XO Communications, Sprint Ink Deal To Deliver MVNO Wireless Services

XO Communications has recently inked a deal with one of the stable companies in the country, the Sprint Wholesale Solutions Company for the delivery of MVNO Wireless Service. This is considered good news by many of the wireless technology users. This would mean more support and services for their thousands of subscribers all over the country. XO Communications remains one of the top companies in the country today.

XO Communications and Sprint Wholesale Solutions made this announcement to confirm the finalization of this project, whereby Sprint is expected to deliver MVNO wireless services to XO Communications, now known as the leading provider of communications solutions products in the US territories and many parts of the globe. According to the reports, the deal also includes Sprint’s Wholesale Mobile Integration (WMI) services. This will help converge wireline as well as wireless services into what is known as conjoined solution, in which XO Communications clients would greatly benefit.

The deal also includes product pricing and provisions which will make XO Communications deploy 4G products and services especially for business belonging to the small and medium sized category. For this new development in the partnership of these two promising companies in the country, XO Communications is expected to leverage Sprint’s WMI services. This also includes leveraging of the wireless network, in such a way that it can offer mobile wireless communication services. This also includes a groundbreaking of what is called fixed mobile converging (FMC) solution.

The so-called XO Communications FMC solution will help a lot of businesses to benefit from fixed mobile convergence, as well as the increasing deployment of SIP trunking, VOIP and WiFi in-building networks, for purposes of delivering amazing productivity, improved employee communications, and reduced mobile costs. The future capability of XO Communications includes calls from mobile phones is going to be connected using a WiFi access routed to wireline network infrastructure. One of the great features is that once outside of the office, the mobile device also works just like regular mobile phones. They will enjoy the phones wide coverage because of the support of Sprint wireless network. In 2012, XO Communications is expected to launch the commercial side of the service.

Meanwhile, XO Communications’ partner Sprint Company has already a decade of experience as far as launching of private-label wireless being tagged as the national wireless carrier in the US, providing customers access to the 4G technology, considered as the most advanced technology available in the market today.

“We are excited to enter this relationship with XO Communications and arm them with an attractive mobility solution as part of their services portfolio,” said Matt Carter, president-Sprint Wholesale Solutions and New Ventures. “Sprint will help XO Communications eliminate the line between wireline and wireless to efficiently deliver on both, allowing their customers to reduce costs and increase productivity and reliability. We are enabling improved business flexibility and worker mobility.”

“This agreement underpins XO Communications’ commitment to deliver innovative services for our customers and is another step in our converged services strategy to bring together wireline and wireless services over a single IP-enabled network infrastructure,” said Don MacNeil, chief marketing officer for XO Communications. “This capability will further differentiate XO Communications in the market as one of the only providers to offer a very unique fixed mobile convergence offering for our customers that simplifies the management of their wireless and wireline communications needs.”

Sprint WMI authorizes its telecommunications service provider such as XO Communications especially in the integration of wireless voice networks and their wireline into what is known as the business customer’s converged solution, by simply extending Voice Over IP service features or PBX to the wireless handset. Here, the Sprint Company is backing the communications companies especially in the delivery of effective, simplified and seamless experience in communications especially for the SMB personnel.

"More than 35 percent of small businesses are considering mobile unified communications for deployment within two years," says Eugene Signorini, vice president of Research-Yankee Group. "As small business users increasingly demand a seamless communication experience, service providers need to provide mobile integrated solutions for this important customer segment."

Sprint WMI Company’s main features:

1.    Single-number calling. This feature is aimed at reaching out the employee’s mobile phone, desk and seamless call transfers especially for two devices, as well as those that are integrated voicemail platform. This will surely improve employee productivity in the performance of daily workload, including the delivery of effective and efficient communications. This is very helpful feature suited for the XO Communications services.
2.    Extended broad range of business desk phone features. This is another feature that the Sprint WMI can extend to a broad range of phone features and the end-user’s mobile device such as but not limited to the abbreviated four digit extension dialing, att long distance selective calls ands call center applications.
3.    Partner Interexchange Network. Interconnection of customers is being allowed in this service offered by Sprint’s Wholesale Solutions Group, especially for net yielding cheaper connectivity rates.
4.    Mobile Broadband Demand. This feature makes end-users able to purchase prepare broadband in a day, week or even month.
5.    Access to 4G reselling. This is one of the newest features offered by the Sprint Company. It has faster speeds for downloads and more bandwidth.  

