Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, has brought the touring Middle East 3G/ LTE Mobile Broadband Truck to Lebanon. From 31st May to 6th June 2010, the Huawei live demonstration truck introduces SDR /HSPA+/LTE technologies to support the innovative solutions to the Ministry of Telecommunications, Regulators, Telecommunications Operators, Internet Service Providers, the Lebanese community and Universities.

Huawei estimates that global data traffic on mobile broadband networks will grow 1,000 times over the next decade, from the current 85 million Giga-bytes per month in 2009.

As the number of mobile broadband users continues to climb in Lebanon, subscribers will increasingly look for low tariffs with unlimited, high-speed access and abundant mobile broadband service, while operators will need network capabilities which allow them to accommodate the expansion pressures of mobile broadband network and profitable operation mode.

In the next few days, Lebanon will experience Huaweis advanced mobile broadband applications, within a simplified network structure and a unified platform to break down the barriers between different standards and technologies.

The demonstrations showcase SDR enabled SingleRAN (Radio Access network) solutions, which efficiently enable all existing mobile network technologies to evolve from GSM to UMTS, HSPA+ migrating to a single LTE based platform in the near future. The live onsite demonstrations will enable customers to experience download speeds of up to 156 Mbps on Down Link with MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output (2X2)) based on Huaweis latest LTE E2E (End to End) system.

These record speeds, which are approximately 500 times faster than existing commercial 2G networks, is expected to revolutionize the Lebanese subscriber experience by meeting bandwidth requirements of data heavy applications, such as being able to download a 4GB DVD movie in less than one minute. To date, Huawei has deployed over 60 LTE networks including lab trial, field trial and commercial networks with more than 3,300 LTE/SAE contributions to 3GPP serving the worlds top carriers including Telenor and other leading operators in the Middle East.

Source：eyeofdubai

Ericsson yesterday announced Philip Tseng, the company's Greater China vice executive, has assumed the post of general manager of Ericsson Taiwan, effective immediately.

Ericsson's former Taiwan general manager Stefan Johansson has been transferred back to the company's global headquarters in Sweden.

Tseng served as Ericsson's Greater China vice executive from 2006 and was in charge of the company's multimedia operations in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Under his leadership, Ericsson's multimedia business grew by the biggest margin in China than in other parts of the world. “It's my pleasure to work as Ericsson's Taiwan general manager.

Our team will continue to roll out innovative services that Ericsson is known for,” Tseng said.

Source：chinapost

HP and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced they will provide new communication solutions, allowing clients to easily adopt and deploy Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) to drive greater organizational value. Building on the companies’ global alliance, this agreement enables HP and Alcatel-Lucent to deliver and market end-to-end UC&C solutions to clients.

These solutions use the convergence of telecommunications and IT to transform the way customers use UC&C services. “Clients want an open, holistic approach to services delivery that maximizes their investment in UC&C,” said Gary M. Budzinski, senior vice president and general manager, Technology Services, HP. “The strength of Alcatel-Lucent and HP’s combined portfolio provides organizations with open and highly scalable solutions that address the touch points where communication is critical.” “We have a common approach to solutions that meet the needs of each individual customer’s requirements, including their existing technology mix, overall organizational needs and migration plans for the future,” said Tom Burns, president, Enterprise and Strategic Industries business, Alcatel-Lucent. “HP and Alcatel-Lucent have forged a close relationship which will enable enterprises around the world to drive down costs, improve productivity and optimize the customers’ experience throughout the entire UC&C environment.”

