Deutsche Telekom AG selected Siemens ICN for its rollout of SDSL services. The SDSL capabilities are provided using new SDSL cards into the Siemens' DSLAMs. http://www.siemens....
Monday, January 13, 2003
Covad Adds 23K Lines in Q4
Monday, January 13, 2003
Covad Communications added 23,000 lines in Q4 2002, giving it 381,000 lines in service. Churn decreased each month throughout the fourth quarter, averaging 3.4% in Q4, an improvement from an average of 4.0% in Q3 2002. Covad ended the 2002 fiscal year with $205 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments. Fourth quarter net cash usage was approximately $24 million, representing approximately $8 million per month. http://www.covad....
inCode Telecom Transforming Payphones into Wi-Fi Hot Spots
Monday, January 13, 2003
inCode Telecom, in partnership with Bell Canada, launched a new pilot service that enables North American wireline carriers to transform everyday payphones into Wi-Fi hotspots. inCode's plan calls for payphones in high traffic areas to be fitted with Wi-Fi technology; typical locations include airports, train stations, hotels, convention centers and corporate campuses. inCode is based in La Jolla, California. http://www.incodetel.com http://www.bell...
Megisto Systems Appoints Joel Halpern as CTO
Monday, January 13, 2003
Megisto Systems, a start-up developing core infrastructure equipment for carrier-class mobile services, announced the appointment of Joel Halpern as CTO. Prior to joining Megisto, Halpern was founder, CTO and VP of Engineering at Longitude Systems and before that he was Director of the Internet Working Architecture Group at Newbridge Networks. Halpern has also served as the IETF Routing Area Director and is now serving as the co-chair for the Policy Framework Working Group. http://www.megisto....
SolarFlare Raises $17.5 Million for Physical Layer Silicon
Monday, January 13, 2003
SolarFlare Communications, a start-up based in Irvine, California, raised $17.5 million in second round funding for its development of physical layer semiconductors. SolarFlare is building PHY products for running 10Gbps Ethernet over structured Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) copper cabling for LAN applications. The IEEE 802.3 Working Group, which develops standards for Ethernet based LANs, recently approved a Study Group to investigate the development of a standard for 10GBASE-T technology. The new funding was led by Anthem Venture Partners...
SiGe Semiconductor Secures $43 Million in New Funding
Monday, January 13, 2003
SiGe Semiconductor, a start-up based in Ottawa, Canada with operations in Boston, San Diego and Hong Kong, raised US $42.8 million in Series B funding for its role as a supplier of analog integrated circuits for wireless access, cable telephony and high-speed optical systems. SiGe Semiconductor's integrated circuits are designed using silicon germanium, which improves performance, battery life and size of a wide range of wireless and broadband products. The new funding round was led by Boston-based TD Capital Technology Ventures, joined by new...
WorldCom Plans New Business and Consumer Telecom Services
Monday, January 13, 2003
WorldCom's new CEO, Michael Capellas, outlined plans to launch new consumer and business products and services. Plans for enterprise services include "The WorldCom Connection", which will be based on the convergence of the company's voice and data network. Specifics were not disclosed. On the consumer side, Capellas announced a series of initiatives to address the local and long-distance markets, including the expansion of its integrated offering, The Neighborhood built by MCI, as well as new standalone long-distance products. Product announcements...
Fujitsu Microelectronics Delivers ASICs to Chiaro Networks
Monday, January 13, 2003
Fujitsu Microelectronics America completed a set of seven ASICs that will form the basis for Chiaro Networks' new routing platform. The new ASICs range from more than 300,000 gates to 8.8 million gates and incorporate very high-speed interfaces from 622 Mbps to 2.5 Gbps. One typical device delivers 28 channels of 1.25 Gbps clock/data recovery. http://www.fma.fujitsu.com http://www.chiaro.comIn November 2002, Chiaro Networks and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-(IT)2) announced a partnership to develop...
SingTel Introduces Singapore's First Public 3G Video Calls
Monday, January 13, 2003
SingTel completed the first 3G public video calls in Singapore using a trial system supplied by Ericsson. In November of 2002, SingTel successfully completed 3G voice calls using equipment from Ericsson, Nokia and a consortium comprised of Siemens IC Mobile, NEC Corporation and ITOCHU Corporation. All three trial systems were able to demonstrate mobile video telephony. SingTel expects to be able to offer 3G services on a selective basis in 2003. http://www.singtel....
Taiwan's HiNet Deploys Juniper's M-series Routers
Monday, January 13, 2003
HiNet, the ISP division of Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom, has selected Juniper Networks M-series platforms for the expansion of its backbone. HiNet is currently serving more than 1,600,000 ADSL subscribers, making it one of the world's top broadband providers. HiNet has previously deployed Juniper's E-series platforms at the network edge. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.juniper....
