lines, the BigIron RX Series switches and the NetIron MLX Series routers.
The new modules will reportedly allow the BigIron RX Series switches and the NetIron MLX Series routers to deliver the industry’s highest 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) and gigabit Ethernet (GbE) density of up to 512 ports of 10GbE and 1,536 ports of GbE in a single system.
The news of the new modules came on the heels of Foundry’s announcement of a new vision for advancing the data center based upon four key pillars: performance, virtualization, convergence and efficiency.
Foundry also was awarded the first-ever Interop Green Award. According to a release on Foundry’s site, the company was “…singled out for its ability to deliver industry-leading performance while minimizing power, space and cooling consumption in its switching, routing and application delivery controller (ADC) product set and solutions.”
Tags: Foundry, Green, Interop
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Interop: Shunra Makes News
I had some more good meetings today at Interop, among them a chat with Shunra Software’s Rhoan Morgan and David Berg. Check out this article on Shunra’s newest announcement regarding version 5.30 of the Shunra Virtual Enterprise (VE) Suite
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Interop: XO Expands US Footprint
XO Communications announced today that they have significantly expanded their nationwide Ethernet services footprint.
In a briefing at Interop today, I spoke with XO’s Brad Boddicker, regional vice president for the company’s Western region, and he told me that XO is now capable of empowering over half a million business locations in 75 major metropolitan areas across the United States with next-generation Ethernet services.
Boddicker also mentioned that XO can deliver via a number of different vehicles as well, including fiber, Ethernet over copper, and fixed broadband wireless capabilities.
The company has been doing a number of interesting things lately, including the launch in April of XO Anywhere, a service designed to improve worker productivity with mobility and unified communications features. The service enables employees to use any device as their XO office phone, which is a real benefit for companies with large mobile and distributed workforces.
Tags: Ethernet, IP VPN, XO
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Rich Questions Shoretel
April 30, 2008Rich has had his interest piqued by the hushed voices spreading rumors about Shoretel.
In my opinion these guys were once the truest darlings of the VoIP world. Maybe I was simply a sucker for a great desk set (and they had some nice hardware, I tell you) but in the wake of all the sour news in the VoIP world I have to wonder if the old adage “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” applies.
Shoretel stock (SHOR) was down 10.10 percent on Wednesday, but appeared to be making a huge run in aftermarket trading, bouncing back about 8.5% at 6:50 pm ET.
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Rich Questions Shoretel
Rich has had his interest piqued by the hushed voices spreading rumors about Shoretel.
In my opinion these guys were once the truest darlings of the VoIP world. Maybe I was simply a sucker for a great desk set (and they had some nice hardware, I tell you) but in the wake of all the sour news in the VoIP world I have to wonder if the old adage “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” applies.
Shoretel stock (SHOR) was down 10.10 percent on Wednesday, but appeared to be making a huge run in aftermarket trading, bouncing back about 8.5% at 6:50 pm ET.
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Interop Briefing: Fanfare
Like Rich Tehrani, I too find myself in Las Vegas, at the Interop show.
However, unlike Rich’s experience, my experience with lines has been almost nonexistent. No wait for my luggage when I arrived last night. No cab line at the airport. Nobody checking in ahead of me at the hotel.
And today, when I checked in to the show, there was nobody on line in the press room, which made getting my badge a very simple procedure.
And so I’m engaged in a day full of meetings.
First on the list was Fanfare. To see what that company is all about, click here for the report on my meeting with David Gehringer, vice president of marketing for the Mountain View-based firm.
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Boston... Salesforce... Marathon?
April 21, 2008What a day.
It started benignly enough, early to the office and then off to the Amtrak station for a train to Boston. You see, I’m in Beantown again this week for a visit with our friends at Salesforce.com and their Tour de Force, which hits New England tomorrow.
