ISTANBUL, TURKEY: Turkcell, the leading communications and technology company in Turkey, announced the results of a study of mobile internet speeds by IRIS Telecom, the independent measurement and wireless telecom company.
Fifteen mobile operators, which provide services in at least one of Turkey, France, Germany and the UK were analyzed and Turkcell was ranked number 1 among these in terms of 'average mobile internet speed.'
The tests were conducted in April and May 2010 in Paris, Berlin, London, Istanbul, Diyarbakir and Trabzon. Both drive test and stationary measurements were carried out on urban roads and in shopping centers, tourist sites, airports, and other places where the operators offer their services. These tests confirmed that Turkcell's upload and download speeds were higher than the other 14 operators.
For instance, IRIS found that during drive test measurements in Istanbul Turkcell's download speed was 2.53 times faster when compared to O2 UK in London, which had highest file download performance among the 12 European operators tested, and 1.55 times faster when compared to O2 Germany in Berlin, which had the highest file upload performance among the 12 European operators tested.
Accordingly, Turkcell was certified by IRIS Telecom as having the Fastest Average Mobile Internet Speed among the operators tested in Turkey, France, the UK and Germany.
Johan Bruce, IRIS Telecom chairman, noted: "We compared the test results we had from Berlin, London and Paris with the test results we conducted in three cities of Turkey. As a result, we have found that Turkcell has the highest average data speed out of all the operators we analyzed. We congratulate Turkcell on its investment in its network, which has clearly been very effective and positions Turkcell favorably in a European context."
Ilter Terzioglu, Turkcell's Chief Network Operations Officer, added: "We are proud to deliver the fastest average mobile internet speed among the 15 operators tested. Our leadership in mobile internet speed in Turkey was recognised earlier in the year when an independent ranking and audit company conducted tests in Istanbul and confirmed that Turkcell's 3G speed reached 42.2 MBPS. These results demonstrate how fast our internet speed is on a wider European level."
Terzioglu also noted that Turkcell invested TRY2.2 billion in Turkey in 2009 and will continue to invest in its network to maintain its leadership and quality. "Our commitment to quality continues and our 3G subscriber base is growing significantly, up from 4.5 million at the end of 2009 to 5.2 million at the end of March 2010," he said.
Monday, June 7, 2010
iSuppli issues fast facts on latest iPhone
EL SEGUNDO, USA: To support media coverage of Apple Inc.’s announcement of its next-generation iPhone today, iSuppli Corp. is issuing the following fast facts:
* Apple in the first quarter shipped 8.8 million iPhones, giving it a 3.04 percent share of the market for all kinds of cell phones. Company shipments rose by 0.2 percent from 8.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, giving Apple the No. 6 position in the market in the first quarter, up from ninth place in the fourth quarter of 2009. Apple achieved the second-largest sequential increase in shipments among the Top 10 cell phone brands in the first quarter.
* “Smart phones represent the hottest segment of the cell phone market, with unit shipment growth of 35.5 percent expected in 2010, compared to 11.3 percent for the overall mobile handset business,” noted Tina Teng, senior analyst, wireless communications, for iSuppli.
“Because of this, companies that are exclusively focused on this area, like Apple, have managed to move up to near the top tier of the global cell phone business. This shows that the smart phone is reshaping the competitive landscape of the wireless business.”
* The global smart phone business will more than double from 2010 to 2014. Shipments will rise to 506 million units in 2014, up from 246.9 million in 2010, as shown in the attached figure.
* Apple’s strong iPhone sales are boosting its Macintosh sales. The company was the only U.S. PC OEM that managed to outperform the PC market in the first quarter. Apple’s PC shipments rose by 32.4 percent from a year earlier.
* “Apple’s Macintosh line is benefitting from the halo effect of the enormous popularity of its iPhones and iPads,” said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst for compute platforms at iSuppli.
Source: iSuppli, USA.
* Apple in the first quarter shipped 8.8 million iPhones, giving it a 3.04 percent share of the market for all kinds of cell phones. Company shipments rose by 0.2 percent from 8.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, giving Apple the No. 6 position in the market in the first quarter, up from ninth place in the fourth quarter of 2009. Apple achieved the second-largest sequential increase in shipments among the Top 10 cell phone brands in the first quarter.
* “Smart phones represent the hottest segment of the cell phone market, with unit shipment growth of 35.5 percent expected in 2010, compared to 11.3 percent for the overall mobile handset business,” noted Tina Teng, senior analyst, wireless communications, for iSuppli.