China's Jiangsu Unicom Selects Lucent's Ethernet/SDH Metro Gear
Monday, January 13, 2003
China's Jiangsu selected Lucent Technologies' Metropolis Ethernet/SDH metro access multiplexer and Metropolis ADM MultiService Mux for deployment in five cities across Jiangsu province. The optical backbone will be used to connect wireless base stations and mobile switching centers to long-distance networks. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.lucent....
BT Deploys Nortel Networks' Contivity Secure IP Services Gateways
Monday, January 13, 2003
BT has deployed Nortel Networks' Contivity Secure IP Services Gateways to provide secure remote access to office applications for its enterprise customers. The same network will also be used to provide 60,000 BT teleworkers with remote access to the same applications typically available only in the office. BT Openzone Wireless LAN access points already integrate Nortel Networks Contivity Gateways. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.nortelnetworks....
Cirpack Introduces Carrier-Class SIP Gateway for Public Telephony over IP
Monday, January 13, 2003
CIRPACK announced commercial availability of its SIP Gateway solution for telecom operators deploying voice services over IP local loops and for carriers migrating their transit networks to IP. Cirpack G16S SIP Gateway converts voice traffic and signaling between the PSTN and IP networks by using SIP. It can handle up to 1024 RTP channels with echo cancellation per interface board and convert VoIP/RTP traffic to TDM circuits or ATM cells to connect service providers' IP infrastructures to any other local loops and core backbones. It also supports...
Motorola, Avaya and Proxim to Collaborate on Converged Wireless LANs
Monday, January 13, 2003
Motorola, Avaya and Proxim will collaborate on the creation and deployment of converged cellular, WLAN, and IP telephony solutions. New products will include a Wi-Fi/cellular dual-system phone from Motorola, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-enabled IP Telephony software from Avaya, and voice enabled WLAN infrastructure from Proxim. Motorola said that by tying together wireless LANs, IP Telephony, and cellular technologies in a single handset, the companies will extend the mobility of cellular networks inside the enterprise. Avaya will provide...
City of Adelaide Plans One of the Largest Public Wi-Fi Networks
Monday, January 13, 2003
The city of Adelaide, Australia is planning one of the world's largest open-space public wireless networks, with more than 70 access points. The multi-cell network, named StreetWise, is being developed by an Adelaide based consortium of technology companies including Cisco, Adelaide's three universities and key public authorities. The network will use Cisco Aironet Series Wi-Fi equipment. http://www.cisco....
ArrayComm Demonstrates Seamless Handoffs for its iBurst Wireless Broadband System
Monday, January 13, 2003
ArrayComm, a start-up based in San Jose, California, demonstrated for the first time seamless handoffs between base stations in its i-BURST broadband wireless system. The i-BURST system's handoffs between base station coverage areas provide consumers with continuous video streaming, file transfer, e-mail and other standard Internet applications while walking, driving or stationary. A pre-commercial deployment of the system is currently underway in Sydney, Australia, where 12 base stations covering 150 square kilometers will be tested. http://www.arraycomm.comArrayComm's...
Equant to Build MPLS-based IP VPN for Hanjin Shipping
Monday, January 13, 2003
Equant was awarded a three-year contract to provide an MPLS-based IP VPN solution for Hanjin Shipping, which is based in Korea. The network will link more 100 offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Hanjin will use the Equant IP VPN to customize and run a host of business-critical applications. Financial terms were not disclosed. Equant said it now serves more than 100 shipping-related companies with thousands of sites in more than 176 countries. http://www.equant....
France Telecom's Wanadoo Approaches 1.4 Million Broadband Customers
Monday, January 13, 2003
As of the end of 2002, France Telecom's Wanadoo Internet service was serving nearly 1.4 million broadband customers (ADSL and cable modem) in Europe including more than 1 million in France. For comparison, the total number of broadband customers at the end of 2001 was 545,000. Excluding its smaller cable modem service, Wanadoo had 987,000 ADSL subscribers in France and 200,000 ADSL subscribers in other European countries. Including dial-up customers, Wanadoo ended 2002 with more than 8.5 million Internet access customers, up by 2.5 million for...
Senate Grills FCC on Telecom Policy
Monday, January 13, 2003
Speaking at the opening of the Senate's "Hearing on the State of Competition in the Telecom Industry," Senator Fritz Hollings (D, SC), the outgoing Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, said that while the Telecom Act of 1996 is finally beginning to work for American consumers, five FCC commissioners appear ready "to set off on their own" to revise the rules of the game in the name of a "so-called broadband imperative." Hollings charged that the FCC is not...
