new mobile technology: March 2008 Archives

Nortel is introducing the industry’s first optical technology that can deliver both 40G and 100G network capacity, enabling four times the network throughput immediately while providing the foundation to simply and affordably increase capacity tenfold as required. This innovative capability equips carriers to keep pace with dramatically increasing demand from bandwidth-sapping applications like IPTV, Internet video, HD programming and mobile video phones.

Nortel’s 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine is a technology platform that enables both 40G and 100G transmission with the same ease and simplicity of today’s 10G networks. Nortel’s technology enhancements allow fiber-optic cables, thinner than a human hair, to carry vast amounts of information globally. The current state-of-the-art networking speed is 10G (Gigabits per second), which can support the bandwidth of 1000 HDTV channels simultaneously. By increasing that capacity to 40G, carriers can transmit four times the traffic over the same link and 10 times the traffic when evolving to 100G.

Two customers - TDC and Neos Networks - have selected the new Nortel solution and trials with other carriers are currently underway globally.

Alcatel-Lucent (announced the Alcatel-Lucent 9900 Wireless Network Guardian (WNG), the industry’s first mobile network management solution that addresses the need by carriers for enhanced visibility and research in third-generation (3G) and emerging 4G networks.

The WNG can show carriers that some types of traffic, like e-mail and instant messaging, consume up to 1,000 times as much air time as file downloads

In a interview with AP it is Michael Schabel, general manager at Alcatel-Lucent Ventures in Murray Hill, N.J. says,

“If I look at mobile e-mail, one megabyte takes two hours of air time,” he said, because the mobile network needs to repeatedly set up and tear down the connection. In contrast, a 1-megabyte file from a peer-to-peer file-sharing network takes about 30 seconds to download, he estimated.”

This is may change the way wireless carriers price their data plans which is usually by kilobyte.