HP and Alcatel-Lucent UC&C solutions The HP services and Alcatel-Lucent solutions for UC&C work across all types of media and locations. The offerings include: • Migration from multivendor and legacy PBX to an IP voice integration layer that uses Alcatel-Lucent’s open IP Telephony architecture for UC&C. HP will help clients achieve a greater return on their UC&C investments by using the Genesys Customer Interaction management platform, UC connect solutions and the Alcatel-Lucent OmniTouch Instant Communication Suite and IP Telephony offering – the OmniPCX Enterprise. • Automated workflow and workload within business processes reduce operational costs by increasing the effectiveness of all enterprise-wide resources and superior customer service with HP and Genesys intelligent Workload Distribution. • Industry applications for UC&C that demonstrate a streamlined approach to reducing costs and improving efficiency, such as Digital Hospital.

HP will use Alcatel-Lucent’s Advanced Communication Server to provide an enhanced, open UC&C integration layer across industry domains, including healthcare, financial services, utilities and government. These offerings are built on HP’s UC&C consulting services, which take a comprehensive approach to enterprise communications from strategy and planning through implementation, design and education. They may be implemented on a customer’s premises or via an outsourced operating model. HP helps clients develop a business case, long-term vision and current gap analysis based on their unique requirements. Clients then determine the priority and value for each element of an overall solution followed by solution implementation, IT integration, monitoring, program management, global support and outsourcing. The result is a complete life cycle of services to ensure the technology is mapped to deliver organizational value.

Source：C114

China is on the verge of requiring telecommunications companies and Internet service providers to halt and report leaks of what the government deems to be state secrets, the latest in a series of moves intended to strengthen the government’s control over private communications.

The proposed amendment to the state secrets law, reported Tuesday by the state news media, defines a state secret broadly and loosely as information that, if disclosed, would damage China’s security or interests in political, economic, defense and other realms. The amendment was submitted Monday to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s legislature, for a third reading, the final step before being signed into law.

Few measures reach that point in China without being adopted. The wording of the amendment, as cited by the state-controlled newspaper China Daily, suggested that Internet and telecommunications companies would have to take a more proactive stance in identifying leaks of state secrets and their sources.

The paper said companies must detect, report and delete unauthorized disclosures. But reports by the state-run news agency Xinhua seemed less definitive about whether the companies must independently scour online transmissions for forbidden information or simply cooperate with the authorities if they suspect transgressions. According to Xinhua, when companies discover leaks, “information transmissions should be immediately stopped” and the authorities alerted. It did not say how active companies must be in uncovering unauthorized disclosures.

Reports in the state-controlled media did not say what penalties, if any, would be imposed if companies failed to comply. In a related move, the Chinese government on Monday posted on a government Web site a broad definition of what constituted a commercial secret, covering information related to strategic plans, management, mergers, equity trades, stock market listings, reserves, production, procurement and sales strategy, financing and finances, negotiations, joint venture investments and technology transfers. Four employees of the British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto were recently convicted in China of bribery and stealing commercial secrets from a state-owned company. Their prosecution inspired widespread concern in the international business community, partly because of the lack of clarity about what was considered to be a state or commercial secret in China.

Several analysts suggested that the amendment to the state secrets law would have limited impact. Internet service providers and telecommunications companies are already expected to fully cooperate with state security investigations. In one well-known case, in 2005 a Chinese journalist was sentenced to 10 years in prison for violating the state secrecy law after the authorities obtained information from Yahoo about an e-mail message he sent regarding a confidential government document. Yahoo was later severely criticized in the United States for its role in the case, and one of its founders, Jerry Yang, eventually apologized to the journalist’s family.

“Obviously, it adds another tool that authorities would have to snoop on people,” said Jeremy Goldkorn, publisher of Danwei.org, a Web site about Chinese media and the Internet. “But I don’t think anybody thinks that their communications are safe from the prying eyes of the government, whether it is text messages or any other form of communications.” Some Chinese legal experts have questioned whether the draft amendment contradicts the government’s pledge to be more open and violates China’s constitutional guarantees of privacy and freedom of communication. But one legal scholar cautioned against judging the amendment before the exact wording was made public.

China’s determination to control cellphone and Internet communications more closely has been increasingly obvious in recent months.

source:nytimes