“Because of this, companies that are exclusively focused on this area, like Apple, have managed to move up to near the top tier of the global cell phone business. This shows that the smart phone is reshaping the competitive landscape of the wireless business.”
* The global smart phone business will more than double from 2010 to 2014. Shipments will rise to 506 million units in 2014, up from 246.9 million in 2010, as shown in the attached figure.
* Apple’s strong iPhone sales are boosting its Macintosh sales. The company was the only U.S. PC OEM that managed to outperform the PC market in the first quarter. Apple’s PC shipments rose by 32.4 percent from a year earlier.
* “Apple’s Macintosh line is benefitting from the halo effect of the enormous popularity of its iPhones and iPads,” said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst for compute platforms at iSuppli.
Source: iSuppli, USA.
Silicon Labs partner program streamlines wireless system development
AUSTIN, USA: Silicon Laboratories Inc., a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, has announced a partner program that enables customers to accelerate the development of differentiated wireless systems.
The Silicon Labs Wireless Partner Program provides third-party services and support for customers developing system solutions based on Silicon Labs’ Si10xx wireless MCUs, EZRadio and EZRadioPRO ISM band ICs, low-power MCUs and other mixed-signal ICs.
The new Wireless Partner Program complements Silicon Labs’ design-in support tools by providing a framework in which third-party wireless partners combine Silicon Labs’ RF IC solutions with an array of engineering services, turnkey wireless modules, high-level protocol stacks, and other related design and development capabilities.
New members of the Silicon Labs Wireless Partner Program include IK Elektronik GmbH, RF Consult GmbH, Ropet RF Design, SAAR Associates Inc., Synapse Wireless Inc., Weinzierl Engineering GmbH and Wireless Design.
“The Silicon Labs Wireless Partner Program welcomes our newest partners who are experts in wireless design services,” said Rafi Fried, general manager of Wireless products at Silicon Labs. “The partner program makes their wireless design expertise available to our customers, helping them accelerate time to market and deliver complete, best-in-class wireless solutions based on our high-performance embedded wireless technology.”
The Silicon Labs Wireless Partner Program provides third-party services and support for customers developing system solutions based on Silicon Labs’ Si10xx wireless MCUs, EZRadio and EZRadioPRO ISM band ICs, low-power MCUs and other mixed-signal ICs.
The new Wireless Partner Program complements Silicon Labs’ design-in support tools by providing a framework in which third-party wireless partners combine Silicon Labs’ RF IC solutions with an array of engineering services, turnkey wireless modules, high-level protocol stacks, and other related design and development capabilities.
New members of the Silicon Labs Wireless Partner Program include IK Elektronik GmbH, RF Consult GmbH, Ropet RF Design, SAAR Associates Inc., Synapse Wireless Inc., Weinzierl Engineering GmbH and Wireless Design.
“The Silicon Labs Wireless Partner Program welcomes our newest partners who are experts in wireless design services,” said Rafi Fried, general manager of Wireless products at Silicon Labs. “The partner program makes their wireless design expertise available to our customers, helping them accelerate time to market and deliver complete, best-in-class wireless solutions based on our high-performance embedded wireless technology.”
Huawei and ZTE – goals beyond telecom
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA: Huawei’s and ZTE’s raw ambition, eagerness to try new things and willingness to fail, support goals for the year that go beyond telecom.
The theme of Huawei’s analyst conference last month was “We see beyond telecom,” indicating its clear effort to build from its strong telecom base to penetrate adjacent sectors. This encompasses a move back into enterprise switching and routing, development of appliances for home networks and customized terminals, a range of professional services, and helping customers develop secure and open application storefronts.
In addition to Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper and others are also pitching this to carriers. What’s behind this, Huawei says, is its aim to help service providers owning pipes to turn them into “golden pipes” (more profitable ones) by linking them into higher-margin services layered on top, as well as at the edges, of the network with customized home networking devices or smartphones/tablet computers.
“Huawei has the right technologically creative and ambitious spirit to enter these adjacent markets, but it is a fairly big risk,” said Matt Walker, Principal Analyst. “The cast of competitors in these new areas – Apple, Google, Microsoft, and a long list of electronics companies in Korea and Japan – is big, fierce, deep-pocketed, and highly innovative. But if Huawei wants to achieve its targeted 20 percent revenue growth in 2010, it will need to make progress in these new markets.”
ZTE’s more cautious telecom-focused strategy may in the end prove more sustainable. Actually, ZTE is doing many of the same things on terminals, services, and applications as Huawei but on a more ad-hoc customer-driven basis.
