ZTE claims 10-Tbps data transmission record

Chinese telecommunications equipment company ZTE Corp. claims to have broken the world record for a single-channel data transmission with a rate of 10 terabits per second over 640-kilometers of optical fiber. This is the equivalent of sending 160 high definition movies every second. More here.

Altair, Alcatel-Lucent okay LTE chipset

Mobile communications chip company Altair Semiconductor Ltd. has announced that a combination of its FourGee 4G-LTE chipset and Alcatel-Lucent infrastructure has completed a three-month field trial with a U.S. wireless carrier and is now commercially available. More here

2010 EE Times Global Salary and Opinion Survey

The average base salary among the North American engineers surveyed totaled just over $100,000; annual compensation, including bonuses and overtime pay, averaged $107,300, according to our findings. North American engineers also reported the highest job satisfaction (64 percent) among the respondents.In China and India (where base salaries for engineers in most cases remain far lower than in the other surveyed regions), bonus figures for Chinese engineers tracked those in North America and Europe, but India failed to keep pace. Only more experienced Indian engineers reported a greater percentage of bonus payments during the past year.
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