XO Communications Back to Core

Small businesses want solution from their problems about data communication lines. This observation has led XO Communications as a service to provide data links, when adjustments to the configuration open to telecommunications new equipment possibilities. Telecom companies have the difficult part to market themselves and take the blame in case of failure. This is concluded by Erik Van Laar, Director of the Dutch subsidiary of XO Communications. The transition from analog to digital communications links is just behind, or telecom companies are already knocking to sell new equipment, for example, to increase the capacity of connections. "It goes bad in the SME, which looks for more stable value solutions," says Van Laar. His company focuses on the industry with solutions for data communication connections. MPLS VPN technology (Virtual Private Network) secure and reliable connections bring within reach of SMEs. Providing links is not the only activity of the originally American telecom company XO Communications. It also provides hosting and ISP services. The telecom company was like many other American companies such as AT&T solutions provider with big plans in Europe. It wanted its own extensive fiber deployment. Also, it plans to have its hosting centers to be erected in many places. It soon became clear that this grand design was not wise. The company was started in England and the Netherlands.

By the end of 2001, the parent company XO Communications has its operations in Europe to strike. Laurence Blackell, former owner of GX Networks that was bought by XO Communications. Since then, the European branch operates independently. However, the company has never had the chance to invest in its own infrastructure. While some telecom companies are stalling left and right because they cannot free up money for new services, XO Communications breathe enough to win customers for its access services.

The Successful Field Trial of XO Communications and Infinera 100G Transmitted Over a Distance of 1348 Km

In a field experiment success has been met by XO Communications and Infinera transmit of 100 gigabits per second (100G) over a 1348 Km long stretch of the XO nationwide network coherent. In this experiment, Infinera's photonic integrated circuits (PICs - Photonic Integrated Circuits) with 500 gigabits per second (500G) 100G integral and five channels are used. This successful experiment represents an important step towards commercial use of PIC-based optical systems with a coherent transmission of 100G. One can thereby expand the overall capacity of the fiber lines easily, and secondly it improves the efficiency of photonic integration.

XO Communications provides for enterprises and service providers through its nationwide network of services, including 10G and 10G wavelengths Ethernet solutions. With their service model, it guarantees a fast implementation of an XO Communications 10G network within just 10 working days. With the ever increasing demand for bandwidth today, XO Communications 100G services are expanding as quickly as possible to the market. The field test shows that the company has played an active role in developing this important technology and is working on appropriate solutions for MPLS network with ultra high bandwidth.

The companies involved in the field trial-500G PICs Infinera sent and receive data over a distance with 100G of 1348 km. The route stretches from Denver and Dallas took advantage of the WDM line system "Infinera Line System (ILS)," which already supports 100G. The ILS system transported 10G and 100G channels simultaneously. By polarization multiplexing for QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying), it could improve performance of the 100G channels for transmission. In addition, the coherent detection caused a fault-free transmission over long distances without using a repeater. It is therefore likely to be the world's first successful attempt of the coherent transmission with 100G using fully integrated optical-500G PICs as transmitters and receivers, including the use of integrated local oscillators in the PIC receivers.

"We are delighted with the realization and development of Infinera's PIC-based systems that can support 100G," said Randy Nicklas, chief technology officer at XO Communications. "XO Communications expects that the new systems have increased capacity and enormous cost, since we are also working out and always meet the growing demand for more bandwidth from enterprises, service providers and customers in the Mobile-Wireless-sector."

The introduction of the PIC 500G-based systems has important implications for the economics of future networks. The networks of tomorrow require many more optical functions per wavelength than current networks. This requirement comes from the advanced modulation schemes that are necessary for 100G transmission. Increased network costs and complexity are the result should it continue conventional optical components to use. To solve this problem, Infinera integrated with the 500G PIC the functionality of more than 600 optical elements on an indium phosphide chips, providing far-reaching benefits for networks of the future: Higher network capacity in combination with a smaller footprint, lower power consumption and higher reliability. In the long run this will increase the demand for bandwidth, so that photonic integration is an important contribution to better network economics and network avoids complexity.

"This successful field trial is an important milestone in our plan, and 100G optical communications networks of the future terabit-per-second range, based on 500G PICs are realized," said Tom Fallon, CEO of Infinera. "We are confident that these new systems will be a driving force in the optical market, similar to our PIC-based 10G systems that we have in 2004 with the" Digital Optical Networks" presented architecture.

Company Description:

Infinera provides Digital Optical Networking systems to telecommunications carriers. Unique to the systems of Infinera is a semiconductor technology: The photonic integrated circuits are - in short, "PIC" for "Photonic Integrated Circuits." Infinera's systems and PIC technology provide customers with simpler and more flexible operation of optical networks and the rapid introduction of differentiated services without reengineering their optical network infrastructure.