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  IN PICTURES: Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs public lecture at UTS, Sydney

• EU investigation could affect business from China's 4G deployment

  By Michael Kan | 21 May, 2013 06:55

  The European Union may be trying to protect its telecom equipment industry with its recent threat to investigate China over networking equipment imports. But the move could end up hurting the chances of Western vendors intent on supplying technology to China's upcoming 4G services launch, according to analysts.

• Networks in 2020: More traffic, less energy

  By Stephen Lawson | 13 May, 2013 09:10

  Networks could use far less energy by 2020 even though they'll be carrying much more traffic, an industry group says.

• Wall Street Beat: Earnings highlight smartphones as key to growth

  By Marc Ferranti | 26 April, 2013 21:02

  With Apple reporting a decline in profit margins and Samsung consolidating its leadership in the mobile device market, earnings results and market research reports this week point to the ever-increasing importance of smartphones as key to growth in tech.

• Alcatel-Lucent makes loss on static first-quarter revenue

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 26 April, 2013 11:13

  Alcatel-Lucent's first-quarter revenue inched up 0.6 percent year on year, but it reported a net loss after making a profit a year earlier.

• VSDL2 on steroids takes off as broadband over copper declines for first time

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 19 April, 2013 15:22

  Broadband based on VDSL2 helped by a technology called vectoring is taking off, while older members of the DSL family are getting less popular as users around the works crave more bandwidth.

• Alcatel-Lucent, Telefónica trial 100, 200 and 400G bps links on live network

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 16 April, 2013 13:01

  Alcatel-Lucent and Telefónica in Spain have successfully completed a trial that sent a mixture of 100Gbps, 200Gbps and 400Gbps data links over a single fiber pair.

• Network administrators look to SDN with hope, concern

  By Stephen Lawson | 03 April, 2013 01:13

  Some network operators say they need new tools to set up and manage connections in a virtualized world, even if that means adopting software-defined networking technology, which is still in its infancy.

• Nuage sprouts Alcatel's software-only bid to automate clouds

  By Stephen Lawson | 02 April, 2013 16:05

  Alcatel-Lucent is promising more manageable cloud computing through Nuage Networks, an internal startup that is making its formal debut on Tuesday.

• ISP Q&A: TransACT's Ivan Slavich on networks, the NBN and more

  By Spandas Lui | 24 June, 2011 21:45

  The Federal Government’s $36 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) aspires to be an open-access network which will eventually level the playing-field in the broadband market for ISPs nationwide.

  But one company already has its own open-access network, albeit on a smaller scale.

  TransACT began its life in the 2000 and has strong ties with the main utility services supplier in ACT, ActewAGL. Its origins stemmed from the fact Telstra and Optus left Canberra out of their HFC broadband network footprint.

• Four technologies for faster broadband in 2011

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 08 December, 2010 03:14

  A number of different technologies are being developed or improved to offer higher speeds for fixed and mobile broadband networks, as operators are preparing to compete with each other and carry video traffic in 3D and at higher resolutions, which is expected to happen in the coming year.