“Its goals for 2010 are more narrowly focused, and lower-risk: it wants to increase its penetration in Europe with tier-1 and -2 carriers; continue leading in emerging markets and China; and have a breakthrough in the North American market. It announced a small one last week , with a CDMA carrier in Canada”, adds Walker, based in Thailand.
“The difference in goals stems in part from the companies’ different market positions,” comments Walker. “ZTE has similar or better capabilities on the terminals side compared with Huawei.” ZTE also offers professional services (which brought $622 million in revenues in 2009), has low-end data switching and routing products that could support an enterprise push, and has built up a software and value-added services capability that could possibly support an application-focused push. But Huawei is bigger in all of these areas.
Despite long odds, Huawei has developed a good reputation for innovation and is now a widely known brand in many western markets. While Huawei doesn’t sell directly to consumers (usually), it is covering a lot of the same footprint, with the set-top box, tablet, and smartphones. Given this record of success, Huawei believes now is the time to venture beyond telecom in search of growth.
The dynamics of consumer electronics are very different from telecom, and straddling the two camps could be costly and dangerous. But without risk, there is little reward.
The theme of Huawei’s analyst conference last month was “We see beyond telecom,” indicating its clear effort to build from its strong telecom base to penetrate adjacent sectors. This encompasses a move back into enterprise switching and routing, development of appliances for home networks and customized terminals, a range of professional services, and helping customers develop secure and open application storefronts.
In addition to Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper and others are also pitching this to carriers. What’s behind this, Huawei says, is its aim to help service providers owning pipes to turn them into “golden pipes” (more profitable ones) by linking them into higher-margin services layered on top, as well as at the edges, of the network with customized home networking devices or smartphones/tablet computers.
“Huawei has the right technologically creative and ambitious spirit to enter these adjacent markets, but it is a fairly big risk,” said Matt Walker, Principal Analyst. “The cast of competitors in these new areas – Apple, Google, Microsoft, and a long list of electronics companies in Korea and Japan – is big, fierce, deep-pocketed, and highly innovative. But if Huawei wants to achieve its targeted 20 percent revenue growth in 2010, it will need to make progress in these new markets.”
ZTE’s more cautious telecom-focused strategy may in the end prove more sustainable. Actually, ZTE is doing many of the same things on terminals, services, and applications as Huawei but on a more ad-hoc customer-driven basis.
“Its goals for 2010 are more narrowly focused, and lower-risk: it wants to increase its penetration in Europe with tier-1 and -2 carriers; continue leading in emerging markets and China; and have a breakthrough in the North American market. It announced a small one last week , with a CDMA carrier in Canada”, adds Walker, based in Thailand.
“The difference in goals stems in part from the companies’ different market positions,” comments Walker. “ZTE has similar or better capabilities on the terminals side compared with Huawei.” ZTE also offers professional services (which brought $622 million in revenues in 2009), has low-end data switching and routing products that could support an enterprise push, and has built up a software and value-added services capability that could possibly support an application-focused push. But Huawei is bigger in all of these areas.
Despite long odds, Huawei has developed a good reputation for innovation and is now a widely known brand in many western markets. While Huawei doesn’t sell directly to consumers (usually), it is covering a lot of the same footprint, with the set-top box, tablet, and smartphones. Given this record of success, Huawei believes now is the time to venture beyond telecom in search of growth.
The dynamics of consumer electronics are very different from telecom, and straddling the two camps could be costly and dangerous. But without risk, there is little reward.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
ClearOne launches power of AV over IP at InfoComm 2010
SALT LAKE CITY, USA: ClearOne, a global communications solutions company that develops and sells conferencing, collaboration, streaming media, and connectivity systems for audio, video and web applications, will showcase new products and conduct presentation sessions in their booth at the upcoming InfoComm10 on June 9-11.
InfoComm is the leading business-to-business marketplace for display, projection, audio, conferencing, lighting and staging, digital signage, Internet streaming, and networked presentation and communications systems. ClearOne will exhibit its entire line of market leading products in booth #N-2124 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, including several exciting new products.
Experience The Power of AV over IP as ClearOne showcases the VIEW product line in a breathtaking display and live demonstration of four tower racks that will encompass 324 StreamNet nodes for routing audio, video and control sources. There will be 96 sources of audio/video, 224 destinations— 160 video, 64 audio only, and 498 RS232 serial ports.