However today, something else hit Boston. Unbeknownst to this New Yorker, they apparently run Marathons here on work days, and so as I exited the Back Bay rail station I found myself surrounded by a teeming mass of humanity I did not expect to be a part of.
I guess that’s what happens when the hotel you’re staying at is half a block from the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
For tonight I was invited to a dinner for certain Salesforce customers and prospects, partners, media, and the like.
For anyone who understands what it’s like to be of the Eastern Orthodox faith you’ll cringe when I tell you that 6 days shy of Easter, the dinner was held in a restaurant called Mooo (3 O’s, I think…).
I had a series of wonderful conversations with a variety of prospects and customers, all of whom had nice things to say about our hosts, and none of it seemed feigned. I get the sense that Salesforce customers really love that company’s solutions.
Well I’m excited to hear Marc Benioff’s keynote tomorrow, as well as getting a firsthand look at some of the demos of the Salesforce/Google Apps integration we’ve been hearing so much about (see Rich’s blog for more details).
I’ll have more to say in the morning, so until then…
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Rich on Skype
Rich Tehrani spoke with Skype’s Don Albert, VP and GM of Skype North America, and came away with a slightly softened attitude regarding the need for eBay to sell Skype now, saying his "comments may have been premature."
According to Rich’s blog:
Skype earned $126 million in revenue (it’s fifth straight profitable quarter) and added another 33 million new registered users in the quarter (there are now 309 million registered Skype users around the world).
Rich also gets a jump on today’s announcement that Skype is now offering flat-rate international calling for the first time
The three subscriptions now available to consumers in the U.S. and Canada include the following:
- Unlimited U.S. & Canada: Unlimited calls to landline and cell phones in the U.S. and Canada. ($2.95 per month)
- Unlimited Mexico: Unlimited calls to landline and cell phones in the U.S. and Canada, and to landlines in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey; up to 80% off normal SkypeOut rates to landlines in the rest of Mexico and up to 40% off normal SkypeOut rates to all Mexico cell phones. ($5.95 per month)
- Unlimited World: Unlimited calls to landline and cell phones in 34 countries including the U.S. and Canada, as well as Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey; up to 80% off normal SkypeOut rates to the rest of Mexico landlines and up to 40% off normal SkypeOut rates to all Mexico cell phones. ($9.95 per month)
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Brave New Google Earth
April 16, 2008Peter Birch, Product Manager, Google Earth, writes about the launch of the latest version of Google Earth — version 4.3 — on the Official Google blog today.
The latest beta (of course) sets the goal of offering a “realistic, 3D model of the world by giving users a higher quality, more immersive experience.”
Here are some of the new features:
- New navigation — featuring improved zoom control.
- 3D 3D 3D — The latest version of Google earth adds loads of new 3D content such as thousands of buildings contributed by people around the world, and photo-textured cities and towns.
- Street View — You’ve used this and loved it in Google Maps.
- Sunlight feature — Simulated lighting as the Sun passes overhead. Might be the only way I get to see the Sun set over the Great Wall…
Google Earth 4.3 features a dozen new languages, including Danish, UK English, Spanish (Latin American), Finnish, Hebrew, Indonesian, Norwegian, Portuguese (PT), Romanian, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish, so presumably you could stop and ask for directions…
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FCC Answers to Congress
April 15, 2008The FCC was called on the carpet today to answer a Congressional committee’s questions about the recently completed wireless spectrum auction. A central issue was the Commission’s inability to attract any bidders for the so-called D block portion of the spectrum.
Lawmakers did save a little praise for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and the fact that the auction raised over $19 billion.
The Wall Street Journal has more on the story here.
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FCC Answers to Congress
The FCC was called on the carpet today to answer a Congressional committee’s questions about the recently completed wireless spectrum auction. A central issue was the Commission’s inability to attract any bidders for the so-called D block portion of the spectrum.
Lawmakers did save a little praise for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and the fact that the auction raised over $19 billion.
The Wall Street Journal has more on the story here.
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