The VIEW platform is ClearOne's new line of IP-based HD audio/video distribution and control network products based on its patented StreamNet technology. StreamNet technology is used for streaming time-sensitive synchronous audio and video, as well as sending control over a local area network (LAN). StreamNet provides AV practitioners the capability to achieve AV over IP solutions by removing the effect of network delays and packet losses.
The VIEW solution provides functionality beyond A/V distribution, including media source control, a graphical user interface, sensor and relay control and much more. By distributing audio/video over standards based TCP/IP, significant improvements in scalability, flexibility, functionality, performance and price are achieved over traditional audio/video distribution methods.
The VIEW solution provides Virtual LAN Cloud Matrix Switching allowing any source to be dynamically routed to any display or audio zone.
InfoComm is the leading business-to-business marketplace for display, projection, audio, conferencing, lighting and staging, digital signage, Internet streaming, and networked presentation and communications systems. ClearOne will exhibit its entire line of market leading products in booth #N-2124 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, including several exciting new products.
Experience The Power of AV over IP as ClearOne showcases the VIEW product line in a breathtaking display and live demonstration of four tower racks that will encompass 324 StreamNet nodes for routing audio, video and control sources. There will be 96 sources of audio/video, 224 destinations— 160 video, 64 audio only, and 498 RS232 serial ports.
The VIEW platform is ClearOne's new line of IP-based HD audio/video distribution and control network products based on its patented StreamNet technology. StreamNet technology is used for streaming time-sensitive synchronous audio and video, as well as sending control over a local area network (LAN). StreamNet provides AV practitioners the capability to achieve AV over IP solutions by removing the effect of network delays and packet losses.
The VIEW solution provides functionality beyond A/V distribution, including media source control, a graphical user interface, sensor and relay control and much more. By distributing audio/video over standards based TCP/IP, significant improvements in scalability, flexibility, functionality, performance and price are achieved over traditional audio/video distribution methods.
The VIEW solution provides Virtual LAN Cloud Matrix Switching allowing any source to be dynamically routed to any display or audio zone.
By 2015, 75 percent of WCDMA base stations will be HSPA+ capable
SINGAPORE: “By the end of 2010, 20 LTE networks are expected to have flicked the ‘on’ switch, but it may surprise many that LTE will only make up 11 percent of installed base stations by the end of 2015,” says Jake Saunders, VP for forecasting at ABI Research. “LTE population coverage will have crept up to 600 million by 4Q-2012, but 4G marketing hype will precede 4G reality for several years to come.”
4G has a number of elegant solutions embedded in the technology, but the reality is that 4G spectrum awards will occur in a fragmented manner and will need to pass legislative and legal challenges in many markets. In fact for many emerging markets, “4G mobility” is still very much an “out there” concept. Some markets in South America and Africa have yet to consolidate their 3G spectrum awards.
Of those carriers that have 3G licenses, many are being pragmatic: they have deployed HSDPA and HSUPA. Furthermore, 50 carriers have installed HSPA+, which enables speeds of up to 56 Mbps. ABI Research estimates that by 2015, 75 percent of WCDMA-capable base stations will have had the HSPA+ upgrade. In 2012 alone, equipment spending on HSPA+ will be 11 percent of total equipment expenditure.
Vendors such as Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Huawei can still get mileage out of selling 3G and 3.5G equipment. While the proportion of greenfield base stations has dropped, there is still a need to upgrade existing sites. Consider India. There has been a spending hiatus as carriers clarify which “Circles” they secured. The conclusion of 3G licensing in India should now see carriers getting out their checkbooks again.
Overall in 1Q-2010, operators demonstrated a subdued appetite for equipment despite the economic rebound in 2H-2009. In many countries, governments gave grants to in-market carriers as part of an overall “economic stimulus package.”
“4G equipment spending will be very much welcomed,” adds Aditya Kaul, practice director. “But vendors are also targeting the remaining emerging market for 3G, and also securing 3.5G framework agreements. That should improve vendor earnings in the latter half of 2010.”
4G has a number of elegant solutions embedded in the technology, but the reality is that 4G spectrum awards will occur in a fragmented manner and will need to pass legislative and legal challenges in many markets. In fact for many emerging markets, “4G mobility” is still very much an “out there” concept. Some markets in South America and Africa have yet to consolidate their 3G spectrum awards.
Of those carriers that have 3G licenses, many are being pragmatic: they have deployed HSDPA and HSUPA. Furthermore, 50 carriers have installed HSPA+, which enables speeds of up to 56 Mbps. ABI Research estimates that by 2015, 75 percent of WCDMA-capable base stations will have had the HSPA+ upgrade. In 2012 alone, equipment spending on HSPA+ will be 11 percent of total equipment expenditure.
Vendors such as Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Huawei can still get mileage out of selling 3G and 3.5G equipment. While the proportion of greenfield base stations has dropped, there is still a need to upgrade existing sites. Consider India. There has been a spending hiatus as carriers clarify which “Circles” they secured. The conclusion of 3G licensing in India should now see carriers getting out their checkbooks again.
Overall in 1Q-2010, operators demonstrated a subdued appetite for equipment despite the economic rebound in 2H-2009. In many countries, governments gave grants to in-market carriers as part of an overall “economic stimulus package.”
“4G equipment spending will be very much welcomed,” adds Aditya Kaul, practice director. “But vendors are also targeting the remaining emerging market for 3G, and also securing 3.5G framework agreements. That should improve vendor earnings in the latter half of 2010.”
Friday, June 4, 2010
MoSys, Sarance to deliver complete 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet and Interlaken solutions
SUNNYVALE, USA: MoSys Inc.), a leading provider of differentiated, high-density memory and high-speed interface (I/O) intellectual property (IP), and Sarance, a leading supplier of high speed interconnect IP technology, have partnered to deliver joint PHY plus Media Access Controller (MAC) solutions supporting 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 100 Gigabit Ethernet and Interlaken specifications.
The 40/100Gbps Ethernet and Interlaken standards are driving the backbones of next-generation transport networks, data centers and compute farms. The technology combination will allow customers access to unprecedented bandwidth and high scalability, with very high reliability.
The combined solution leverages MoSys’ 10Gbps SerDes and Sarance’s 40GE and 100GE MAC, Physical Coding Sub-layer (PCS) and Multi Lane Distribution (MLD) IP conforming to the emerging 40GE and 100GE standard using IEEE defined XLAUI (40GE) and CAUI (100GE) interfaces.
By teaming up to provide proven interoperability, application notes and direct engineering assistance, MoSys and Sarance enable Ethernet designers to reduce time-to-market, costs and risks when integrating 40GE and 100GE protocols.
“Our combined solution for 40GE and 100GE, which are vital to cloud computing services, will help network service providers and data centers exploit the full potential of high speed Ethernet,” said David DeMaria, Vice President of Business Operations at MoSys. “Our customers are now in a strong position to meet the needs of a networking infrastructure rapidly moving to 40GE, 100GE and beyond.”
“Our silicon proven IP has been tested by multiple silicon, system and test equipment companies in system labs and validated in field trials running more than one trillion error-free Ethernet frames over live 100GE networks,” said Farhad Shafai, VP of R&D at Sarance Technologies.
“By integrating the technologies from both companies, we are uniquely positioned to accelerate the deployment of products that offer service providers the ever increasing bandwidth they require, as well as simplifying the development of products for data centers that address the explosive bandwidth requiring higher-speed Ethernet.”
The 40/100Gbps Ethernet and Interlaken standards are driving the backbones of next-generation transport networks, data centers and compute farms. The technology combination will allow customers access to unprecedented bandwidth and high scalability, with very high reliability.
The combined solution leverages MoSys’ 10Gbps SerDes and Sarance’s 40GE and 100GE MAC, Physical Coding Sub-layer (PCS) and Multi Lane Distribution (MLD) IP conforming to the emerging 40GE and 100GE standard using IEEE defined XLAUI (40GE) and CAUI (100GE) interfaces.
By teaming up to provide proven interoperability, application notes and direct engineering assistance, MoSys and Sarance enable Ethernet designers to reduce time-to-market, costs and risks when integrating 40GE and 100GE protocols.
“Our combined solution for 40GE and 100GE, which are vital to cloud computing services, will help network service providers and data centers exploit the full potential of high speed Ethernet,” said David DeMaria, Vice President of Business Operations at MoSys. “Our customers are now in a strong position to meet the needs of a networking infrastructure rapidly moving to 40GE, 100GE and beyond.”
“Our silicon proven IP has been tested by multiple silicon, system and test equipment companies in system labs and validated in field trials running more than one trillion error-free Ethernet frames over live 100GE networks,” said Farhad Shafai, VP of R&D at Sarance Technologies.
“By integrating the technologies from both companies, we are uniquely positioned to accelerate the deployment of products that offer service providers the ever increasing bandwidth they require, as well as simplifying the development of products for data centers that address the explosive bandwidth requiring higher-speed Ethernet.”
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